Gus Greensmith

Gus Greensmith
	Gus Greensmith at the 2019 Rallye Monte Carlo.
Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	26 December 1996; Manchester, England
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2014–present
Teams	M-Sport
Rallies	47
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	0
Total points	31
First rally	2014 Wales Rally GB
	Last updated on: 24.1.2021.

Fergus "Gus" Greensmith (born 26 December 1996) is a British rally driver.

Rally career

A former youth goalkeeper for Manchester City F.C. and karter before moving up into the ranks of rally driving, he was the youngest of 11 drivers in the Drive DMACK Fiesta Trophy in 2015.

As a karter who went to school in Manchester he appeared in the CIK-FIA U18 World Karting Championship in 2012, racing alongside the likes of Charles Leclerc, Ben Barnicoat and Joey Mawson.

In 2014, he won the British Junior Rally Championship.

In 2015, he appeared at Rally GB again, this time paired with Alex Gelsomino, the co-driver for Ken Block.[1]

In the 2018 Rally Mexico, Gus Greensmith finished 9th and scored World Rally Championship points for the first time.

Media

In 2015, he teamed up with Idris Elba in a documentary series that Elba was filming for Discovery TV and drove him in a Ford Fiesta.[2]

Career results

WRC results

Greensmith driving a Ford Fiesta R2T at 2015 Rally Poland.

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2014	Gus Greensmith	Ford Fiesta R2	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR 42		NC	0
2015	Gus Greensmith	Ford Fiesta R2T	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR 36	ITA	POL 40	FIN Ret	GER Ret	AUS	FRA	ESP 57	GBR 55		NC	0
2016	Gus Greensmith	Ford Fiesta R2	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR Ret	ITA	POL 35	FIN Ret	GER 63	CHN C	FRA	ESP 24			NC	0
2016	M-Sport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta R5													GBR 34	AUS	NC	0
2017	MSRT	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE 16	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR 20	ITA	POL 22	FIN 32	GER Ret	ESP 45	GBR 17	AUS		NC	0
2018	Gus Greensmith	Ford Fiesta R2T	MON Ret	SWE													23rd	2
2018	MSRT	Ford Fiesta R5			MEX 9	FRA 13	ARG 12	POR 18	ITA	FIN 13	GER Ret	TUR Ret	GBR 11	ESP	AUS		23rd	2
2019	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Fiesta R5	MON 7	SWE 19	MEX	FRA	ARG 15	CHL 12		ITA 42							15th	9
		Ford Fiesta WRC							POR Ret		FIN Ret	GER 9
		Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II											TUR 10	GBR 33	ESP 15	AUS C
2020	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Fiesta WRC	MON 63	SWE	MEX 9	EST 8	TUR 5	ITA 25	MNZ Ret								11th	16
2021	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Fiesta WRC	MON 8	ARC	CRO	POR	ITA	KEN	EST	FIN	BEL	CHL	ESP	JPN			8th*	4*

* Season still in progress.

Drive DMACK Cup results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	Pos.	Points
2015	Gus Greensmith	Ford Fiesta R2T	POR 4	POL 4	FIN Ret	GER Ret	ESP 7	6th	48
2016	Gus Greensmith	Ford Fiesta R2T	POR Ret	POL 4	FIN Ret	GER 6	ESP 2	4th	52

WRC-2 results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos	Points
2016	M-Sport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR 12	AUS	NC	0
2017	MSRT	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE 5	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR 6	ITA	POL 7	FIN 8	GER Ret	ESP 13	GBR 6	AUS		11th	36
2018	MSRT	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE	MEX 2	FRA	ARG 2	POR 8	ITA	FIN 3	GER Ret	TUR Ret	GBR 3	ESP	AUS		4th	70

WRC-2 Pro results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2019	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Fiesta R5	MON 1	SWE 3	MEX	FRA	ARG 2	CHL 3	POR	ITA 4							3rd	137
2019	M-Sport Ford WRT	Ford Fiesta R5 Mk. II									FIN WD	GER	TUR 1	GBR 3	ESP 4	AUS C	3rd	137

References

http://www.gusgreensmith.com/news/greensmith-gelsomino-pair-for-wales-rally-gb/
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

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[1] ttp://www.gusgreensmith.com/news/greensmith-gelsomino-pair-for-wales-rally-gb/

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)