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Carlos Sainz took a step closer to securing a drive in next year's World Rally Championship when he tested Citroen's Xsara World Rally Car in southern France yesterday.
The two-time world champion's prospects for 2003 had looked bleak when current employers Ford adopted a youth policy for its WRC campaign, with Markko Martin and Francois Duval leading the team next year.
A proposed move to Hyundai then came to nought, but it looks encouraging for Sainz that he could be joining Sebastien Loeb and Colin McRae – Sainz's team-mate at Ford and Subaru – in a possible three-car attack for Citroen's first full season in the WRC.
Sainz's co-driver during the test was Marc Marti, who read pacenotes for Sainz in Rally Catalunya earlier this year when regular co-driver Luis Moya was injured in a testing accident. Marti was also co-driver for Jesus Puras when the Spaniard drove for Citroen in 2001.
( Bron: wrc.com )
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