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M-Sport Team Rides Confidently Into Latvia After Poland Wins

A couple of weeks ago, the M-Sport Ford FIA World Championship Rally (WRC) team continued its successful 2024 season at Rally Poland, where Adrien Fourmaux and Alex Coria claimed third overall for the third time this season in their hybrid Puma Rally1 racer, shortly after the team set an unprecedented milestone with its 300th consecutive points finish at Rally Italia Sardegna. Meanwhile, Ford also debuted the new non-hybrid Puma Rally1 with great success as well, with Mārtiņš Sesks and Renārs Francis piloting that car to fifth overall. Now, after a bit of a break, the M-Sport Ford team is keen to continue that success at a brand new event in Latvia this weekend.

M-Sport Ford 2024 Rally Poland Puma Rally1 - Exterior 003 - Rear Three Quarters

There, Sesks and Francis will join Fourmaux and Coria in the hybrid Puma Rally1 – along with Grégoire Munster and Louis Louka, who finished seventh in Poland – at Rally Latvia, which is set to take place in the town of Liepaja. Sesks has a bit of an upper hand given the fact that he previously claimed wins there in 2022 and 2023 when the race was part of the European Rally Championship schedule.

Munster also finished sixth overall at Latvia as part of the ERC schedule in 2020, so he’s quite familiar with the track as well. However, it will be Fourmaux’s debut there, though that was also the case in Poland. Plus, the French driver is a big fan of high-speed, smooth gravel rallies like Finland and Estonia, which bodes well for similar surfaces in Latvia.

M-Sport Ford 2024 Rally Poland Puma Rally1 - Exterior 002 - Front Three Quarters

“I’m looking forward to Latvia, it’s always nice to welcome a brand-new event to the championship, and I’ve heard a lot about this event during its time in ERC,” said M-Sport Ford team principal Richard Millener. “The highlight this week will undoubtedly be running Mārtiņš on his home rally, we’re expecting he will get a lot of attention in the service park! I’m excited to see what he can achieve as a two-time winner of this rally, and especially now with full-hybrid power at his disposal. Adrien and Grégoire can also do well here, they have strong road positions and like in Poland, if they keep focused on delivering clean, reliable drives then anything can happen. The challenge of new stages for a lot of the crews should make things a lot more interesting for us all to watch.”

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Brett's lost track of all the Fords he's owned over the years and how much he's spent modifying them, but his current money pits include an S550 Mustang and 13th gen F-150.

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