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Sébastien Ogier eases past ‘El Matador'.

The reigning world champion Sébastien Ogier delivered what was a mighty impressive performance last weekend: the Volkswagen driver in the Polo R WRC #1 won Rally Mexico in spite of the handicap of having to set off first and left the rest of the field trailing far behind him in the first gravel event of the 2015 season. This was the Frenchman's fifth consecutive rally win (across two seasons) and his third win in a row in Mexico, to add to his 2013 and 2014 victories.

This success also marked another milestone in Sébastien Ogier's outstanding career: with a tally of 27 rally victories in the WRC, the 31-year-old has now cracked the Spaniard Carlos Sainz's record. Sainz succeeded in winning 26 rallies between 1990 and 2004 - it took Ogier less than five years to ease past ‘El Matador'. The only drivers still ahead of him in this ranking are Marcus Grönholm (30 wins) and Sébastien Loeb (78).

And it looks like the Volkswagen driver may also be well on his way to eclipsing Sainz in another category. Both drivers are currently two-time world champions - Sainz won in 1990 and 1992, while Ogier took the WRC title in 2013 and 2014. Now that Ogier has won the first three events of this season, giving him a comfortable lead in the drivers' championship, he looks set to overtake Sainz in terms of this statistic soon too.