🇮🇪 Josh McErlean

Irish rally driver competing for M-Sport Ford in the FIA World Rally Championship. Won on his very first rally start in 2014 at the age of fourteen, took the Junior British Rally Championship in 2019, and collected the Motorsport Ireland Billy Coleman Award the same year — the prize that funded his route into the country's rally academy.

Promoted to a full Rally1 seat for 2025, when he became the first Irishman to compete full-time at the World Rally Championship's top level since the late Craig Breen. Builds results through consistency rather than outright stage pace, with career-best finishes spread evenly across ice, gravel and asphalt.