M-Sport reveals the design of the Ford Puma Rally1, which Adrien Fourmaux and Gregoire Munster will drive in the 2024 WRC, at the Autosport International Show
Fresh look for M-Sport’s Ford Puma Rally1 in the 2024 World Rally Championship (WRC). At the Autosport International Show in Birmingham on Friday, the British team unveiled the design of the cars that Adrien Fourmaux and Gregoire Munster will be driving in the 2024 WRC
After the team raced with a purple and blue livery in 2022 and 2023 respectively, the base color of the cars is now white. The logos of main sponsor Red Bull can still be seen prominently.
No changes to the bodywork of the Puma Rally1 can be seen in the images published by M-Sport, although the team has already tested a car with a modified rear wing. According to team boss Richard Millener, this will be used this year.
“We have been working on an aero development that was seen in some tests, but we didn’t think it would be relevant for the last rally of the season.”
“We decided to postpone that until next year [2024], which ideally gives us more time to finalize it. It’s not too exciting, but it should come early next year,” Millener continued.
Following the return of Ott Tänak to Hyundai, M-Sport will line up with a young driver pairing. Fourmaux returns to the WRC’s premier class after a season in M-Sport’s Rally2 car, in which he won the British Rally Championship title
Luxembourg’s Munster had recommended himself for a regular cockpit last year with convincing performances in two guest starts in M-Sport’s Rally1 car at the WRC rounds in Chile and Central Europe.
M-Sport is the second WRC team after Toyota to unveil its livery for the 2024 season. The Japanese manufacturer’s works cars will be black in future. Hyundai will present its WRC design for the 2024 season, which starts with the Rally Monte-Carlo from January 25 to 28, next week
