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World Rally Championship leader Kalle Rovanpera topped the shakedown stage leaderboard for Rally Finland, which begins this evening with a super special stage in the host city of Jyvaskyla.

Emil Lindholm believes a top-three finish is a “realistic target” on this week’s Secto Rally Finland – the 27-year-old’s home round of the FIA World Rally Championship’s WRC2 support series.

Kalle Rovanpera led home Toyota Gazoo Racing team-mate Elfyn Evans in a one-two finish for the Japanese squad on last weekend’s HYAcentre Rally in Finland. 

Ott Tanak’s blistering speed on Rally Estonia should bode well for the next round of the FIA World Rally Championship, according to M-Sport Ford Team Principal Richard Millener.

Dakar Rally veteran Nani Roma and South African rally raid driver Gareth Woolridge will hand the revised Ford Ranger T1+ its international competitive debut on next weekend’s Baja Spain Aragon.

Improvements to the Ford Ranger T1+ ahead of next year’s Dakar Rally have been “accelerated” with the support of M-Sport and Ford Performance, its creator Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) has said.

Everyone who has a role to play in M-Sport Ford’s World Rally Championship campaign will be doing everything they can to help Ott Tanak get his title bid back on track on his home round next month. 

Kalle Rovanpera kicked off his quest for consecutive Safari Rally Kenya victories in perfect fashion by emerging a clear winner of this morning’s shakedown stage.

M-Sport Ford’s Ott Tanak has likened sections of this coming weekend’s Safari Rally Kenya – the seventh round of the FIA World Rally Championship – to “driving on the moon”.

American automotive giant Ford will join forces with M-Sport to expand its off-road motorsport programme to include a first works-based assault on the 2024 Dakar Rally.

Esapekka Lappi led a Hyundai Motorsport one-two on this morning’s Rally Italia Sardegna shakedown stage from Thierry Neuville in the second i20 N Rally1.

Eight-time World Rally Champion Sebastien Ogier has revealed Rally Italia Sardegna is one of the events he has “learned to love” in all the years he has been involved with the sport.

M-Sport Poland has handed Northern Ireland’s Jon Armstrong the honour of debuting their “comprehensively up-dated” Fiesta Rally3 Evo in the FIA European Rally Championship this weekend.  

M-Sport Ford’s Ott Tanak has conceded he is still trying to identify the “sweet spot” of his Puma Rally1 despite taking it to second place on last weekend’s Croatia Rally.

The universally known saying, ‘It is the taking part that counts’, rung true for Estonian Ott Tanak over the weekend.

Ott Tanak reckons the best is yet to come from M-Sport Ford’s Puma Rally1 car, especially when it comes to challenging for top honours on Tarmac rounds of the 2023 World Rally Championship.

World Rally Championship leader Ott Tanak says his first foray onto gravel with the Puma Rally1 in the coming days should provide plenty of answers to the questions he has been fielding to his M-Sport Ford engineers in recent weeks.

M-Sport Ford Team Principal Richard Millener believes the decision to introduce a sound module on all Rally1 cars in the coming weeks is a “sensible and necessary requirement” from a safety perspective.

Up-and-coming co-drivers are set to benefit from “once in a lifetime opportunities” as part of a new working arrangement between Motorsport UK and World Rally Championship team, M-Sport Ford.

M-Sport Ford’s Team Principal believes the work that has gone on behind the scenes in the period since Rallye Monte-Carlo last month puts their Puma Rally1 in a good place going into Rally Sweden.

New Hyundai Motorsport recruit Craig Breen says he is keeping his expectations firmly in check ahead of his return to World Rally Championship action in snowy Sweden next week.

M-Sport has officially revealed the look its Puma Rally1 car will sport for the upcoming FIA World Rally Championship campaign in the hands of Ott Tanak and Pierre-Louis Loubet.

M-Sport has enjoyed a “productive” build-up to the new FIA World Rally Championship campaign and can only benefit from having Ott Tanak and Martin Jarveoja within their ranks as the campaign develops.

Craig Breen says the priority this year is to rediscover his love of rallying and competing at the sharp end of the World Rally Championship after returning to the Hyundai Motorsport squad for 2023.