M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

[PLuto]

As I said in the Rally2 thread, It's been a double-whammy for M-Sport with having to spend on developing the Rally1 Puma (and then hardly selling any); and this also led to neglecting the Fiesta Rally2 and losing sales of that too.

And as I wrote there, problem with Fiesta Rally2 came before Puma Rally1. Problem is lack of interest in Rally2 project, from beginning there were lot of mistakes and understimation the situation...

[wyler]

And as I wrote there, problem with Fiesta Rally2 came before Puma Rally1. Problem is lack of interest in Rally2 project, from beginning there were lot of mistakes and understimation the situation...

before puma yes, not before fiesta '17. we can round it as "top tier" from 2017 on, but it is undoubtful that from that time, m-sport focused on top tier (and maybe rally3) and left a bit behind the rally2 rebuild (fiesta mark II). may be a bad decision, may be not as bad as fiesta was already surpassed by skoda and they bet on rally3 (goodish results) and top tier (not so good result). talking business-wise, not sports-wise. selling some top tier car was always the best plan, not working that well till now.
i guess strategy now is to update the rally2 game for the next wave (toyota in the market will move skoda reign somehow) and keep rally3 going. ability to sell some top-tier car will be again the best scenario.
let's see what '25 reg brings to m-sport

[Fast Eddie WRC]

WRC changes are key to M-Sport continuing...

https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/...ward/10526493/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

[macebig]

A much needed win and morale boost for the team. Hope it's a sign of things smoothing out from now on. Onwards and upwards. Let's hope Pierre Louis manages to scrap a good event now. He definitely needs it.

[seb_sh]

Hopefully the technical gremlins are in the past and the cars will be in the fight in the last two rallies. Congratulations!

[Kras]

Theres a good chance this thread will be archived before the start of the next season

[Andre Oliveira]

Please Mr. Wilson hire Evans.

[HKSjbg]

https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/...exit/10528418/

It doesn’t look likely. Will probably be Loubet, Fourmaux, plus the usual irregular third car every now and then, probably with Munster on a few of those occasions.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Tanak:

"This year has gone by so fast together with M-Sport Ford WRT.

I'm proud we have managed to win two rallies against such big manufacturers and we were able to be in the championship fight for the first part of the season.

"But this sport is tough and unfortunately we went down a few times too many, nevertheless all the people really tried hard to give us the best chances and I'm very grateful for them."