M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

Actually there's a mistake in the article. Serderidis will drive the Puma Rally1 in Rallye de Hannut and Ardennes. It will be driven not with his own car, but with one from M-Sport themselves, as the one he bought isn't going to be ready yet.

Fun fact, there's an agreement with M-Sport that the car will always go back to M-Sport between events this year, and the car will be only serviced by people from M-Sport, also in the small events. So basically you can buy a Rally1-car but you can't put it in your own garage. :D

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

Actually there's a mistake in the article. Serderidis will drive the Puma Rally1 in Rallye de Hannut and Ardennes. It will be driven not with his own car, but with one from M-Sport themselves, as the one he bought isn't going to be ready yet.

Fun fact, there's an agreement with M-Sport that the car will always go back to M-Sport between events this year, and the car will be only serviced by people from M-Sport, also in the small events. So basically you can buy a Rally1-car but you can't put it in your own garage. :D

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Who is the part deciding that fact in contract? Serderidis or MSport?
I´d say Serderidis can´t manage the car in his own garage anyway. ;)

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

Who is the part deciding that fact in contract? Serderidis or MSport?
I´d say Serderidis can´t manage the car in his own garage anyway. ;)

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They don't want any info about the car to leak to other WRC teams probably?

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Originally Posted by rage82

They don't want any info about the car to leak to other WRC teams probably?

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I was thinking about that as well.

In addition, I can only image these cars are not that simple to service. In case of hybrid unit problems, Compact Dynamics only deals with the WRC teams, not directly to their customers?

Just speculation...

Maybe they buy the car and the service.

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Originally Posted by rage82

They don't want any info about the car to leak to other WRC teams probably?

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yeap.

Latest M-Sport merchandise incl. banners, posters and stickers of the new PUMA...

https://www.dmb.uk.com/search/M-Spor...roducts/page/4

M-Sport anticipates more Rally1 privateers in WRC after first Puma sale...

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/m...-sale/8310098/

M-Sport need better drivers!
Loeb is just icing in the cake a few times a year, the rest of the year they need one more crew on level with Breen/Nagle.

Even if Sweden is special, the same will happen on all other rallies.
Greensmith/Andersson and Formaux/Coria are not good enough to fight for podiums. Ford need a 2nd driver on par with Breen!

Another problem is that this was meant to be one of Breens best events - considering his previous experience and speed here in the past.

We now either go into a run of events Breen hasn't done for a long time, or performed badly on last year (Croatia).

Hard to expect anything from Greensmith and Fourmaux, but I'm sure/ I hope both will show speed & grab a few good results at some point throughout the seaaon.

Msport chose the money from Greensmith and Fourmaux (plus Loubet), so we can't expect them to suddenly sign any of the better drivers out there (Paddon, Mikkelsen, Suninen, Meeke, Ostberg etc etc etc).