Hi, friends!
We won't see French new hope Adrien Fourmaux at WRC Rally New Zealand because his team M-Sport Ford pulled out his entry after serial crashes Fourmaux had this season.
The same happened last year to Finn Teemu Suninen who was dismissed from WRC team to Rally2 category because of the crashes. Adrien Fourmaux did the mistake with telling that he should be in that Ford Fiesta WRC for Rally Finland because he obviously had a contract with the team for this season.
After all, Suninen quit the team and went to the privateers. At the moment he drives for Hyundai with their Rally2 machinery. And Fourmaux?! He has the same destiny as Suninen. But he is not delegated to the WRC2 category. He wasn't present at Acropolis Rally Greece with the team's excuse that he destroyed the car so much at the previous rally that they can't fix it in time. But that was only an excuse.
The real truth is that Adrien Fourmaux has been benched now for two rallies (Acropolis and New Zealand). M-Sport Ford WRC team revealed also that they stay strong with him for the following rally which will be in Spain in October.
We don't know what is Fourmaux's future but it doesn't look bright at the top of rallying at the moment because of all the crashes he had this season.
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