Richard Millener (M-Sport): “Focused on the new car”

Without rally to compete and without traveling around the world after the postponement of the various rallies in Argentina, Portugal and Italy, the teams entered in WRC are all turning together towards the design of future cars meeting 2022 regulations.

A welcome amount of available time according to team managers, who can rely on the latest announcements from the FIA ​​and the World Motor Sport Council, which validated both the maintenance of the 1,6 turbo architecture of the engine blocks, as well as the supplier Compact Dynamics, which will bring its know-how for the WRC hybrid system.

“The really positive thing here is that all the teams are working together now. We're all heading in the same direction, indicate Richard Millener, Team Principal de M-Sport on the WRC website.

It would be great to see everyone working hard now during this time. Once we are out of the crisis, we will return to a situation between splitting time between managing a team on a daily basis and working on the 2022 car.

Currently, we do not have to separate our resources, and we are focusing on the new car »

The WRC thus escapes the postponement of technical regulations which hits the F1 due to the current crisis. The premier category of motorsport has indeed shifted the introduction of new single-seaters in 2022 faced with the situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic.