Ex-WRC star Duval to contest Belgium World RX round
Former Rally Australia winner Francois Duval will race a Ford Fiesta Supercar at the Belgian round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship, next month.
Photo by: FIA World Rallycross
The former works Citroen and Ford World Rally Championship driver will compete in an OlsbergsMSE prepared Fiesta at the event, partnering the squad’s regular drivers Niclas Gronholm and Kevin Eriksson.
As announced on Monday, two weeks after Duval races the third OMSE car, fellow former WRC driver Guy Wilks will race it at Lydden Hill.
"I am very happy to be driving with Olsbergs MSE at the WorldRX event in Mettet,” said Duval, who finished on the podium 14 times in his WRC career.
“I am looking forward to my first test. I wanted to find a competitive car for this event. I did not want to miss it, it's close to home and I have many fans looking forward to watching.
"Rallycross is a discipline that I like, do not need to do a recce for days before, and the show is exciting.”
The Belgian driver won his home round of the FIA European Rallycross Championship at Maasmechelen in 2010, driving a Ford Focus prepared by compatriot Koen Pauwels.
He raced a Marklund Motorsport Volkswagen Polo in the first World RX event to be run in the country in 2014 but despite being fast, didn’t make the semi-finals due to problems in the qualifying races.
Last season, Duval competed in the European side of the Mettet event in an aging Ford Focus and made the final, but to retire with accident damage.
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