Photo Credit: M-Sport The waiting is almost over. The new era is upon us. Round 1 of the all new 2017 World Rally Championship begins next weekend with the oldest rally of them all: Rallye Monte-Carlo.
The Monte is a fantastic setting to get this new era of the WRC underway, with its mountain top roads, incredibly unpredictable weather conditions and demanding challenges, not least the choice of tyres. The traditional season opener has been dominated of late by Frenchman Sebastien Ogier, taking over the mantle from Sebastien Loeb and Tommi Makinen as the one to beat on the Monte. And as World Champion, the man who considers Monte-Carlo his home event will lead the drivers into the 2017 season at the wheel of his Ford Fiesta RS WRC. Ogier would have been widely considered the pre-event favourite if that sentence had read "at the wheel of his Polo R WRC" but a change in team and with it an all-new car to learn has put him on the back foot in many people's eyes. But writing him off may just be the daftest thing you could possibly do. Joining Ogier in the M-Sport factory squad for 2017 is Ott Tanak
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