Nine-times world champion Sebastien Loeb became the oldest driver to lead a world championship rally at the season-opening Monte Carlo round on Friday. The Frenchman, 48 next month, won four of six stages for M-Sport Ford to end the first full day with a 9.9 seconds advantage over compatriot and eight-times world champion Sebastien Ogier. Both Loeb and Toyota’s Ogier are competing in selected rallies only this year, the start of a new hybrid era for the sport. Monte Carlo is Loeb’s first world championship rally since September 2020 and he has a new co-driver in Isabelle Galmiche, 50. “The first four stages were really great then we had a little hybrid problem,” said Loeb, this year’s Dakar Rally runner-up. “In the last stage I made a good drive, but maybe it was freezing a bit more. We had some little ice coming out at the end of the stage, …