M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

[Fast Eddie WRC]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/who-a...ble-to-m-sport

[AnttiL]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/who-a...ble-to-m-sport

I can only assume David Evans lurks at the forum

[mknight]

It's quite normal that Dirtfish writes on same topic we talk about a few days beforehand. I'd say it's a combination of reading this and us typically talking about the most pressing topics.


Breen could indeed become available since Solberg is good on same type of events. At the same time he is more risky choice than Lappi or Mikkelsen since he has never really had good result on other types of rallies and almost never drives them either (at least in WRC). Most importantly Malcolm never really seemed interested in him in any way. But it's hard to read Malcolm.

What kind of surprised me is that Dirtfish didn't even mention Gryazin.
Fourmaux+Lappi/Mikkelsen + Gryazin looks interesting. Malcolms authority might teach him to stay on the road and he has some money. But Fourmaux+Gryazin+Greensmith on the other hand might be both expensive and very unstable on results.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

At least David Evans also added some history and context of their previous drivers and the one-off outlay on Ogier when he became available.

But now there's no guaranteed rally winner available and their budget is tight after the loss of R5 car sales in the pandemic. Therefore it seems clear that any 2022 driver must bring some sponsor support.

[seb_sh]

I can only assume David Evans lurks at the forum

he has thick skin if he does

[Got Mail]

Bottas could be a decent option for M-Sport.

[masa90]

Yeah no. The car is already bad enough, lets atleast have proper rallydrivers.

[seb_sh]

doesn't matter who drives if the engine overheats after 3 stages

[Tauri_J]

Bottas could be a decent option for M-Sport.

As a 2nd driver why not lol

[trykmann]

Greensmith seems to be quite optimistic about season 2022:

“My immediate focus is on continuing the upward trajectory – I need to maintain this over the next three or four rallies and we’ll see where we are. If we continue like this, I don’t see why we shouldn’t be in a World Rally Car on merit. I just need to focus on keeping these improvements, take a few stage wins and then, by the end of the year, we could be fighting for a podium.”

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/green...-for-big-push/