BP Ford Abu Dhabi team director Malcolm Wilson has confirmed that Jari-Matti Latvala will definitely do the Rally Finland at the end of next month, despite ♎another gaff at the weekend in Poland.

Ford looked all set to finish one-two on Sunday and notch up another third maximum 18-point haul in as many events. That would have allowed the 'Blue Oval' close to within six points of Citroen in the race for the manufac🌱turers' championship.

However, in the end the M-Sport-run squad actually lost ground after Latvala crash🐷ed out in the final test, the short 2.50 kilometre Mikolajki super sꦗpecial, and threw away second place.

Speaking following the eighth rou🐎nd in the 2009 World Rally Championship and af🔥ter seeing the gap to Citroen increase to 17-points, Wilson admitted that he just couldn't believe what had happened.

He also added tha❀t he is not sure what else they can ⛄do to help the 24-year-old, who while incredibly quick and talented, is also rather too accident-prone.

"I must admit it is now many years since I was a spectator at any stages, because we always seemed to have a problem. Needless to say, I did not expect to see what I saw at the super special sta𝓀ge right in front of me," said Wilson.

"Imagine the shock. The whole team were there. Imagine the emotion of the whole team, who were there to witness a fantastic result. 🔴It went there and then, three days of a great work just e🎶vaporated in front of everyone - just unbelievable.

"I went to watch the perfect end of a perfect weekend but I can't believe what happened right in front of m🙈y eyes. It was heartbreaking to see 𓆉such an excellent result slip away after both drivers did such a superb job.

"It is difficult at this moment in timeౠ now and to be perfectly honest I am running out of ideas [of how we can help Jari-Matti].

"We were really in a position to challenge for the championship. I am not saying it is dead and buried, but we sure have a mountain to climb. We have invested in him for a long time. He made good progress in Sardinia and now we are back to square one again. But he wi🎶ll start Rally Finland in a BP Ford car."

Despite the disappointment though, Mikko Hirvonen's win - his second in succession - was more than some cꦫonsolation an🎀d the Finn now moves to the top of the drivers' championship, 1 point ahead of Sebastien Loeb.

"Mikko has been fantastic throughout. He drove🌊 superbly all weekend and thoroughly deserved to take his second win in a row," Wilson summed-up.