I said earlier in the thread, I think the closest I can think of was Makinen in Finland ‘94. He had done some rallies in the top class with Mazda and Nissan with little to shout about, but Ford gave...
Kyosty came from nowhere, for sure Oliver didnt came from nowhere. He is doing WRC races for many years, before he did more than 10 starts there with the car of highest category. He almost won Kanepi...
Reminds me of Finland 1977 : Kyosty Hamalainen coming out of nowhere to win it for Ford in his first works drive. Unfortunately for Kyosty it remained a one-off and he did not deliver in the...
You need to measure Sesks vs Pajari. But clearly both big 2 are in league their own - M-Sport is clearly under developing and under-testing ( who has seen single PET FIN and EST video in YT or any...
Other examples: Safari specialist Ian Duncan winning Safari 1994 in works Toyota. Mats Jonsson winning Sweden 1992 and 1993 with Toyota Sweden (only Sweden entered in '92, Sweden and RAC in '93)...
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