M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

[Rallyper]

M-Sport should be given our gratitude for fighting on and raising the backing from new sponsors, enabling us to see so many WRC machines in the 2013 Championship...

If they had pulled out when Ford officially withdrew the series would have been dead.

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[N.O.T]

M-Sport should be given our gratitude for fighting on and raising the backing from new sponsors, enabling us to see so many WRC machines in the 2013 Championship...

If they had pulled out when Ford officially withdrew the series would have been dead.

well they did not pull out because there were drivers who payed for their drives... M-sport is a business and in business if you do not make money you do not make sense... they stayed because someone paid not because of good will.

[OnlyRally]

[quote=N.O.T]

M-Sport should be given our gratitude for fighting on and raising the backing from new sponsors, enabling us to see so many WRC machines in the 2013 Championship...

If they had pulled out when Ford officially withdrew the series would have been dead.

well they did not pull out because there were drivers who payed for their drives... M-sport is a business and in business if you do not make money you do not make sense... they stayed because someone paid not because of good will.[/quote:2h7w2hw9]
+10

[Rallyper]

No one said they did go on for good will reasons, did they? Just barely noticed they did go on benefitting the WRC.

[pantealex]

Maybe Pirelli with Ford ?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I'm sure M-Sport could find easier ways to make money than WRC...

They have a passion for rally and that is why they carry on.

BTW, where is all the cash coming from in 2014 to give Evans his chance ??

[Eli]

http://www.acm.mc/documents/4/LISTE%20D ... IORITE.pdf
there is no mentioning of Qatar..seems like they left M-Sport alone.

[COD]

http://www.acm.mc/documents/4/LISTE%20DES%20ENGAGES%20PAR%20LISTE%20DE%20PRIORIT E.pdf
there is no mentioning of Qatar..seems like they left M-Sport alone.

This would suggest, that main sponsor still to be announced. So could be Qatar as well as anything else

http://www.fia.com/2014-fia-wrc-manufac ... t-entrants

[Eli]

we'll have to wait and see

[Prisoner Monkeys]

Yeah, there's still a month until the rally. All the team name on that entry list shows is what was on the paperwork M-Sport submitted. And they could have submitted it a month ago, leaving them even more time to secure a sponsor, whoever it may be.