M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

[Allez Andruet]

You think he was driving to his maximum, or told to go steady to help Ogier?

Well he did his job, whatever the instructions were.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Evans nor Breen are likely to challenge for many wins.

Evans could have a good season in 2019 - he now has bags of experience and done tons of testing in the Fiesta WRC.

But personally I'd like to give Breen a shot with a full season.

And Evans would be ideal to develop and drive the new Fiesta R5.

[mmm]

Evans or Breen... don't really care. Personally would like that seat to go to Tidemand, but that is likely not going to happen.

[deephouse]

Evans was great for M-Sport. He did exactly what he was told to do. But is that helping him to secure a seat. I don't know. Maybe he could say to himself fuck it. I will go on my own and do my best and maybe show a way more, maybe the other teams (Toyota, Hyundai - I don't count Citroen since they are not a proper team at all and don't care about pretty much anything) would pay interest in him then. But that would be risky again if there wouldn't be any offers, so I think he realizes that and he didn't have a single choice and be slow just for Ogier.

On the other side Breen is not shown everything because he hasn't had the right opportunity yet (again Citroen). But he also led a few times, won couple of stages, achieve podium, bring many consistent results for the team (and all that with C3).

But first Malcolm needs to say it officially if the team is even in WRC for the nex season or not then he could start looking for a their first driver who will lead the team.

[T16]

Well he did his job, whatever the instructions were.

My point is that if 2018 was a true representation of his max speed, then he shouldn't really get another go at it.

[dimviii]

https://twitter.com/DanielDarrall/st...23872041803776

[T16]

https://twitter.com/DanielDarrall/st...23872041803776

Sounds like he’s a bit pissed off (and kind of on bahalf of Ford?)... why the hell don’t they have some sort of contract in place where M-Sport have to give them more credit for the results if they are as involved as that message implies?
From the impression I’ve got regarding the Ford involvement over the last few years, it doesn’t add up.

[cali]

but has breen shown his full potential yet? Evans had 4 full seasons and with 1 victory and a few podiums in that time mostly thanks to Dmacks aswell y not take a risk on breen and go with him. Wilson knows what breens capable of from their s2000 days so why not he cant do much worse than evans

S2000 don't really mean much in WRC...

[Tarmop]

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

[cali]

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

You are talking about machinery, I'm talking about drivers speed and results in support series which does not really mean much in WRC.