M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

[GigiGalliNo1]

It only costs how man £'s to buy a Fiesta road car, put in roll cage, structure it properly and build an engine etc so think M-Sport make money from it

[Mirek]

It only costs how man £'s to buy a Fiesta road car, put in roll cage, structure it properly and build an engine etc so think M-Sport make money from it

I think that no WRC car ever had a rollcage built in the complete shell. AFAIK the rollcage is being welded on the base platform and the bodyshell than built around it...

[kirungi okwogera]

M-Sport needs the paying driver now more then ever. Yazeed and Novikov seem the be the most valuable drivers around with a steady and wealthy budget. If there will be a M-Sport / Ford team for the manufacturer championship Malcolm Wilson has to look for these drivers

Al-Rajhi has said he is not interested in WRC until he is good or experienced enough to be the best in Super 2000s. Sensible, otherwise if you jump in too early you might just be wasting your sponsors' money and good will. Ask Antony Warmbold if he's around! He talks about it on his blog though.

[navtheace]

Tried to find M-sports financial figures but I suppose in UK you do not have to make them public for limited companies like in Finland. However, one free service had some basic numbers: Company Check - Free company financial check on M. SPORT LIMITED. Registered number 02105112. Free company accounts. Companies House information
Based on those figures I'd estimate M-sports annual profit to be somewhere near 3 million Euros which is not that much. Based on those It's hard to say about net sales but 20-60 million Euros could be a rough estimate.

You can get more information if you buy a copy of the accounts for a few pounds in the UK.

[Maui J.]

It only costs how man £'s to buy a Fiesta road car, put in roll cage, structure it properly and build an engine etc so think M-Sport make money from it

I didn't realise it was so easy to make a WRC car. Why didn't I start years ago?!!!!!

[GigiGalliNo1]

Sorry guys, I'm not being a smart a$$

But I are your points. There is a lot more into building the cars and then looking after them

[MikeD]

Yeah, their business is really big. 27 different drivers have used Fiesta WRC in WRC rallies (just WRC rallies)

It's actually 32 different drivers who have driven the Fiesta WRC in 2011 and 2012 YTD.

A.Burkart

B.Sousa

C.Atkinson

D.Kuipers

D.Oliveira

D.Sordo

E.Brynildsen

E.Novikov

F.Delecour

F.Villagra

H.Solberg

J.Habig

J.Ketomaa

J.Latvala

J.Maurin

K.Al Qassimi

K.Block

L.Athanassoulas

M.Hirvonen

M.Prokop

M.Rantanen

M.Solowow

M.Stohl

M.Wilson

M.Østberg

O.Tamrazov

O.Tänak

P.Andersson

R.Kuipers

R.Triviño

S.Lindholm

S.Pavlides

[vino_93]

and John Powell will drive on in Catalunya

[pettersolberg29]

It's actually 32 different drivers who have driven the Fiesta WRC in 2011 and 2012 YTD.

Is it just me or does that table not include Petter - so it's actually 33? Or am I blind?

[bluuford]

I was talking about 2012 only.. but your list is nice :-) Thank you:-)