They Still Love Jari-Matti Latvala!

When all around him there are complaints and exasperation, criticisms about his spate of off roads incidents, two people in the rally world still have faith in him. The rally bosses of Ford and Citroen...

Malcolm Wilson
These accidents of Jari-Matti always seem to happen very early on in a rally, which puts a lot more pressure on his teammate Mikko Hirvonen. There is nothing like two teammates fighting each other to get the best for a team. We are losing out in every sense. We have worked hard on him since Cyprus. We have seen things he is happy with, but there is another similarity every time. All his accidents seem to have the same pattern. They always come after a fast section. This crash was just the same. We have got to find a solution to that. But there is no way we are losing confidence in him. He will be in a BP Ford Abu Dhabi car in Argentina along with Mikko. We are not losing faith. We're 100% committed to getting behind him to get him through this difficult time.

Olivier Quesnel
Jari-Matti is a very fast driver. He is clever and I do not know why these things keep happening so often. I would actually like to see him driving a Citroen and see how he gets on there! Maybe he is Ari Vatanen the second, and he became a champion. I am quite sure he will end up a really good driver. So, why not, one day Jari-Matti in a Citroen?

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