Run from 10 - 12 October, the 2008 Tour de Corse followed just four days after Rally Catalunya as the second in a double-bill of tarmac events.Driving Citroën's C4, Sébastien Loeb had won in Catalunya - and the three rounds before that - and was well on his way to a fifth drivers' title. It was no surprise then that he shot into the lead as soon as the Ajaccio-based event got underway. Loeb's team-mate Dani Sordo had finished second in Catalunya, and it looked like being a similar story here until he crashed his Citroën on the third stage and retired with a damaged roll cage.  That left a trio of Ford Focus RS cars in pursuit, headed by works drivers Mikko Hirvonen and François Duval,...
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