The 2021 World Rally Championship season It will be remembered for being the last of the World Rally Car era, as well as for being the return year of the Safari Rally or the return to ‘normality’ after the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is another detail that has marked the normal development of this campaign and it has been the ‘dance’ of co-drivers. In fact, Dani Sordo twice, Thierry Neuville, Gus Greensmith, Pierre-Louis Loubet, Andreas Mikkelsen, Teemu Suninen and Martin Prokop have changed co-drivers in 2021, a list now also joined by the French Adrien Fourmaux.
Adrien Fourmaux has announced through social networks the end of his professional relationship with Belgian co-driver Renaud Jamoul. Together since the early stages of the 2019 season, the French rider and his partner have formed a very competitive duo. The understanding between the two has been remarkable and that has allowed them to climb together within the World Cup. From competing with a two-wheel-drive vehicle in its infancy to getting at the controls of a ‘Rally2’, for this season to debut on a World Rally Car. After five rounds in the premier class, their paths now separate.
The French pilot has not explained the reasons for this break, nor has he given clues about which co-pilot can sit at the right hand of his Ford Fiesta WRC from Rally Finland. With everything, Fourmaux’s movement can be understood from a future perspective. If Adrien wants to start the ‘Rally1’ era with a new co-driver and compete alongside him at the wheel of one of M-Sport’s Ford Puma Rally1, the most logical thing is do the last three rallies of 2021 to gain confidence, automation and understanding for next year.