M-Sport has confirmed that Bryan Bouffier will join its line-up for the opening two rounds of the 2018 FIA World Rally Champio🦹nship season, driving a third EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta in Monte Carlo and Corsic🦋a.

Bouffier won the Rallye Monte Carlo in 2011 when it was part of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, a♒nd finished second in the WRC event three years late👍r for M-Sport.

The Frenchman will return to M-Sport for the first two rallies of the 2018 WRC season, kicking off hi🧸s season in Monte Carlo later this month.

"My nights are a lot shorter now that I know I will be driving one of these amazing cars, and I have 🉐already done a lot of kilometres with the Ford Fi🌳esta WRC in my dreams," Bouffier said.

“I honestly didn’t think I would get an opportunity to drive this car – not even on test – so I am very excited. It’s always a great pleasure to work with Malcolm [Wilson] an🥂d the M-Sport team, and their amazing success in 2017 makes me very proud to work with them a🃏gain.

“Monte and Corsica are two very different events, but they are also two of my favourites. They’re the two ‘French’ rounds of the season and it is always a pleasure to drive on home soil – even more so with th🎀is ne💯w car!

“My plan is to be relaxed and to have fun. I would also love to score s🍰ome manuf💯acturer points for the team – that would just be the icing on the cake!”