M-Sport could have spent the off season licking its wounds after a difficult 2022, but instead it’s gone all in to rejuvenate its World Rally Championship title hopes by luring back one its favourite sons, Ott Tanak.
The news that Tanak will rejoin the Cumbrian squad, 12 years after it gave him his first break in the WRC, instantly added a new dimension to the 2023 title fight. That came after Tanak had dropped the bombshell that he would be leaving Hyundai at the end of last season with a year remaining on his contract. It means that all three teams boast either world champions or rally winners in their ranks of full-time drivers, a situation the WRC last experienced in 2019, when Tanak won the world title for Toyota. Last season again offered a reminder
