M-Sport is a motorsport engineering company headquartered at Dovenby Hall near Cockermouth, United Kingdom. It is primarily known for entering the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) since 1997 in partnership with Ford, manufacturing race and rally cars, and providing parts and motorsport services to customers. The company has an automotive evaluation facility at its headquarters, and a second manufacturing facility in Kraków, Poland. In 2023, the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team contest the World Rally Championship and WRC2 support championship. M-Sport also organise, operate and act as promotor of the Junior WRC championship on behalf of the FIA. They also provide the official TOCA engine option used in BTCC since 2022. History M-Sport began in 1979 when rally driver Malcolm Wilson formed Malcolm Wilson Motorsport, primarily to facilitate his own rallying career and offering motorsport contracting services to customers such as rally car preparation. Reflecting the career of Malcolm Wilson as a driver, the company grew steadily through the 1980s. Wilson and his wife Elaine formed a second company in 1987, M-Sport Limited (known as M. Sport Limited until 2019), trading and manufacturing rally car parts and components. Following the withdrawal of Ford from motorsport entries in the mid-1990s, M-Sport were awarded the contract to operate and promote the Ford World Rally Team in the WRC from 1997 with Wilson as Team Principal. With his driving career effectively over, M-Sport assumed all trade of Malcolm Wilson Motorsport, legally from January 1st 1998. The business expanded over time to become a successful manufacturer of rally cars, sold to competitors worldwide. By 2021, they offered rally cars in all 5 tiers of the Rally Pyramid. Besides rally and the Ford partnership, the company also ran the official Bentley Motorsport outfit competing in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup between 2014 and 2019. In 2018, the company became technical partner to Jaguar, assisting in the build of the I-Pace eTrophy racecar used in the championship of the same name. Motorsport World Rally Championship Ford World Rally Team (1997-2012) At the end of 1996, Ford Motorsport selected the company to spearhead the Ford team's entry for the 1997 World Rally Championship season with the Ford Escort WRC, a hastily built World Rally Car equivalent of the Group A car. Victories in Greece and Indonesia saw faith in the small team rewarded, and they went on to finish runner-up in the manufacturers' championship. By