Malcolm Wilson (rally)

WRC driver
Name = Malcolm Wilson


Caption =
Nationality = flagicon|UK British
Years = 1977 – 1995
Teams = Ford, MG Rover, Vauxhall
Races = 42
Championships = 0
Wins = 0
Podiums = 2
Stagewins = 29
Points = 59
First race = 1977 RAC Rally
Last race = 1995 RAC Rally

Malcolm Wilson (born 17 February 1956) is a British former rally driver. He is the father of current World Rally Championship driver Matthew Wilson.

After a successful driving career of his own, he went on to manage and run the BP Ford World Rally Team with his "M-Sport" operation, based at Dovenby Hall near Cockermouth in Cumbria, England.

He has over 20 years experience of rallying at world championship level, much of it with Ford. He drove for three factory teams in the world championship, including MG, in whose Group B Metro 6R4, he shared driving duties with fellow Briton, Tony Pond. He spent several years as Ford's chief test driver, developing new rally cars, including the short lived RS1700T and RS200 models.

As a driver, he won two British national titles in the late 1970s and achieved a long-held ambition by winning the British Rally Championship in 1994, all at the wheel of Ford Escorts.

Under his guidance, "M-Sport" (formerly Malcolm Wilson Motorsport) has become one of the world's leading private teams with a string of international titles and rally wins to its credit. The company now employs over 170 people. Their work culminated in 2006 when Wilson led Ford to constructors' World Rally championship victory for the first time in 25 years.

In September 2008, Wilson took part in the "Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally", a round of the Scottish Rally Championship centred in Perth in Scotland. He entered the event in a VK Vodka Kick sponsored Ford Escort RS1800. He was one of a number of ex-world and British champions to take part in the event in memory of McRae, who died in 2007.

External links

* [http://www.m-sport.co.uk/ M-Sport official website]
* [http://www.malcolmwilson.co.uk/ Malcolm Wilson Rally homepage]
* [http://www.rallybase.nl/index.php?type=profile&driverid=2694 Rallybase stats page]
* [http://www.juwra.com/wilson_malcolm.html WRC Archive stats page]