Silly Season 2025

[mknight]

Breen to MSport fulltime was announced 6. October 2021.

Similarly Tanak leaving MSport for Hyundai was announced 3. October 2023.

So it's still a coin toss.

[COD]

It would be great to See M-Sport with Evans and Fourmaux permanent and then third car split for Munster and some others

[saco0o]

off topic but Ford hired Matthias Ekstrom to run the Raptor in Dakar. Nice!
Sainz and Nani Roma are also part of that team run by Msport.
...guess money "to hire drivers" and to "help develop the car" was not a problem for ford, its just that wrc is not interesting enough =[

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Hyundai will name their 3rd driver(s) earliest and then we'll know. If it's not Fourmaux then he stays at M-Sport.

[deephouse]

off topic but Ford hired Matthias Ekstrom to run the Raptor in Dakar. Nice!
Sainz and Nani Roma are also part of that team run by Msport.
...guess money "to hire drivers" and to "help develop the car" was not a problem for ford, its just that wrc is not interesting enough =[

Ford claims that they are interested in offroad racing. They said that they would be in a works team in Dakar with M-Sport since they are the perfect team for achieving good things with their products, and then also said that if the rules fit them, they will invest in WRC, so I still cross fingers that FIA will check their boxes.

What I'm more concerned is that Ford will partner Redbull in F1 to develop engine there (2026). This could mean that bosses could relocate all the money and M-Sport would again stay dry...

[becher]

In F1 Ford will have barely more input then sticking it's name on the engine and car and paying a nice big fee to RBR.