Ford Fiesta RS WRC

http://www.rallybuzz.com/ford-fiesta-wrc-test-vid2/

M Sport will not be selling any cars until 2012 at the earliest and all cars next year (10 or so) will be for satellite teams like Stobart. A new rush of paranoia is gripping the wrc as Citroen are playing the same game..

so are they going to run in that m-sport based livery next season or do they still have sponsorship from Abu Dahbi? like on the current focuses

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Originally Posted by sal

M Sport will not be selling any cars until 2012 at the earliest and all cars next year (10 or so) will be for satellite teams like Stobart. A new rush of paranoia is gripping the wrc as Citroen are playing the same game..

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I think that reason for that is simple. All cars they'll be able to produce or almost all of them already have customers for next year's WRC campaign. With some price limits for new cars and parts from FIA it's much more profitable way for M-Sport to run those cars themselves - prices for renting are not limited anyhow, so they can make much more money this way.

Anyway IRC, ERC and most of national championships stays with normal S2000 next year.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

I think that reason for that is simple. All cars they'll be able to produce or almost all of them already have customers for next year's WRC campaign. With some price limits for new cars and parts from FIA it's much more profitable way for M-Sport to run those cars themselves - prices for renting are not limited anyhow, so they can make much more money this way.

Anyway IRC, ERC and most of national championships stays with normal S2000 next year.

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So, no Fiesta SP (S1.6T) version for 2011?

What about SP in IRC, will they be allowed?

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Originally Posted by Rally Power

So, no Fiesta SP (S1.6T) version for 2011?

What about SP in IRC, will they be allowed?

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No, not for 2011 at least, IRC stays with tradituonal S2000 / N4

1.6T won't be allowed in any FIA championship except WRC in 2011.

Do you know if they will be allowed in a British championship like the BTRDA?

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Originally Posted by Allyc85

Do you know if they will be allowed in a British championship like the BTRDA?

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I dont know but I think that with a 10 car build for WRC I dont think M-Sport will have the capacity to build a car for BTRDA in the early days.

That’s probably one reason why SWRC 2011 is with S2000 (NA). The teams haven’t resources to build enough cars. Taking into account the cars are new from 2011, they’ve some development to do yet.