The NGK-sponsored M-Sport Ford World Rally Team is fully prepared for the 2019 World Rally Championship, which opens with the Rallye Monte-Carlo. Ignition specialist NGK Spark Plugs is a partner of the team, whose EcoBoost-powered WRC Ford Fiestas are fitted with NGK spark plugs and NTK Lambda sensors.

Teemu Suninen is returning to the team for a third season and will contest all events with a top-specification world rally car for the first time in his career. The young Finn will be joined by a new co-driver fellow Finn Marko Salminen.

Last year M-Sport Ford World Rally Team’s reigning World champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia secured their sixth FIA World Rally Championship for drivers and co-drivers but have now left the team.

Elfyn Evans returns to the M-Sport squad for a fifth season at the highest level and will be joined by Cumbrian co-driver Scott Martin who reconnects with the team that started his international career back in 2004.
 
Mark Hallam, Marketing Manager, NGK Spark Plugs said, “We are proud to once again be supporting the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team and look forward to another thrilling campaign in 2019.”

The M-Sport Ford World Rally Team has revealed a striking new livery ahead of the 2019 FIA World Rally Championship. The eye-catching EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta livery reflects the fact that 2019 will be an important year for M-Sport as a business with a new M-Sport Evaluation Centre due to launch later this year. A silhouette of the state-of-the-art test track is vividly incorporated in the design.