The British squad scored its first WRC win since Rally GB in 2018 as Sebastien Loeb and co-driver Isabelle Galmiche managed to hold off Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier after an intense four-day battle.
It also marked a successful debut for the new Ford Puma Rally1 the team has poured its limited resources into over the last 18 months, amid several challenges for the operation and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the new Rally1 hybrid project has seen Ford increase its support, the team is still a semi-works outfit going up against the factory giants of Toyota and Hyundai.
In order to have the best chance to fight with its rivals M-Sport elected to pool the majority of its team on 2022 instead of the 2021 campaign.
To add further gloss to M-Sport’s dramatic victory, three of the four Pumas finished inside the top five, with Craig Breen third and Gus Greensmith, who scored a career first stage win, fifth. Adrien Fourmaux in the other entry retired after suffering a huge…
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