Swedish rally ace and Henning Solberg's stepson Pontus Tidemand continues with this year's WRC program in cooperation with the only team that rent WRC cars on affordable prices - M-Sport Ford.

I must say that Tidemand didn't show much in his first season with WRC car but he wasn't slow either. He is learning step by step and that's good progress but not good enough for some works team to hire him for an official program.

This way he will he have to stay at privateer path for some time. I guess more risk is needed for him to show his full potential.

But if we look sincere, it is so hard to enter into the works team at the moment. Only top guys will have paid program next season, the others pay for their drives. And that's it. The end of story.

So, Tidemand tested with M-Sport Ford ahead of WRC Wales Rally. Watch some photos from his Twitter while we are waiting for the video from testing.

photos and video from WRC and youtube