Elfyn Evans: “You’d have to be crazy not to learn from Sébastien”

The possibility of seeing again Ford officially support M-Sport livened up the off-season WRC, before the Dearborn brand officially makes its return to the list of manufacturers entered in the WRC for 2018 alongside the name of the Dovenby Hall team.

De quoi laisser de gros espoirs pour les hommes de Malcolm Wilson, qui doivent affronter les grandes structures que sont Hyundai, Citroën and Toyota. “We already had a solid platform, we just need to keep digging to find performance gains, comments Elfyn Evans, holder in all rounds of the 2018 calendar.

This is what we did over the winter and we will all continue to work hard with the support of Ford this year. There has always been a connection with Ford with technical support, but this has now gone up a level. This should help us improve and stay at the top. »

The standard value Sébastien Ogier

Elfyn Evans is also looking forward to benefiting from equipment identical to that of Sébastien Ogier this season. The Briton was indeed racing last year with Dmack tires, but will be in the M-Sport Ford WRT, supplied by Michelin, on equal terms with the reigning world champion.

An opportunity that the winner of the Wales GB Rally 2017 does not want to pass up to progress, or even rise to the level of Ogier if possible. « He is a fantastic reference to have in the team.

He has a lot of experience and is the best in the world at the moment. You'd have to be crazy not to take advantage of this and learn from it. My goal, however, is always to try to beat him if possible. »