Ford ends M-Sport run in WRC?

[dimviii]

Maybe M-Sport is taking to much work into acccount to competitive run a factory WRC team. Citroen Sport is running only 2 WRCars. Custumers are taking care of by Ph Sport. Citroen Sport has only one purpose: running a factory team in WRC. M-Sport should be have stricter seperations between the factory effort for Ford WRT and custumers in WRC, and skip acedemy and old rallycars department to outside companies..

The problem of M-sport is not that they dont have enough mechanics to work on cars,or they don t have enough time or space.Other is the problems imho.
Asking M-sport to delete any category(academy/privateers etc) is like asking Malcolm to loose some decades of millions.

Use budget and facilities from Ford WRT only for Ford WRT..

This is the success of m-sport.Using the budget from Ford to run wrc team with 2 cars,can service/sell/rebuild/rent some 100 wrc cars(M-sport today sells spares for escort cosworth wrc.....model 1990....),and 50 s2000 cars all over the world.Can somebody imagine the annual turnover?

Maybe Ford also has question marks with Wilson juniors WRC career which is jump started with facilities for the factory Ford WRT and were his budget is coming from al these 5+ years.

After your imagination just think if Wilson junior have money to run the rest 25 years at wrc level...

[Bobcat]

Deadline is two weeks away. No announcement, still major sponsor gone, minor sponsor of Jr/B team gone. It's not looking especially positive right now :S

"Mads Østberg thinks the Manufacturer entry deadline will be postponed to 22/12" http://www.motorsportforums.com/wrc/...tml#post989909

[Rallyper]

Fact is that we still have JML in M-sport factory team. And he´s preparing for WRC 2012 with help from M-sport.

To me that fact means Ford (or M-sport) will be there in 2012 in some kind of solution. Because JML already knows what the most of us here on this forum don´t know anything about yet.

[T.Maanteiden kuningas]

Fact is that we still have JML in M-sport factory team. And he´s preparing for WRC 2012 with help from M-sport.

To me that fact means Ford (or M-sport) will be there in 2012 in some kind of solution. Because JML already knows what the most of us here on this forum don´t know anything about yet.

That´s true, because here many of us is talking nonsense, bulls..t and rumours. We are "only" fans etc.. But we are lucky because there is (in WRC) PRO´s who knows, manage, drive, service and do everything in that sport and all that job for us!!

[jonkka]

Because JML already knows what the most of us here on this forum don´t know anything about yet.

JML knows that if Ford won't be there, he's out of work. He has no options besides trusting Ford.

[noel157]

Nowhere for Latvala to go, at least for a year.

[White Sauron]

Why do yo say so? VW still haven't signed a second driver (not second like "support", but another)...

[DonJippo]

Why do yo say so? VW still haven't signed a second driver (not second like "support", but another)...

I'm quite sure second driver has been signed already but it will be published when the time is right.

[Rallyper]

Nowhere for Latvala to go, at least for a year.

And that should be a surprise for him at this stage? No man, he´d known for long what´s going to happen in 2012. That´s what I´m trying to say.

[driveace]

I think that JML will be run by M Sport,with private backing,that Ford will go the way of WTC .I feel that Ford expected better results that have not come ,because I am told there are lots of problems with Fiesta,this can only be due to not enough development,due to the money not being allocated to testing,and probably gone as a profit to Malcolm,or to help Mathew in his programme.Ford are not happy,otherwise it would have been sorted ages ago.Feel sorry for Jari,but he needed answers earlier too