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Tanak: From underwater to the podium

Ott Tanak had already been sacked by M-Sport once, and dumping his car in a reservoir early in his second-chance season didn't bode well. But, as DAVID EVANS explains, it's all come right now

Given its true meaning, the adjective 'shell-shocked' is reached for far too easily.

It would be laughable, for example, to consider using it in the middle of a motorsport event in South America.

Or so I thought. But when Ott Tanak emerged from his, err, discussion with M-Sport team principal Malcolm Wilson back in April, it was difficult to find a better description.

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