[双语简报-WRC][塔纳克：该去和福特一起，重夺冠军了]

*WHAT TÄNAK’S RETURN MEANS FOR M-SPORT

*原标题：塔纳克的回归对M-Sport意味着什么

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It’s like he never left. Ott Tänak’s return to M-Sport Ford World Rally Team feels as absolutely right as it felt absolutely inevitable.

就好像他从未离开过。塔纳克即将回归M-Sport福特，这一切水到渠成，不可避免。

Tänak and co-driver Martin Järveoja lead the British team’s assault on the 2023 World Rally Championship, with the Estonians making it clear they have just one ambition: to repeat their world title of 2019. 

塔纳克将在2023赛季带领这支英国车队冲击冠军，他和副驾驶马丁的目标很明确：继2019赛季后再夺世界冠军。

To achieve as second crown would be an outstanding achievement, but to do it with Malcolm Wilson’s team would top what’s already been an incredible – if topsy-turvy – time with M-Sport already.

重夺冠军将会是件了不起的成就，如果是和马尔科姆·威尔逊的车队一起，彼此分分合合起起伏伏，这就会愈发显得不可思议。

Tänak cut his WRC teeth in an M-Sport-prepared Fiesta and remained with Wilson’s team until the end of 2017. It’s well documented that things didn’t always run smoothly, with Ott dropped at the end of 2012, only to return full time in 2015. 

塔纳克一直在威尔逊的车队效力到2017赛季，不过期间也绝非一帆风顺，爱沙尼亚人曾在2012年后被弃用，直道2015年才全职回归。

While it wasn’t all plain sailing from there, the results duly arrived and 2017 wins in Italy and Sardinia were the launchpad for negotiations which would eventually take him to Toyota and subsequently to Hyundai.

虽然合作之路算不上一路坦途，不过2017年在意大利和撒丁岛的胜利也算天道酬勤，也成为了塔纳克开启同丰田的谈判，及此后加入现代的契机。

It’s time for Tänak to finish the job he started behind the Blue Oval. The big question is, of course: can he?

现在是时候了，塔纳克该回到开启他辉煌生涯的地方，去完成未竟之事。那么问题来了：他能做到么？

Why not?

为什么不呢？

If the second half of this season taught us anything, it taught us that Ott Tänak is back to his very, very best. He outscored everybody from Finland onwards and looked as dangerous as ever as his Hyundai i20 N Rally1 came on song. 

今年下班赛季，塔纳克用自己的表现证明，他已经回到了最佳状态。他同现代I20赛车配合日渐完美，从芬兰站算起，所有人中塔纳克取得了最多的积分。

And we know what a potent force M-Sport’s Puma Rally1 Hybrid is. Fastest out the blocks with a Sébastien Loeb-orchestrated round one win at Rallye Monte-Carlo, the Ford remained a threat throughout the season. 

我们也不能忽视福特美洲狮赛车的实力，他们在勒布的带领下夺得了蒙特卡洛拉力赛的冠军，并在整个赛季中都保持了不俗的竞争力。

Next season that threat will be more real than ever as one of rallying’s favourite partnerships rides again.

这种竞争力只会在下个赛季愈发强大，因为，拉力赛车届最为人津津乐道的一对组合即将破镜重圆。

原文地址：

https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2022/wrc/what-tanaks-return-means-for-m-sport/