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M-Sport’s reservoir dogs raise the (Ti)Tanak!

Car salvaged from lake and fixed by mechanics working overnight for Estonian young gun to rejoin on Satuday. Ott Tanak will rejoin Rally Mexico today, less than 24 hours after somersaulting his M-Sport Ford Fiesta RS WRC into a lake – into which it then sank to the bottom. He and co-driver Raigo Molder were forced to swim for their lives, but despite the car being completely submerged for almost 10 hours, M-Sport's technicians worked throughout the night to repair the Fiesta. Tanak and Molder stayed by their side until the work was complete. "This is something that we have never seen before,” said Tanak. “The car has been gone all day, submerged at the bottom of a lake, full of...
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