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Jari-Matti Latvala and co-driver Miikka Anttila will jointly control starting with the Monte Carlo Rally in 2013, Polo R WRC. Latvala is considered one of the fastest and most experienced rally drivers in the world. The 27-year-old Finn has scored seven World Championship race wins, was in the 2010 World Championship runner and has been holding its first rally success in 2008, the record as the youngest race winner in World Cup history.
"We are proud and very happy, Jari-Matti Latvala won for our project to have. He is one of the most prolific WRC drivers ever and has experience, aggressiveness and exceptional speed. I know Jari-Matti since his early days in the rally World Cup and have been following its development very closely. He is a strong addition to our team, "says Volkswagen Motorsport Director Jost Capito.
"That is another top driver to our success feels and moves to us is an additional motivation syringe for each member of our team. With Sébastien Ogier and Jari-Matti Latvala we have an excellent driver line-up for the debut of the Polo R WRC in the World Rally Championship 2013 "he continued. Latvala replaced after five years at the Ford factory team for Volkswagen. "I am very happy to drive the future of the Polo R WRC in the World Rally Championship. Resolute approach the Volkswagen team convinced me to take on this new challenge," said Latvala.
First WRC rally with 17, first win with 22
"The time when Ford was very precious to me and I want to thank everyone who supported me in the past few years there - the farewell was not an easy the same time I see the change as a personal new beginning I have made this decision in order.. my big goal to get one step closer to the world title with Volkswagen, "said the Finn. Latvala was given the rally talent speak at birth: his father Jari drove himself rallies in Finland and encouraged his son very early: only eight years old Jari-Matti was at the wheel of a car, a little later, he held the first drift on a frozen lake .
The stage of the World Rally Championship in 2002 with 17 years Latvala entered in the Rally of Great Britain. Until his ascent into the Ford factory team in 2008 denied a native of Töysä in western Finland Latvala 52 World Championship races with cars of different brands and levels. At the Rally Sweden in 2008, he celebrated his first world ice and snow-race victory and had to follow it now has six more, including the classic Finland and the UK. In the 2010 season, he finished second place in the final table, 2011, he won more stages than any other pilot, and was fourth World Cup.
Total so far Latvala took part in 115 World Championship races, stood on the podium 31 times and scored 612 world championship points. Since 2003, he relies on the announcement of his 40-year-old countryman Miikka Anttila.
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