The former Ford team-leader retired from full time competition last year having notched up 15 WRC victories. Now he splits his time between road testing extreme machines for Finnish car magazine Tuulilasi and a new career in cross-country rallying with MINI. Hirvonen's latest testing assignment took him to Estonia's Pärnu circuit for a ten lap stint in a 2007-model Williams. "It was really a fantastic experience, it gave me a small taste and left me wanting more," he told wrc.com. "It felt amazing, and quite easy to handle, although with just 10 laps I wasn't able to get the best out of it. I suppose it's a bit like a rally car - up to a point it's quite an easy thing to...
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