M-Sport Ford team leader Grégoire Munster says he’s taken valuable lessons from a challenging Rally Sweden - insights he plans to use to sharpen his pace aboard the Puma Rally1.

The 26-year-old finished eighth in Umeå, marking his lowest WRC result since Secto Rally Finland last August. A tough start left him struggling for outright speed on Friday, which meant he was first on the road for the rest of the weekend. Despite that, Munster remains upbeat.

In 1990, Toyota had its first WRC champion driver in Carlos Sainz, and in 1993 it became the first Japanese brand to win the WRC manufacturers' title. By the end of its factory-backed activities in 1999, Toyota had collected three manufacturers' titles, (in 1993, 1994 and 1999) and four drivers' titles (two for Sainz and one each for Juha Kankkunen and Didier Auriol).

Toyota return was confirmed in January 2015 by the company's president, and passionate rally enthusiast, Akio Toyoda. A team base was established in Finland and Toyoda put former world champion Tommi Mäkinen in charge of developing a Yaris ready for a 2017 comeback.

The squad proved the surprise of the season. A sensational second place for Latvala at the opening Rallye Monte-Carlo could have been dismissed as a fluke – before he followed it with victory at the next round in Sweden. Esapekka Lappi added a third win at the fastest rally of them all, Neste Rally Finland.

The success continued as new signing Ott Tänak joined Latvala and Lappi and the trio lifted the manufacturers' title in 2018. Twelve months later Tänak secured his maiden drivers' crown.