M-Sport director, Malcolm Wilson, said in Mikolajki that 2017 WRC testing would start “in around two week’s time”.
He confirmed that no specific testing had taken place regarding the new World Rally Car rules.
It was explained that a special factor is that the car on which the M-Sport 2017 challenger is based is a totally brand new production car for Ford, and and the team has not been able to acquire a new production new Fiesta. It is a model which hasn’t even been launched.
“To be honest the car that we will be testing will be based on the current chassis, but at least we’ll be able to get most of the new components tested.
“We are later than everybody else, but we’ve got a really strong team of people and I feel pretty confident we can still deliver when it counts.”
As for a test driver assigned to this project he said: “We will obviously use people from within the team. Matthew (Wilson) will definitely do a lot of the initial testing with Eric (Camilli), Elfyn (Evans) and we might even bring Henning (Solberg) in.
“Henning has got a lot of experience, and as you know he is very passionate about everything on the car mechanically, so he could be a good asset to testing.”
- Martin Holmes
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