M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

[deephouse]

Rally1 and Rally2 will be Puma.
What about the Rally3/4/5 ?

If Ford will not back them soon fully, they should reconsider to try involve some other manufacturer into business, since the manufacter really don't care, have no more viable cars in portfolio and also doen't intend to making it anymore in the future. Maybe MG, since they have still various models to offer, it's partly british and have herritage in rallying. Wilson did drive famous Metro also, so have some connections to that brand.

But the problem is that the future will bring those crossovers anyway in rallying since brands will be doing just those types of cars. If Mini and Suzuki do the job previously, even M-Sport could do it without all that space-frame non-sense.

[Jarek Z]

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[Danny0405]

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At least, except Gryazin, all these names were already on the rumors.
Munster full-time would be no surprise, i don’t think he has enough potential but Serderidis has said he is keeping support so he will be there.

Sesks is interesting, at least for fast gravel and it’ s clearly the plan since his Poland/Latvia outings, only question pending is how much can he obtain so it will answer how much rallies he will have.

Don’t see the point for Rossel to do only 3 tarmac events… yes, he is better on tarmac but we know it’s difficult to show good result on tarmac immediatly for youngster (no road position advantage)
For me, a shared car with Sesks would make more sense - but money issue is there also and Citroën future program, even in WRC-2, is not clear.
A bit worried if it’s only 3 tarmac rounds that it finishes like Tidemand’s stints.

Some rumors on Turkkan indeed for a full-paying pair of rallies, he has shown some good speed in J-WRC but at the moment with his level of experience, he would just be a paying driver.

No rumor so far on Gryazin but with his backing and his season, would not be a huge surprise that he tries… however, the fact that he is Russian could be an issue with other sponsorship and not sure M-Sport can afford this level of risk.
Also, Gryazin is doing Monza with a Skoda, surprising for a Citroen driver.

A bit of rumors also on Zaldivar, maybe for the Chile-Paraguay stint.

[saco0o]

i like all these fellas, but i also like msport so thats kinda bad, cuz I wish they had a guy to fight a little bit more. i know its not pratical against two factory teams but fourmaux did an awesome job and i wish we could have another year of a msport always up there. rotating younger drivers will not be effective. it tells stories, but not the complete underdog story. but eh, i like all these drivers! go go go

[AndersX]

Unless M-Sport pulls out of their sleeve some totally "under the radar" move, i agree on above that their 2025 line-up will be Munster full time plus a pool of part-timers. All paying, thus giving M-Sport breathing and budget to develop R2 and R1 2027 cars. I think the Next 2 seasons for M-Sport will be run under the light of extensive investments into 2027 models with the aim to sell many R2 cars.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

It's such a pity that the clash of sponsors seems to rule out Oliver Solberg. He is probably the best replacement available to give M-Sport a chance of some podiums next year.

[deephouse]

It's such a pity that the clash of sponsors seems to rule out Oliver Solberg. He is probably the best replacement available to give M-Sport a chance of some podiums next year.

Maybe those are considered for 3rd/4th car sharing. And Oliver will get the number 1. You know that Munster will not keep up, all this part-timers will beat him every time.

[Krigen]

They should have Mikkelsen and Lappi. maybe even Sunninen

[WRC1]

They should have Mikkelsen and Lappi. maybe even Sunninen

Lappi and Sunninen! Yes, why not, but Mikkelsen? I think he showed very clearly this year that Rally1 is not the right place for him...

[macebig]

Suninen is dead in the water and Lappi would rather agree on sharing the 4th Hyundai with Sordo than return to Ford. Mikkelsen may be considered since they already had talks for this year.