Ford Fiesta RS WRC

Ford Fiesta RS WRC
Technical specifications^[1]
Jari-Matti Latvala driving his Ford Fiesta RS WRC at the 2011 Rally de Portugal.
Category	World Rally Car
Constructor	Ford Europe/M-Sport
Chassis	Reinforced body with welded, multi-point roll cage
Length	3,963 mm (156.0 in)
Width	1,820 mm (72 in)
Wheelbase	2,480 mm (98 in)
Engine	Ford EcoBoost engine 1.6 L (98 cu in) 4-cylinder, 16-valve turbocharged
Transmission	6-speed sequential manual transmission
Weight	1,200 kg (2,646 lb)
Fuel	BP
Tyres	Michelin
Competition history
Notable entrants	Ford World Rally Team M-Sport World Rally Team Jipocar Czech National Team Previously: Qatar World Rally Team
Notable drivers	Mads Østberg Nasser Al-Attiyah Ken Block Martin Prokop Robert Kubica Elfyn Evans Lorenzo Bertelli Ott Tänak Previously: Thierry Neuville Juho Hänninen Mikko Hirvonen Jari-Matti Latvala Petter Solberg Khalid Al Qassimi Evgeny Novikov
Debut	2011 Rally Sweden

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 Sweden	2011	Snow	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen
2	21st Rally Australia	2011	Gravel	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen
3	67th Wales Rally GB	2011	Gravel	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila
4	60th Rally Sweden	2012	Snow	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila
5	46º Rally de Portugal	2012	Gravel	Mads Østberg	Jonas Andersson
6	68th Wales Rally GB	2012	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 Sweden	2013	Yazeed Al Rajhi	Michael Orr
2	27º Rally Guanajuato México	2013	Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari	Killian Duffy
3	33º Philips LED Rally Argentina	2013	Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari	Killian Duffy
4	22nd Coates Hire Rally Australia	2013	Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari	Killian Duffy
5	48° Rally de Portugal	2014	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Giovanni Bernacchini
6	34º Rally Argentina	2014	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Giovanni Bernacchini
7	23rd Rally Australia	2014	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Giovanni Bernacchini
8	50° Rally Catalunya	2014	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Giovanni Bernacchini
9	29º Rally México	2015	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Matthieu Baumel
10	35° Rally Argentina	2015	Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari	Marshall Clarke
11	49° Rally de Portugal	2015	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Matthieu Baumel
12	12° Rally d'Italia Sardegna	2015	Yuriy Protasov	Pavlo Cherepin
13	24th Rally Australia	2015	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Matthieu Baumel
14	58. Tour de Corse	2015	Julien Maurin	Nicolas Klinger

References

↑ Evans, David (10 February 2011). "WRC Preview: Tech Insight". Autosport. Vol. 203 no. 6 (Haymarket Publications). pp. 60–61. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ 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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The History of the car from ItalianWRC.com website
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Teams, drivers and events of the 2015 World Rally Championship season

Categories within the World Rally Championship

FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers

FIA World Rally Championship-2 FIA World Rally Championship-3 FIA Junior World Rally Championship

Teams and drivers that are eligible to score manufacturer points

Volkswagen Motorsport (Volkswagen Polo R WRC)	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team (Citroën DS3 WRC)	M-Sport World Rally Team (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)	Hyundai Motorsport (Hyundai i20 WRC)

1. Sébastien Ogier 2. Jari-Matti Latvala	3. Kris Meeke 4. Sebastien Loeb 4. Mads Østberg	5. Elfyn Evans 6. Ott Tänak	7. Thierry Neuville 8. Dani Sordo 8. Hayden Paddon 8. Chris Atkinson

Volkswagen Motorsport II (Volkswagen Polo R WRC)	Hyundai Motorsport N (Hyundai i20 WRC)	Jipocar Czech National Team (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)	FWRT s.r.l. (Ford Fiesta RS WRC)

9. Andreas Mikkelsen	20 Kevin Abbring 20. Hayden Paddon	21. Martin Prokop	37. Lorenzo Bertelli

Schedule of events

83ème Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo 63^rd Rally Sweden 29º Rally Guanajuato México 35º XION Rally Argentina 49º Vodafone Rally de Portugal 12º Rally d'Italia Sardegna 72^nd LOTOS Rally Poland 65^th Neste Oil Rally Finland 33. ADAC Rallye Deutschland 24^th Coates Hire Rally Australia 58. Tour de Corse 51º Rally RACC Catalunya – Costa Daurada 71^st Wales Rally GB

Ford Rally Sport series

Fiesta	RS Turbo RS 1800 RS WRC

Escort	RS1600 (Mk.1) RS Mexico (Mk.1) RS2000 (Mk.1) RS1800 (Mk.2) RS2000 (Mk.2) RS Mexico (Mk.2) RS1600i (Mk.3) RS 1700T RS Turbo (Mk.3) RS Turbo (Mk.4) RS Cosworth (Mk.5) RS2000 (Mk.5) RS2000 (Mk.6) RS Cosworth (Mk.6) RS WRC

Focus	RS Mk.1 RS Mk.2 RS500 RS WRC

Capri	RS2600 RS3100

Sierra	RS Cosworth RS500 Sapphire RS Cosworth Sapphire RS Cosworth 4X4

Taunus	Taunus 17M RS Taunus 20M RS

Misc	RS200

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