M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

[Fast Eddie WRC]

https://dirtfish.com/motorsport/m-sp...e-redundancies

[Andre Oliveira]

https://www.m-sport.co.uk/single-pos...-SUPPORT-ESHOP

M-Sport will tomorrow launch a new Customer Support eShop to their Bentley Continental GT3, Ford Fiesta (MkII) Rally2 and Ford Fiesta Rally4 customers.

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Fresh from victory at Rally di Roma Capitale the EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta Rally4 was the first to align within this new class structure, and the Ford Fiesta R5 MkII will now be known as the Ford Fiesta Rally2.

Designers at Dovenby Hall are working on a new Ford Fiesta Rally1 scheduled for 2022, and in Krakow the team are engaged with the development of a new Ford Fiesta Rally3 designed to bridge the gap between two- and four-wheel-drive competition in 2021.

[pantealex]

https://www.m-sport.co.uk/single-pos...-SUPPORT-ESHOP

M-Sport will tomorrow launch a new Customer Support eShop to their Bentley Continental GT3, Ford Fiesta (MkII) Rally2 and Ford Fiesta Rally4 customers.

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Fresh from victory at Rally di Roma Capitale the EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta Rally4 was the first to align within this new class structure, and the Ford Fiesta R5 MkII will now be known as the Ford Fiesta Rally2.

Designers at Dovenby Hall are working on a new Ford Fiesta Rally1 scheduled for 2022, and in Krakow the team are engaged with the development of a new Ford Fiesta Rally3 designed to bridge the gap between two- and four-wheel-drive competition in 2021.

and for those who still live in "old world" Rally1 is top class (like WRC now)
interestingly they are saying Fiesta Rally1 so they aren´t using PUMA ???
Eddie must be really happy, for me it´s bit boring if all different models between Rally 1-5 are Fiesta based.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

and for those who still live in "old world" Rally1 is top class (like WRC now)
interestingly they are saying Fiesta Rally1 so they aren´t using PUMA ???
Eddie must be really happy, for me it´s bit boring if all different models between Rally 1-5 are Fiesta based.

Thanks Alex. And you cant blame them for sticking with the same model, as it must make things simpler and cheaper.

Toyota are staying with the (GR) Yaris too, not one of their SUV's.

[wyler]

good for Eddy, not so much for m-sport I fear. it probably means no more involvement by ford than usual.
on the other side, a good brand strtegy for m-sport, for marketing and building reasons, probably. altough they have to level up the mkII.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

good for Eddy, not so much for m-sport I fear. it probably means no more involvement by ford than usual.
on the other side, a good brand strtegy for m-sport, for marketing and building reasons, probably. altough they have to level up the mkII.

The decision will have been taken between them.

And Ford arent likely to have returned to making it a full factory team in any case with the current economic climate...

[Rally Power]

https://www.m-sport.co.uk/single-pos...-SUPPORT-ESHOP
Designers at Dovenby Hall are working on a new Ford Fiesta Rally1 scheduled for 2022, and in Krakow the team are engaged with the development of a new Ford Fiesta Rally3 designed to bridge the gap between two- and four-wheel-drive competition in 2021.

Great to hear MSport is working on the future Fiesta Rally1 (and 3). That probably means no manu will use spaceframe chassis in 2022, which makes sense considering all the other rules changes they have to deal.

Btw, no idea if this will help MSport but Jim Farley, a former Ford Europe chief and a known petrolhead, will become FMC CEO from October 1: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/04/what...im-farley.html

[AnttiL]

Testing the new Rally3 car in Sardegna (basically a 4WD Rally4 car)

https://autosprint.corrieredellospor...ord_fiesta_r2/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Greystoke
https://dirtfish.com/rally/what-make...ic-rally-stage

[Fast Eddie WRC]

M-Sport Return to Rally:

https://youtu.be/J0ZUpIHsxtE