WRC event winner Francois Duval will retur🐼n to the Intercontinental Rally Challenge on Rallye Sanremo in Italy next week - and he now wants to continue in the series next season too.

Duval will pilot a works Abarth Grande Punto Super 2000 on the asphalt event, one of the most glamorous and prestigious rallies in Europe, which ge🥀ts underway on the evening of Friday September 25.

"My go𝓀al is obviously to make the last two rallies this season and then find a ওgood drive in the IRC next season," Duval confirmed.

Duval is no stranger to the IRC and the Abarth Grande Punto. He sampl👍ed one on the Rally of Portugal IRC event in 2007 and appeared in a Skoda Fabia Super 2000 on the Belgium Ypres Rally in June, where he was an early retirement after going off the road.

"It will be a difficult rally with lots of competition but I am not about t🗹o repeat what happened in Ypr꧟es," Duval added.