M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Ogier transformed after new car changes:

http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/may-2...8--12-12-.html

[EstWRC]

here is the interview with Malcolm i was talking about in rally portugal thread http://sport.err.ee/597382/malcolm-w...gmisel-hooajal

[Fast Eddie WRC]

It's official: there's a new head honcho at Ford. Current CEO Mark Fields is replaced by autonomous cars chief Jim Hackett.

That gives me no confidence at all that Ford will make an official return to WRC.

[jparker]

It's official: there's a new head honcho at Ford. Current CEO Mark Fields is replaced by autonomous cars chief Jim Hackett.

That gives me no confidence at all that Ford will make an official return to WRC.

Of course no return for Ford. It's not about the money, rather the humiliation that they have suffered in the last 30 years dealing with M-Sport. Despite Portugal success, a lot more is needed to convince the bosses.

[rallyfiend]

Of course no return for Ford. It's not about the money, rather the humiliation that they have suffered in the last 30 years dealing with M-Sport. Despite Portugal success, a lot more is needed to convince the bosses.

This post shows so little level of knowledge of either the sport or business it's embarrassing.

[Watson]

It's official: there's a new head honcho at Ford. Current CEO Mark Fields is replaced by autonomous cars chief Jim Hackett.

That gives me no confidence at all that Ford will make an official return to WRC.

Let's keep our heads up. They are still doing cars like the Fiesta ST and Focus ST/RS. They wanna be associated with motorsport. In many ways I think the WRC is the best way to get bigger amounts of people excited about your regular road cars. The whole GT3 racing they are engaging in now is nice too but a Ford GT costs more than a 488 Ferrari.

Of course no return for Ford. It's not about the money, rather the humiliation that they have suffered in the last 30 years dealing with M-Sport. Despite Portugal success, a lot more is needed to convince the bosses.

Sweet Lord you're just a miserable little hater, aren't you?

[Andre Oliveira]

Heartburn is so bad

[Gregor-y]

The GT is an inexpensive marketing exercise. If they were serious about motorsport it Ford would build a competitive prototype rather than a GT40 throwback to run against a pack of mass produced Porsches. It gets lots of articles in the US media, though, that always go on about the sixties. The WRC has a shot if someone over in Ford Europe can make a compelling case and keep the cost low.

The continued existence of the ST and RS models is a good sign, but we'll see what happens with new leadership.

[macebig]

M Sport hasn't stop getting support from FoMoCo.Or you guys believe that Wilson found unreleased Fiesta chassis and designs falling down the sky at Cumbria.If they want to pay Ogier the salary he wants is a different kind of thing but rest assured that those Fiestas are running the stages because Ford wants it.

[Tarmop]

Ofc, i can`t see how its possible to think that there isn`t support (trademark ecoboost logos everywhere etc) but the question is in the total sum.