This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Ford Focus RS WRC" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(May 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Racing car model
Ford Focus RS WRC
Jari-Matti Latvala, winner of the 2010 Rally Finland, driving a Ford Focus RS WRC 09 in Muurame, Finland.
Category
World Rally Car
Constructor
Ford
Predecessor
Ford Escort WRC
Successor
Ford Fiesta RS WRC
Technical specifications
Tyres
Michelin
Competition history (WRC)
Notable entrants
Ford
Debut
1999 Monte Carlo Rally
First win
1999 Safari Rally
Last win
2010 Rally Finland
Last event
2010 Wales Rally GB
Races
Wins
Podiums
Titles
173
44
142
2
Constructors' Championships
2 (2006, 2007)
Drivers' Championships
0
The Ford Focus RS WRC is a car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford Europe and M-Sport and based on the Ford Focus Climate 2-litre production hatchback, developed to compete in the World Rally Championship. The RS stands for Rallye Sport and the WRC for World Rally Car, the car's FIA specification. The Focus RS WRC was in competition from 1999 to 2010, winning 44 world rallies and two manufacturers' world titles (2006 and 2007). It was replaced by the Ford Fiesta RS WRC.
Like all contemporary World Rally Cars, the car is heavily modified from the production version, with which it shares only the basic shape and some parts of the bodyshell. The car features four-wheel drive, rather than the front-wheel drive of the road car. The engine used in the 2007 Focus WRC is based on Ford's 2.0 Litre Duratec from other models in the Focus range as rallying rules do not permit the standard 2.5-litre engine of the Focus ST or road going RS. As with most rally cars, the 2.0-litre engine is heavily modified and performance was increased using a turbocharger. The 2009 Ford Focus RS WRC uses a Ford 1998cc Pipo built l4 Duratec WRC engine (four cylinders, 16 valves, bore 85 mm and stroke 88 mm), Pi electronic engine management system, Garrett turbocharger (with required 34 mm inlet restrictor), air intercooler, and a catalytic converter.
The car's transmission is a permanent four-wheel drive with an M-Sport designed active centre differential, Pi electronic differential control units, M-Sport/Ricardo five-speed sequential gearbox with electro-hydraulically controlled shift and an M-Sport/Sachs multi-disc carbon clutch.[1]
The FordFocusRSWRC is a car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford Europe and M-Sport and based on the FordFocus Climate 2-litre production hatchback...
Rally Championship 2011–2016. It is based upon the Ford Fiesta road car, and replaced the FordFocusRSWRC, which competed in various versions since 1999...
The FordFocus is a compact car (C-segment in Europe) manufactured by Ford Motor Company since 1999. It was created under Alexander Trotman's Ford 2000...
Ford Escort WRC is a rally vehicle based on the Ford Escort RS Cosworth with World Rally Car homologation. It was built by M-Sport to compete in the World...
winner was Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team driver Matthew Wilson in a FordFocusWRC. McRae's brother Alister McRae won the classic category. In November...
"Rally Car of the Year" in 2002, preceded by the FordFocusRSWRC and followed by the Citroën Xsara WRC. Peugeot GB created a Peugeot 206 rally championship...
International Rally Ford Racing Ford TeamRSFordFocusRSWRCFordFocus (International) Ford Fiesta RSWRC M-Sport Ford World Rally Team Munchi's Ford World Rally...
The Subaru Impreza WRC is a World Rally Car based on the Subaru Impreza road car. It was used by Subaru World Rally Team, Subaru's factory team, and replaced...
Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team. He achieved his second podium finish in the World Rally Championship by driving his FordFocusRSWRC 06 to third place...
Total World Rally Team and BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team; the registered WRC Teams were Stobart M-Sport Ford, Munchi's Ford and the Citroën Junior Team...
Rotation" System in order to attract candidate rallies to have a chance to be a WRC event. Monte Carlo, Sweden, Mexico, Jordan, Turkey, Germany, New Zealand...
him back to the attention of Ford, whose factory arm signed him for the 2006 season. Hirvonen drove the new FordFocusRSWRC 06 partnered with Marcus Grönholm...
However, due to reliability issues with the new FordFocusWRC they only managed to finish 6th in the WRC with 23 points. The 1999 season of retirements...
championship in a Peugeot 206 WRC, ahead of Petter Solberg and Carlos Sainz. The manufacturers' title was won by Peugeot, ahead of Ford and Subaru. The 2002 championship...
drove his FordFocusRSWRC 01 to 13th place overall. 2006 was Wilson's first full season in the WRC, as a driver for the Stobart VK M-Sport Ford team. He...
progress. Rossi participated in the Monza Rally Show championship using Ford Fiesta RSWRC car and won the title 7 times (2006–2007, 2012, 2015–2018) and became...
competing in rallies in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Driving a FordFocusRSWRC, he won the Quinton Stages, the Coracle, the Plains, the Bulldog and...
participated in the WRC such as Mitsubishi Lancer WRC and Ford Fiesta RSWRC have also appeared in the Facebook game Car Town. The WRC video game license...
Subaru, and joined Ford to compete part-time at the World Rally Championship for Monster World Rally Team, where he drove a FordFocusRSWRC 08 together with...
championship level. The team, sponsored by Monster Energy, ran a 2011-spec Ford Fiesta RSWRC for Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino at selected events in the World...
April 9, 2024. "Ford wins Back-to-back WRC Titles". AutoIndustriya.com. November 27, 2007. Retrieved April 9, 2024. "2007 FIA Production WRC Drivers Championship...
Global Information
Ford
1999 Monte Carlo Rally
1999 Safari Rally
2010 Rally Finland