M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

[COD]

What a great they had yesterday….

[Sulland]

Loubet failed again.
M-Sport need to do something, to get a more robust team. They must have a good pointscorer in addition to Tanak.

[AndersX]

I think 2 tiny, but costly mistakes by Loubet is the least head ache for M- Sport. He was good , considering his limited experiance. Somehow these new R1 cars are very fragile - smallest contact - break.

Malcolms main head ache right now comes from the tone and words coming from Tanak , especially in the final interview - it was harsh! Clearly QC and supply chain values are not on the same level as for competing teams.

[macebig]

Eh, Malcolm isn't going to hold a grudge against Tanak. He knew fully well what he bought and everyone at M-Sport is fully committed into doing the best they can. Some tough love from Ott isn't going to break that effort.

[doubled1978]

Eh, Malcolm isn't going to hold a grudge against Tanak. He knew fully well what he bought and everyone at M-Sport is fully committed into doing the best they can. Some tough love from Ott isn't going to break that effort.

No, but Tanak is going to lose his humour with reliability issues every other rally. They need to up their game and quickly.

[EstWRC]

Tänak Ott - Järveoja Martin
"Hopefully we will not repeat this one any more. We need to do some changes - for sure we are not continuing this way."


Wouldn’t say it is harsh. And he is right, can’t have such a reliability problems anymore when you want to fight for title.

The competition is so tight this year

[Jarek Z]

I think 2 tiny, but costly mistakes by Loubet is the least head ache for M- Sport. He was good , considering his limited experiance.

Limited experience?! Loubet has been competing in WRC for 8 years! Much longer than Rovanpera...

[AndersX]

Limited experience?! Loubet has been competing in WRC for 8 years! Much longer than Rovanpera...

How many times he has driven Mexico? I watched those mistakes of his and neither of them could be called as stupid or overdrive. What we see in him is the rather mature material with good potential. Give him a season and he will constantly beat Taka and will compete with Huyndai's 3rd driver. He seems more leveled in head as any of M-Sports recent experiments.

[sinepikohv]

Limited experience?! Loubet has been competing in WRC for 8 years! Much longer than Rovanpera...

Wouldn't call two years "much" longer.

Yes, PLL did his first WRC event in 2015 while Kalle made his debut in 2017. Yes, both PLL's and Kalle's fathers were rally drivers and quite good ones too. But when PLL focused on circuits in his youth Kalle became a rally driver when he exited his mother's womb.

There is zero reason to compare Kalle's experience with other young or youngish rally drivers because Kalle is a unicorn. Kalle had millions invested in his rally career before he was able to grow a beard.

PLL has competed for eight years but he doesn't have a remarkable amount of rallies under his belt. He's pretty much the same age as Lindholm but Emil started earlier and has a lot more starts.

[AnttiL]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/tanak...a-a-mis-match/

“I mean the car is there- the car has always been there. It’s just I think me and the car are a bit of a mis-match.
--
It’s probably a bit of a tricky topic at the moment, but we see what the guys can come up with.
--
Like I said, the car is there, and obviously the car is competitive in some other hands.
--
But just for me it’s not natural for me and I am not able to deliver with the car like I should. Let’s see.
--
We haven’t done any development yet so let’s see when some steps start to come in and if they come in then we will find out it is difficult to know. I’m not going to hang around just to drive for fifth so yeah for sure we’d like to push.”
- Ott Tänak