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Ford Fiesta RS WRC

Ford Fiesta RS WRC

Category	World Rally Car
Constructor	Ford/M-Sport
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 sequential manual transmission
Weight	1,200 kg (2,646 lb)
Tyres	Michelin
Competition history
Notable entrants	Ford World Rally Team Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team Qatar World Rally Team
Notable drivers	Mads Østberg  Evgeny Novikov  Juho Hänninen  Thierry Neuville  Nasser Al-Attiyah  Ken Block  Martin Prokop previously:  Mikko Hirvonen  Jari-Matti Latvala  Petter Solberg  Khalid Al Qassimi
Debut	2011 Rally Sweden

The Ford Fiesta RS WRC is the World Rally Car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford and M-Sport for use in the 2011 World Rally Championship season. It is based upon the Ford Fiesta road car, and will replace the Ford Focus RS WRC, which has been competing 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 will form the base of the WRC car.

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.

Jari-Matti Latvala driving his Ford Fiesta RS WRC at the 2011 Rally de Portugal.

WRC victories

No.	Event	Season	Surface	Driver	Co-driver
1	59th Rally Sweden	2011	Snow	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen
2	21st Rally Australia	2011	Gravel	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen
3	67th Wales Rally GB	2011	Gravel	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila
4	60th Rally Sweden	2012	Snow	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila
5	46º Rally de Portugal	2012	Gravel	Mads Østberg	Jonas Andersson
6	68th Wales Rally GB	2012	Gravel	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila

RRC version

In 2012, the RRC version of the Fiesta was launched to comply with the regional rally rules of the FIA; it is basically a Fiesta WRC, only with a S2000-specification rear wing, a slightly different front bumper and a 30mm restrictor instead of a 33mm one found in the WRC variant. The Fiestas with RRC specification can be converted to WRC specification in 6 hours.