Less than a month after declaring that he would not be competing in the 2007 FIA World Rally Championship, Spain's Xevi Pons could be lining up for Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo next week in a Mitsubishi Lancer WRC.
Mitsubishi MMSP Operations Manager John Easton confirmed to WRC.com at the Autosport International Racing Car Show at Birmingham on Thursday that he has asked the FIA for permission to change the driver of its second car on both Monte Carlo and Uddeholm Swedish Rally from Khaled al Qassimi to Pons.
Easton also said MMSP had entered three cars for Rally Norway - Toni Gardemeister, Pons and Juho Hanninen. Pons has spent the last two days at the MIRA test track in Britain in a familiarisation programme with the Lancer.
Hanninen was Group N winner in Sweden and Sardinia last year, and an early Group N leader in New Zealand. He also won the S1600 category in Wales Rally GB.
Easton also told WRC.com that MMSP hopes to enter two World Rally Cars in Vodafone Rally de Portugal.
-WRC.com
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