The FIA Junior WRC champion will continue his relationship with the Schio-based team and add further high-profile events to his international campaign.
Canary Islands, Greece, Estonia and Rally di Roma Capitale form part of a programme built around the Skoda Fabia RS Rally2, with Johan Grönvall again on the notes.
Mille Johansson’s 2026 season will again feature MS Munaretto. The talented Swedish driver, fresh from securing the FIA Junior World Rally Championship title, has chosen to continue the work already started with the Italian team, once again placing his trust in the Schio-based outfit for a significant part of his international campaign across WRC2 and the ERC.
Alongside him will once again be Johan Grönvall, preserving a technical and sporting continuity that remains one of the key foundations of the project. For Johansson, this is an important next step, as it gives further depth to a season that will see him competing in top-level environments, within a calendar designed to build experience, rhythm and stronger references in the Rally2 category.
The partnership with MS Munaretto will form a substantial part of the Swedish driver’s 2026 programme, with three additional FIA World Rally Championship events counting towards WRC2, Rally Islas Canarias, Rally Estonia and Rally Greece. Added to that is an ERC appearance at Rally di Roma Capitale, with the possibility of further Rally2 outings during the season. The entire programme will be contested in the Skoda Fabia RS Rally2, a car Johansson already drove in 2025 and one he knows within an increasingly well-established technical framework.
This is far from a casual choice. It is the natural continuation of a relationship that has already been properly tested. During 2025, Johansson and Grönvall worked with MS Munaretto in a valuable development phase, gaining experience both in the FIA European Rally Championship and in the Italian Gravel Rally Championship, collecting mileage and building familiarity with a car and a category that are crucial to the Swedish driver’s growth.
The new season, however, clearly raises the level of the challenge. In 2026 Johansson will face a broader, more demanding and technically tougher stage, in an environment where consistency, adaptability and speed of learning will all be decisive. In that context, the renewed agreement with MS Munaretto carries a very precise meaning: to give structure and solidity to an ambitious programme through a team already known and considered the right fit to support an important step in the driver’s career.
“It feels really good to continue the collaboration with MS Munaretto,” said Mille Johansson. “We have already worked together and I feel very comfortable within the team. It is a professional group that works hard, so I am really looking forward to continuing to develop together throughout the season. Of course, it is very exciting and motivating to have the opportunity to contest a full WRC2 season. It is something I have been aiming for for a long time, and it will be interesting to measure myself against strong competition while gaining more experience at this level. The goal is to keep developing together with the team, to take steps forward during the season and to be fighting for strong results whenever the opportunity is there.”
Alex Munaretto also welcomed the continuation of the partnership with clear satisfaction: “We are very happy to have Mille and Johan back with MS Munaretto. We already have a strong working relationship and it is great to continue this journey together at such an important stage in Mille’s career. A season of this kind is a real challenge, and our role is to make sure they have everything they need to grow, a solid team around them, strong preparation, clear processes and the right technical support at every stage of the programme. Mille has shown very strong potential, and our focus will be to help him turn that potential into performance and consistency across different rallies and conditions. We are proud to be part of this project and very much looking forward to getting started.”
For MS Munaretto, Johansson’s confirmation further strengthens the international dimension of its 2026 campaign and adds another highly promising name to a sporting project that continues to operate on some of the most competitive stages in European and world rallying. For Johansson, meanwhile, the new season opens up the concrete opportunity to tackle a full, structured and high-value programme on stages where every kilometre carries real weight.
