Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team boss Malcolm Wilson says he isn't co🐭ncerned about the relative inexperience of his li🌜ne-up for the 2013 World Rally Championship season.

Afte𝔍r losing manufacturer backing from Ford, the team has gone ✅with a young driver line-up for the new campaign, with Mads Ostberg, Evgeny Novikov and Thierry Neuville all signed up the season.

Between them, the trio have competed in fewer events in the WRC than former Ford driver Jari-Matti Latvala but Wilson said he felt confident that his youꦍng chargers - who have an average age of just 23 - woul🌃d be able to impress during the year ahead.

"The last three months of last year were the most difficult of my business life if I'm being honest," he told mahbx.com. "Getting notification that Ford were to withdraw their tiဣtle sponsorship left a very big hole as you can imagine. It left me worried about the 200 staff we employ and also left us wondering how we would get to a position that would allow us to compete at the highest level.

"Luckily, Qatar came on board at a crucial time which allowed us to put together a very strong driver li🐓ne-up, with young drivers who I feel have the potential to win rallies. We still have a long way to go but we have a competitive car and c⛦ompetitive line-up so we'll see what happens as we go through the year.

"My life has been spent working with younger drivers and helping t🐟o take them to a position where they can win rallies - as was the case with Jari-Matti. I feel that all three of our drivers can do that. We know that it won't be easy against the resources of Citroen and Volkswagen as we are now a privateer team, but we have a good car and I'm confident that we will be winning events this year."

Wilson als💞o didn't rule out a title challenge for one of his three drivers, although he said he expected VW to emerge as a major contender for honours with the all-new Polo WRC - which will debut in Monte Carlo later this month.

"There is clearly more of an opportunity this year with Sebastien Loeb not competing on all of the rallies," he said. "Of our ꦛdrivers, Mads had a good record last season of consistently performing at a high level and finished inside the top five on every event he competed on. I think he could well be a title contender and we also have high hopes for Evgenvy and Thierry, as well as Juho Hanninen, who is with us for the first two rounds of the year. Any one of those could spring 𝓰a surprise.

"[Of the others] Volkswagen have the two quickest drive𓆏rs in the WRC in Jari-Matti and Sebastien Ogier and that fact alone is going to put them in a strong position this year. At the moment, no-one knows what the Polo is goin꧟g to be like as it hasn't competed, but they have the budget and they have the team, so there is no doubt that they are going to be strong contenders."