Ford Fiesta RS WRC

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

I don't believe that the same amount of money available to Citroen competition department is available to M-sport.

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What if Wilson/M-Sport had used the same amount of money??? And what is his budget for Ford's primary manufacturer team???

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

So how, pray, can he conduct huge amounts of testing (including accomodation and transport) when he can't afford it? I'm sure he would love to, but he has two choices - carry on competing with the funding handicap or take up fishing and shooting in the Lake District. What would you do if rallying was your life?

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I don't follow you, because he is doing the testing. This car has already been driven for thousands of kilometers !

The problem that I see is that the car has not been driven by it's two official drivers yet. The two drivers who are so called going to fight for wins next year !!

Why does Prodrive put Markko Martin in the car on it's first tests ? They could have put any shmo in it just to rack up the miles.

M-Sport decides the best person for this job is Wilson jr.

See the problem. For me this is AMATEUR leadership, nothing else.

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Originally Posted by Kaffi

You can really see this fundamental difference in thinking from engineering point of view from fact that Hirvonen and Latvala will get first drive of the Fiesta in October while the Citroen boys have driven the DS3 since january !! In simple terms Loeb and co. have already driven the DS3 for months over all kinds of roads and fine tuned the car for each conditions, made necessary handling changes and will even have time to test specifically the MICHELINS and fine tune even more before the first rally.

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In the latest issue of Vauhdin Maailma magazine (finnish motorsport magazine) is Loeb's interview, which was made after Rally Germany. In this interview Loeb says that he has had three test days with new WRC untill that time. This is ofcourse three days more than what Hirvonen or Latvala have got but it seems that atleast Loeb has not tested new car so much as you would think of.

http://www.maxrally.com/news/entry/u...r_2000_fiesta/

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Although Wilson wouldn’t go into specifics he said some of the learnings from the Fiesta-based World Rally Car, currently under development by M-Sport in preparation for its debut in 2011, would be transferred onto the S2000 derivative.

“What we’re leaning through testing with the WRC [Fiesta] we can transfer back and hopefully it will be even more competitive next season,” said Wilson. “We’ll be announcing the details [of the upgrades] before the end of the season.”

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http://www.supermotores.net/sm/fotos.asp?id=194
http://twitpic.com/photos/WRCgerardquinn

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http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/pa...iesta-wrc.aspx

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RwZUW0g84I

Wow!! very raw look the wrc fiesta! :eek:

The Ford Fiesta RS WRC is powered by a 1.6-litre four-cylinder Ford EcoBoost turbo engine. http://media.ford.com/article_displa...ticle_id=33323

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Gerard Quinn, Ford of Europe's Motorsport chief, has overseen the Ford development programme throughout 2010 and says: "We're delighted to preview the Ford Fiesta RS WRC in such a prominent Motor Show as Paris. There are significant visual differences from the Fiesta S2000 base car as well as major changes under the skin. The biggest, of course, is the 1.6-litre Ford EcoBoost turbo engine - the original version of which was developed by Ford's Powertrain Engineering team."

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http://www.paris2010.fordmedia.eu/ph...-RS-WRC-05.jpg

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http://www.paris2010.fordmedia.eu/ph...-RS-WRC-13.jpg

The Ford Fiesta RS WRC seems to have extreme camber for the rear wheels!? Will that be normal next year?