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Gus Greensmith told the AR Podcast he was out of a rally car for 5 months. He confirmed that M-Sport was hit hard by the lockdown. Therefore rally testing which is paid for by Malcolm (Wilson)...

"Takamoto Katsuta had just cartwheeled close to a million Euros worth of car through woods, just over there."

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-estonian-adventure-to-find-crashed-katsuta

Pedant. You just want an argument (again).

6 years ago:

The devastating fire which destroyed Mikko Hirvonen’s Ford Fiesta RS World Rally Car at Rally Italia Sardegna will cost his M-Sport team more than £400,000, team boss Malcolm Wilson...

So you say M-Sport can sustain any loss and just carry on unaffected.

A Fiesta WRC cost of £675,000 was confirmed by M-Sport 2 years ago (€750,000).

The cost of new hybrid WRC cars threatens to price young drivers out of the top of the sport, Malcolm Wilson has warned.

As it stands, each of the new generation of cars will cost around €1m...

Millener after Mexico said. “Losing a car is never nice to see for any team but that’s going to ask some serious questions of us for the remainder of the year.”

They were really troubled just losing Lappi's car in Mexico. Then the lockdown - no rallies, no car sales, no parts sales, people made redundant.

If they were to lose or very badly damage two more...

Awesome must-win performance by Tanak and PS pts off Ogier. Perfect.

Yes T16. Losing 2x €800,000 cars after losing 1 €800,000 in Mexico would be inpossible to cope with.

Brilliant rally by Breen. Fully justified his drive in the i20 WRC.

Solberg beat them all.

Pure disaster of a rally for Neuville.

Or Breen. ;)

Good job by Formaux in the Fiesta R5 Mk2 here in Estonia when he's not a gravel expert.

The question was the size of the gap to the top guys and being beaten by Katsuta's times.

Re very poor M-Sport times...



Well you thought they'd beat Katsuta...

Pickems: 1 Tanak 2 Rovanpera 3 Ogier 4 Evans 5 Neuville 6 Lappi 7 Suninen 8 Katsuta (AnttiL)

And you weren't...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhOOMcSWsAImDwb?format=jpg&name=large

Often driver's prefer to stay driving normally and in their fast rhythm than to back off.

Another Toyota WRC destroyed after Evans on the S.Estonia rally.

If that happened to M-Sport they would be finished.

Just shows the fine margins if Tanak can nearly go off here when he's not even pushing.

Very disappointing return to WRC action for the M-Sport crews.

Of course no-one expected them to be challenging the top places, but the gap to them is wider than I feared. And being slower than...

Arghhh Gus ! Wow that was nearly all over... lucky no trees there.

Neuville explains:

https://twitter.com/thierryneuville/status/1302260715177349122?s=20