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Last week the 2019 world champion completed a move to rejoin the Ford squad after leaving Hyundai at the end of the season with a year remaining on his contract.
The switch has seen Tanak reunite with the British team that launched his WRC career in 2011. It was at M-Sport where the Estonian claimed a maiden podium in 2012 [Sardinia], and the first of his 17 top-flight wins in 2017.
The 35-year-old has only experienced a brief taste of the M-Sport Ford Puma following an outing at M-Sport’s Greystoke Forest proving ground, but is already confident the team can deliver a package capable of challenging for the title next year.
“Well Toyota and [Kalle] Rovanpera at the moment they are the two to beat and I would say M-Sport is the place to be,” Tanak told Motorsport.com.
“There are people wh …