M-Sport Ford World Rally Teams

[Mirek]

I thought that the main issue with the stock Mini block (same with PSA R5 cars) was that it was a long-stroke 1.6 engine which means that the cylinders are very narrow and You can't fit large valves inside. Others mostly use blocks from larger capacity stock engines for R5 cars and shorten the stroke (M-Sport and Hyundai 2.0, Škoda 1.8).

[dimviii]

Besides these also weight reduction and slight center of gravity advantages can be obtained by custom blocks

of course,as bigger main caps for crankshaft,stronger between cylinders to cope with the extra pressure and plenty other things that maybe be small but makes the difference.

[janvanvurpa]

I guess WRC cars still use the road car engine blocks -

as far as I know at this point nobody is using a production based road car block or of course crank...Ford Fiesta 1600 has a bore of 79mm and tiny little 30mm intake--25mm exhaust valves...VW 1,6 petrol is 76.5mm I think...ACK!
The hell old VW 2,0 ABA F2 cars had 82,5mm bore stock and VW homolgated those things with 84mm bore,..

To make power you have to have rooms for intake valve--and to have room for valves you have to have room in the bores...
I think everybody;s engines are now "strart from clean sheet of paper" blocks and I think everybody is at 84mm bore because you can shove in 2 x 34mm intake valves in a bore that size...
Gotta have the valve area for power, so you have to have the bore to get the valve size.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

'Fiesta can get even better !'
http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/apri-...2--12-12-.html

[stefanvv]

Poor Neuville

[Mintexmemory]

Poor Neuville

Crying all the way to the bank!

[Fast Eddie WRC]

3 wins out of 4 in 2018 (and probably would've won Sweden but for snow-ploughing).

Ogier is showing how good he really is now he's are settled in to the Team and the Fiesta is developed and set-up to his liking.

[Tarmop]

Don`t overhype him, the championship has more drivers capable of winning than ever (well, atleast 1600cm3 generations of cars). Sweden would probably have been Toyota`s party, if not for snow-ploughing

Great driver ofc.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

5x Champion and his win against all odds last Season... he needs no hype.

If all had the same road conditions I would bet on Ogier to win in Sweden.

[Franky]

Let's put the tinted sunglasses on.