Ford Fiesta RS WRC
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The Ford Fiesta RS WRC is the World Rally Car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford Europe and M-Sport for use in the 2011 World Rally Championship season. It is based upon the Ford Fiesta road car, and replaced the Ford Focus RS WRC, which competed in various versions since 1999. It is also built to the new World Rally Car regulations for 2011, which are based upon the existing Super 2000 regulations, but is powered by a turbocharged 1.6-litre engine (1.6 L turbo Ford EcoBoost engine[2]) rather than the normally aspirated 2-litre engine found in Super 2000 cars. M-Sport and Ford introduced a Super 2000 version of the Ford Fiesta at the beginning of 2010, which forms the base of the WRC car.
Stobart Ford World Rally Team drivers Matthew Wilson and Henning Solberg have carried out much of the development work on the car during 2010, with Per-Gunnar Andersson and M-Sport managing director and Ford team director Malcolm Wilson have also driven the car.[3]
WRC victories (Fiesta RS WRC)
No. Event Season Surface Driver Co-driver 1 
59th Rally Sweden2011 Snow 
Mikko Hirvonen Jarmo Lehtinen2 
21st Rally Australia2011 Gravel Mikko Hirvonen Jarmo Lehtinen3 
67th Wales Rally GB2011 Gravel Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila4 60th Rally Sweden2012 Snow Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila5 
46º Rally de Portugal2012 Gravel 
Mads Østberg Jonas Andersson6 68th Wales Rally GB2012 Gravel Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila
RRC version
In 2012, the RRC version of the Fiesta was launched to comply with the regional rally rules of the FIA; it is basically a Fiesta RS WRC, only with an S2000-specification rear wing, a slightly different front bumper, a lighter flywheel and a 30mm restrictor instead of a 33mm one found in the WRC variant. The Fiesta's with RRC specification can be converted to WRC specification in 6 hours.[4]
WRC-2 victories (Fiesta RRC)
No. Event Season Driver Co-driver 1 61st Rally Sweden2013 
Yazeed Al Rajhi Michael Orr2 
27º Rally Guanajuato México2013 
Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari
Killian Duffy3 
33º Philips LED Rally Argentina2013 Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari Killian Duffy4 22nd Coates Hire Rally Australia2013 Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari Killian Duffy5 48° Rally de Portugal2014 Nasser Al-Attiyah
Giovanni Bernacchini6 34º Rally Argentina2014 Nasser Al-Attiyah Giovanni Bernacchini7 23rd Rally Australia2014 Nasser Al-Attiyah Giovanni Bernacchini8 
50° Rally Catalunya2014 Nasser Al-Attiyah Giovanni Bernacchini9 29º Rally México2015 Nasser Al-Attiyah
Matthieu Baumel10 35° Rally Argentina2015 Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari Marshall Clarke11 49° Rally de Portugal2015 Nasser Al-Attiyah Matthieu Baumel12 12° Rally d'Italia Sardegna2015 
Yuriy Protasov Pavlo Cherepin13 24th Rally Australia2015 Nasser Al-Attiyah Matthieu Baumel14 58. Tour de Corse2015 Julien Maurin Nicolas Klinger
Ford Fiesta RS WRC 'Evolution'
In Rally Finland 2014 M-Sport launched a facelifted version of the Fiesta RS WRC. Despite the change on the front of the car, it's still the same under the bonnet. M-Sport later revealed the 'Evolution' version would come in 2015.
Before Rally Portugal 2015, M-Sport launched the 'Evolution' specification of the Fiesta RS WRC. Unlike the first version's engine which was built by Pipo Motors, the new Fiesta RS WRC's engine is completely built by M-Sport, with technical support from Ford. The car has also undergone a full redesign under the bonnet with further developments to the cooling package, transmission, electronics, wiring harness and differentials.
See also
- Citroën DS3 WRC
- Citroën C3 WRC
- Hyundai i20 WRC
- Mini John Cooper Works WRC
- Toyota Yaris WRC
- Volkswagen Polo R WRC
References
- ↑ Evans, David (10 February 2011). "WRC Preview: Tech Insight". Autosport. Vol. 203 no. 6. Haymarket Publications. pp. 60–61.
- ↑ http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=33323
- ↑ http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=376511&FS=WRC
- ↑ http://www.m-sport.co.uk/index.php/motorsport/the-rally-cars/ford-fiesta-rrc
External links
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- Ford Motor Company
- M-Sport
- The History of the car from ItalianWRC.com website
- Ford Racing