To say Craig Breen’s 2022 World Rally Championship campaign didn’t go to plan takes the word understatement to a new level.
A full-season drive in M-Sport’s all-new Ford Puma Rally1 was supposed to be the stuff that dreams are made of and an opportunity the 32-year-old had long-since craved.
By joining illustrious team-mate Sebastien Loeb on the Monte Carlo Rally podium, the Irishman was seemingly in the ascendancy only for his season to unravel at an alarming rate.
There would be no podium return until Sardinia in June and a plethora of shunts and general despair instead as everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
The mid-season rallies in Estonia,