M-Sport group principal Richard Millener is assured Adrien Fourmaux may have a automobile able to difficult for victory at this week’s Rally Japan.
The Frenchman struggled to discover a transmission setup which labored on the asphalt of Central European Rally and crashed on Saturday morning, having cited points with the Puma’s entrance differential. He returned with a stage win on Sunday morning, however admitted he was involved in regards to the potential for carrying these points ahead into the season finale in Japan.
Millener has advised DirtFish that received’t be the case, with Fourmaux working a distinct chassis to the one he used on final month’s penultimate WRC spherical of the season.
Groups’ chassis, in addition to different vital parts, are paired for CER and Japan, however as a result of it’s solely coming into two vehicles in Aichi, M-Sport can run a distinct Puma for its lead driver.
Millener stated: “After CER, we appeared into each facet of what could possibly be inflicting the difficulty for Adrien, however there was nothing apparent on the automobile. He wasn’t getting the best feeling from the automobile, however for us it appears that evidently it was maybe a setup challenge between the transmission, the geometry, roll bars and every part. So far as we will see, it wasn’t a fault, nothing was damaged, it was simply the flawed setup.
