Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC View Post
As I understand it, Ford Performance are still to carry on supporting M-Sport with the car. Just maybe not as much as Ogier wanted.

They have never been paying driver wages so that isnt any different.

Evans is a Red Bull athlete, so is Suninen. They are sponsored independently from the M-Sport team deal.

I agree a new headline sponsor will probably be important to continue, but they have competed without one before..
They have, but back then the overall business was better (if I understood correctly what mr. Wilson meant). I don't think the driver salaries have been anything to worry about on any post-factory-era M-Sport line-up not including one Seb Ogier. Now that the champ's gone, it would be obvious that the factory is cutting also its support (which was said to be increased for 2018) towards the WRC program, but we'll see. I hope I'm wrong. It's just that seven-figure amount that is budgeted somewhere under "operations" that worries me.