{"id":119169,"date":"2020-12-11T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/2020\/12\/seventh-heaven-for-ph-sport\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T12:47:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:47:02","slug":"seventh-heaven-for-ph-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/en\/2020\/12\/seventh-heaven-for-ph-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh heaven for PH Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p><strong>Mads \u00d8stberg and Torstein Eriksen won the ACI Rally Monza to score their fourth WRC2 success of the season and wrap up their maiden World Championship title, the seventh for PH Sport since the beginning of the millennium.<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already victorious in Monte-Carlo, Sweden and Estonia, the Norwegian crew and their Citro\u00ebn C3 R5 overcame the pitfalls of the FIA World Rally Championship season-finale to clinch the extremely coveted crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Included for the first time in the calendar, the ACI Rally Monza offered an unprecedented challenge with its winter weather, its stages on the famous &#8220;Temple of Speed&#8221; circuit and its access roads. Third at the end of a muddy first stage, the duo took the lead in the snowy mountain tests on Saturday before controlling the proceedings until the finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With four wins and a fourth place in five starts this year, Mads \u00d8stberg and Torstein Eriksen made history by becoming WRC2 World Champions by four points ahead of Pontus Tidemand, crowned in the category in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Norwegian pair also added a line to the PH Sport record in WRC, opened by the S\u00e9bastien Loeb and its Citro\u00ebn Saxo S1600  in the 2001 Junior WRC season. A year later, Daniel Sol\u00e0 followed suit with the same model before S\u00e9bastien Ogier revealed himself to the world in 2008 with a Citro\u00ebn C2 S1600. In 2013, PH Sport won the inaugural WRC2 campaign with Robert Kubica and his DS 3 RRC before St\u00e9phane Lefebvre and the team achieved the Junior WRC \/ WRC3 double with a DS3 R3 the following year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/00000671_034-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"119152\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/00000671_034-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/?attachment_id=119152\" class=\"wp-image-119153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/00000671_034-980x648.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/00000671_034-480x318.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 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\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All the PH Sport team would like to thank Mads \u00d8stberg, Torstein Eriksen and Citro\u00ebn Racing for their cooperation during a year to remember for many reasons!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><strong>Mads \u00d8stberg, 2020 WRC2 World Champion<br\/><\/strong>\u201cWhat an unbelievable feeling! I am really happy, especially as it was such a difficult weekend, with so many ups and downs all through the year. We were very much the underdogs in the championship but we won through persistence and thanks to the excellent development work done on the C3 R5. The whole team, both at Citro\u00ebn Racing and PH Sport, did an amazing job throughout the season to get to where we are now!\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><strong>Bernard Piallat, PH Sport Director<br\/><\/strong>\u201cObviously, I&#8217;m delighted with the result, especially as it was far from being a foregone conclusion. This is PH Sport\u2019s sixth world title in a Citro\u00ebn, with Mads\u2019 win adding to those of S\u00e9bastien Loeb in 2001, Dani Sola in 2002, S\u00e9bastien Ogier in 2008, Robert Kubica in 2013, St\u00e9phane Lefebvre in 2014. The team, as usual, did an extraordinary job throughout the season and the upgrades introduced by Citro\u00ebn Racing also paid off. Everything worked well. This weekend was no different, with good weather information provided by M\u00e9t\u00e9o France and excellent work done by the ice crews, in very tricky conditions.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mads \u00d8stberg and Torstein Eriksen won the ACI Rally Monza to score their fourth WRC2 success of the season and wrap up their maiden World Championship titles, the seventh for PH Sport since the beginning of the millennium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[107,108,93,106,58,105,66,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119175,"href":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119169\/revisions\/119175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ph-sport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}