M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

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Originally Posted by rallyfiend

This guy doesn't seem bright enough to have a straight thought....

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Well Ford have made thousands of redundancies recently to reduce costs. Do you not have any empathy with these people that could have lost everything, only to find out that Ford can now spunk (£20m?) for a rally driver.

Tanak isn't making anywhere close to £20m. Probably getting rid of Breen and Fourmaux 's repair bills (plus the former's contract) saved enough for M-Sport to line up a decent offer for Ott.

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Originally Posted by denkimi

good news for m-sport, but unless ford suddenly decides to put some real money behind the project, i fear it will go even worse than at hyundai. At toyota, he could have been a threat to rovanpera, but in a ford i doubt he will be even close to him.

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ok, noone has seen bank statements of transfers between Ford-MSport... and what ford does in research like wind tunnels, suspension etc... just most fans thinks that MSport runs only on Mr Wilson business money only - but Ford involvement is much bigger then everyone thinks... and I hope MSport would get more wins in 2023 :)

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Originally Posted by macebig

Tanak isn't making anywhere close to £20m. Probably getting rid of Breen and Fourmaux 's repair bills (plus the former's contract) saved enough for M-Sport to line up a decent offer for Ott.

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c'mon. u really think tanak drive for romance? it's clearly written ford is funding the wage.

As ever, it seems the truth is somewhere between the two extremes.

M-Sport must be getting some funding to support their 2023 driver wage bill. Something must have changed from this year, otherwise they'd have been doing it already.

And those slating this expenditure... what do they want M-Sport to do? Quit the WRC? Or have Ford pull out of motorsport completely? That will cost people their jobs too. I would have expected Mr Quinn to know better than to make comments like that.

The world is basically f*cked, so should we all just give up? No. We carry on, doing the best we can.

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Originally Posted by J4MIE

Well Ford have made thousands of redundancies recently to reduce costs. Do you not have any empathy with these people that could have lost everything, only to find out that Ford can now spunk (£20m?) for a rally driver.

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That's not how corporate budgets work.

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Originally Posted by seb_sh

That's not how corporate budgets work.

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but sadly is how reality works.

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Originally Posted by wyler

but sadly is how reality works.

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If you prefer they could spend the money sponsoring a football team, in which case it's the wrong forum.

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/tanak...lsons-stepson/

Tanak's clearly made some good money at Toyota and Hyundai over the years since he last drove for M-Sport. He has probably compromised a fair bit on his wages to allow a deal to be made. Plus there could be plenty of clauses in the contract on both his and the cars performance.