Driving the older generation Citroen DS3 WRC, Waterford’s Craig Breen and his British co-driver Scott Martin finished fifth in Rally Monte Carlo, the opening round of the World Rally Championship.

Defending world rally champion Sebastien Loeb opened up a lead of more than a minute at Rally Mexico today and is four stages away from recording a second win of the season.

World rally champion Sebastien Loeb is hoping the challenging conditions expected in this weekend’s Swedish Rally do not prove to be his undoing.