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01-12-2011, 05:21 AM
Revamp for M-Sport’s WRC Team entry
M-Sport's WRC Team entry will begin its sixth term in the World Rally Championship with a new name and a new all-Norwegian driver line-up for the season-opening Rally Sweden.
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Renamed the M-Sport Stobart Ford World Rally Team (it was known as the Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team in 2010), the British squad has registered as a WRC Team entry and has nominated new signing Mads Ostberg to chase manufacturers’ championship points on the Karlstad-based event next month.
Fellow Norwegian Henning Solberg will also chase makes’ points in a second Ford Fiesta RS WRC with Matthew Wilson entered in a third Fiesta although the Briton won’t be eligible to score manufacturers’ points on the winter rally.
Ostberg, 23, had originally planned to run under the Adapta World Rally Team banner this season but will instead compete for Malcolm Wilson’s vastly successful organisation, which is responsible for fielding the factory Ford Fiestas of Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala. Swede Jonas Andersson will co-drive Ostberg.
“To start in Sweden is ideal,” said Ostberg, who has never previously been nominated to score manufacturers’ championship points. “Jonas is Swedish, and the country is my second homeland. We have our family summer house there, I did my first youth rally in Sweden, I won my first rally in Sweden, I did my first WRC rally in Sweden, I won my first special stage in [the] WRC in Sweden - what can be better than starting my Ford career, and my first rally as a nominated team driver, in Sweden? I am delighted to be a part of the M-Sport Stobart Ford World Rally Team and very happy to have Henning and Matthew as team-mates.”
Ostberg will test his new Fiesta RS WRC before Rally Sweden. A testing programme in a Super 2000 version of the car, which uses a normally aspirated engine compared to the turbocharged motor in the new World Rally Car equivalent, is also being planned as are a handful of rallies in Norway.
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Source: wrc.com (http://www.wrc.com/news/revamp-for-m-sports-wrc-team-entry/?fid=14026)
M-Sport's WRC Team entry will begin its sixth term in the World Rally Championship with a new name and a new all-Norwegian driver line-up for the season-opening Rally Sweden.
http://www.wrc.com/content/pquoters/101116_mo.jpg
Renamed the M-Sport Stobart Ford World Rally Team (it was known as the Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team in 2010), the British squad has registered as a WRC Team entry and has nominated new signing Mads Ostberg to chase manufacturers’ championship points on the Karlstad-based event next month.
Fellow Norwegian Henning Solberg will also chase makes’ points in a second Ford Fiesta RS WRC with Matthew Wilson entered in a third Fiesta although the Briton won’t be eligible to score manufacturers’ points on the winter rally.
Ostberg, 23, had originally planned to run under the Adapta World Rally Team banner this season but will instead compete for Malcolm Wilson’s vastly successful organisation, which is responsible for fielding the factory Ford Fiestas of Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala. Swede Jonas Andersson will co-drive Ostberg.
“To start in Sweden is ideal,” said Ostberg, who has never previously been nominated to score manufacturers’ championship points. “Jonas is Swedish, and the country is my second homeland. We have our family summer house there, I did my first youth rally in Sweden, I won my first rally in Sweden, I did my first WRC rally in Sweden, I won my first special stage in [the] WRC in Sweden - what can be better than starting my Ford career, and my first rally as a nominated team driver, in Sweden? I am delighted to be a part of the M-Sport Stobart Ford World Rally Team and very happy to have Henning and Matthew as team-mates.”
Ostberg will test his new Fiesta RS WRC before Rally Sweden. A testing programme in a Super 2000 version of the car, which uses a normally aspirated engine compared to the turbocharged motor in the new World Rally Car equivalent, is also being planned as are a handful of rallies in Norway.
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Source: wrc.com (http://www.wrc.com/news/revamp-for-m-sports-wrc-team-entry/?fid=14026)