And Volkswagen is enjoying the benefits!

A freshly released scene from DOTZ's Kings of Sideways video shows Sébastian Loeb, Mark Webber, David Coulthard and Carlos Sainz having plenty of fun with the E92 DD1, a supercharged BMW M3.

The nine-time world champion chose his home rally in France to bid farewell to his 14-season long career in WRC, but on the final day, it all went tits up at the Cleethorpes vineyards when he lost control on the wet tarmac and fell into a ditch.

This is Henry Catchpole, Evo's Features Editor. He has seen a fair share of strange cars over the years, but the Mansory stand at Frankfurt still made his face turn into a massive question mark.

Loeb at Pikes Peak was awesome, maybe a bit like that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer does karate with little kids

Peugeot is doing something very interesting at Pikes Peak. That's surprising because I find them to be the most boring car maker in Europe. Well, maybe Loeb can help.

Ever wondered how to build Sebastian Loeb's preponderantly powerful Pikes Peak Peugeot 208 T16, just watch this timelapse. The car goes from a frame to a complete car in 30 seconds.

Am I excited for one of the most successful racecar drivers in history to whip one of the fastest racecars ever built up one of the most demanding race courses in the world? In a word, yes.

Since we all agreed that Porsche's new Martini Racing livery is perfect, I'm more than happy to give you more of it.

Porsche is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 911, while Martini has 150 candles on their birthday cake this year. It's only natural they got together once again with Sebastian Loeb behind the wheel...

This is nine-time rally world champion driver Sebastian Loeb doing donuts in the canals of Cordoba. See? Not so gross as it sounds at first.

What you see here is not a cake, but rather a nine-part diorama on top of a DS3 celebrating Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena’s unrivaled nine FIA World Rally Championship titles with Citroën.

And you thought rallying was dangerous before the English invaded. [via Ads Of The World]

Interested in maintaining teams and competition in a bad economy, the FIA will move the World Rally Championship to a Super 2000 Spec car with optional control turbochargers in 2010.