As the World Rally Championship heads into back-to-back flyaway gravel events in Argentina and Chile, we went behind the scenes with M-Sport on its testing programme.
Despite the loss of world champion Sebastien Ogier, the team has had a very promising start to 2019 – with Teemu Suninen fighting for victory in Sweden and Elfyn Evans only denied a Corsica win by a last-stage puncture.
David Evans explains what M-Sport works on during its in-season test programme, and the challenges of switching between asphalt and gravel events and tackling a completely new event such as the one awaiting the teams in Chile next month.