Pierre-Louis Loubet will target the rallies in Portugal, Italy and Finland for strong results in his maiden full-season FIA World Rally Championship programme. While much of the season will be focused on gaining further experience of the terrain and the car, in which he made three WRC starts last season, he’s keen to push harder on the rallies he knows better. His best WRC result came in Sardinia last year when he claimed seventh at the island encounter. “I was supposed to do nine rallies last year, but then that didn’t happen and I was a little bit worried about this season – so to have it confirmed for every round is fantastic.

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