In WRC 2022, with all the innovations it will present from the start, the details will make the difference from the beginning. This assumption must have understood quite well M-Sport, which with the new Puma Rally1 Hybrid seems to have every intention of aiming for at least a World title after a couple of years of drawn strings.
The team headed by Richard Millener, currently engaged in tests preparations for the Rallye Monte-Carlo, carried out a great operation during the night, putting the Ford Puma Rally1 test-car back on track that yesterday ended up in a ravine after the incident involving Craig Breen and Paul Nagle.
The Northern Irish driver, who was pushing hard to find the best possible set-up to take to the race in a week, hit the rock wall to his right in a right-hand bend, being catapulted across the road and exiting. of the road.
At that point, on the left, there is an overhang. And that’s where the Puma ended, stopping on top of the vegetation after a descent of about twenty meters. Fortunately, neither Breen nor Nagle suffered any physical damage, but the descent was quite important.
For this reason, the team had initially decided to reschedule the test day dedicated to Gus Greensmith, who had yet to carry out his Monte-Carlo preparation tests. Instead the team accomplished a great feat: after having recovered the car thanks to a crane yesterday, they brought the Puma back to the service bivouac and started putting the car back on the spot.
The operations went on for the whole day yesterday and then ended at 3am this night. This morning the Ford Puma Rally1 test car was ready to resume testing with Gus Greensmith at the wheel. In the cover photo of the article and below you can find the original photo that testifies to the beautiful work of the M-Sport mechanics.
Charles Greensmith, father of Gus, immortalized the car ready for testing this morning by adding a sentence that well explains the great work done by the M-Sport mechanics during the night and early hours today: “I’m biased, but the mechanics M-Sport are the best in the world. At 3 am they finished repairing the Ford Puma for Gus to try today. A monumental, incredible effort. Thank you! “.
The previous days, we recall, both Adrien Fourmaux and Craig Breen had managed to take their Monte-Carlo preparation tests. Now it’s up to Greensmith and on Sunday, just back from the 44th edition of the Dakar, it will be Sébastien Loeb’s turn.
Adrien Fourmaux, Alexandre Coria, Ford Puma Hybrid Rally1
Photo by: Bastien Roux
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