Matthew Wilson Story

It will be interesting to see how Wilson compares to Wilks this weekend - Guy is currently just 8.5 seconds slower than Matthew after stage 3, and thats in an older Focus.

Rally Norway, stage 4 - Grue 14.37km

Matthew Wilson - Ford Focus RS WRC 06
Stage time: 8:01.1

Per Gunnar Andersson - Suzuki Swift S1600
Stage time: 8:00.3


Look at the cars they are driving with and compare those times. NO COMMENTS!

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Originally Posted by DonJippo

Let me ask one thing...as a father what would you do if given the same possibility as what Malcolm Wilson has to support his own son? Matthew is not going to be a champion yes we can all see that but they are father and son, don't you think he is entitled to do and support his own son in anyway he wants? And that should not be any others business than Malcolm's and Matthew's IMHO.

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I agree. However, that shouldn't preclude people from having opinions on Matthew's performance, and mine is that he doesn't hack it. I also think that it's a shame there isn't a truly strong British Championship in which he could be competing as a prelude to any WRC career, just as Colin McRae and Matthew's father had the undoubted benefit of.

If he has the finance for a 6 year wrc programme, surely he could afford to spend a year learning his trade on the JWRC and PWRC. The stakes, spotlight and learning curve wouldn't be so great.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I also think that it's a shame there isn't a truly strong British Championship in which he could be competing as a prelude to any WRC career, just as Colin McRae and Matthew's father had the undoubted benefit of.

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Just because British rallying is poor doesn't mean he has to jump into the WRC so quickly. Plenty of competitive European championships for Matthew to benefit from. Aswell as the asian championship, where McRae competed....

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Originally Posted by jidoka

Just because British rallying is poor doesn't mean he has to jump into the WRC so quickly. Plenty of competitive European championships for Matthew to benefit from. Aswell as the asian championship, where McRae competed....

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He was here in Finnish championship, but then he had an accident.

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Originally Posted by jidoka

Just because British rallying is poor doesn't mean he has to jump into the WRC so quickly. Plenty of competitive European championships for Matthew to benefit from. Aswell as the asian championship, where McRae competed....

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This is true.

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Originally Posted by Tomi

He was here in Finnish championship, but then he had an accident.

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Are we talking about McRae. Since you said accident I presume we are. How many rallies did he do?

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Originally Posted by jidoka

Are we talking about McRae. Since you said accident I presume we are. How many rallies did he do?

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not mcrae, but wilson was here, did not do so good and the accident he had somewhere else if i remember right.

BTW what happens to Ford JWRC prorgram??? Is there still Ford Fiesta JWRC running in WRC??? ( I guess Puma's are gone....!?) If so, does M-Sports run JWRC's???

After seeing Loeb, Duval, Sordo, etc. coming up from JWRC, I think JWRC is a good step stone to WRC, and Matthew Willson should've competed in JWRC if Ford still has JWRC program.

matthew wilson is 20yrs old right?

Henri Toivenen I think is still the youngest drive to win a rally 24years old. and colin mcrae has tittle at 26 yrs old?

i think matthew have a couple more years to prove himself. maybe he will pull some supprise. although as of now there are many potential wrc champion in the future, mikko, sordo, atkinson. not many people gets to be champion.