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Thread: M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams
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21st December 2024, 07:16 #5421
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But imo they need a top class driver that drives for free, but shows the potential of the car, and get them some points!!
Also they need to build a new Rally2 car that car fight for podiums and will make them money.
If Ford is not interested in putting in more money, maybe someone else are!
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21st December 2024, 08:34 #5422
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They need a top driver. Not just to show the car, but to teach the youngsters. And more importantly, to give them someone to compare with. To show how fast or slow they are compared to established drivers.
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21st December 2024, 09:04 #5423
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Is the costs for current wrc really matter for Ford??? How much per one T1+ car , 1 million $ to 1.5m $? that's 2 or 3 times compare to rally1car, So why Ford still throw money and have manufacturer team in W2rc??
it's only because Ford can sell many T1+ to customer in one year but can't sell any rally1 car at the same time,is that right?
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21st December 2024, 22:37 #5424
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22nd December 2024, 03:18 #5425
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22nd December 2024, 07:14 #5426
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It doesn't even build Raptor, that job was given to M-Sport, since the team is the best expertise of transforming cars into beasts. But the difference is, that Ford Performance (official Ford's sport department), is funding that project heavily. They claim that they will step in WRC also if the regs will be the right. And the regs are out, and we sadly still don't know if this will become truth. I think they are evaluating everything and will decide later. But having already some edge here it could be their opportunity to win big prizes straight away, rather than someone completely new (and possibility of Hyundai leaving, only Toyota with that edge)
If the case will be, that Ford will not back them up officialy, they should reconsider of bringing some other brand into the game. MG for example, british legacy, they have small cars, Mr. Wilson drove them in his rallying career.
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22nd December 2024, 12:02 #5427
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Ford have gone all-in on making their road cars EV's, including the next generation of Puma. So if they do back a 2027 Regs rally car it would surely be fully electric-powered.
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8th January 2025, 10:22 #5428
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Why 2025 is the right time for M-Sport’s new recruit to make WRC leap...
"I think maybe it is the most simple year from the past few years to jump into Rally1 without hybrid and the change of tyres to Hankook."
https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/w...leap/10686970/
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8th January 2025, 11:21 #5429
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4 rally1 Pumas at the Rally Sweden:
-Munster
-McErlean
-Sesks
-Serderidis
Man Hyundai will look really bad if they don't come up with something
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9th January 2025, 14:29 #5430
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Sesks program looks more and more promising, during today's last episode of More than Machine, Rich made a videocall to Martin and he told him that SafetyCulture wants to give him some funding for this year.
So, SafetyCulture, Promoter and some Latvian (and Indonesian I guess?) sponsors, it might come up with a good program!
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What cool cars are you talking about? Apart from 2 or 3 weird cars that you don't normally see in rallying, I see their entry lists look not even on the level of small European countries. 20-30...
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