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I don’t think “lose hood over crest” was in the notes, you guys.
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Sébastien Ogier, who is made of winning instead of flesh and bone like the rest of us, won the first round of the 2017 World Rally Championship at Rallye Monte-Carlo this weekend in the Ford Fiesta WRC. I doubt that will be the last time this happens.
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If you wanted to see a last-minute deal to get Volkswagen’s unused 2017-spec World Rally Championship Polo racing in 2017, sorry! While there was talk of Andreas Mikkelsen driving a car with private funding, Autosport reports that the teams couldn’t agree to homologate the finished Polo and thus, let it compete. Sad.
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