Revival

On May 13, 2021, Mitsubishi executives announced that they would bring back Ralliart as part of a plan.

Ralliart Europe

Mitsubishi rally driver Andrew Cowan set up Andrew Cowan Motorsports (ACMS) in 1983 as a European base for Mitsubishi's motorsports activities. Based in Rugby, Warwickshire, it evolved into Ralliart Europe, with support from Mitsubishi's high performance division.

Ralliart Europe entered the World Rally Championship full-time for the first time in 1989, with the Mitsubishi Galant VR-4. The car won in the hands of Mikael Ericsson in Finland and Pentti Airikkala in Great Britain. Mitsubishi finished fourth in the manufacturers' standings in 1989, and third in 1990. Kenneth Eriksson delivered the team its next victory in Sweden in 1991.

The team introduced the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution for the 1993 season, but did not manage to win during the year and only scored two podium finishes. The team developed the Lancer Evolution II and introduced it half-way through the 1994 season, Armin Schwarz scoring a second-placed finish on the cars debut in Greece. The car took its first victory on the following year's Rally Sweden, with Kenneth Eriksson leading home Tommi Mäkinen.

Tommi Mäkinen's Lancer Evolution VI on 2001 Rally Finland.

The Lancer Evolution III was soon introduced, and enjoyed great success in hand of Eriksson in the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship, Mitsubishi's main focus at the time. Eriksson took the Evolution III to victory on the 1995 Rally Australia, a round of both championships. He finished the WRC season in third place in the standings behind the dominant Subaru World Rally Team pairing of Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz, after the Toyota Castrol Team pairing of Juha Kankkunen and Didier Auriol were excluded from the championship for running illegal turbo restrictors. In 1996, Mäkinen won five out of the nine rounds to win the Drivers' Championship.

The Lancer Evolution IV was introduced for the start of the 1997 season. Mäkinen won four out of 14 rallies to win his and Mitsubishi's second drivers' title. The car won the second and third rounds of the 1998 season, before being replaced by the Lancer Evolution V for the fifth round in Spain. As their rivals Subaru and Ford were competing with the new World Rally Car spec, Mitsubishi continued to develop their cars to the old Group A regulations. Mäkinen took the car to victory in Argentina, which then won the final four events of the season, allowing Mäkinen to win a third straight title, while Mitsubishi were finally able to take their first manufacturers' title, thanks to two victories from Richard Burns.

The team introduced the Lancer Evolution VI for the opening round of the 1999, complete with sponsorship from Marlboro. Mäkinen won in Monte Carlo on the car's debut and then again on the next round in Sweden. He picked up further wins in New Zealand and Sanremo to record a then record fourth consecutive drivers' title. In 2000, the team struggled against their rivals and their World Rally Cars, Mäkinen only winning once and finishing fifth in the standings.

Mäkinen managed to win three times in 2001, until Mitsubishi introduced the Lancer WRC in Sanremo, having continued running to the old Group A regulations even though their rivals began working with the new WRC regulations from 1997. Both Mäkinen and teammate Freddy Loix struggled with the new car, before Mäkinen suffered a heavy accident that injured his co-driver Risto Mannisenmäki. Two retirements and a sixth-placed finish from the final three rallies meant that Mäkinen missed out on winning the title.

Mäkinen left the team for Subaru for 2002, so François Delecour and Alister McRae were signed to replace him and Loix, who had moved to Hyundai. Both struggled with the car though, McRae managed a fifth-place finish on Rally Sweden, but those were the only points the team would score all season. The team finished last in the manufacturers' points, behind Skoda and Hyundai. Mitsubishi would not compete during the 2003 season as Mitsubishi restructured their motorsports activities.

MMSP

Gilles Panizzi driving the Lancer WRC04 at the 2004 Rally Finland.

Mitsubishi Motors at the 2005 Cyprus Rally.

Mitsubishi consolidated their racing activities in 2003, acquiring ACMS Ltd from Cowan while Mitsubishi Motors Australia took over Stewart's operation.^[5][6] This followed the formation of Mitsubishi Motors Motor Sports (MMSP) GmbH in Trebur, Germany in November 2002.^[4]

The team signed experienced driver Gilles Panizzi to lead its lineup, and signed the less-experienced trio of Kristian Sohlberg, Gigi Galli and Daniel Solà to share its second car. Panizzi managed to score points on three occasions before the team reduced its programme after ten of 14 rounds, switching their focus to developing their 2005 car. The team did compete on Rally Catalunya, where both Sola and Galli finished in sixth and seventh place respectively.

Mitsubishi returned in 2005 with a developed car, the Lancer WRC05, and had signed Harri Rovanperä to drive one car on all 16 rallies, with Panizzi and Galli sharing the second car. Galli would be entered in a third car on selected events. Panizzi scored Mitsubishi's first podium finish since 2001 on the first event of the season, Monte Carlo. Rovanperä was a regular points scorer, finishing second on Rally Australia, to finish the season seventh in the drivers' standings. Galli scored points on six occasions. Mitsubishi finished fifth in the manufacturers' standings, ahead of Skoda.

At the end of 2005, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation suspended its participation in the WRC. MMSP Ltd supported Galli's Lancer WRC05 entry for the two opening rounds of 2006, in association with Ralliart Italy.

MMSP Ltd. ran two Lancer WRC05s for Toni Gardemeister and Xavier Pons on the first three rounds of the 2007 season, as well as a third car for Juho Hänninen on round three in Norway. It also ran Gardemeister on round five in Portugal alongside Armindo Araujo, and ran Gardemeister and Hänninen in Italy. It ran Urmo Aava in Greece, Finland and New Zealand, the Estonian scoring points in Finland and New Zealand.

In February 2009, MMSP Ltd operations manager John Easton completed a buy-out of the Rugby-based company to form MML Sports Ltd.^[7]

WRC Results

Year	Car	No	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points	WMC	Points
1989	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4		Ari Vatanen	SWE	MON 87	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC Ret	NZL	ARG	FIN Ret	AUS	ITA	CIV	GBR 5				40th	8	4th	58
			Kenjiro Shinozuka	SWE	MON	POR 18	KEN	FRA	GRC 7	NZL 6	ARG	FIN	AUS 7	ITA	CIV	GBR				24th	14
			Jimmy McRae	SWE	MON	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC 4	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV	GBR				29th*	10*
			Mikael Ericsson	SWE	MON	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN 1	AUS	ITA	CIV	GBR				4th*	50*
			Ross Dunkerton	SWE	MON	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS Ret	ITA	CIV	GBR				64th*	2*
			Pentti Airikkala	SWE	MON	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV	GBR 1				14th	20
1990	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4		Kenneth Eriksson	MON Ret	POR Ret	KEN	FRA	GRC Ret	NZL	ARG	FIN 3	AUS Ret	ITA	CIV	GBR 2					8th	27	3rd	56
			Ari Vatanen	MON Ret	POR Ret	KEN	FRA	GRC Ret	NZL	ARG	FIN 2	AUS	ITA	CIV	GBR Ret					16th	15
			Kenjiro Shinozuka	MON	POR	KEN 5	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV Ret	GBR					28th	8
			Ross Dunkerton	MON	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL 4	ARG	FIN	AUS Ret	ITA	CIV	GBR					20th	10
			Patrick Tauziac	MON	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV 1	GBR					12th	20
1991	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4		Timo Salonen	MON 8	SWE Ret	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC Ret	NZL	ARG	FIN DSQ	AUS	ITA	CIV	ESP	GBR 4			13th	21	3rd	62
			Kenneth Eriksson	MON Ret	SWE 1	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC 7	NZL	ARG	FIN 3	AUS 2	ITA	CIV	ESP	GBR 2			5th	66
			Kenjiro Shinozuka	MON	SWE	POR	KEN 8	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV 1	ESP	GBR			11th	23
			Ross Dunkerton	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL Ret	ARG	FIN	AUS 7	ITA	CIV	ESP	GBR			40th	4
			Patrick Tauziac	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV 2	ESP	GBR			15th	15
1992	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4		Timo Salonen	MON 6	SWE	POR 5	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV	ESP	GBR			20th	14	5th	44
			Kenneth Eriksson	MON Ret	SWE	POR Ret	KEN	FRA	GRC Ret	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV	ESP	GBR 7			41st	4
			Lasse Lampi	MON	SWE 8	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN 6	AUS	ITA	CIV	ESP	GBR 11			28th	9
			Kenjiro Shinozuka	MON	SWE	POR	KEN 10	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV 1	ESP	GBR			14th	21
			Ross Dunkerton	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL 3	ARG	FIN	AUS 5	ITA	CIV	ESP	GBR			16th	20
			Patrick Tauziac	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	NZL	ARG	FIN	AUS	ITA	CIV Ret	ESP	GBR			-	0
1993	Mitsubishi Lancer RS		Armin Schwarz	MON 6	SWE	POR Ret	KEN	FRA	GRE 3	ARG	NZL	FIN 9	AUS	ITA	ESP	GBR 8				12th	23	4th	86
			Kenneth Eriksson	MON 4	SWE	POR 5	KEN	FRA	GRE Ret	ARG	NZL	FIN 5	AUS	ITA	ESP	GBR 2				6th	41
			Kenjiro Shinozuka	MON	SWE	POR	KEN Ret	FRA	GRE	ARG	NZL	FIN	AUS	ITA	ESP	GBR				-	0
			Ross Dunkerton	MON	SWE	POR	KEN	FRA	GRE	ARG	NZL Ret	FIN	AUS 4	ITA	ESP	GBR				24th	10
1994	Mitsubishi Lancer RS		Armin Schwarz	MON 7	POR	KEN	FRA													7th	31	4th	86
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II							GRE 2	ARG	NZL 3	FIN	ITA Ret	GBR
	Mitsubishi Lancer RS		Kenneth Eriksson	MON 5	POR	KEN	FRA													12th	18
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II							GRE Ret	ARG	NZL 4	FIN	ITA	GBR
			Kenjiro Shinozuka	MON	POR	KEN 2	FRA	GRE	ARG	NZL	FIN	ITA	GBR							13th	15
			Tommi Mäkinen	MON	POR	KEN	FRA	GRE	ARG	NZL	FIN	ITA 2	GBR							10th	22
1995	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II	10	Kenneth Eriksson	MON	SWE 1															3rd	48	2nd	307
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III							NZL 5	AUS 1	ESP	GBR Ret
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II		Isolde Holderied			POR 11	FRA 19													32nd*	1*
		11	Tommi Mäkinen	MON 4	SWE 2															5th	38
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III						FRA 8	NZL Ret	AUS 4	ESP Ret	GBR Ret
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II		Jorge Recalde			POR 10														20th*	4*
		12	Andrea Aghini	MON 6																7th	26
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III						FRA 3			ESP 5
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II		Kenneth Bäcklund		SWE 10															32nd	1
			Rui Madeira			POR 9				ESP 11	GBR 7									11th	7
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III		Ed Ordynski					NZL 11	AUS 8											21st	3
1996	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III	7	Tommi Mäkinen	SWE 1	KEN 1	IDN Ret	GRE 2	ARG 1	FIN 1	AUS 1	ITA Ret	ESP 5								1st	123	2nd	322
		8	Kenneth Bäcklund	SWE 14																-	0
			Kenjiro Shinozuka		KEN 6															20th	6
			Richard Burns			IDN Ret		ARG 4		AUS 5		ESP Ret								9th	18
			Uwe Nittel				GRE 14													35th	1
			Lasse Lampi						FIN 8											27th	3
			Didier Auriol								ITA 8									27th	3
		9	Uwe Nittel	SWE 16	KEN			ARG 10			ITA Ret									35th	1
			Yoshihiro Kataoka			IDN Ret														-	0
			Pascal Smets				GRE 17													-	0
			Jouko Puhakka						FIN Ret											-	0
			Ed Ordynski							AUS 10										35th	1
1997	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV	1	Tommi Mäkinen	MON 3	SWE 3	KEN Ret	POR 1	ESP 1	FRA Ret	ARG 1	GRE 3	NZL Ret	FIN 1	IDN Ret	ITA 3	AUS 2	GBR 6			1st	63	3rd	86
		2	Uwe Nittel										FIN 7							17th	3
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III			MON 5	SWE Ret			ESP 8	FRA 8						ITA Ret
	Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo IV		Richard Burns			KEN 2	POR Ret			ARG Ret		NZL 4		IDN 4		AUS 4	GBR 4			7th	21
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV										GRE 4
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III	10	Uwe Nittel			KEN	POR			ARG	GRE 6	NZL		IDN		AUS	GBR			17th	3
		13	Kenjiro Shinozuka	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	IDN	ITA	AUS Ret	GBR			-	0
1998	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV	1	Tommi Mäkinen	MON Ret	SWE 1	KEN Ret	POR Ret													1st	58	1st	91
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V							ESP 3	FRA Ret	ARG 1	GRE Ret	NZL 3	FIN 1	ITA 1	AUS 1	GBR Ret
	Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo IV	2	Richard Burns	MON 5	SWE 15	KEN 1	POR 4													6th	33
	Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo V							ESP 4	FRA Ret	ARG 4	GRE Ret	NZL 9	FIN 5	ITA 7	AUS Ret	GBR 1
	Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo IV	16	Uwe Nittel	MON 7	SWE 7	KEN	POR Ret	ESP 9												-	0
	Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo V								FRA	ARG	GRE Ret	NZL	FIN Ret	ITA	AUS	GBR
1999	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	1	Tommi Mäkinen	MON 1	SWE 1	KEN DSQ	POR 5	ESP 3	FRA 6	ARG 4	GRE 3	NZL 1	FIN Ret	CHN Ret	ITA 1	AUS 3	GBR Ret			1st	62	3rd	86
	Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo VI	2	Freddy Loix	MON Ret	SWE 9	KEN Ret		ESP 4	FRA 8	ARG Ret	GRE 4	NZL 8	FIN 10	CHN Ret	ITA 4	AUS 4	GBR 5			8th	14
			Marcus Grönholm				POR Ret													15th*	5*
2000	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	1	Tommi Mäkinen	MON 1	SWE 2	KEN Ret	POR Ret	ESP 4	ARG 3	GRE Ret	NZL Ret	FIN 4	CYP 5	FRA Ret	ITA 3	AUS DSQ	GBR 3			5th	36	4th	43
	Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo VI	2	Freddy Loix	MON 6	SWE 8	KEN Ret	POR 6	ESP 8	ARG 5	GRE Ret	NZL Ret	FIN Ret	CYP 8	FRA Ret	ITA 8	AUS Ret	GBR Ret			15th	4
2001	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6.5	7	Tommi Mäkinen	MON 1	SWE Ret	POR 1	ESP 3	ARG 4	CYP Ret	GRE 4	KEN 1	FIN Ret	NZL 8							3rd	41	3rd	69
	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC													ITA Ret	FRA Ret	AUS 6	GBR Ret
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6.5	8	Freddy Loix	MON 6	SWE 13	POR Ret	ESP 4	ARG 6	CYP 5	GRC 9	KEN 5	FIN 10	NZL 11							13th	9
	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC													ITA 12	FRA 12	AUS 11	GBR Ret
	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6.5	19	Thomas Rådström	MON	SWE 2	POR	ESP	ARG												15th	6
			Katsuhiko Taguchi						CYP Ret	GRC	KEN									15th	6
	Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo VI		Toni Gardemeister									FIN Ret	NZL 15	ITA	FRA	AUS	GBR			15th	6
2002	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC	7	François Delecour	MON 9	SWE 34	FRA 7	ESP 9	CYP 13	ARG Ret	GRE 11	KEN Ret									-	0	5th	9
	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC2											FIN Ret	GER 9	ITA 10	NZL 9	AUS Ret	GBR Ret
	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC	8	Alister McRae	MON 14	SWE 5	FRA 10	ESP 13	CYP Ret	ARG 8	GRE Ret	KEN 9									15th	2
	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC2											FIN Ret	GER Ret	ITA Ret	NZL	AUS
			Justin Dale														GBR Ret			-	0
	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC	9	Jani Paasonen	MON	SWE 14	FRA	ESP	CYP Ret	ARG	GRE	KEN									-	0
	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC2													FIN 8	NZL Ret	AUS 9	GBR Ret
2003	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC2	32	Alister McRae	MON	SWE	TUR	NZL 6	ARG	GRE	CYP	GER	FIN	AUS	ITA	FRA	ESP	GBR			17th	3	-	0
			Jani Paasonen	MON	SWE	TUR	NZL	ARG	GRE	CYP	GER Ret	FIN	AUS	ITA	FRA	ESP	GBR			-	0
		34	Kristian Sohlberg	MON	SWE 12	TUR	NZL Ret	ARG	GRE	CYP	GER 14	FIN	AUS	ITA	FRA	ESP	GBR			-	0
2004	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC04	9	Gilles Panizzi	MON 6	SWE Ret	MEX 8	NZL Ret	CYP Ret	GRE 10	TUR Ret	ARG 7	FIN 11	GER Ret	JPN	GBR	ITA	FRA	ESP 12	AUS	13th	6	5th	17
		10	Gianluigi Galli	MON Ret		MEX Ret				TUR 10										15th	5
			Kristian Sohlberg		SWE Ret		NZL Ret	CYP Ret			ARG Ret	FIN Ret								-	0
			Dani Solà						GRE Ret				GER Ret	JPN	GBR	ITA	FRA	ESP 6	AUS	21st	3
		14	Gianluigi Galli		SWE		NZL	CYP	GRE		ARG	FIN	GER	JPN	GBR	ITA	FRA	ESP 7	AUS	15th	5
2005	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC05	9	Harri Rovanperä	MON 7	SWE 4	MEX 5	NZL Ret	ITA Ret	CYP 7	TUR 10	GRE 6	ARG 5	FIN 7	GER 10	GBR 4	JPN 5	FRA 10	ESP 10	AUS 2	7th	39	5th	76
		10	Gilles Panizzi	MON 3	SWE	MEX 8	NZL	ITA	CYP 11	TUR	GRE	ARG	FIN	GER	GBR	JPN 11	FRA Ret	ESP	AUS	15th	7
			Gianluigi Galli		SWE 7		NZL 8	ITA Ret		TUR 8	GRE 7	ARG Ret	FIN Ret	GER 5	GBR 14			ESP Ret	AUS 5	11th	14
		18		MON		MEX			CYP							JPN Ret	FRA 9
2006	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC 05	14	Gianluigi Galli	MON Ret	SWE 4	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG	ITA	GRE	GER	FIN	JPN	CYP	TUR	AUS	NZL	GBR	11th*	15*	-	-
		15	Daniel Carlsson	MON	SWE 3	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG	ITA	GRE	GER	FIN Ret	JPN	CYP	TUR	AUS	NZL	GBR	16th	6
		18	Jussi Välimäki	MON	SWE	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG	ITA 5	GRE 9	GER	FIN 7	JPN	CYP	TUR	AUS	NZL	GBR	17th	6
		22	Juho Hänninen	MON	SWE	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG	ITA	GRE	GER	FIN DSQ	JPN	CYP	TUR	AUS	NZL	GBR	-	0
2007	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC 05	-	Toni Gardemeister	MON 7	SWE 6	NOR Ret	MEX	POR DSQ	ARG	ITA 6	GRE	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRE	GBR	13th	10	-	-
		-	Xavier Pons	MON 26	SWE Ret	NOR 16	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRE	GBR	17th*	4*
		-	Juho Hänninen	MON	SWE	NOR 17	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA 8	GRE	FIN Ret	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRE	GBR	22nd	1
		-	Armindo Araújo	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR Ret	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRE	GBR	-	0
		-	Urmo Aava	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE 14	FIN 7	GER	NZL 8	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRE	GBR	19th	3
		-	Kristian Sohlberg	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN Ret	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRE	GBR	-	0
		-	Kaj Kuistila	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN 13	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRE	GBR	-	0