Search:

Why should it at all. KB hasn`t used many M-Sport cars lately, after the WRX Project (if we even count it) a few outings.

Not so sure. M-Sport will introduce this years upgrades (most of them atleast) next season i believe? Same applies to the C3: they said that this car is going to be a different beast. Who knows, they...

We are talking about an in-house replacement and this for sure, for the manuf., doesn`t cost the pricetag of a "dealership". In normal circumstances, probably a weekend of M-Sport cars...

Suninen started off also like that...pretty much.

Evans was about to win Corsica ahead of the trio and has shined previously also, so you could say he is quite good on black stuff. All the others you mentioned are quite the opposite when it comes to...

That was Wilsons idea yes, "Ott or someone similar" he said, i believe.

Well, Ogier himself wasn`t cheap for sure, atleast when you compare him to the current and previous lineups. Also many of these developments were probably made last year already. The aero, which...

Wilson`s idea was to offer top package to make it appealing for top drivers in 2020. They have to keep up.

I believe you already argued about it in this thread, around October and got a credible answer from a person supervising building a Fiesta R5 with international homologation somewhere here. If you...

Umm, lol, yes, for sure there are concernes over emissions from a car consuming 50-70l/100 km SS racing fuel and a set of tires that lasts around 100km. Not to mention how it all changes with...

Most probably they won`t use its engine and will make 1.6l out of something with bigger capacity...seems to be the most reliable solution as demonstrated by VAG and M-Sport already.

Ford is laying of thousands of workers, stopping production of some models and continuing with some only in one factory. We should be glad they are even a bit present.

In the end they aren`t cars bought from dealerships, waintinglists are there, price etc...

Who knows what Citroen can or can`t, probably will have 3 cars in Sweden...

Making that car wasn`t 10k and allowing it to be used is also more expensive...add knowhow and...

So? They don`t use them at once, for example 4 different Fiestas in Monza according to ewrc.
https://www.ewrc-results.com/cars/69-ford-fiesta-wrc-17/?s=2018#stats

It`s probably just how it comes, without the livery, it is metal with no paint, carbon in black. Tänak`s car (Östberg`s old) used by Gross looked the same. ...

That doesn`t mean, it was in 17 spec (well, clearly it didn`t have the aero that Ogier had).

New aero probably, don`t want to believe that has got something to do with R5, but who knows. For sure M-Sport takes the max. out of this outing in terms of development also.

Citroen didn`t give him a test, wich was one of the main given arguments+ Matton and his attitude most certainly.

WRC needs M-Sport more than M-Sport WRC. He got his titles, paying himself for the last or at best case scenario, 3. place in the manuf. championship, isn`t really appealing, after the previous two...

Quite many roadcar parts (famous Fiesta R5 power steering froma Ford Galaxy for instance), hence the much cheaper price of a new car.

It does actually, S2000 was a purpose built piece of rally-engineering, quite a bit ahead of R5 in terms of that.

" M-Sport boss Malcolm Wilson dipped deep into his personal pockets to secure Ogier for 2017 and understandably it’s not something he wishes to do again."

I also saw a video interview with Wilson...

Could very well be OT racing`s car aka ex. Ostberg. Or even if M-Sport, it`s something but won`t help much.