No disrespect to Tanak or M-Sport but there's no chance they would have been challenging for regular wins next year and really putting up a fight to the VWs in 2017. When someone is as dominant and as competent as Ogier and the VW right now everybody else has to re-assess what they want from their career as a WRC driver. So with being dropped by M-Sport this is probably the best move out there for Tanak as I would imagine this is the start of a prolonged effort by DMACK at tackling the WRC.

Unless he fucks it up for himself I would expect him to be there for 3 seasons or if he turns into the second best driver in the WRC overnight at some point along that 3 year period and gains a factory drive. M-Sport doesn't want him anymore, Citroen will be at maybe 6 events next year, Hyundai is full and VW rightly have the best drivers under contract - this is easily the best option for him. He's doing a full season, in a car that is a known quantity to him and is driving for a 'factory' entry - if only in terms of tyres not the car.