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THIS weekend sees the WRC circus arrive in Germany for round ten of the championship. Kris Meeke and co-driver by Paul Nagle, Craig Breen and Andreas Mikkelsen head up the Citroen WR line-up. A reserved approach will be applied by Citroen again this weekend as they continue to come to terms with the cars issues.

Nine time World Champion Sébastien Loeb this week returned to his old team, Citroen, to test the 2017 Citroen C3. Loeb took part in a tarmac test to assist the team in gathering date ahead of this weekend’s tarmac event amidst a torrid 2017 campaign so far. Citroen has indicated that Loeb could participate in future gravel tests and a possibility of returning to competition. Loeb is contracted to Peugeot, a sister company to Citroen. However that contract runs out at the end of this year. This is fuelling speculation of Loeb returning to competition with Citroen to get their WR campaign back on track.

The last round results see Sébastien Ogier and Thierry Neuville on equal points on the top of the leader board with four rounds remaining.

Six different winners over nine rounds has made this season the most interesting in recent years. At this stage in the championship there would be a clear favourite but this year the championship will be down to a puncture or spin for the top two and introduce a dnf for either one and that introduces Tanak and Latvala to the mix. The latter is a high possibility with three out of the four remaining rounds on gravel and mixed surfaces. It is all to play for.