High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! François Duval is a Belgian rally driver in the World Rally Championship. Victory on four events landed Duval the Belgian Citroën Saxo Challenge title in 1999. He then began his career as a rally driver at the international level, firstly, as a driver in the inaugural season of the lower-rung Super 1600 category of the World Rally Championship aboard a Ford Puma in 2001, the same year in which Saxo driver and future Citroën team-mate Sébastien Loeb won the title. Beginning with the 2002 season, he progressed to become a regular driver of a Ford Focus WRC with the factory M-Sport-ran Ford World Rally Team.