Sebastien Ogier feels his v🗹ictory at Rally GB in October acted as the turning point in the FIA World Rally Championship title race in 2018, sparking a rec🌌overy from 23 points behind to clinch a sixth consecutive crown.

Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassi🐷a started the WRC season strongly with M-Sport Ford, winning three of the fi🔯rst four events, but suffered a mid-season slump that left them trailing both Hyundai's Thierry Neuville and Toyota's Ott Tanak in the standings with three rallies to go.

Ogiജer took victory in Rally GB befo﷽re a second-place finish in Spain to edge into the lead of the championship ahead of the season finale in Australia, where retirements for Neuville and Tanak ensured a sixth straight WRC title for Ogier.

"It was an ♓intense season. The suspense was there right to the last moment of the season and to come out as the winner again was a great feeling," Ogier said during the FIA's Champions press conference in St. Petersburg.

"I think Rally Wales GB was the turning point. There were three rallies to go and we✨ were 23 points behind the leaders. We needed a strong result and winning Rally GB was really important, for the points, but also mentally. I believe that from t♐his moment on the pressure was on their shoulders.

"We all know that psychology has a big effect in sport and we just managed to be stron🥃ger in the last part of the season."

Ogier will join Citroen for the 2019 WRC campaign as he looks to take a seventh WRC crowꦏn and edge closer to compatrioit Sebastien Loeb's all-time record of nine c🦂hampionships.