Motor Sport Developments

Motor Sport Developments Limited, known as MSD, was an automotive engineering and motorsport company based in Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom. Owner and managing director David Whitehead also acted as team principal when Hyundai Motor Sport first approached the company to compete in the 2-litre Cup of the World Rally Championship in 1998 and 1999 with a Hyundai Coupe kit car; the team finished fifth and bottom of the cup in 1998 and second of two teams in 1999. From 2000 to 2003 MSD ran the Hyundai World Rally Team on behalf of Hyundai Motor Company with the Hyundai Accent WRC, its best result being fourth overall in the 2001 Rally of Great Britain. In 2003 Hyundai cancelled funding after a season of budget constraints, the programme ended abruptly, legal action was prepared by each side against the other, and about 100 staff were made redundant. In the 1990s MSD also ran a rally programme for Opel and circuit racing campaigns for Opel, Honda, Vauxhall and Peugeot.