Well he did his job, whatever the instructions were.
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Evans nor Breen are likely to challenge for many wins.
Evans could have a good season in 2019 - he now has bags of experience and done tons of testing in the Fiesta WRC.
But personally I'd like to give Breen a shot with a full season.
And Evans would be ideal to develop and drive the new Fiesta R5.
Evans or Breen... don't really care. Personally would like that seat to go to Tidemand, but that is likely not going to happen.
Evans was great for M-Sport. He did exactly what he was told to do. But is that helping him to secure a seat. I don't know. Maybe he could say to himself fuck it. I will go on my own and do my best and maybe show a way more, maybe the other teams (Toyota, Hyundai - I don't count Citroen since they are not a proper team at all and don't care about pretty much anything) would pay interest in him then. But that would be risky again if there wouldn't be any offers, so I think he realizes that and he didn't have a single choice and be slow just for Ogier.
On the other side Breen is not shown everything because he hasn't had the right opportunity yet (again Citroen). But he also led a few times, won couple of stages, achieve podium, bring many consistent results for the team (and all that with C3).
But first Malcolm needs to say it officially if the team is even in WRC for the nex season or not then he could start looking for a their first driver who will lead the team.
Sounds like he’s a bit pissed off (and kind of on bahalf of Ford?)... why the hell don’t they have some sort of contract in place where M-Sport have to give them more credit for the results if they are as involved as that message implies?
From the impression I’ve got regarding the Ford involvement over the last few years, it doesn’t add up.
It does actually, S2000 was a purpose built piece of rally-engineering, quite a bit ahead of R5 in terms of that.