Thread: M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams
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22nd June 2022, 12:21 #4031
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Local sponsor for Greensmith on the Safari Rally...
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25th June 2022, 19:49 #4032
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Message from Malcolm: If you break it, you fix it...
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/m-spo...-and-fourmaux/#M-SPORTER
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25th June 2022, 20:05 #4033
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25th June 2022, 20:13 #4034
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Loeb did his best...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1540699974643613696#M-SPORTER
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17th July 2022, 11:50 #4035
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Still mean MSport should give Mikkelsen a go on a gravel event. Would give them some good answers both on the car, and the drivers.
Feel the car has great pace, but the drivers are far off top level, apart from Loeb.
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17th July 2022, 12:17 #4036
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MSport business operation won't pay for Mikkelsen.
It might be that Ford leadership loses patience though and puts money for Tanak or Neuville who are now "cheap" and eager to change.
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17th July 2022, 12:27 #4037
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I'd love to see both Neuville and Tanak (I know, impossible) away from Hyundai as they deserve better. But I'm afraid that even if they'd join M-Sport, Kalle and Toyota are too far ahead anyway, it would only be a relatively slight improvement for them.
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17th July 2022, 19:46 #4038
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Juha Kankkunen: "The speed was o.K., but the corner was to tight"
Marcus Grönholm: "... tell corrado .... three gears are enough..! "
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17th July 2022, 20:07 #4039
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Yeah, issue is still the same for Tanak and Neuville; is the Puma better enough to justify a pay cut and can it be enough to play a championship?
All the more if we take into account that, in the best case scenario, they could only be there next year; and we know M-Sport has a lot of issue to be keep the pace of development.
For the moment, even if I made a joke on another topic about Loeb and other M-Sport, I’m not sure the M-Sport is that good. More reliable than the Hyundai for sure (but not clearly not at Toyota’s level when we take a look at the issues they had) and probably equal in terms of pure speed.
But without evolution, it will be hard to keep Toyota’s pace.
Even if I’m not a huge fan of their line-up drivers, I also think that their mistakes in some of their favorite events may sound they are over-driving to keep up with Toyota.
And on the other hand, if I was Latvala, I would never hire Tanak or Neuville in the current situation, all the more with Toyota already having the knowledge of the one-real manufacturer situation in WEC (and all the drawbacks). It’s better to have a controlled competition than no competition at all (else, the promoter could try some trick rules to tie the game) + it’s a risk for the relationship with Kalle who is the potential next big thing.Last edited by Danny0405; 18th July 2022 at 00:11.
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