This is your chance to be part of M-Sport's WRC story while supporting the development of women in motorsport
Picture yourself, you’re next in line. Just ahead of you? It’s the current World Rally Championship leader? Behind? It’s another factory Rally1 car.
Look to the left and there’s an M-Sport Ford World Rally Team driver talking to you. Telling you what to expect. You’re no longer reading the story, you’re part of it. You are about to tackle a shakedown stage aboard an M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1 car – you’re about to take part in the British team’s final preparations for an actual WRC round.
Thanks to M-Sport for delivering a genuine once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the lucky winner of the DirtFish Women in Motorsport auction bid.
The event will be decided between the winning bid and the team, but regardless of where you step aboard the Puma, you’ll be in for an unforgettable experience. This one is special. And so is the reason for the auction, living your dream will help women in motorsport – at all levels and in all roles across the sport – realize theirs.
Aoife Raftery sits at the very heart of the DirtFish Women in Motorsport Driver Program with the auction delivering the amazing opportunity to join one of rallying’s fastest rising stars at a pre-event test. You can call the notes or just enjoy the ride, either way you’ll be very much part of Aoife’s preparations for a key 2026 outing.
The M-Sport offer doesn’t end with a WRC shakedown, by the way. We’ve got an extraordinary factory tour which is interrupted only by lunch with M-Sport team principal Richard Millener and DirtFish’s David Evans and Colin Clark.
And if you’re doing the M-Sport factory tour, you just have to win the Prodrive bid as well – that will deliver a good look around the Banbury home of an equally storied British center of rallying excellence.
Rallying done, we have an awesome Stateside offering by the way of the ultimate VIP NASCAR Experience at a NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway. You’ll meet be the special guest of NASCAR/Red Bull rising superstar Conor Zilisch at the NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway (Sunday June 14).
The DirtFish Women in Motorsport auction is live now.
Tags: Aoife Raftery, DirtFish Women in Motorsport Auction, Ford, M-Sport, Prodrive
Publish Date April 28, 2026 DirtFish
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