The 24-year-old is set to return to rallying’s top tier with the British squad following a series of appearances for Hyundai customer team 2C Competition across 2020 and 2021.
Loubet’s last top flight WRC outing came at the Acropolis Rally in Greece last September, before an entry in October’s Rally Spain was withdrawn due to a broken hip suffered after being hit by a car in a road traffic accident.
His best results to date are a pair of seventh place finishes achieved in Sardinia in 2020 and Estonia last year.
The Frenchman’s programme will begin with April’s Rally Croatia ahead of visits to Portugal (19-22 May), Sardinia (2-5 June), Estonia (14-17 July), Finland (4-7 August) or the TBC round (18-21 August), Greece (8-11 September) and Spain (20-23 October).
Loubet is no stranger to the M-Sport team having contested a WRC2 campaign for the squad in 2017, before going on to lift the WRC2 crown in 2019 driving a privately-run Skoda.
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