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Rally-eMag August 2013 / The Inside View 21/32 Team logistics – that’s everything from personnel to trucks and rally cars – primarily falls to him and his team. Amongst other things, Iain is responsible for organising the team’s pre-event test. Liaising with George Black, he books the best test roads around as well Lesley Philip and Iain Tulas organising all the same lie form Milly’s expert team logistic paraphernalia you of logisticians and their would expect for a round work starts a full 12 months of the world rally champibefore an event. Lesley onship – the car, spares, has been with the team for personnel, everything. more than 10 years and in that time she has made In fact Malcolm was keen good relationships with to highlight the role of the some of the best hotels test team in facilitating the in the regions we visit. As team’s impressive perforsoon as one event is finmance in Finland. Ahead of ished, she’s on the phone Germany, Iain has helped to reserve the team’s acnegotiate an even more commodation and travel for extensive test so that the the following year. team heads to the first true asphalt event of the seaAs each event gets closer, son as fully prepared as the busier the logistics de- possible. partment gets. Four weeks in advance, entries are These three individuals are placed, nominations made so integral to the M-Sport and fuel ordered. Bulletins, team that there really is road books and maps are too much to mention! But distributed to crews and thanks to M-Sport’s logiskey members of staff; and tic department, the squad communication with each heads to Trier with their department is rife as Milly confidence high. Here’s and his team plan the lohoping we can replicate gistics for trucks, personour recent success with nel, recce cars, rally cars, another podium result. spares and even catering. If it wasn’t for a puncture Ostberg would have challenged Ogier all the way to the finish, if.... In the end there were two Fords on the podium. A Frenchman in a Volkswage claimed the top spot though.