# Adrien Fourmaux

Adrien Fourmaux (born 3 May 1995) is a French rally driver. After contesting the 2024 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) for M-Sport Ford in the WRC Rally1 category driving the Ford Puma, Fourmaux joins Hyundai Motorsport for 2025 to pilot a Hyundai i20 N Rally1.
Fourmaux won the British Rally Championship in 2023 in the Ford Fiesta Rally2 as well as competing in the WRC2 Championship for the 2023 season. Fourmaux achieved his first WRC podium at the 2024 Rally Sweden.

## Rally career
### Early years

Fourmaux first came into contact with rally driving when he took part in the Rallye Jeunes scouting programme organised by the FFSA in 2016. He won the competition and received help from the French federation from that point onwards; in parallel, Fourmaux began studying to become an orthopedic surgeon at the Lille Faculty of Medicine. Fourmaux made his rally debut in the French junior championship in 2017 and finished third in the drivers' standings after a solid season. He returned in 2018 and dominated the opening five rounds, thus winning the title with two events to spare.
With full backing of the FFSA and having abandoned his studies during his fourth year, Fourmaux joined experienced co-driver Renaud Jamoul in the WRC2 Championship, driving a Ford Fiesta R5 at M-Sport Ford. He made his WRC debut at the 2019 Monte Carlo Rally, finishing second in the WRC2 class and taking his first WRC career point by placing tenth overall. He scored another WRC2 podium later in the year with third place at the Wales Rally GB.
In 2020, Fourmaux was signed by M-Sport Ford WRT to compete in the WRC2. He started the campaign by winning seven stages at Monte Carlo, before a puncture dropped him to second. Fourth in Sweden preceded an early crash at the Rally di Roma Capitale in the ERC, though he regrouped to take two further WRC2 runner-up finishes in Estonia and Turkey. He ended up third in the standings alongside Jamoul. Fourmaux also won the Rally Islas Canarias at the end of the year in the final event of the ERC calendar.

### WRC step-up, demotion, re-promotion

Fourmaux then progressed to the World Rally Championship in 2021, driving selected events in a Ford Fiesta WRC and partaking in the WRC-2 class during the remainder of the calendar. His WRC debut came in Croatia, where a fifth place caused him to be likened to rally legend Sébastien Ogier by team principal Richard Millener. He then scored his maiden WRC stage win in Kenya. Following the withdrawal of Teemu Suninen, Fourmaux contested the final five events of the WRC season together with Alexandre Coria, his new co-driver.
The pair remained at Ford M-Sport for the 2022 season, this time to contest the full campaign. The season began poorly, as Fourmaux retired from the first three events, experiencing a huge accident in stage three at Monte Carlo and crashing out in a garden in Croatia. Another crash came later in the year at the Ypres Rally; as a consequence of the chassis damage, Fourmaux was not entered in the following two events, while budget issues forced him to miss the season finale in Japan.
His lacklustre full-season debut led to M-Sport demoting him to the WRC2 for the 2023 season. Before embarking on his WRC2 campaign, Fourmaux won the Jänner Rallye in Austria. In the WRC2, Fourmaux took part in eight rallies and finished a season-best second at the Rally Finland. In addition, he came close to winning the class at the Rally Italia Sardegna before crashing out during the Power Stage and won the Central European Rally, though he was ineligible for points. Parallel to his WRC2 commitments, Fourmaux and Coria won the British Rally Championship by winning all five of the events they entered. He also won the Ypres Rally in June. At the end of 2023, Fourmaux was recalled to Ford's WRC team to substitute for Pierre-Louis Loubet at the Rally Japan, though he would crash out of the event.

### Final Ford season

Fourmaux, along with Coria, returned to M-Sport to contest the 2024 WRC season. After finishing fifth in Monte Carlo, Fourmaux scored his first WRC podium with third place in Sweden. Another podium followed at the Safari Rally in Kenya after a reliable drive. Fourmaux then won his maiden Power Stage in Croatia, finished fourth in Portugal, and scored his third podium in Poland. Fourth in Latvia and third in Finland came next, as Fourmaux benefited from a late crash for leader Kalle Rovanperä to inherit a spot on the rostrum. In Greece, Fourmaux clipped a rock on the opening day and fell out of contention, though he later won the Power Stage. After finishing fifth in Chile and encountering issues at the Central European Rally, Fourmaux capped off his season by finishing third in Japan. He ended up fifth in the drivers' standings. To cap off his tenure at Ford, whom he would leave for Hyundai, Fourmaux won the Monza Rally Show. On his Hyundai debut meanwhile, Fourmaux won the Rallye National Hivernal du Dévoluy.

## Rally results
### French Junior (F) Championship results

| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Pos. | Points |
| 2017 | Adrien Fourmaux | Ford Fiesta R2T | LYO 5 | LIM 4 | LAN Ret | LOZ 5 | CAR 2 | CÉV Ret | | 3rd | 50 |
| 2018 | Adrien Fourmaux | Ford Fiesta R2T | LET 1 | ANT 1 | VOS 1 | LAN 1 | LOZ 1 | COE | CAR | 1st | 100 |

### WRC results

| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | WDC | Points |
| 2019 | Adrien Fourmaux | Ford Fiesta R5 | MON 10 | | | FRA 30 | ARG | CHL | POR 13 | | | GER 23 | TUR | GBR 15 | | | 28th | 1 |
| 2019 | Adrien Fourmaux | Ford Fiesta R2 | | SWE 45 | MEX | | | | | ITA 36 | FIN 23 | | | | | | 28th | 1 |
| 2019 | Adrien Fourmaux | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | | | | | | | | | | | | | ESP 32 | AUS C | 28th | 1 |
| 2020 | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | MON 15 | SWE 18 | MEX | EST 13 | TUR 9 | ITA Ret | MNZ 49 | | | | | | | | 22nd | 2 |
| 2021 | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | MON 9 | ARC 48 | | | ITA 30 | | EST 12 | | | | | | | | 10th | 42 |
| 2021 | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta WRC | | | CRO 5 | POR 6 | | KEN 5 | | BEL Ret | GRE 7 | FIN 7 | ESP 16 | MNZ 55 | | | 10th | 42 |
| 2022 | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Puma Rally1 | MON Ret | SWE Ret | CRO Ret | POR 9 | ITA Ret | KEN 13 | EST 7 | FIN 18 | BEL Ret | GRE WD | NZL WD | ESP 8 | JPN WD | | 16th | 13 |
| 2023 | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta Rally2 | MON 13 | SWE | MEX 16 | CRO 12 | POR 15 | ITA Ret | KEN | EST | FIN 8 | GRE 11 | CHL | EUR 8 | | | 20th | 8 |
| 2023 | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Puma Rally1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | JPN Ret | | 20th | 8 |
| 2024 | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Puma Rally1 | MON 5 | SWE 3 | KEN 3 | CRO 17 | POR 4 | ITA 14 | POL 3 | LAT 4 | FIN 3 | GRE 21 | CHL 5 | EUR 32 | JPN 3 | | 5th | 162 |
| 2025 | Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT | Hyundai i20 N Rally1 | MON 3 | SWE 40 | KEN | SPA | POR | ITA | GRE | EST | FIN | PRY | CHL | EUR | JPN | SAU | 7th* | 21* |
* Season still in progress.

### WRC-2 results

| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | WDC | Points |
| 2019 | Adrien Fourmaux | Ford Fiesta R5 | MON 2 | SWE | MEX | FRA 9 | ARG | CHL | POR | ITA | FIN | GER 8 | TUR | GBR 3 | | | 13th | 39 |
| 2019 | Adrien Fourmaux | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | | | | | | | | | | | | | ESP 13 | AUS C | 13th | 39 |
| 2020 | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | MON 2 | SWE 4 | MEX | EST 2 | TUR 2 | ITA Ret | MNZ 4 | | | | | | | | 3rd | 78 |
| 2021 | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | MON 2 | ARC 9 | CRO | POR | ITA 6 | KEN | EST 4 | BEL | GRE | FIN | ESP | MNZ | | | 10th | 48 |
| 2023 | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta Rally2 | MON 5 | SWE | MEX 7 | CRO 4 | POR 10 | ITA Ret | KEN | EST | FIN 2 | GRE 4 | CHL | EUR NC | JPN | | 8th | 67 |

### ERC results

| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | WDC | Points |
| 2020 | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II | ITA Ret | LAT | PRT | HUN | ESP 1 | 10th | 37 |