M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

RS · 13th December 2018, 08:45

Originally Posted by T16

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.

Well it’s a lot more than nothing but clearly not close to the same level of the other teams if they can’t even afford to pay drivers.

**deephouse** · 13th December 2018, 11:42

No, it's not that they can't. They WON't.

**AnttiL** · 14th December 2018, 09:01

M-Sport needs a new bluuford https://www.m-sport.co.uk/weather-forecaster

**pantealex** · 14th December 2018, 09:12

Originally Posted by AnttiL

M-Sport needs a new bluuford https://www.m-sport.co.uk/weather-forecaster

He left with Tänak year ago.

**AnttiL** · 14th December 2018, 09:28

Originally Posted by pantealex

He left with Tänak year ago.

I know, but meant they need a guy who's as good as bluuford

It was not only once that Ogier blamed the 2018 weather guy for bad tyre choices.

**GravelBen** · 14th December 2018, 10:38

Ogier always finds someone else to blame when things don't go his way though.

**denkimi** · 14th December 2018, 15:08

Originally Posted by Tarmop

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

what part of an r5 car is not purpose built for rallying?

**Tarmop** · 14th December 2018, 15:11

Quite many roadcar parts (famous Fiesta R5 power steering froma Ford Galaxy for instance), hence the much cheaper price of a new car.

**Mirek** · 14th December 2018, 16:11

The funny thing is that the parts which must come from stock market can come from anywhere. At some points I think that nearly all cars had Garrett turbocharger from BMW M5.