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M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

Sulland

Sulland

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I see Tanak is in, but what about the rest of the teams under the M-Sport umbrella?

Østberg
Henning
Wilson
Prokop
and others that are in and out

What ford teams will run on their own, and who will be running under the M-Sport flag?
 
rallyfan+ said:
Prokop have a privateer team, he dont even rent cars from M-sport.
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I think that's only correct regarding his Fiesta S2000 - his new Fiesta WRC is run and prepared by M-Sport (not 100% sure, but pretty close)
 
MikeD said:
I think that's only correct regarding his Fiesta S2000 - his new Fiesta WRC is run and prepared by M-Sport (not 100% sure, but pretty close)
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You are 100% wrong :)
 
It's fully run by Prokop's team isn't it? Just getting help from a Msport engineer often probably such stuff. Many privateers can have that.
 
mousti said:
It's fully run by Prokop's team isn't it? Just getting help from a Msport engineer often probably such stuff. Many privateers can have that.
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I think that's part of the deal when you buy an WRC car, engineer and his laptop comes with it (so to speak) at least for a certain period, no?
 
Msport too, that's what I know. But u have to pay for the engineer per rally for Prodrive that is, probably for Msport too..
 
Mirek said:
You are 100% wrong :)
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Ok, then i stand corrected :) But then he's the first to have a Fiesta WRC run/prepared another team than M-Sport, correct?

I recall last year at Rally GB that Colin Clark (WRR) said his Fiesta WRC wasn't run by his own team like the S2000 was.
 
He is not the only one. Östberg today used his own new Fiesta in Norway. Car of Al Rahji is I think also run separately by Simon Jean-Joseph Racing. I know about others going to be used by private teams in this season.
 
Mirek said:
He is not the only one. Östberg today used his own new Fiesta in Norway. Car of Al Rahji is I think also run separately by Simon Jean-Joseph Racing. I know about others going to be used by private teams in this season.
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Ok, I was only refering to WRC rounds and and WRC cars (post 2011) and there I think he will be the first not to have his Fiesta WRC run by M-Sport. Is his team still called Jipocar Racing Team?

Interesting to see if Østberg will have his run by Adapta/Team Østberg.

PS: It's Ö in Sweden and Ø in Norway and Denmark :) .. same sound but differnt letter
 
carmichael said:
Ö is also in Estonian, but still i write östberg, than copy-pasting Ø from somewhere.
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;) please do!!

But lets go back on the road, who are the 4 in the 2 M-Sport teams people ?
 
MikeD said:
PS: It's Ö in Sweden and Ø in Norway and Denmark :) .. same sound but differnt letter
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Ah, ok. I don't have this letter on my keyboard :)

carmichael said:
no, it's CZECH FORD NATIONAL TEAM.
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Yes and no... Prokop's team is Jipocar Racing but they are entered in WRC as Czech Ford National Team because they get some support from Ford and Czech ASN. Jipocar is a logistic company of Prokop's father.
 
Mirek said:
Yes and no... Prokop's team is Jipocar Racing but they are entered in WRC as Czech Ford National Team because they get some support from Ford and Czech ASN. Jipocar is a logistic company of Prokop's father.
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so formally team's name is Czech Ford National Team, but in reality it's Jipocar Racing Team. Only the name has changed?
 
carmichael said:
so formally team's name is Czech Ford National Team, but in reality it's Jipocar Racing Team. Only the name has changed?
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It's very common in WRC that entry-name is different from team-name. E.g. the M2 team Armindo Arauju WRC is the entry name but the team running/preparing the car is Motorsport Italia.
 
Also Paulo Nobre's Palmeirinha Rally M2 team is run by Motorsport Italia

There is some room on the Manufactuere list for M2 teams
1-2 Citroen
3-4 Ford WRT
5-6 M-Sport
7-11 ......
12 Armindo Araujo WRC
14 Palmeirinha Rally
and Mini has the historic 37 and 52
 
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