In France you cannot compete without your driving licence which you can get at the age of 18. We have a competition called "Rallyes Jeunes" which is held every year on 6 stops around the country to detect young drivers with potential. It used to be run by Peugeot but now it's run by Citroen. The competition goes like this : on the 6 event (qualifications for the final), you can register to compete for 10€. You have a race in a DS3 (road car, not rallye car) on a parking. The race course consist in a small slalom (4 or 5 turns) then 180 turn with handbrake and again slalom and ending with a braking zone. If you touch a cone, you're out. The best time wins. I dont remember how many competitor qualify on each round but its not much and it usually have more than a thousand competitor registered (on all events). And then you have the final which is the same thing except the race is a 40-45s course (instead of the 18-20s for qualifications) Thats what Ogier won! When Loeb did it, he ended up second (or third not sure) but there was controversy cause the winner was a friend of organiser or something like that. Other notable winners : Bryan Bouffier, Alexandre Bengue, Nicolas Bernardi