In Umeå on Saturday night, the TV screens at Rally Sweden's service park showed pictures that no one at M-Sport wanted to see. Grégoire Münster's Ford Puma Rally 1 crashed straight into a snowbank.
A full 15 minutes had passed and Munster were finally able to crawl out of the snow and onto the goal. However, his mountain lion looks battered and bruised.
It will be a busy 45-minute service for M-Sport's mechanics, including Hayley Harrod.
“Rallying is just a little bit different than everything else. It's faster-paced and there's always something different. No two services are ever the same,” Harrod told DirtFish.
“Even if something happens, like we had an accident yesterday, whether we manage to finish the stage or if we need major body repair work for a 45-minute service.”
“It didn't make the Super Rally, but it was a good thing, so it took us less than four hours to fix the car. But it was still a very big job that we had to do. It's just exciting: there's always something new, something different.”
Sunday's 15-minute service was more polite and both cars arrived at base unharmed. So Dirtfish brought their cameras and microphones into Harrod to get a first-hand look at the WRC service.
Check out the full story below. Hear more about Harrod's journey from becoming a WRC mechanic to working at M-Sport.
