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agosto 16, 2021 - Msport

Difficult first day for M-Sport World Rally Team in Ypres

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M-Sport Ford World #rally Team stars #gusgreensmith and #adrienfourmaux showed early promise as Belgium's classic #ypres #rally debuted as a round of the World #rally Championship, but were forced to retire both of their EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta WRCs after going off the road. Their team-mate #teemusuninen however starred in the WRC2 class and remains in the hunt for a strong finish, although he and reigning Junior WRC champion #tomkristensson also left the road.

In dry, sunny conditions the challenging loop stages around the historic market town of #ypres offered a completely new experience to all but a handful of drivers in the field. Both of the #msport crews made a conservative start as they sought to gain understanding of the stages, with Fourmaux and his Belgian co-driver Renaud Jamoul, setting the seventh fastest time through the second stage of the #event, the 19.6 km Westouter-Boeschepe test, before disaster struck on the third timed stage.On a high speed section of the 23.6 km Kemmelberg stage, Fourmaux's car was thrown offline by surface dirt and launched into a dizzying series of three pirouettes through the air, coming to rest against a lamp post. Both driver and co-driver emerged unhurt, but there was substantial damage to their Ford Fiesta WRC which has brought an end to their #rally.
 
Greensmith and his co-driver Chris Patterson made a measured start to the weekend, setting ninth fastest time on both of the opening stages. They upped their pace and set the seventh fastest time through the third stage but their #rally was also to be interrupted.
 
Barely 200 metres into the 9.4 km Zonnebeke stage, the Englishman slid off the road into one of the deep and unforgiving ditches that line the roads as they twist through the Flanders farmland. He will restart the #rally on Saturday morning.
 
While the WRC crews were left ruing the day's events, their #msport Ford World #rally Teamteam-mate #teemusuninen enjoyed an exemplary opening morning, setting fastest time on all four of the day's opening stages.

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