The Milton Keynes workshops of Volkswagen Racing UK are playing host this week to the Junior World Rally Championship [JWRC] Polo Super 1💝600s of Kosti Katajamaki and Oscar Svedlund as the𝓡y prepare for the final round of the series, the Wales Rally GB.

The event gets underway from Cardiff on Thursday [6 November] and finishes back in the city on Sunday afternoo🌃n after 376km of special stage rallying in the Welsh forests.

There ar𒁃e high hopes for a good result on the Wales Rally GB for Finland's Katajamaki and his Swedish running mate Svedlund, both of whom have shown strong pace this season.

"Kosti knows the event very well," said Volkswagen Racing UK maꦅnaging director Sam Roach, "and has every confidence tha𒊎t the Polo will be competitive in Wales. We are delighted to welcome the Lehtonen Motorsport team to our base, and to be assisting them in their preparations for the final round of the Junior WRC."

Katajama𝓰ki made a strong start to his season, leading the way in Monte Carlo and winning the Junior class in Turkey in March to take the championship lead. But since then he's been out of luck, failing to finish a🍨ny of the subsequent four events. Last time out, in Catalunya, his Polo suffered accident damage.

Katajamaki holds e♌ighth place overal📖l in the Junior WRC driver standings and Svedlund is in 14th.

The Lehtonen team's Junior WRC programme is supported by Shell, Nokian Tyres, DNA, Superfastferries, Bosch, Bl𓄧aupunkt, OMP, OZ Racing, Lecab, Kessel, Rannila, M?kela Alu oy and Sokos Hotels.