I think it's important to mention that they are driving a cars which are developed by them and Ogier is driving Fiesta which he tested just few weeks before Monte.
Just leave that talk, pls.
"Reis vas pät pat kaar vas kut"
Tommi Mäkinen, back in the years...
Maybe this shows just how tight their budget really is. Its already been heard of them re-using old parts and at times struggling for a test car.
Is it known how many Rally1 Cars they've built...
That was exceptional circumstances.
This situation is purely due to the state of the Championship when the team with the biggest history in the sport cant go on.
Lowest point was probably when they had to put the top class drivers to run RX2e cars for the final races of the season, after the whole fire on the Lancias drama.
Despite bad results, Max McRae wants to continue competing in ERC:
https://www.fiaerc.com/en/news/mcrae-keeping-positive-looking-to-an-erc-future-and-a-day-with-the-stars
It was a road car he won, not a rally car. I'm sure he put the sale money towards his career as a real rally driver.
[ERC] JDS Machinery Rali...