It was a move that looked unlikely at one stage, but MSportLtd's Christmas came early when it secured OttTanak for OfficialWRC 2023. TommyHoward explains how the team hopes this move can get it back in the title hunt. Feature:
It must feel as if Christmas has come early for M-Sport. Months of negotiations have finally yielded the present they all wanted: the signing of 2019 world rally championTanak rejoining the Ford squad that launched his WRC career would have prompted a collective sigh of relief, not only from an M-Sport team looking to bounce back from a disappointing 2022, but from the Estonian’s legions of supporters, the WRC and rally fans across the globe.
"Now we have a driver signed up for a full year who is capable, which gives us a huge opportunity. There are similarities to this year, but it does hark back to 2017 when we signed Ogier and we had an opportunity,"“It is not easy to attract an ex-world champion to the team when we only won one event during the year,” Millener tells Autosport. “You have got to try hard to persuade him that we know what we are doing and this is the right car, package and team to win.
“There was a concerted effort between a number of sponsors and M-Sport and Malcolm himself. We can’t do it without the support of Ford, and not necessarily in fully funding Ott, but in ensuring that we are going to have development and we are going to have a push towards keeping the car as competitive as possible.It is a feel-good signing reminiscent of joyous scenes when Wilson announced to his staff that then four-time world champion Ogier would be joining the team in 2017.
As Millener explained, negotiations played out for several months. But there were several key factors that eventually led to Tanak putting pen to paper. “It took quite a bit of time [to reach a deal]," Tanak tells Autosport. “It needed some effort from both sides but in the end we were both really interested to make it happen, so it was a lot of effort.
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