Ford Fiesta RS WRC
The Ford Fiesta RS WRC is the World Rally Car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford Europe and M-Sport for use in the World Rally Championship 2011–2016. It is based upon the Ford Fiesta road car, and replaced the Ford Focus RS WRC, which competed in various versions since 1999. It is also built to the new World Rally Car regulations for 2011, which are based upon the existing Super 2000 regulations, but is powered by a turbocharged 1.6-litre engine (1.6 L turbo Ford EcoBoost engine) rather than the normally aspirated 2-litre engine found in Super 2000 cars. M-Sport and Ford introduced a Super 2000 version of the Ford Fiesta at the beginning of 2010, which forms the base of the WRC car.
Mads Østberg driving his Ford Fiesta RS WRC at the 2016 Rally de Portugal. | |||
| Category | World Rally Car | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Constructor | Ford Europe/M-Sport | ||
| Predecessor | Ford Focus RS WRC | ||
| Successor | Ford Fiesta WRC | ||
| Technical specifications | |||
| Chassis | Reinforced body with welded, multi-point roll cage | ||
| Length | 3,963 mm (156.0 in) | ||
| Width | 1,820 mm (72 in) | ||
| Wheelbase | 2,480 mm (98 in) | ||
| Engine | Ford EcoBoost engine 1.6 L (98 cu in) 4-cylinder, 16-valve turbocharged | ||
| Transmission | 6-speed M-Sport / X-Trac six-speed semi-automatic transmission gearbox with hydraulic shift | ||
| Weight | 1,200 kg (2,646 lb) | ||
| Tyres | Michelin Pirelli DMACK | ||
| Competition history (WRC) | |||
| Notable entrants | M-Sport World Rally Team Jipocar Czech National Team DMACK World Rally Team Ferm Power Tools World Rally Team Ford World Rally Team Qatar World Rally Team Adapta World Rally Team | ||
| Notable drivers | Mads Østberg Martin Prokop Robert Kubica Elfyn Evans Lorenzo Bertelli Ott Tänak Eric Camilli Henning Solberg Yazeed Al-Rajhi Thierry Neuville Juho Hänninen Mikko Hirvonen Jari-Matti Latvala Petter Solberg Khalid Al Qassimi Evgeny Novikov Nasser Al-Attiyah Ken Block Federico Villagra Dennis Kuipers | ||
| Debut | 2011 Rally Sweden | ||
| First win | 2011 Rally Sweden | ||
| Last win | 2012 Wales Rally GB | ||
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Stobart Ford World Rally Team drivers Matthew Wilson and Henning Solberg have carried out much of the development work on the car during 2010, with Per-Gunnar Andersson and M-Sport managing director and Ford team director Malcolm Wilson have also driven the car.
From 2017 onwards, it was replaced by the Ford Fiesta WRC, but some private owners still enter this car to participate in rally competitions.