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BP Ford Abu Dhabi man and Crash.net columnist Jari-Matti Latvala will make his debut appearance at the Rallyday Show at Castle Combe on September 18.

BP Ford Abu Dhabi WRT team review of Rally Finland, the eighth round in the 2010 World Rally Championship, where Jari-Matti Latvala took gold for the 'Blue Oval' in his Focus RS WRC car. Also includes footage of Mikko Hirvonen's monster crash.

Delight for Jari-Matti Latvala and Ford as the 25-year-old notches up his first victory on home soil and his second of the 2010 WRC season.

Jari-Matti Latvala takes the glory in New Zealand after edging out Sebastien Ogier in the final stage.

Mikko Hirvonen will finalise his preparations for the World Rally Championship title decider in Great Britain later this month by driving in the Cambrian Rally in north Wales next weekend.

Khalid Al Qassimi will be back behind the wheel of the 'third' BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team Focus RS WRC car this week in Finland and having finished a career best sixth on the Acropolis last month, he will be going all out to replicate that achievement.

BP Ford Abu Dhabi team director Malcolm Wilson reckons that everything is looking very positive for the World Rally Championship now following the measures announced by the World Motor Sport Council at the end of last month.

BP Ford Abu Dhabi's Jari-Matti Latvala has crashed out of Rally Poland in the final stage of the event, the repeat run through the short 2.5 kilometre Mikolajki super special.

The BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team ultimately missed out on the two titles in 2008 to Sebastien Loeb and Citroen.

The BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team ultimately missed out on the two titles in 2008 to Sebastien Loeb and Citroen.

SS12 - Resolfen 2 (30.68 km): Hirvonen fastest through SS12; Loeb second; Petter Solberg third; Latvala fourth; Henning Solberg fifth; Sordo sixth; Andersson stalled; Flodin heads the PWRC category; Latvala leads the overall event by 8.4 secs.

Mikko Hirvonen has paid homage to Francois Duval after the Belgian obeyed team orders and eased off in the penultimate stage of the Rally RACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada, something that handed the Finn third place.

SS4 - Mangen 1 (22.09 km): Latvala fastest through SS4; Henning Solberg second; Hirvonen third; Galli fourth; Petter Solberg fifth; Wilson sixth; Loeb rolls after hitting a snowbank - loses over 3.5 minutes; Mikkelsen spun; Ostberg hit something and picked up a puncture; Aava went off and