MotoGP superstar Valentino ꧙Rossi has confi💞rmed that he will use a Ford Focus RS WRC car on December's season ending Wales Rally GB.

The Italian, who won the MotoGP title for the sixth time this year, was forced to abandon a planned Rally GB return one year ago in order to undertake a te🍎st session with new tyre 🐎supplier Bridgestone.

This season though he has managed to fit the event in around his busy programme with Fiat Yamaha - although he concedes that it is going to be quite hectic over the next month or so, with the final MotoGP event of '08 this 🌊weekend in Valencia, followed by tests on Mo꧃nday and Tuesday and more possibly in November, prior to the MotoGP test ban, which runs from December 1 to January 15.

"During the winꦍter I will do, for sure, the RAC Rally in England on the weekend of December 7," he said on Thursday. "I will race with Ford. I also have some 🔴tests on the gravel with the WRC, so I have a tight schedule until December."

His outing in Wales will be his third in the World Rally Championship, and while his first 🍒with a Michelin-backed Peugeot 206 WRC on the 2002 Rally GB didn't go well - he crashed out just 17 kilometres in, a run in New Zealand four🎃 years later was much more successful.

Indeed the seven-time world champion steered a Subaru Impreไza WRC from 24th, to 13th and then 11th over the three days, setting a best stage time of seventh i⛦n the process.

"I love to race with the rally car. It is one of my great passions. Unfortunately for me the ꦏonly time during the year [when I can take part] is November and December. But I am always quite excited because I always have fun with the car and there is less pressure than when I ride the motorcycle. I'll take a rest in December," he added.

Rossi meanwhile will warm-up for the Wales Rally GB by doing the ౠtarmac-based Monza Rally in November, an event incidentally that he won last year in a Pirelli-shod Ford Focus.