The 25-year-old Frenchman Pierre-Louis Loubet will be changing co-driver for the 2023 season, already the first season in a rally car and the sixth rally start in 2015 his friend Vincent Landais jumped into the car, then a Citroën DS3 R3T Max in the Junior WRC class.
The two continued to campaign extensively together, progressing through several R5 marques before finally ending up at Hyundai. For 2020, they switched to a Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC for the private Hyundai 2C Competition.
Loubet is heavily backed by, among others, the French Motorsport Federation and went for 10 WRC starts in 2021. But after four unsuccessful rallies at the beginning of the year, Landais was replaced by Florian Haut-Labourdette, who ended the year with Loubet.
Ahead of this year’s season, Landais was back, they made eight starts with M-Sport in the Ford Puma Rally1. Loubet stood over the Japanese final and then Landais joined Sebastien Ogier in Toyota Gazoo Racing. The collaboration worked so well that Ogier chooses to continue with his young compatriot, for Loubet, who is expected to continue with M-Sport, it will be a change with the Belgian Nicolas Gilsoul becoming the new co-driver.
