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1 newsletter competition Another world title with Infiniti Red Bull Racing and Renault Sport F! november 0 Formula Moto Endurance WRC F Red Bull F double SBK Kawasaki clinches SBK title WEC Toyota scores home win WRC Citroën on the podium

2 editorial World Champions! Total is absolutely delighted with its fourth consecutive driversmanufacturers title in F with Infiniti Red Bull Racing and Renault Sport F this season.* It is a crowning achievement for our Group, all the more so because this season we have broken the 00-victory barrier in Formula Grand Prix, including more than 50 with Renault. We are also very pleased with Tom Sykes title in the Superbike World Championship and the manufacturers title in the Supersport World Championship, both in close collaboration with the Kawasaki race teams. To round off this fantastic season we still have a couple more coups to pull off with Citroën in the WRC, LCR-Honda in MotoGP and Toyota in the WEC. Then it will time to turn our attention to 04 and the defence of our car title in the Dakar. Thierry de Feydeau Total Competitions Manager *Subject to the official publication of the results by the FIA. : Vettel clinched his fourth world title in India where Grosjean scored another top- finish. : Sykes third place in race on the Jerez circuit was good enough to win the SBK world title. : Kawasaki racked up its fourth success on the trot in the Le Mans 4 Hours. 4: Toyota scored its first WEC victory in 0 at Fuji. 4

3 An historic partnership in F Fourth consecutive world double with Vettel, Red Bull and Renault Grosjean shines! In New Delhi, Romain Grosjean drove a stunning race to finish third, his third top- finish on the trot and his fifth of the season! On the Yas Marina circuit he scored another excellent result with fourth place. Backed by Total, the French driver and his team-mate Kimi Raïkkonen have placed the Lotus F Team in a position in which, mathematically, they can still seal third place in the constructors championship between now and the end of the championship. Sebastian Vettel has dominated the second half of the 0 F World Championship. In India he racked up his sixth victory on the bounce to clinch his fourth consecutive world title after which he scored another win in Sunday s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.* Only the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio, and Michael Schumacher have achieved such a feat up till now! However, the 6-year-old Vettel is still young and looks like breaking many more records. Our researchers are working flat out to help our partners retain their titles thanks to innovation, reliability and performance. The results of our Group, which has now won 7 world titles in Formula, have been enriched by this fantastic string of four consecutive constructors world titles in partnership with Red Bull Racing and Renault Sport F. In the past, McLaren and Ferrari were the only teams to achieve such domination. In 04, we will have another challenge to face with the new direct injection V6 turbo hybrid engine, and our researchers are working flat out to help our partners retain their titles thanks to innovation, reliability and performance. *Subject to the official publication of the results by the FIA. --: Vettel has now equalled Alain Prost and is the youngest 4-time world champion in the history of F. Next year he could match Fangio s 5 titles.

4 The Superbike riders title Tom Sykes new world no.! The partnership between Kawasaki and Elf has borne fruit this season with Tom Sykes being crowned Superbike World Champion on the Kawasaki Racing Team s ZX-0R. The 8-year-old English rider clinched the 5 th title in the history of the championship with third place in the second last race on 0 th October on the Jerez circuit in Andalusia. This year, the British rider has put on a stunning performance. In 0, Sykes filled the runner-up spot and this year he has put on a stunning performance winning the world title with 8 pole positions, 9 victories, 8 top- finishes and fastest laps in the races. He led for 55 laps, 6 more than the runner-up, Irishman Eugene Laverty. The world champion will remain faithful to his Ninja to defend his title next year. Alongside him Frenchman Loris Baz will be thirsting for revenge after his 0 season was cut short by a fractured vertebra at the Nürburging at the beginning of September. --: Tom Sykes consistency at the front with 8 top- finishes gave Kawasaki an eagerly-awaited title since 99 and Scott Russell. 4 Endurance On-going series in the Le Mans 4 Hours The Kawasaki SRC team and its legendary no. which won the Bol d Or at Magny-Cours at the start of the season triumphed in the Le Mans 4 Hours in September (Gregory Leblanc, Fabien Foret, Nicolas Salchaud), for the fourth year on the trot in partnership with Elf.

5 Satisfaction in Supersport Manufacturers champion with Kawasaki In addition to Tom Sykes world title, our partnership with Kawasaki was rewarded with a second world title, that of the manufacturers in the Supersport World Championship. The Kawasaki Mahi Racing Team India Kawasaki wrapped up the title at Jerez with Kenan Sofuoglu s second place: he ended the season in the runnerup spot in front of his team-mate, Fabien Foret. This result makes the ZR-6R and Elf products benchmarks in the category. 4 Redding fait le show en Moto British rider, Scott Redding, has scored pole positions and 7 top- finishes including victories, and he will be out to clinch the 0 runner-up spot in the world championship in the final round at Valencia. His team-mate in the Marc VDS Racing team (Elf partnership) Mila Kallio from Finland ( pole, 4 top- finishes including a victory) is currently lying fourth. In Moto, the Mahinda Racing (Elf partnership) riders Efren Vasquez and Miguel Oliveira still have a chance of finishing in the top 5. --: Turkish rider Kenan Sofuoglu was mainly responsible for the manufacturers title. 4-5: Stefan Bradl and LCR Honda were again among the front-runners in MotoGP. 5 Before the final MotoGP round Bradl continues his apprenticeship 5 Stefan Bradl, the revelation of the 0 MotoGP season in the wake of his Moto title, has again put on convincing performances this season on his LCR Honda MotoGP team s RC V (Elf partnership). After retiring in the first round the young German has finished all the races in the top 0 with a brilliant result in the Red Bull US Grand Prix: pole position and a remarkable second place. He is seventh in the overall classification before the final round this weekend in Valencia.

6 In partnership with Total in the WEC Toyota hungry for victory in the last two races A fter setting pole at Silverstone in its 0 configuration, the 0 version of the Toyota TS00 Hybrid made its debut at Spa- Francorchamps where it just missed out on a top- finish. In the wake of a promising second place in the Le Mans 4 Hours for no. 8 (Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi, Stéphane Sarrazin), Toyota retired in Sao Paulo after which it finished second again in Texas. Then the team entered a brace of TS00s for the Fuji 6 Hours in which victory went to no. 7 (Nicolas Lapierre, Alex Wurz, Kazuki Nakajima) in a race reduced to 6 laps because of the dreadful weather conditions.toyota will also enter two cars for this weekend s Shanghai 6 Hours, the secondlast round of the 0 FIA World Endurance Championship that ends in Bahrain on 0 th November. A winning return to endurance ELMS title for Alpine! Thirty-five years after the victory of the Alpine A44B in the Le Mans 4 Hours, the return to racing of the legendary French name this season was crowned by the European Le Mans Series title, a championship consisting of five -hour endurance races. Just outside the top at Silverstone, the Signatech Alpine A450 LM P prototype driven by Pierre Ragues and Nelson Panciatici then scored two second places at Imola and the Red Bull Ring before clinching its first victory at the Hungaroring. Fourth place in the Paul Rica Hours was enough to wrap up the European title! : Toyota kept up the pressure on Audi throughout the 0 WEC. -: Alpine was the most consistent of the teams entered in the ELMS and wrapped up the title at Le Castellet with Pierre Ragues and Nelson Panciatici at the wheel of its LM P prototype. 6

7 Second place in the WRC Manufacturers title chase before the last rally Mission: victory in Great Britain After a string of five double world drivers-manufacturers titles and despite top- finishes including victories this season, the Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team lost out to Volkwagen Motor Sport and Frenchman Sébastien Ogier,* trained by Citroën after winning the Rallye Jeunes and World Junior title in partnership with Total. However, although 9-time world champion Sébastien Loeb, its star driver, has taken a step back from rallying this year, the French team is in second place in the manufacturers championship before the final round in mid-november in Great Britain, in which Mikko Hirvonen and Dani Sordo are determined to shine. *Subject to the publication of the results by the FIA. -: In the absence of Sébastien Loeb, Mikko Hirvonen and Dani Sordo helped Citroën to second place in the 0 manufacturers classification. WSR 0: a great year The Total Group, a partner in the World Series by Renault, would like to congratulate the 0 champions: Kevin Magnussen from Denmark (DAMS), who looks like having a great career in F ahead of him after dominating the F.R.5 Series, Frenchman Pierre Gasly (Tech Racing) only seventeen, who showed great maturity in winning the Formula Renault.0 Eurocup title, and Italian Mirko Bortolotti (Oregon) victorious in the Eurocup Mégane Trophy, and young British coming man, Josh Files (Team Pyro) in the final Clio Eurocup. 7

8 «ZOOM» It s only an au revoir! He was dreaming of his 79 th and last victory in the World Rally Championship in Alsace. Lady Luck decided otherwise! However, the 9-time world champion in the Citroën Total World Rally Team colours is far from finished with motor sport. 8

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