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vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1988_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.7</span> <span>1988 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1988_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1989_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1989_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.8</span> <span>1989 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1989_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1990_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1990_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.9</span> <span>1990 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1990_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1991_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1991_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.10</span> <span>1991 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1991_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1992_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1992_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.11</span> <span>1992 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1992_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1993_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1993_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.12</span> <span>1993 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1993_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1994_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1994_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.13</span> <span>1994 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1994_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1995_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1995_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.14</span> <span>1995 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1995_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1996_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1996_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.15</span> <span>1996 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1996_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1997_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1997_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.16</span> <span>1997 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1997_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1998_season" 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<div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.20</span> <span>2001 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2001_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2002_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2002_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.21</span> <span>2002 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2002_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2003_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2003_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.22</span> <span>2003 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2003_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2004_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2004_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.23</span> <span>2004 season</span> 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id="toc-2008_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2008_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.27</span> <span>2008 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2008_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2009_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2009_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.28</span> <span>2009 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2009_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2010_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2010_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.29</span> <span>2010 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2010_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2011_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2011_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.30</span> <span>2011 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2011_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2012_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2012_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.31</span> <span>2012 season</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2012_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Withdrawal_from_WRC_as_a_World_Rally_Team" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Withdrawal_from_WRC_as_a_World_Rally_Team"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.32</span> <span>Withdrawal from WRC as a World Rally Team</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Withdrawal_from_WRC_as_a_World_Rally_Team-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gallery" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gallery"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Gallery</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gallery-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span 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Loriaux (page does not exist)">Christian Loriaux</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Chassis</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ford_Fiesta_RS_WRC" title="Ford Fiesta RS WRC">Ford Fiesta RS WRC</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Tyres</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Michelin" title="Michelin">Michelin</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: gainsboro"><a href="/wiki/World_Rally_Championship" title="World Rally Championship">World Rally Championship</a> history</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Debut</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_Monte_Carlo_Rally&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1997 Monte Carlo Rally (page does not exist)">1997 Monte Carlo Rally</a></span><sup id="cite_ref-WRC.com_profile_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WRC.com_profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />(with M-Sport)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Last event</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/2012_Rally_Catalunya" title="2012 Rally Catalunya">2012 Rally Catalunya</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Rally_Championship_Manufacturers%27_champions" title="List of World Rally Championship Manufacturers' champions">Manufacturers' Championships</a></th><td class="infobox-data">3 (<a href="/wiki/1979_World_Rally_Championship" title="1979 World Rally Championship">1979</a>, <a href="/wiki/2006_World_Rally_Championship" title="2006 World Rally Championship">2006</a>, <a href="/wiki/2007_World_Rally_Championship" title="2007 World Rally Championship">2007</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Rally_Championship_Drivers%27_Champions" class="mw-redirect" title="List of World Rally Championship Drivers' Champions">Drivers' Championships</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1 (<a href="/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Waldeg%C3%A5rd" title="Björn Waldegård">Björn Waldegård</a> <a href="/wiki/1979_World_Rally_Championship" title="1979 World Rally Championship">1979</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rally wins</th><td class="infobox-data">76</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Ford World Rally Team</b>, also known as the <i>Ford Motor Co. Team</i> prior to 2005,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is <a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford Motor Company</a>'s full factory <a href="/wiki/World_Rally_Championship" title="World Rally Championship">World Rally Championship</a> team. In its current form, it has been a competitor since the <a href="/wiki/1997_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1997 World Rally Championship season">1997 season</a>, when <a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford Motor Company</a>'s motorsport arm selected the <a href="/wiki/M-Sport" title="M-Sport">Malcolm Wilson Motorsport</a> company to run its factory team,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> entering the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Escort_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Escort RS Cosworth">Ford Escort World Rally Car</a>. The new team took their first victory in the 1997 <a href="/wiki/Acropolis_Rally" title="Acropolis Rally">Acropolis Rally</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WRC.com_profile_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WRC.com_profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_team">The team</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: The team"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Wilson_(rally_driver)" title="Malcolm Wilson (rally driver)">Malcolm Wilson</a></b> - Owner and team director</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Partners">Partners</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/PeterAshcroft1982.jpg/130px-PeterAshcroft1982.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/PeterAshcroft1982.jpg/195px-PeterAshcroft1982.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/PeterAshcroft1982.jpg/260px-PeterAshcroft1982.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The late Ford Motorsport manager Peter Ashcroft in 1982</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:217px;max-width:217px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wilson_at_WRC_Finland_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Malcolm Wilson" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Wilson_at_WRC_Finland_2011.jpg/215px-Wilson_at_WRC_Finland_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="215" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Wilson_at_WRC_Finland_2011.jpg/323px-Wilson_at_WRC_Finland_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Wilson_at_WRC_Finland_2011.jpg/430px-Wilson_at_WRC_Finland_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1056" data-file-height="954" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Ford team director <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Wilson_(rally_driver)" title="Malcolm Wilson (rally driver)">Malcolm Wilson</a> at the <a href="/wiki/2011_Rally_Finland" title="2011 Rally Finland">2011 Rally Finland</a></div></div></div></div></div> <p>Ford would end the 1978 season with a win for <a href="/wiki/Hannu_Mikkola" title="Hannu Mikkola">Hannu Mikkola</a> on season ending Lombard RAC Rally, at the hands of an Escort RS1800, he would be followed home by <a href="/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Waldeg%C3%A5rd" title="Björn Waldegård">Björn Waldegård</a> and Britain's Russell Brookes, all in similar machinery. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1979_season">1979 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1979 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RS1800b.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/RS1800b.jpg/220px-RS1800b.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/RS1800b.jpg/330px-RS1800b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/RS1800b.jpg/440px-RS1800b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3168" /></a><figcaption>A Ford Escort RS in 1979 Ford Motorsport colours at the 2014 Race Retro show</figcaption></figure> <p>Ford had a long and successful history in <a href="/wiki/Rallying" title="Rallying">rallying</a>, winning the World Rally Championship (WRC) in 1979 with the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Escort_RS1800" class="mw-redirect" title="Ford Escort RS1800">Ford Escort RS1800</a> and drivers <a href="/wiki/Hannu_Mikkola" title="Hannu Mikkola">Hannu Mikkola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Waldeg%C3%A5rd" title="Björn Waldegård">Björn Waldegård</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ari_Vatanen" title="Ari Vatanen">Ari Vatanen</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980–1984_seasons"><span id="1980.E2.80.931984_seasons"></span>1980–1984 seasons</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1980–1984 seasons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1981_Ford_Escort_RS.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/1981_Ford_Escort_RS.JPG/220px-1981_Ford_Escort_RS.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/1981_Ford_Escort_RS.JPG/330px-1981_Ford_Escort_RS.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/1981_Ford_Escort_RS.JPG/440px-1981_Ford_Escort_RS.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Ari Vatenen's 1981 <a href="/wiki/Rothmans_International" title="Rothmans International">Rothmans</a> sponsored Ford Escort RS</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ford_Escort_RS1700T_Msport.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Ford_Escort_RS1700T_Msport.jpg/220px-Ford_Escort_RS1700T_Msport.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Ford_Escort_RS1700T_Msport.jpg/330px-Ford_Escort_RS1700T_Msport.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Ford_Escort_RS1700T_Msport.jpg/440px-Ford_Escort_RS1700T_Msport.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Ford Escort RS1700T at M-Sport, 2001.</figcaption></figure> <p>Ford did not officially enter any cars for these seasons after winning the <a href="/wiki/1979_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1979 World Rally Championship season">1979 World Rally Championship season</a>, they instead concentrated on development of the stillborn <a href="/wiki/Ford_Escort_RS_1700T" class="mw-redirect" title="Ford Escort RS 1700T">Ford Escort RS 1700T</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, <a href="/wiki/Ari_Vatanen" title="Ari Vatanen">Ari Vatanen</a> did win the 1981 drivers championship in a <a href="/wiki/Rothmans_International" title="Rothmans International">Rothmans</a> liveried Ford Escort RS, this was run by David Sutton Cars, and not an official works Ford World Rally team. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1985_season">1985 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1985 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Boreham-based team were again missing from the <a href="/wiki/1985_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1985 World Rally Championship season">1985</a> season; the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Escort_RS_1700T" class="mw-redirect" title="Ford Escort RS 1700T">Ford Escort RS 1700T</a> programme had been cancelled in 1983, and a new car was required to compete with <a href="/wiki/Group_B" title="Group B">Group B</a> rivals like the <a href="/wiki/Audi_Quattro" title="Audi Quattro">Audi Quattro S1</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peugeot_205" title="Peugeot 205">Peugeot 205 T16</a>. Lessons learned from the RS 1700T programme were being used in the development of Ford's new rally weapon, the <a href="/wiki/Ford_RS200" title="Ford RS200">RS200</a>, which would not hit the stages until <a href="/wiki/1986_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1986 World Rally Championship season">1986</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1986_season">1986 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1986 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Having spent time away from the sport developing the <a href="/wiki/Carrozzeria_Ghia" title="Carrozzeria Ghia">Ghia</a> styled <a href="/wiki/Ford_RS200" title="Ford RS200">RS200</a>, Ford made a return to the World Rallying stage at the second round in Sweden. Ford's new RS200 featured <a href="/wiki/Four-wheel_drive" title="Four-wheel drive">four-wheel drive</a>, a turbocharged <a href="/wiki/Cosworth" title="Cosworth">Cosworth</a> BDT engine generating 450 bhp and a new blue and white Ford Motorsport livery. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Blomqvist_RS200.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Blomqvist_RS200.jpg/220px-Blomqvist_RS200.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Blomqvist_RS200.jpg/330px-Blomqvist_RS200.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Blomqvist_RS200.jpg/440px-Blomqvist_RS200.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3168" /></a><figcaption>Stig Blomqvist's Lombard RAC Rally RS200 as seen at Race Retro 2014</figcaption></figure> <p>Ford employed the services of Swedish drivers <a href="/wiki/Stig_Blomqvist" title="Stig Blomqvist">Stig Blomqvist</a> and Kalle Grundel, but they would each only be entered on four rallies, in a season overshadowed with tragedy. Grundel achieved a podium finish on the RS200's debut in Sweden, a result that would not be bettered all season, the following round in Portugal saw an RS200 driven by Joaquim Santos leave the road, killing three spectators, Ford withdrew their entry for that rally. </p><p>Fifth place for Grundel on the <a href="/wiki/Wales_Rally_GB" title="Wales Rally GB">Lombard RAC Rally</a> marked the end of the road for the RS200, as <a href="/wiki/Group_B" title="Group B">Group B</a> rallying was banned for 1987, Ford finished fifth in the manufacturers championship behind rivals <a href="/wiki/Peugeot" title="Peugeot">Peugeot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lancia" title="Lancia">Lancia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Volkswagen" title="Volkswagen">Volkswagen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Audi" title="Audi">Audi</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1987_season">1987 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1987 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ford started the post Group B era with the Sierra XR4x4, which had the benefits of <a href="/wiki/Four-wheel_drive" title="Four-wheel drive">4WD</a>, but was not as powerful as its rivals, and then replaced it with the <a href="/wiki/Rear-wheel_drive" title="Rear-wheel drive">RWD</a> <a href="/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Sierra RS Cosworth">Sierra RS Cosworth</a> which was more powerful, but lacked grip and traction on the gravel rallies that dominate the World Rally Championship. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Stig_Blomqvist" title="Stig Blomqvist">Stig Blomqvist</a> was entered into the Monte Carlo, Swedish and New Zealand rounds of the <a href="/wiki/1987_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1987 World Rally Championship season">championship</a> in a white <a href="/wiki/Texaco" title="Texaco">Texaco</a> sponsored Ford Sierra XR4x4, he could only muster a 6th-place finish on his home rally, after being disqualified and crashing out of the other two rallies. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Sierra RS Cosworth">Sierra RS Cosworth</a> proved to be far more successful in comparison, it would not win during <a href="/wiki/1987_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1987 World Rally Championship season">1987</a>, but it did achieve a number of podium finishes. The car debuted on the Safari Rally, again driven by <a href="/wiki/Stig_Blomqvist" title="Stig Blomqvist">Stig Blomqvist</a>, but would retire following a fire, its next outing would be on the island of Corsica. Blomqvist would again retire with turbo failure, but his teammates <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Sainz_Sr." title="Carlos Sainz Sr.">Carlos Sainz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Didier_Auriol" title="Didier Auriol">Didier Auriol</a> would fare much better, finishing 7th and 8th respectively. <a href="/wiki/Ari_Vatanen" title="Ari Vatanen">Ari Vatanen</a> paired up with Blomqvist on the 1000 Lakes Rally in Finland, their speed and experience helping to negate some of the advantage of <a href="/wiki/Four-wheel_drive" title="Four-wheel drive">4WD</a> that their rivals enjoyed, they would finish 2nd and 3rd respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ford would finish the season with 2nd and 3rd places for Blomqvist and <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_McRae" title="Jimmy McRae">Jimmy McRae</a>, again against more capable rival machinery. Sporadic appearances throughout the season with cars that were compromised in one way or another meant that <a href="/wiki/Stig_Blomqvist" title="Stig Blomqvist">Stig Blomqvist</a> would finish in a lowly 7th position in the drivers championship, whilst Ford could only manage to finish 5th in the manufacturers championship. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1988_season">1988 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1988 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ford entered the <a href="/wiki/1988_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1988 World Rally Championship season">1988 World Rally Championship season</a> using both the XR4x4 and the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Sierra RS Cosworth">Sierra RS Cosworth</a> models, the <a href="/wiki/Texaco" title="Texaco">Texaco</a> sponsorship had gone, and the cars now featured a corporate blue and white striped Ford colour scheme, similar to that seen on the <a href="/wiki/Ford_RS200" title="Ford RS200">Ford RS200</a> in <a href="/wiki/1986_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1986 World Rally Championship season">1986</a>. The services of <a href="/wiki/Stig_Blomqvist" title="Stig Blomqvist">Stig Blomqvist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Sainz_Sr." title="Carlos Sainz Sr.">Carlos Sainz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Didier_Auriol" title="Didier Auriol">Didier Auriol</a> were retained from <a href="/wiki/1987_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1987 World Rally Championship season">1987</a>, each driver being entered on the rallies in Portugal, Finland and Italy. Blomqvist would also be entered for Round 2 in Rally Sweden, whilst Sainz and Auriol were entered in Corsica. A three car team of Blomqvist, Sainz and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Lovell" title="Mark Lovell">Mark Lovell</a> were entered for the season closing <a href="/wiki/Wales_Rally_GB" title="Wales Rally GB">Lombard RAC Rally</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Auriol.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Auriol.jpg/220px-Auriol.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Auriol.jpg/330px-Auriol.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Auriol.jpg/440px-Auriol.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3168" /></a><figcaption>A replica of Auriol's winning car being driven at Race Retro 2014</figcaption></figure> <p>Blomqvist kicked off Ford's season with 2nd place on his home round in a Rallysport Sweden prepared Sierra XR4x4, the best result for the <a href="/wiki/Four-wheel_drive" title="Four-wheel drive">4WD</a> Ford, and something that would not be bettered. The <a href="/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Sierra RS Cosworth">Ford Sierra RS Cosworth</a> would return for Round 3 in Portugal, and Blomqvist would use it to finish in 5th place, but only after Sainz and Auriol had both retired from the event. Ford would return to winning ways in Corsica; <a href="/wiki/Didier_Auriol" title="Didier Auriol">Didier Auriol</a> steering his green and white Panach' sponsored Sierra around the island ahead of opposition from <a href="/wiki/Lancia" title="Lancia">Lancia</a>, for his first victory, and Ford's 23rd in the top flight.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sainz would collect points for 5th in Corsica and then 6th in Finland, another rally where Auriol would finish on the podium, this time in 3rd place, two places ahead of Blomqvist. </p><p>Auriol's luck would run out on the San Remo rally in Italy, suffering an accident that would force him to retire, Sainz and Blomqvist would finish low down the order in 5th and 7th places respectively. For the final round in Great Britain Swedish and Spanish crews would finish in 6th and 7th places, whilst Lovell would finish in a disappointing 17th place in his bright yellow Sound 2000 sponsored <a href="/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Sierra RS Cosworth">Ford Sierra RS Cosworth</a>. Ford would finish the season 2nd behind Lancia in the Manufacturers Championship, with a total of 79 points.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1989_season">1989 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 1989 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It was evident from previous seasons that Ford did not have a car that was fully capable of challenging <a href="/wiki/Lancia" title="Lancia">Lancia</a> and their Delta Integrale, so for the <a href="/wiki/1989_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1989 World Rally Championship season">1989 season</a> the <a href="/wiki/Blue_Oval" class="mw-redirect" title="Blue Oval">Blue Oval</a> was absent for most of the rallies, entering cars for the Corsica and <a href="/wiki/Wales_Rally_GB" title="Wales Rally GB">Lombard RAC Rally</a> rounds only. </p><p>Three cars were entered in Corsica, a <a href="/wiki/Kuwait_Petroleum_Corporation" title="Kuwait Petroleum Corporation">Q8</a> liveried car for <a href="/wiki/Gianfranco_Cunico" class="mw-redirect" title="Gianfranco Cunico">Gianfranco Cunico</a>, a yellow Sound 2000 sponsored car for <a href="/wiki/Mark_Lovell" title="Mark Lovell">Mark Lovell</a> and a third car for French driver <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre-C%C3%A9sar_Baroni&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pierre-César Baroni (page does not exist)">Pierre-César Baroni</a>. Lovell would retire after suffering from a misfire, Baroni would retire after an accident, and Cunico would go on to finish 7th overall. The Italian driver would suffer the misfortune of retiring after an accident on his second Ford outing in Great Britain. Ford would finish 13th in the Manufacturers standings after scoring just six points for the season. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990_season">1990 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 1990 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sapphire_q81990_final.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Sapphire_q81990_final.jpg/220px-Sapphire_q81990_final.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Sapphire_q81990_final.jpg/330px-Sapphire_q81990_final.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Sapphire_q81990_final.jpg/440px-Sapphire_q81990_final.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="551" /></a><figcaption>1990 Q8 Ford livery</figcaption></figure> <p>Results over the past few seasons had proved one thing; in order to return to winning ways <a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford</a> would need a powerful, turbocharged car with <a href="/wiki/4WD" class="mw-redirect" title="4WD">4WD</a> capabilities. The 3-door <a href="/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Sierra RS Cosworth">Sierra RS Cosworth</a> was no longer being sold by Ford, so they instead utilised the new <a href="/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Sierra RS Cosworth">Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4</a> 4-door saloon model, which went on sale in 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The new car was still powered by a <a href="/wiki/Cosworth" title="Cosworth">Cosworth</a> developed turbocharged engine, but delays sourcing a suitable gearbox meant that it would not be used until the end of the <a href="/wiki/1990_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1990 World Rally Championship season">1990 World Rally Championship season</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The team retained the <a href="/wiki/Kuwait_Petroleum_Corporation" title="Kuwait Petroleum Corporation">Q8</a> sponsorship from the <a href="/wiki/1989_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1989 World Rally Championship season">1989 World Rally Championship season</a>, the cars again being painted blue with cream coloured bumpers, but the driver line-up had almost completely changed, only <a href="/wiki/Franco_Cunico" title="Franco Cunico">Franco Cunico</a> remained. He was now joined by <a href="/wiki/Pentti_Airikkala" title="Pentti Airikkala">Pentti Airikkala</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Wilson_(rally_driver)" title="Malcolm Wilson (rally driver)">Malcolm Wilson</a> who had been teammates at the Rothmans Rally Team 10 years previously. </p><p>Ford's season kicked off in Finland, where all three drivers left the start ramp, but would not see the finish, Airikkala suffered a gearbox problem, Cunico suffered an accident and Wilson withdrew after a service infringement.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Results weren't much better on Cunico's home rally in Italy, where he and Wilson again both retired and Airikkala finished in a disappointing 11th place. Airikkala was seeded in car number 1 for the final round in Great Britain, but he and Wilson would again retire, the only Ford finisher being <a href="/wiki/Alessandro_Fiorio" class="mw-redirect" title="Alessandro Fiorio">Alessandro Fiorio</a> who had replaced Cunico. Ford would finish 8th in the <a href="/wiki/1990_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1990 World Rally Championship season">championship</a>, with a total of 22 points.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1991_season">1991 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 1991 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sapphire_q81991_final.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Sapphire_q81991_final.jpg/220px-Sapphire_q81991_final.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Sapphire_q81991_final.jpg/330px-Sapphire_q81991_final.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Sapphire_q81991_final.jpg/440px-Sapphire_q81991_final.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="543" /></a><figcaption>1991 Q8 Ford & Autoglass livery as used on the Lombard RAC Rally</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/1991_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1991 World Rally Championship season">1991 World Rally Championship season</a> was an opportunity for Ford to push for victory again, and to evolve the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Sierra RS Cosworth">Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4</a>; lessons learned on the stages would be used to simultaneously develop the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Escort_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Escort RS Cosworth">Ford Escort RS Cosworth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-books.google.co.uk_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-books.google.co.uk-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cars were again predominantly blue with title sponsorship from <a href="/wiki/Kuwait_Petroleum_Corporation" title="Kuwait Petroleum Corporation">Q8</a>, but now featured extra sponsors like <a href="/wiki/Autoglass" class="mw-redirect" title="Autoglass">Autoglass</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Noberasco&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Noberasco (page does not exist)">Noberasco</a>, which were displayed in white sections on the bonnet and rear flanks of the car. British driver <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Wilson_(rally_driver)" title="Malcolm Wilson (rally driver)">Malcolm Wilson</a> returned, and was joined by a relatively unknown French driver called <a href="/wiki/Francois_Delecour" class="mw-redirect" title="Francois Delecour">Francois Delecour</a>. Both drivers were entered on six of the European rounds of the Championship, with Delecour also entering the Catalonia Rally in Spain. A third car was shared by <a href="/wiki/Alessandro_Fiorio" class="mw-redirect" title="Alessandro Fiorio">Alessandro Fiorio</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gwyndaf_Evans" title="Gwyndaf Evans">Gwyndaf Evans</a>, and a single car was made available for <a href="/wiki/Ari_Vatanen" title="Ari Vatanen">Ari Vatanen</a> at Rally Finland. </p><p>Delecour surprised many<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (February 2013)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> with his pace on the season-opening Monte-Carlo Rally; after a spirited drive, he finished in third place, leading home teammates Wilson and Fiorio, who finished 7th and 10th respectively. This feat was not to be repeated in Portugal, where all three cars retired after going off the road. Delecour also failed to finish in Corsica after suffering differential issues, while Wilson finished in fifth place.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rough and rugged stages of the Acropolis Rally were renowned for breaking cars, and that turned out to be the case for the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Sierra RS Cosworth">Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4</a> as all three cars retired with mechanical ailments. A single car was entered for Vatanen on his home rally in Finland; he kept the car on the road and won eight stages on his way to 7th place.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The San Remo rally would prove to be more fruitful than the Acropolis had been when the Q8 cars returned, all three cars would finish this rally in the top ten, with Delecour finishing 4th overall ahead of Fiorio in 9th and Wilson in 10th. 1991 was the inaugural year for the Catalunya rally and was only registered as a round of the drivers championship, two cars were entered, one for Delecour and the other for Jose Maria Bardolet, a pairing that would secure 3rd and 4th positions respectively. To end the season, <a href="/wiki/Gwyndaf_Evans" title="Gwyndaf Evans">Gwyndaf Evans</a> joined Wilson and Delecour. It would not be a happy hunting ground for the British drivers on their home rally, the <a href="/wiki/Wales_Rally_GB" title="Wales Rally GB">Lombard RAC Rally</a>, both drivers retiring in the forests of <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> on day 2,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> their French teammate would go on to finish in 6th place. A winless season left Ford finishing the manufacturers championship in fourth place, with 54 points. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1992_season">1992 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 1992 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sapphire_mobil11992_final.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Sapphire_mobil11992_final.jpg/220px-Sapphire_mobil11992_final.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Sapphire_mobil11992_final.jpg/330px-Sapphire_mobil11992_final.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Sapphire_mobil11992_final.jpg/440px-Sapphire_mobil11992_final.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="540" /></a><figcaption>1992 Mobil 1 livery as used on the Monte Carlo Rally</figcaption></figure> <p>There were a number of changes for the <a href="/wiki/1992_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1992 World Rally Championship season">1992 World Rally Championship season</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Boreham" title="Boreham">Boreham</a> based Ford squad, the most obvious being the new driver line-up. <a href="/wiki/Francois_Delecour" class="mw-redirect" title="Francois Delecour">Francois Delecour</a> remained at the team, but he was now joined by double World Champion <a href="/wiki/Miki_Biasion" title="Miki Biasion">Miki Biasion</a>, who Ford hoped would add the final ingredients for a championship push. <a href="/wiki/Kuwait_Petroleum_Corporation" title="Kuwait Petroleum Corporation">Q8</a> no longer sponsored the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Sierra RS Cosworth">Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4</a> cars, which were now painted with a white and blue <a href="/wiki/Mobil_1" title="Mobil 1">Mobil 1</a> livery. New technical rules were in place which reduced the turbo restrictor diameter from 40mm, down to 38mm, and in the background, development work continued on the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Escort_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Escort RS Cosworth">Ford Escort RS Cosworth</a>. </p><p>Ford would follow a similar strategy to <a href="/wiki/1991_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1991 World Rally Championship season">1991</a> by electing to enter the European gravel and Tarmac rounds only. Biasion and Delecour were paired up on all of the rallies that Ford entered except Catalunya, where Delecour was joined by Jose Maria Bardolet, and in Great Britain, where Biasion was joined by <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Wilson_(rally_driver)" title="Malcolm Wilson (rally driver)">Malcolm Wilson</a>. </p><p>Delecour kicked off his season by winning 5 stages in Monte Carlo on his way to 4th place, twelve minutes and four places ahead of his Italian teammate,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who would have a better result in Portugal, finishing 2nd behind his former teammate <a href="/wiki/Juha_Kankkunen" title="Juha Kankkunen">Juha Kankkunen</a>. Engine troubles had denied Delecour any points in Portugal, but it would hold for both he and Biasion on the Acropolis rally, where the pair finished 5th and 3rd respectively. The fast, flowing Finnish stages of the 1000 Lakes Rally allowed Biasion to continue his string of good results, he would collect more points by finishing in 5th place, Delecour however, seemed to be suffering the bad luck in the team as he finished the rally off the road, these gremlins would strike both Delecour and Bardolet in Catalunya. Biasion and Wilson would fare much better on the <a href="/wiki/Wales_Rally_GB" title="Wales Rally GB">Lombard RAC Rally</a>, with both cars finishing in the top ten. Ford finished the championship with 94 points and 3rd position, and would retire the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Sierra_RS_Cosworth" title="Ford Sierra RS Cosworth">Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4</a>, as a new car would be ready for <a href="/wiki/1993_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1993 World Rally Championship season">1993</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1993_season">1993 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 1993 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Francois_Delecour%27s_1993_Ford_Escort_RS_Cosworth_from_Rally_Portugal_2013-12-07_08-58.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Francois_Delecour%27s_1993_Ford_Escort_RS_Cosworth_from_Rally_Portugal_2013-12-07_08-58.jpg/220px-Francois_Delecour%27s_1993_Ford_Escort_RS_Cosworth_from_Rally_Portugal_2013-12-07_08-58.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Francois_Delecour%27s_1993_Ford_Escort_RS_Cosworth_from_Rally_Portugal_2013-12-07_08-58.jpg/330px-Francois_Delecour%27s_1993_Ford_Escort_RS_Cosworth_from_Rally_Portugal_2013-12-07_08-58.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Francois_Delecour%27s_1993_Ford_Escort_RS_Cosworth_from_Rally_Portugal_2013-12-07_08-58.jpg/440px-Francois_Delecour%27s_1993_Ford_Escort_RS_Cosworth_from_Rally_Portugal_2013-12-07_08-58.jpg 2x" data-file-width="603" data-file-height="585" /></a><figcaption>Francois Delecour's 1993 Ford Escort RS Cosworth in Rally Portugal livery</figcaption></figure> <p>Ford introduced the <a href="/wiki/Escort_RS_Cosworth" class="mw-redirect" title="Escort RS Cosworth">Escort RS Cosworth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1994_season">1994 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 1994 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Development of the <a href="/wiki/Escort_RS_Cosworth" class="mw-redirect" title="Escort RS Cosworth">Escort RS Cosworth</a> continued during the <a href="/wiki/1994_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1994 World Rally Championship season">1994</a> season; a <a href="/wiki/Sequential_Manual_Transmission" class="mw-redirect" title="Sequential Manual Transmission">sequential gearbox</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Antilag_system" title="Antilag system">antilag system</a> being introduced, along with new larger 18 inch wheels for Tarmac rounds. This would be the final year at Ford for double champion <a href="/wiki/Miki_Biasion" title="Miki Biasion">Miki Biasion</a>, his previous form had not continued and he would not finish higher than third place all season. His teammate <a href="/wiki/Francois_Delecour" class="mw-redirect" title="Francois Delecour">Francois Delecour</a> demonstrated how the car should be driven, by winning the season opening <a href="/wiki/Monte-Carlo_Rally" class="mw-redirect" title="Monte-Carlo Rally">Monte-Carlo Rally</a>, he would then miss four months of the season after breaking both of his ankles. A third car was driven on a number of rounds by Bruno Thiry, and a number of other drivers including future champion <a href="/wiki/Tommi_Makinen" class="mw-redirect" title="Tommi Makinen">Tommi Makinen</a>. The Finnish driver would only drive the Escort RS Cosworth on his home rally that year, but he would secure a second win for the Ford team.<sup id="cite_ref-rsownersclub.co.uk_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rsownersclub.co.uk-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thiry would finish the season with two more points than his more illustrious teammate Biasion, but the team's combined performance would leave them third in the championship behind Japanese rivals, Toyota and Subaru. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1995_season">1995 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 1995 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Commitments in the <a href="/wiki/Formula_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Formula 1">Formula 1</a> and <a href="/wiki/BTCC" class="mw-redirect" title="BTCC">BTCC</a> championships meant that the rally budget at <a href="/wiki/Boreham" title="Boreham">Boreham</a> was significantly reduced, as a consequence Ford were not officially entered into the <a href="/wiki/1995_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1995 World Rally Championship season">1995</a> season as a manufacturer, the work instead being contracted out to RAS Sport of Belgium. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1996_season">1996 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 1996 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ford_Escort_(group_A).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Ford_Escort_%28group_A%29.jpg/220px-Ford_Escort_%28group_A%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Ford_Escort_%28group_A%29.jpg/330px-Ford_Escort_%28group_A%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Ford_Escort_%28group_A%29.jpg/440px-Ford_Escort_%28group_A%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Bruno Thiry steers the Repsol Ford Escort RS Cosworth through the stages of the 1996 Rally Catalunya</figcaption></figure> <p>Ford entered the <a href="/wiki/1996_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1996 World Rally Championship season">1996</a> season as full manufacturer entry, again with the Escort RS Cosworth, but now with backing from <a href="/wiki/Repsol_S.A." class="mw-redirect" title="Repsol S.A.">Repsol</a> and a new lead driver, in the form of <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Sainz_Sr." title="Carlos Sainz Sr.">Carlos Sainz</a>. Double champion Sainz had joined the Ford team after losing the battle for the 1995 championship to <a href="/wiki/Colin_McRae" title="Colin McRae">Colin McRae</a>, he would have a number of new teammates at Ford, starting with <a href="/wiki/Francois_Delecour" class="mw-redirect" title="Francois Delecour">Francois Delecour</a> at <a href="/wiki/Rally_Sweden" title="Rally Sweden">Rally Sweden</a>, and then former champion <a href="/wiki/Stig_Blomqvist" title="Stig Blomqvist">Stig Blomqvist</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Safari_Rally" title="Safari Rally">Safari Rally</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>. Welsh driver <a href="/wiki/Gwyndaf_Evans" title="Gwyndaf Evans">Gwyndaf Evans</a>, which his son <a href="/wiki/Elfyn_Evans" title="Elfyn Evans">Elfyn</a> currently driving for the team, drove the second car in <a href="/wiki/Rally_Indonesia" class="mw-redirect" title="Rally Indonesia">Rally Indonesia</a>, it would be his only appearance before replaced by <a href="/wiki/Bruno_Thiry" title="Bruno Thiry">Bruno Thiry</a> for the rest of the season. </p><p>Sainz's pace was undeniable, even in the ageing <a href="/wiki/Escort_RS_Cosworth" class="mw-redirect" title="Escort RS Cosworth">Escort RS Cosworth</a>, as he would go on to win the Indonesian Rally<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and finish on the podium on every rally he finished, however, retirements in Kenya, Finland and on his home round in Spain would leave him finishing third in the championship. Thiry finished on the podium for the final two rounds in Italy and Spain, results that would help him to finish sixth in the driver's standings. 1996 would prove to be the swan song year for both the <a href="/wiki/Escort_RS_Cosworth" class="mw-redirect" title="Escort RS Cosworth">Escort RS Cosworth</a> and the preparation of works Ford cars at <a href="/wiki/Boreham" title="Boreham">Boreham</a>, resulting in the team finishing third in the manufacturers championship. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1997_season">1997 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 1997 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kankkunen1997.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Kankkunen1997.jpg/220px-Kankkunen1997.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Kankkunen1997.jpg/330px-Kankkunen1997.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Kankkunen1997.jpg/440px-Kankkunen1997.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1164" data-file-height="770" /></a><figcaption>Juha Kankkunen heading for 2nd place on the 1997 Rally Finland</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/1997_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1997 World Rally Championship season">1997</a> saw the introduction of the Ford Escort WRC, which was now being run by the Cumbria-based <a href="/wiki/M-Sport" title="M-Sport">M-Sport</a> team, rather than being based at the long term Ford Motorsport home of <a href="/wiki/Boreham" title="Boreham">Boreham</a>. The team continued to be sponsored by <a href="/wiki/Repsol_S.A." class="mw-redirect" title="Repsol S.A.">Repsol</a>, with a distinctive white and orange livery, and the car featured dramatic changes to the engine, as it was the Escort Group A car's main weak point, and also had several other cosmetic changes including a new front bumper and rear spoiler. On the driver front the team continued to be led by double World Rally champion <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Sainz_Sr." title="Carlos Sainz Sr.">Carlos Sainz</a>, who drove all fourteen rounds, winning the Acropolis and Indonesia rallies,<sup id="cite_ref-rsownersclub.co.uk_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rsownersclub.co.uk-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also often finishing on the podium. He would eventually finish third in the championship. The second seat was initially filled by German driver <a href="/wiki/Armin_Schwarz" title="Armin Schwarz">Armin Schwarz</a>, however, he was replaced after the sixth round in Corsica, following some disappointing results, and the fact that his sponsorship money had not arrived.<sup id="cite_ref-books.google.co.uk_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-books.google.co.uk-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His understudy was a more than capable <a href="/wiki/Juha_Kankkunen" title="Juha Kankkunen">Juha Kankkunen</a>, who completed the season in the second car, finishing on the podium on no less than six occasions. A third car was entered at the Network Q RAC Rally for Angelo Medghini. </p><p>Ford finished second in the manufacturer's championship, being sandwiched by champions Subaru and third placed Mitsubishi. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1998_season">1998 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 1998 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1998_Ford_Escort_WRC.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/1998_Ford_Escort_WRC.jpg/220px-1998_Ford_Escort_WRC.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/1998_Ford_Escort_WRC.jpg/330px-1998_Ford_Escort_WRC.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/1998_Ford_Escort_WRC.jpg/440px-1998_Ford_Escort_WRC.jpg 2x" data-file-width="823" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Bruno Thiry cuts a corner on the 1998 Network Q Rally in his Ford Escort WRC</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/1998_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1998 World Rally Championship season">1998</a> marked the final season of the Escort WRC, with that year's <a href="/wiki/Rally_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Rally of Great Britain">Rally of Great Britain</a> being its last event, ending the model name's thirty-year association with factory-backed international rallying. The team retained the services of four-time world champion <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Juha_Kankkunen" title="Juha Kankkunen">Juha Kankkunen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgian</a> <a href="/wiki/Bruno_Thiry" title="Bruno Thiry">Bruno Thiry</a>, a championship mainstay and veteran pilot of previous Ford rallying models, including the Escort RS Cosworth. <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Sainz_Sr." title="Carlos Sainz Sr.">Carlos Sainz</a> had left the team at the end of the 1997 season and took the <a href="/wiki/Repsol_S.A." class="mw-redirect" title="Repsol S.A.">Repsol S.A.</a> sponsorship with him. The Escort WRC started the <a href="/wiki/Monte-Carlo_Rally" class="mw-redirect" title="Monte-Carlo Rally">Monte-Carlo Rally</a> with a new blue and white Ford livery, and a dedication to ex-Ford rally legend <a href="/wiki/Roger_Clark_(rally_driver)" title="Roger Clark (rally driver)">Roger Clark</a> who died earlier in the year. </p><p>As events transpired, neither driver would manage to mark the Escort's swansong year with a final victory. The Escort still proved, frustratingly for the championship hopeful Kankkunen, persistently ineffective on asphalt rounds of the calendar, woes for which not even Thiry's performances could compensate. A late injury to the Belgian provided an early season cameo role for <a href="/wiki/1981_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1981 World Rally Championship season">1981 world champion</a> <a href="/wiki/Ari_Vatanen" title="Ari Vatanen">Ari Vatanen</a>, who finished third at the <a href="/wiki/Safari_Rally" title="Safari Rally">Safari Rally</a>, behind compatriot Kankkunen and first-time world rally victor for <a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi" title="Mitsubishi">Mitsubishi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Burns" title="Richard Burns">Richard Burns</a>. Kankkunen eventually scored sufficient points and podiums, including second ahead of Thiry in Britain, to finish fourth in the 1998 drivers' standings, although, with the announcement of the looming high-profile arrival of Colin McRae to the team for the following year, this success did not deter the Finn from deciding to leave the M-Sport outfit, both he and Thiry proceeding to sign <a href="/wiki/Subaru" title="Subaru">Subaru</a> contracts for 1999. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1999_season">1999 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: 1999 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1999_Ford_Focus_WRC_Colin_McRae.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/1999_Ford_Focus_WRC_Colin_McRae.jpg/220px-1999_Ford_Focus_WRC_Colin_McRae.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/1999_Ford_Focus_WRC_Colin_McRae.jpg/330px-1999_Ford_Focus_WRC_Colin_McRae.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/1999_Ford_Focus_WRC_Colin_McRae.jpg/440px-1999_Ford_Focus_WRC_Colin_McRae.jpg 2x" data-file-width="596" data-file-height="543" /></a><figcaption>1999 Ford Focus WRC Colin McRae</figcaption></figure> <p>The Ford and M-Sport-built <a href="/wiki/Ford_Focus_RS_WRC" title="Ford Focus RS WRC">Ford Focus WRC</a> replaced the Escort WRC for <a href="/wiki/1999_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1999 World Rally Championship season">1999</a>. It debuted on the <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo_Rally" title="Monte Carlo Rally">Monte Carlo Rally</a> in January, with <a href="/wiki/Colin_McRae" title="Colin McRae">Colin McRae</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Simon_Jean-Joseph&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Simon Jean-Joseph (page does not exist)">Simon Jean-Joseph</a> driving the two <a href="/wiki/Martini_Racing" title="Martini Racing">Martini Racing</a>-liveried works machines. It set several fastest stage times and McRae finished a provisional third place on the stages, only to be disqualified later due to an illegal water pump. </p><p>McRae gave the Focus its first win two events later at the <a href="/wiki/Safari_Rally" title="Safari Rally">Safari Rally</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>, finishing over 15 minutes ahead of the second placed <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Corolla_WRC" title="Toyota Corolla WRC">Toyota Corolla WRC</a> of <a href="/wiki/Didier_Auriol" title="Didier Auriol">Didier Auriol</a>. Although McRae then immediately followed up this success with a victory at the next round in <a href="/wiki/Rally_Portugal" class="mw-redirect" title="Rally Portugal">Portugal</a>, the Scot's title chances faded amid reliability problems with the new car and a series of costly shunts. McRae finished sixth in the drivers' standings.<sup id="cite_ref-WRC.com_profile_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WRC.com_profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During this debut season, many drivers drove the second Focus of the team – France's Simon Jean-Joseph for some tarmac events, 2003 World Rally champion <a href="/wiki/Petter_Solberg" title="Petter Solberg">Petter Solberg</a> of Norway (who replaced Rådström in the Safari Rally) and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_R%C3%A5dstr%C3%B6m" title="Thomas Rådström">Thomas Rådström</a> of Sweden on loose-surface rounds (except Safari who was replaced by Petter Solberg). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000_season">2000 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: 2000 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2000_WRC_Acropolis_Day3_Sainz.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/2000_WRC_Acropolis_Day3_Sainz.jpg/220px-2000_WRC_Acropolis_Day3_Sainz.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/2000_WRC_Acropolis_Day3_Sainz.jpg/330px-2000_WRC_Acropolis_Day3_Sainz.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/2000_WRC_Acropolis_Day3_Sainz.jpg/440px-2000_WRC_Acropolis_Day3_Sainz.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="534" /></a><figcaption>2000 WRC Acropolis Day3 Sainz</figcaption></figure> <p>His former role at <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Team_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Toyota Team Europe">Toyota</a> now redundant after his former team's withdrawal as manufacturers' champions at the end of the 1999 season, double world champion <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spaniard</a> <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Sainz_Sr." title="Carlos Sainz Sr.">Carlos Sainz</a> chose to return to his 1997 team for the <a href="/wiki/2000_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2000 World Rally Championship season">2000 season</a>, joining the incumbent Colin McRae. Both men drove the Focus WRC at every event of the season. They finished 3rd and 4th respectively in the driver's championship, albeit only managing to bring Ford 2nd place in the manufacturers title race behind <a href="/wiki/Peugeot_Sport" title="Peugeot Sport">Peugeot</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WRC.com_profile_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WRC.com_profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Once again, bit-part driver <a href="/wiki/Piero_Liatti" title="Piero Liatti">Piero Liatti</a> was called upon to help improve Ford's points returns on asphalt. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2001_season">2001 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: 2001 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cm_ford.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Cm_ford.jpg/220px-Cm_ford.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Cm_ford.jpg/330px-Cm_ford.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Cm_ford.jpg/440px-Cm_ford.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="512" /></a><figcaption>Colin McRae & Nicky Grist guide their Martini sponsored Focus WRC through a stage of the 2001 Rally Finland.</figcaption></figure> <p>McRae and Sainz were joined for the <a href="/wiki/2001_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2001 World Rally Championship season">2001 season</a> by a regular third driver in the returning Ford favourite of the early to mid-1990s, Frenchman <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Delecour" title="François Delecour">François Delecour</a>. McRae's season oscillated between a protracted pointless run on the season's first few rounds, including retirement on the season-opening <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo_Rally" title="Monte Carlo Rally">Monte Carlo Rally</a> while leading the event from <a href="/wiki/Tommi_M%C3%A4kinen" title="Tommi Mäkinen">Tommi Mäkinen</a>, and a run of three consecutive victories on the <a href="/wiki/Rally_Argentina" title="Rally Argentina">Argentine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cyprus_Rally" title="Cyprus Rally">Cypriot</a> and <a href="/wiki/Acropolis_Rally" title="Acropolis Rally">Greek</a> events, the latter placing him as joint leader of the championship with Makinen midway through the season. Leading the points standings outright upon entering his final <a href="/wiki/Rally_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Rally of Great Britain">home round</a>, however, McRae led in the initial stages only to crash out of the event, allowing a consistently points-scoring <a href="/wiki/Richard_Burns" title="Richard Burns">Richard Burns</a> to sneak past him for the title. Ford also lost their opportunity for the manufacturers' title on this event, as rivals <a href="/wiki/Peugeot" title="Peugeot">Peugeot</a> secured a decisive 1–2 finish with <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm" title="Marcus Grönholm">Marcus Grönholm</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harri_Rovanper%C3%A4" title="Harri Rovanperä">Harri Rovanperä</a>. </p><p>Sainz, meanwhile, endured a winless but not wholly uncompetitive season, even remaining an outsider for the title entering the final event. A crash of his own put paid to such ambitions, with the Spaniard slumping to sixth place in the points standings, with 33 points. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2002_season">2002 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: 2002 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ford_Focus_WRC_2002_Colin_McRae_%26_Nicky_Grist_Autosport_Show_January_2013.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Ford_Focus_WRC_2002_Colin_McRae_%26_Nicky_Grist_Autosport_Show_January_2013.jpg/220px-Ford_Focus_WRC_2002_Colin_McRae_%26_Nicky_Grist_Autosport_Show_January_2013.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Ford_Focus_WRC_2002_Colin_McRae_%26_Nicky_Grist_Autosport_Show_January_2013.jpg/330px-Ford_Focus_WRC_2002_Colin_McRae_%26_Nicky_Grist_Autosport_Show_January_2013.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Ford_Focus_WRC_2002_Colin_McRae_%26_Nicky_Grist_Autosport_Show_January_2013.jpg/440px-Ford_Focus_WRC_2002_Colin_McRae_%26_Nicky_Grist_Autosport_Show_January_2013.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3168" /></a><figcaption>Colin McRae & Nicky Grist's 2002 Ford Focus RS WRC at the Autosport Show, January 2013</figcaption></figure> <p>McRae and Sainz regrouped for both drivers' final seasons with Ford in <a href="/wiki/2002_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 World Rally Championship season">2002</a>. Simultaneously, youngster <a href="/wiki/Markko_M%C3%A4rtin" title="Markko Märtin">Markko Märtin</a> replaced Delecour as the team's third driver, having found himself crowded out by the presence of Richard Burns and <a href="/wiki/Petter_Solberg" title="Petter Solberg">Petter Solberg</a> at former team, <a href="/wiki/Subaru_World_Rally_Team" title="Subaru World Rally Team">Subaru</a>. </p><p>Sainz's third place in the championship beat his Scottish teammate's fourth place in the standings. His only victory of the year came on that year's <a href="/wiki/Rally_Argentina" title="Rally Argentina">Rally Argentina</a>, which he inherited after the unlikely exclusion of both of the initially 1–2 finishing dominant works <a href="/wiki/Peugeot" title="Peugeot">Peugeots</a> of Marcus Grönholm and <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">Englishman</a> Burns. McRae began his own season with fourth place on the <a href="/wiki/Rally_Monte_Carlo" class="mw-redirect" title="Rally Monte Carlo">Rally Monte Carlo</a>, but he suffered an injury to his hand when he crashed out on the <a href="/wiki/Tour_de_Corse" title="Tour de Corse">Tour de Corse</a>, which left him hampered and struggling to a single-point-scoring finish on the following tarmac round in <a href="/wiki/Rally_Catalunya" class="mw-redirect" title="Rally Catalunya">Spain</a>. Injury worries for Sainz, meanwhile, came not from himself, but in the form of long-time co-driver <a href="/wiki/Luis_Moya" title="Luis Moya">Luis Moya</a>, who was forced to end his unbroken year-on-year chain of appearances with his compatriot in order to recuperate, with <a href="/wiki/Marc_Marti" class="mw-redirect" title="Marc Marti">Marc Marti</a> stepping in for the double world champion's home rally. Intrusive spectator parking on the event blinded Sainz, causing him to eventually crash out. With the Fords having initially dominated the stage times on the first rough gravel event of the year in <a href="/wiki/Cyprus_Rally" title="Cyprus Rally">Cyprus</a> particularly through McRae, Märtin and <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval" title="François Duval">François Duval</a>, successive retirements left McRae as the sole occupier of the lead for the Blue Oval, which he lost after a number of unfortunate shunts which eventually left himself holding on to a mere sixth place overall, and the two factory Peugeots as 1–2 finishers on this event. </p><p>After Sainz's perhaps fortuitous Argentinian win, McRae resumed his role as rally winner on the <a href="/wiki/Acropolis_Rally" title="Acropolis Rally">Acropolis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Safari_Rally" title="Safari Rally">Safari</a> rallies. The first success came despite initially being unexpectedly led on the stages by an imperious Märtin, while the latter, achieved on the landmark occasion of the fiftieth running of the fabled endurance event, and its last at <a href="/wiki/World_Rally_Championship" title="World Rally Championship">World Rally Championship</a> level, in retrospect proved to be the last career victory for McRae and <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> navigator <a href="/wiki/Nicky_Grist" title="Nicky Grist">Nicky Grist</a>, ironically on the day on which the Scot became the first world championship driver to reach the quarter-century mark of individual WRC wins, and came to stand alone as the most successful driver in the history of the World Rally Championship. </p><p>In September 2002, Ford announced they would not be renewing McRae's contract - given his desire for a £5m contract, and the cost of developing the new 2003 car.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both McRae and Sainz joined the then less seasoned <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Loeb" title="Sébastien Loeb">Sébastien Loeb</a> at new championship full-timers, <a href="/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn" title="Citroën">Citroën</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2003_season">2003 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: 2003 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the absence of the departed McRae and Sainz, Ford opted to promote their younger supporting drivers, <a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonian</a> <a href="/wiki/Markko_M%C3%A4rtin" title="Markko Märtin">Markko Märtin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgian</a> <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval" title="François Duval">François Duval</a>, to their top two seats. A comparatively thorough redesign of the Focus debuted at the 2003 <a href="/wiki/Rally_New_Zealand" title="Rally New Zealand">Rally New Zealand</a>, where Märtin in particular proved immediately competitive, leading only to later be forced into retirement with engine problems. The team's new leader did score his first of five career rally victories on that year's <a href="/wiki/Acropolis_Rally" title="Acropolis Rally">Acropolis Rally</a>, however, (notwithstanding a dramatic mid-stage moment for him and navigator <a href="/wiki/Michael_Park_(rally_co-driver)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Park (rally co-driver)">Michael Park</a>, when the car's bonnet unexpectedly flew up), as well as becoming only the third non-<a href="/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavian</a> victor of the <a href="/wiki/Rally_Finland" title="Rally Finland">Rally Finland</a>, formerly the 1,000 Lakes Rally. </p><p>The junior Duval, meanwhile, as had been publicly predicted by team boss Malcolm Wilson, secured a podium finish on this year's <a href="/wiki/Tour_de_Corse" title="Tour de Corse">Tour de Corse</a>, having scored his first ever podium finish earlier in the year in <a href="/wiki/Rally_of_Turkey" title="Rally of Turkey">Turkey</a>. </p><p>The two drivers finished the season in 4th and 9th places respectively in the drivers' standings.<sup id="cite_ref-WRC.com_profile_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WRC.com_profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2004_season">2004 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: 2004 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2004_Rally_Finland.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2004_Rally_Finland.jpg/220px-Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2004_Rally_Finland.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2004_Rally_Finland.jpg/330px-Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2004_Rally_Finland.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2004_Rally_Finland.jpg/440px-Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2004_Rally_Finland.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="599" /></a><figcaption>François Duval – 2004 Rally Finland</figcaption></figure> <p>Märtin and Duval again drove the two works Fords in <a href="/wiki/2004_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2004 World Rally Championship season">2004</a>. Märtin managed to win the French, Spanish and Mexican rallies, giving him third place in the overall championship. Both drivers left at the end of the season, to join <a href="/wiki/Peugeot" title="Peugeot">Peugeot</a> (Märtin) and <a href="/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn" title="Citroën">Citroën</a> (Duval). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2005_season">2005 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: 2005 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ss9_garde.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Ss9_garde.jpg/220px-Ss9_garde.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Ss9_garde.jpg/330px-Ss9_garde.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Ss9_garde.jpg/440px-Ss9_garde.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="551" /></a><figcaption>Toni Gardemeister steers his Focus RS WRC 04 through the rugged stages of the 2005 <a href="/wiki/Acropolis_Rally" title="Acropolis Rally">Acropolis Rally</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/2005_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2005 World Rally Championship season">2005 season</a> saw Ford take on two relatively inexperienced drivers; Finn <a href="/wiki/Toni_Gardemeister" title="Toni Gardemeister">Toni Gardemeister</a> and Czech <a href="/wiki/Roman_Kresta" title="Roman Kresta">Roman Kresta</a>. Gardemeister achieved podiums at the <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo_Rally" title="Monte Carlo Rally">Monte Carlo Rally</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rally_Sweden" title="Rally Sweden">Rally Sweden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Acropolis_Rally" title="Acropolis Rally">Acropolis Rally</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Tour_de_Corse" title="Tour de Corse">Tour de Corse</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WRC.com_profile_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WRC.com_profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kresta's best individual rally result was sixth, which he achieved on five events. The duo respectively finished in 4th and 8th places in the drivers' championship standings. The team also successfully introduced its 2006 car, the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Focus_RS_WRC" title="Ford Focus RS WRC">Ford Focus RS WRC 06</a> at the final rally of the year in Australia, where despite a few teething troubles, it was immediately quick as Gardemeister and Kresta both achieved a fastest stage time during the rally. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2006_season">2006 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: 2006 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ford_Foucus_WRC05.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Ford_Foucus_WRC05.JPG/220px-Ford_Foucus_WRC05.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Ford_Foucus_WRC05.JPG/330px-Ford_Foucus_WRC05.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Ford_Foucus_WRC05.JPG/440px-Ford_Foucus_WRC05.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mikko_Hirvonen" title="Mikko Hirvonen">Mikko Hirvonen</a> at the 2006 <a href="/wiki/Rally_Japan" title="Rally Japan">Rally Japan</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The team's entrants for the <a href="/wiki/2006_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 World Rally Championship season">2006 season</a> are a new-look, all-Finnish team of 2000 and 2002 champion <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm" title="Marcus Grönholm">Marcus Grönholm</a>, codriven by <a href="/wiki/Timo_Rautiainen_(co-driver)" title="Timo Rautiainen (co-driver)">Timo Rautiainen</a>, and the youngster <a href="/wiki/Mikko_Hirvonen" title="Mikko Hirvonen">Mikko Hirvonen</a>, who renewed his link with the M-Sport run team for the first time since 2003, codriven by Jarmo Lehtinen.<sup id="cite_ref-WRC.com_profile_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WRC.com_profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Grönholm joined the team from <a href="/wiki/Peugeot" title="Peugeot">Peugeot</a>, with whom, as planned, he ended his association after the joint withdrawal from the sport of both <a href="/wiki/PSA_Group" title="PSA Group">PSA Group</a> marques. He won his first two events for the team, on the <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo_Rally" title="Monte Carlo Rally">Monte Carlo Rally</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Swedish_Rally" class="mw-redirect" title="Swedish Rally">Swedish Rally</a>, but was closely shadowed on both of them by the two-time champion and now driver with semi-works <a href="/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_World_Rally_Team" title="Citroën World Rally Team">Kronos Citroën</a>, <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Loeb" title="Sébastien Loeb">Sébastien Loeb</a>, who was soon to assert himself sufficiently in order to overtake the Finn in the points standings. Despite further victories, including <a href="/wiki/Acropolis_Rally" title="Acropolis Rally">Greece</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rally_Finland" title="Rally Finland">Finland</a>, Grönholm never regained the championship lead from the Frenchman and with the exception of Hirvonen in <a href="/wiki/Rally_Australia" title="Rally Australia">Australia</a>, the two proved the only two drivers worthy of individual rally victories all season. Although with four rounds remaining and a 34-point lead, Loeb's injury from a mountain-biking accident shortly after the <a href="/wiki/Cyprus_Rally" title="Cyprus Rally">Cyprus Rally</a> appeared to offer Grönholm a chance to close the deficit, the Finn's title challenge was finally mathematically ended with a crash on the penultimate round in Australia. </p><p>His team, however, were to benefit from Loeb's absence against a now weakened Kronos Citroën left to depend on their two inexperienced Spaniards, <a href="/wiki/Xavier_Pons" title="Xavier Pons">Xavier Pons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Sordo" class="mw-redirect" title="Daniel Sordo">Daniel Sordo</a> (although the team initially called upon Colin McRae to substitute for Loeb on their first event without him, in <a href="/wiki/Rally_Turkey" class="mw-redirect" title="Rally Turkey">Turkey</a>). Ford, already gaining on the points lead due to the combined proficiency on gravel of their two senior drivers, soon reclaimed a championship lead they were never to lose, achieving its greatest success in winning the manufacturer's title, the first such win for Ford since <a href="/wiki/1979_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1979 World Rally Championship season">1979</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2007_season">2007 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: 2007 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_-_2007_Rally_Catalunya.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_-_2007_Rally_Catalunya.jpg/220px-Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_-_2007_Rally_Catalunya.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_-_2007_Rally_Catalunya.jpg/330px-Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_-_2007_Rally_Catalunya.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_-_2007_Rally_Catalunya.jpg/440px-Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_-_2007_Rally_Catalunya.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="533" /></a><figcaption>Marcus Grönholm – 2007 Rally Catalunya</figcaption></figure> <p>The team's primary entrants for <a href="/wiki/2007_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2007 World Rally Championship season">2007</a> were unchanged from 2006. After watching his opponent of the previous year, Sébastien Loeb, return to winning ways on the official return of the <a href="/wiki/2003_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2003 World Rally Championship season">2003</a>–<a href="/wiki/2005_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2005 World Rally Championship season">2005</a> manufacturers' championship-winning factory <a href="/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn" title="Citroën">Citroën</a> team on the season's curtain-raiser in <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo" title="Monte Carlo">Monte Carlo</a>, Grönholm followed up his own third place by winning for the first time that season in Sweden in February, and led his opponent, now driving a newly <a href="/wiki/Homologation" title="Homologation">homologated</a> <a href="/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_C4_WRC" title="Citroën C4 WRC">Citroën C4 WRC</a>, in the drivers' standings over the championship's post-<a href="/wiki/Rally_Finland" title="Rally Finland">Rally Finland</a> summer break (an event also incidentally won by Grönholm, for a record-beating seventh time, to further extend his points lead). </p><p>Unfortunately for the drivers' championship ambitions of both the Blue Oval concern and Grönholm, however, having announced his impending retirement from WRC competition at the end of the season, the elder Finn was to suffer an early exit on <a href="/wiki/Rally_Japan" title="Rally Japan">Rally Japan</a>. Grönholm then crashed his Focus (knocking himself briefly unconscious) on the tarmac stages of the inaugural <a href="/wiki/Rally_Ireland" title="Rally Ireland">Rally Ireland</a> and penultimate round of the year. Combined with adversary Loeb winning, this meant Grönholm would surrender his championship lead, leaving him with an almost impossible points deficit to overhaul at the season-ending <a href="/wiki/Wales_Rally_GB" title="Wales Rally GB">Wales Rally GB</a>. It culminated in the Frenchman, settling for a safe third on the rally to the Finn's second, triumphing in the second long points duel between the pair in consecutive years. Ford, however, aided by supporting teammate Hirvonen's continued superiority on loose-surface events over his Citroën counterpart <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Sordo" class="mw-redirect" title="Daniel Sordo">Daniel Sordo</a>, sealed a successful defence of the Constructors' Championship. Meanwhile, Hirvonen, for his part, in addition to ending the season in style by topping the timesheets after the three days' competition in Wales, had also earlier taken his second and third career world rally victories in <a href="/wiki/Rally_Norway" title="Rally Norway">Norway</a> and Japan. </p><p>At the half way stage of the 2007 World Rally Championship, a joint venture between BP-Ford and the Abu Dhabi Tourism Board was announced to bring a third official <a href="/wiki/Ford_Focus_WRC" class="mw-redirect" title="Ford Focus WRC">Ford Focus RS World Rally Car</a> to the team's campaign. <a href="/wiki/Khalid_AlQassimi" class="mw-redirect" title="Khalid AlQassimi">Khalid AlQassimi</a> and co-driver Nicky Beech contested the Neste Oil <a href="/wiki/Rally_Finland" title="Rally Finland">Rally Finland</a>, ADAC <a href="/wiki/Rallye_Deutschland" title="Rallye Deutschland">Rallye Deutschland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rally_Catalunya" class="mw-redirect" title="Rally Catalunya">Rally RACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rally_Ireland" title="Rally Ireland">Rally Ireland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For their work in the 2007 season, BP Ford and M-Sport received the Rally Business of the Year Award from the Motorsport Industry Association.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2008_season">2008 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: 2008 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2008_Rally_Catalunya.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2008_Rally_Catalunya.jpg/220px-Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2008_Rally_Catalunya.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2008_Rally_Catalunya.jpg/330px-Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2008_Rally_Catalunya.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2008_Rally_Catalunya.jpg/440px-Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval_-_2008_Rally_Catalunya.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="683" /></a><figcaption>Ford Focus RS WRC 08</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Mikko_Hirvonen" title="Mikko Hirvonen">Mikko Hirvonen</a> and co-driver Jarmo Lehtinen resumed the implicit role within the team of the Cumbria outfit's leading crew for the <a href="/wiki/2008_World_Rally_Championship_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2008 World Rally Championship season">2008 season</a>, after Marcus Grönholm and co-driver <a href="/wiki/Timo_Rautiainen_(co-driver)" title="Timo Rautiainen (co-driver)">Timo Rautiainen</a> elected to retire following the 2007 season,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the more experienced Finn later to be found dabbling for Ford in <a href="/wiki/Rallycross" title="Rallycross">rallycross</a> and maintaining his links with the BP-Ford WRT team in an "ambassadorial role".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hirvonen was joined in the new-look M-Sport line-up by another fellow Finnish driver, <a href="/wiki/Jari-Matti_Latvala" title="Jari-Matti Latvala">Jari-Matti Latvala</a>, who stepped into the vacant berth from his former spot at the satellite <a href="/wiki/Stobart_Ford" class="mw-redirect" title="Stobart Ford">Stobart Ford</a> team.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Khalid Al Qassimi returned with a programme of ten events on the 2008 WRC calendar aboard a third car. His co-driver, Nicky Beech, was replaced by Michael Orr, former co-driver to <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Wilson" title="Matthew Wilson">Matthew Wilson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The season got off to a promising start for both Finnish drivers, with Hirvonen taking second to the seemingly omnipresent Loeb on the <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo_Rally" title="Monte Carlo Rally">Monte Carlo Rally</a> in January, before Latvala shattered <a href="/wiki/Henri_Toivonen" title="Henri Toivonen">Henri Toivonen</a>'s long-standing record as youngest World Rally Championship-qualifying event winner by outpacing Hirvonen to victory on the following <a href="/wiki/Rally_Sweden" title="Rally Sweden">Rally Sweden</a>. Hirvonen collected his first win of the year on the <a href="/wiki/Jordan_Rally" title="Jordan Rally">Jordan Rally</a> and led Latvala in an astutely tactically judged Ford 1–2 on <a href="/wiki/Rally_Turkey" class="mw-redirect" title="Rally Turkey">Rally Turkey</a> to assert a slender points lead over Citroën's Loeb heading into both Finns' home round of the Championship in August. Unfortunately for Ford, however, neither Hirvonen nor Latvala were able to defeat Loeb, with the now dominant Frenchman proceeding to record his eighth and ninth victories of the season on the <a href="/wiki/2008_Rally_New_Zealand" title="2008 Rally New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, <a href="/wiki/2008_Rally_Catalunya" title="2008 Rally Catalunya">Spanish</a> and <a href="/wiki/2008_Tour_de_Corse" title="2008 Tour de Corse">Corsican</a> rallies. For the latter two, asphalt rounds, team boss Malcolm Wilson drafted in, in place of Latvala, pacy Belgian and one-time full-time pilot for the Ford team, <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duval" title="François Duval">François Duval</a>, in order to maximise the team's points haul on a surface traditionally favourable to their French rivals. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2008_Mikko_Hirvonen_Ford.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/2008_Mikko_Hirvonen_Ford.jpg/220px-2008_Mikko_Hirvonen_Ford.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/2008_Mikko_Hirvonen_Ford.jpg/330px-2008_Mikko_Hirvonen_Ford.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/2008_Mikko_Hirvonen_Ford.jpg/440px-2008_Mikko_Hirvonen_Ford.jpg 2x" data-file-width="920" data-file-height="920" /></a><figcaption>Hirvonen rolls on Wales Rally GB, 2008.</figcaption></figure> <p>Although Hirvonen did return to winning form to head a Ford 1–2 with Latvala in <a href="/wiki/2008_Rally_Japan" title="2008 Rally Japan">Japan</a>, it was at the same event where Loeb finished third to finally clinch the drivers' title, although the team did close in to within eleven points of Citroën in the manufacturers' title race, with a possible total of eighteen still available, as the season-ending Wales Rally GB loomed in December. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2009_season">2009 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: 2009 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hirvonen, Latvala and Al-Qassimi were retained in the team. Rival team <a href="/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_World_Rally_Team" title="Citroën World Rally Team">Citroën</a> got their season off to a good start, <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Loeb" title="Sébastien Loeb">Sébastien Loeb</a> winning all of the first five rallies. After finishing third in <a href="/wiki/2009_Rally_Ireland" title="2009 Rally Ireland">Ireland</a>, Hirvonen scored four consecutive second-place finishes, but retired in <a href="/wiki/2009_Rally_Argentina" title="2009 Rally Argentina">Argentina</a> with an engine problem. The team won their first rally of the season in <a href="/wiki/2009_Rally_d%27Italia_Sardegna" title="2009 Rally d'Italia Sardegna">Italy</a>, Latvala beating Hirvonen. Hirvonen then took four consecutive victories, giving him a five-point lead over Loeb with two rounds to go. Hirvonen finished third in <a href="/wiki/2009_Rally_Catalunya" title="2009 Rally Catalunya">Spain</a> and took a one-point championship lead to the finale in <a href="/wiki/2009_Rally_GB" title="2009 Rally GB">Great Britain</a>. However, Loeb beat him to the victory in Britain, winning the championship. Hirvonen finished second in the standings, with Latvala fourth. Ford finished second in the Manufacturers' championship behind Citroën. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_season">2010 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: 2010 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2010_wales_rally_gb_by_2eight_dsc0238.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/2010_wales_rally_gb_by_2eight_dsc0238.jpg/220px-2010_wales_rally_gb_by_2eight_dsc0238.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/2010_wales_rally_gb_by_2eight_dsc0238.jpg/330px-2010_wales_rally_gb_by_2eight_dsc0238.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/2010_wales_rally_gb_by_2eight_dsc0238.jpg/440px-2010_wales_rally_gb_by_2eight_dsc0238.jpg 2x" data-file-width="888" data-file-height="591" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mikko_Hirvonen" title="Mikko Hirvonen">Mikko Hirvonen</a> tackles a night stage on the 2010 Wales Rally GB</figcaption></figure> <p>Hirvonen, Latvala and Al-Qassimi were retained again in the team for 2010. The team made a strong start, Hirvonen winning in <a href="/wiki/2010_Rally_Sweden" title="2010 Rally Sweden">Sweden</a> with Latvala in third. However, the Fords struggled at the next round in <a href="/wiki/2010_Rally_Mexico" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 Rally Mexico">Mexico</a>, Hirvonen and Latvala only managing fourth and fifth respectively as Citroëns filled the podium. Hirvonen went off the road on the opening day of the <a href="/wiki/2010_Jordan_Rally" title="2010 Jordan Rally">Jordan Rally</a>, but Latvala was fighting for victory. Both teams used tactics to determine the road order, Loeb eventually winning for Citroën. Hirvonen finished third in <a href="/wiki/2010_Rally_of_Turkey" title="2010 Rally of Turkey">Turkey</a>, while Latvala beat Sébastien Ogier to win in <a href="/wiki/2010_Rally_New_Zealand" title="2010 Rally New Zealand">New Zealand</a> after Loeb made errors and Hirvonen struggled for pace. Citroën filled the podium again in <a href="/wiki/2010_Rally_de_Portugal" title="2010 Rally de Portugal">Portugal</a>, Hirvonen the leading Ford in fourth. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2011_season">2011 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: 2011 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mikko_Hirvonen_-_2011_Rally_Australia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Mikko_Hirvonen_-_2011_Rally_Australia.jpg/220px-Mikko_Hirvonen_-_2011_Rally_Australia.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Mikko_Hirvonen_-_2011_Rally_Australia.jpg/330px-Mikko_Hirvonen_-_2011_Rally_Australia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Mikko_Hirvonen_-_2011_Rally_Australia.jpg/440px-Mikko_Hirvonen_-_2011_Rally_Australia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>Mikko Hirvonen – 2011 Rally Australia</figcaption></figure> <p>A change in the technical rules for the 2011 season meant that the Focus RS WRC had been replaced by the Fiesta RS WRC; the Fiesta name had not used by Ford for a rally car since the 1979 season, where <a href="/wiki/Roger_Clark_(rally_driver)" title="Roger Clark (rally driver)">Roger Clark</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ari_Vatanen" title="Ari Vatanen">Ari Vatanen</a> were entered for the Monte Carlo Rally. The new car retained the Abu Dhabi sponsorship that it had sported with the Focus, along with the driver line up of Mikko Hirvonen, Jari-Matti Latvala and Khalid Al-Qassimi. The main change from the new technical rules centred on the engine displacement; it being reduced from 2000cc turbo to 1600cc turbo, this reflected the changes being introduced to road cars at the same time. </p><p>The season started well, with Hirvonen winning the <a href="/wiki/2011_Rally_Sweden" title="2011 Rally Sweden">Swedish Rally</a>, and Latvala finishing third, but Ford would have to wait until round 10 in <a href="/wiki/2011_Rally_Australia" title="2011 Rally Australia">Australia</a> for the Fiesta to win again. Despite a promising start the Fiesta would only win three rallies during the season, the third victory being with Latvala in the legendary forests of <a href="/wiki/2011_Rally_GB" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Rally GB">Wales Rally GB</a>. Hirvonen and Latvala would each achieve six additional podium finishes, allowing them to finish second and fourth in the driver's championships respectively. Ford finished second in the manufacturer-s championship, twenty-seven points behind eventual winners Citroën. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2012_season">2012 season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: 2012 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2012-rally-great-britain-by-2eight_dsc7686.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/2012-rally-great-britain-by-2eight_dsc7686.jpg/220px-2012-rally-great-britain-by-2eight_dsc7686.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/2012-rally-great-britain-by-2eight_dsc7686.jpg/330px-2012-rally-great-britain-by-2eight_dsc7686.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/2012-rally-great-britain-by-2eight_dsc7686.jpg/440px-2012-rally-great-britain-by-2eight_dsc7686.jpg 2x" data-file-width="888" data-file-height="591" /></a><figcaption>2012 Wales Rally GB water splash</figcaption></figure> <p>Ford's participation in the <a href="/wiki/World_Rally_Championship" title="World Rally Championship">World Rally Championship</a> prior to the start of the 2012 season was in doubt due to the continued global financial crisis, but an announcement at the eleventh hour was enough to secure their entry. The Abu Dhabi sponsorship deal had finished at the end of the 2011 season, and the Fiesta RS WRC now featured a predominantly Ford blue and white livery. <a href="/wiki/Jari-Matti_Latvala" title="Jari-Matti Latvala">Jari-Matti Latvala</a> remained in the Ford stable and was now joined by 2003 champion <a href="/wiki/Petter_Solberg" title="Petter Solberg">Petter Solberg</a>, who replaced the Citroën bound Mikko Hirvonen. </p><p>The season could have started very well for Ford; Latvala was leading the <a href="/wiki/Monte-Carlo_Rally" class="mw-redirect" title="Monte-Carlo Rally">Monte-Carlo Rally</a> with raw pace, until he crashed out, handing victory to Loeb. Latvala tried to make up for this error by winning the next round in Sweden, but he and Ford would not win again until the tenth round at Wales Rally GB. Solberg showed reasonable pace at the start of the season, adapting to a new car but in the end would never finish higher than third position. Dani Sordo also made an appearance for the Ford team at <a href="/wiki/Rally_Argentina" title="Rally Argentina">Rally Argentina</a>, replacing Latvala who had been injured during training, he showed good pace, but retired on the final leg. </p><p>Latvala ended the season in third place, 116 points behind Loeb. Solberg finished in fifth place behind his younger compatriot, <a href="/wiki/Mads_%C3%98stberg" title="Mads Østberg">Mads Østberg</a>. Ford again finished second behind Citroën in the manufacturers championship, another disappointing result for the blue oval brand. At the end of the 2012 season Ford announced that it would be ending its "sponsorship" of the Ford World Rally team,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> thus ending a seventeen-year link with the <a href="/wiki/M-Sport" title="M-Sport">M-Sport</a> squad. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Withdrawal_from_WRC_as_a_World_Rally_Team">Withdrawal from WRC as a World Rally Team</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Withdrawal from WRC as a World Rally Team"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On Monday 26 November 2012, <a href="/wiki/M-Sport" title="M-Sport">M-Sport</a> announced that sponsorship had been secured from the State of Qatar and that Mads Østberg and Nasser Al-Attiyah would be driving for the 2013 season.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On Saturday 15 December 2012, M-Sport also announced that Evgeny Novikov and Thierry Neuville would be joining the Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although the team will be rallying with the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Fiesta_RS_WRC" title="Ford Fiesta RS WRC">Ford Fiesta RS WRC</a>, and may receive technical support from the Ford Motor Company, they will not be classed as the Ford World Rally Team. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ford_World_Rally_Team&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Roman_Kresta_-_2005_Rally_Argentina.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Roman Kresta driving the Focus RS WRC 04 at the 2005 Rally Argentina"><img alt="Roman Kresta driving the Focus RS WRC 04 at the 2005 Rally Argentina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Roman_Kresta_-_2005_Rally_Argentina.jpg/120px-Roman_Kresta_-_2005_Rally_Argentina.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Roman_Kresta_-_2005_Rally_Argentina.jpg/180px-Roman_Kresta_-_2005_Rally_Argentina.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Roman_Kresta_-_2005_Rally_Argentina.jpg/240px-Roman_Kresta_-_2005_Rally_Argentina.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Kresta" title="Roman Kresta">Roman Kresta</a> driving the Focus RS WRC 04 at the 2005 <a href="/wiki/Rally_Argentina" title="Rally Argentina">Rally Argentina</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Rally_Finland_2005_Gardemeister.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Gardemeister at the 2005 Rally Finland"><img alt="Gardemeister at the 2005 Rally Finland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Rally_Finland_2005_Gardemeister.jpg/120px-Rally_Finland_2005_Gardemeister.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Rally_Finland_2005_Gardemeister.jpg/180px-Rally_Finland_2005_Gardemeister.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Rally_Finland_2005_Gardemeister.jpg/240px-Rally_Finland_2005_Gardemeister.jpg 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="465" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Gardemeister at the 2005 Rally Finland</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wrc_fin_2006_day2_servicepark_gronholm.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Marcus Grönholm drives through the service park during day 2 of the Neste Rally Finland in 2006"><img alt="Marcus Grönholm drives through the service park during day 2 of the Neste Rally Finland in 2006" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Wrc_fin_2006_day2_servicepark_gronholm.jpg/80px-Wrc_fin_2006_day2_servicepark_gronholm.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Wrc_fin_2006_day2_servicepark_gronholm.jpg/120px-Wrc_fin_2006_day2_servicepark_gronholm.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Wrc_fin_2006_day2_servicepark_gronholm.jpg/160px-Wrc_fin_2006_day2_servicepark_gronholm.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1365" data-file-height="2048" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm" title="Marcus Grönholm">Marcus Grönholm</a> drives through the service park during day 2 of the Neste <a href="/wiki/Rally_Finland" title="Rally Finland">Rally Finland</a> in 2006</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_Bunnings_Jumps.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Marcus Grönholm makes his way over the Bunnings Jumps during the Telstra Rally Australia in 2006"><img alt="Marcus Grönholm makes his way over the Bunnings Jumps during the Telstra Rally Australia in 2006" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_Bunnings_Jumps.jpg/90px-Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_Bunnings_Jumps.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_Bunnings_Jumps.jpg/135px-Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_Bunnings_Jumps.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_Bunnings_Jumps.jpg/180px-Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm_Bunnings_Jumps.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Gr%C3%B6nholm" title="Marcus Grönholm">Marcus Grönholm</a> makes his way over the Bunnings Jumps during the Telstra <a href="/wiki/Rally_Australia" title="Rally Australia">Rally Australia</a> in 2006</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:GIR07FinishEyreSquare.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Grönholm at the finish of the 2007 Galway International Rally"><img alt="Grönholm at the finish of the 2007 Galway International Rally" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/GIR07FinishEyreSquare.jpg/120px-GIR07FinishEyreSquare.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/GIR07FinishEyreSquare.jpg/180px-GIR07FinishEyreSquare.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/GIR07FinishEyreSquare.jpg/240px-GIR07FinishEyreSquare.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1152" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Grönholm at the finish of the 2007 <a href="/wiki/Galway_International_Rally" title="Galway International Rally">Galway International Rally</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span 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style="font-size:85%;">(1960–61)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Mark_II" title="Continental Mark II">Continental</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1956–59)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edsel" title="Edsel">Edsel</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1956–59)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fordson" title="Fordson">Fordson</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1917–64)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontenac_(marque)" title="Frontenac (marque)">Frontenac</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1960)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercury_(automobile)" title="Mercury (automobile)">Mercury</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1938–2011)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merkur" title="Merkur">Merkur</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1985–89)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meteor_(automobile)" title="Meteor (automobile)">Meteor</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1949–76)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monarch_(marque)" title="Monarch (marque)">Monarch</a> <span 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navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:em">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Automotive_Components_Holdings" title="Automotive Components Holdings">Automotive Components Holdings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Changan_Ford" title="Changan Ford">Changan Ford (China)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Australia" title="Ford Australia">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Argentina" title="Ford Motor Argentina">Argentina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Brasil" title="Ford Brasil">Brazil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company_of_Canada" title="Ford Motor Company of Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Credit" title="Ford Credit">Credit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_of_Europe" title="Ford of Europe">Europe</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ford_SAF" title="Ford SAF">France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Germany" title="Ford Germany">Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Ford_%26_Son_Ltd" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Ford & Son Ltd">Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Italia" title="Ford Italia">Italia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Romania" title="Ford Romania">Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_of_Britain" title="Ford of Britain">United Kingdom</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_New_Zealand" title="Ford New Zealand">New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company_Philippines" title="Ford Motor Company Philippines">Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quick_Lane" title="Quick Lane">Quick Lane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company_of_Southern_Africa" title="Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa">Southern Africa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:em">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aston_Martin" title="Aston Martin">Aston Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chariot_(company)" title="Chariot (company)">Chariot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cosworth" title="Cosworth">Cosworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Aerospace" title="Ford Aerospace">Ford Aerospace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Performance_Vehicles" title="Ford Performance Vehicles">FPV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_India" title="Ford India">Ford India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company_of_Japan" title="Ford Motor Company of Japan">Ford Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hertz_Global_Holdings" title="Hertz Global Holdings">Hertz Corporation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaguar_Cars" title="Jaguar Cars">Jaguar</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daimler_Company" title="Daimler Company">Daimler Company</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kwik_Fit" title="Kwik Fit">Kwik-Fit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Land_Rover" title="Land Rover">Land Rover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Holland_Agriculture" title="New Holland Agriculture">New Holland Agriculture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premier_Automotive_Group" title="Premier Automotive Group">Premier Automotive Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_Vehicle_Operations" title="Special Vehicle Operations">Special Vehicle Operations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_Vehicle_Team" title="Special Vehicle Team">Special Vehicle Team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spin_(company)" title="Spin (company)">Spin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Think_Global" title="Think Global">Th!nk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troller_Ve%C3%ADculos_Especiais" title="Troller Veículos Especiais">Troller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visteon" title="Visteon">Visteon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volvo_Cars" title="Volvo Cars">Volvo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Joint ventures and<br />shareholdings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:em">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flat_Rock_Assembly_Plant" title="Flat Rock Assembly Plant">AutoAlliance International</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(50%)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AutoAlliance_Thailand" title="AutoAlliance Thailand">AutoAlliance Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Changan_Ford" title="Changan Ford">Changan Ford</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(50%)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Lio_Ho_Motor" title="Ford Lio Ho Motor">Ford Lio Ho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Otosan" title="Ford Otosan">Ford Otosan</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(41%)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Vietnam" title="Ford Vietnam">Ford Vietnam</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(60%)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jiangling_Motors" title="Jiangling Motors">Jiangling Motors</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(32%)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:em">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Argo_AI" title="Argo AI">Argo AI</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(42%)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AutoLatina" title="AutoLatina">AutoLatina</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Argentina/Brazil)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Automotive_Fuel_Cell_Cooperation" title="Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation">Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(49.9%)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Changan_Ford_Mazda" title="Changan Ford Mazda">Changan Ford Mazda</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(China)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Sollers" title="Ford Sollers">Ford Sollers</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Russia)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Union" title="Ford Union">Ford Union</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Belarus)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Getrag" title="Getrag">Getrag Ford Transmissions</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(50%)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matford" title="Matford">Matford</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(France)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samcor" title="Samcor">Samcor</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(South Africa)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troller_Ve%C3%ADculos_Especiais" title="Troller Veículos Especiais">Troller</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Brazil)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Facilities and<br />products</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ford_World_Headquarters" title="Ford World Headquarters">World Headquarters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corktown,_Detroit" title="Corktown, Detroit">Detroit Corktown campus</a> properties <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michigan_Central_Station" title="Michigan Central Station">Michigan Central Station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Warehouse" title="Roosevelt Warehouse">Roosevelt Warehouse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ford_engines" title="List of Ford engines">Engines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ford_factories" title="List of Ford factories">Factories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motorcraft" title="Motorcraft">Motorcraft</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MERCON" title="MERCON">Mercon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ford_platforms" title="List of Ford platforms">Platforms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Proving_Grounds" title="Ford Proving Grounds">Proving grounds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ford_transmissions" title="List of Ford transmissions">Transmissions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ford_vehicles" title="List of Ford vehicles">Vehicles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Ford_people" title="Category:Ford people">People</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Ford_designers" title="Category:Ford designers">Designers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_family_tree" class="mw-redirect" title="Ford family tree">Ford Family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Ford" title="Henry Ford">Henry Ford</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Founder)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Clay_Ford_Jr." title="William Clay Ford Jr.">William Clay Ford Jr.</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Executive Chairman)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Farley_(businessman)" title="Jim Farley (businessman)">Jim Farley</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(CEO)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_Ford_Motor_Company" title="List of leaders of Ford Motor Company">List of leaders</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Racing teams</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M-Sport_World_Rally_Team" title="M-Sport World Rally Team">M-Sport World Rally Team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Performance" title="Ford Performance">Performance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Team_RS" title="Ford Team RS">Team RS</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">World Rally Team</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Munchi%27s_Ford_World_Rally_Team" title="Munchi's Ford World Rally Team">Munchi's</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related topics</th><td 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Ford Motor Co.">Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Grimshaw_v._Ford_Motor_Co." title="Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co.">Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co.</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia" title="Fordlândia">Fordlândia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Field" title="Ford Field">Ford Field</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ford_Show" title="The Ford Show">The Ford Show</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ford_v_Ferrari" title="Ford v Ferrari">Ford v Ferrari</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ford_Motor_Company" title="History of Ford Motor Company">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Kinetic_Design" title="Ford Kinetic Design">Kinetic Design</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Edge_(design_language)" title="New Edge (design language)">New Edge (design language)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pay_on_production" title="Pay on production">Pay on production</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Council_for_Automotive_Research" title="United States Council for Automotive Research">United States Council for Automotive Research</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" 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title="Scuderia Lancia">Lancia</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1975_World_Rally_Championship" title="1975 World Rally Championship">1975</a>  <a href="/wiki/Scuderia_Lancia" title="Scuderia Lancia">Lancia</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1976_World_Rally_Championship" title="1976 World Rally Championship">1976</a>  <a href="/wiki/Scuderia_Lancia" title="Scuderia Lancia">Lancia</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1977_World_Rally_Championship" title="1977 World Rally Championship">1977</a>  <a href="/wiki/Fiat" title="Fiat">Fiat</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1978_World_Rally_Championship" title="1978 World Rally Championship">1978</a>  <a href="/wiki/Fiat" title="Fiat">Fiat</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1979_World_Rally_Championship" title="1979 World Rally Championship">1979</a>  <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ford</a> </p> </div> </div></td><td class="navbox-list" style="border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;padding:0px;width:20em;"><div> <div> <p><a href="/wiki/1980_World_Rally_Championship" title="1980 World Rally Championship">1980</a>  <a href="/wiki/Fiat" title="Fiat">Fiat</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1981_World_Rally_Championship" title="1981 World Rally Championship">1981</a>  <a href="/wiki/Talbot_(automobile)" class="mw-redirect" title="Talbot (automobile)">Talbot</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1982_World_Rally_Championship" title="1982 World Rally Championship">1982</a>  <a href="/wiki/Audi_Sport_WRC_results" title="Audi Sport WRC results">Audi</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1983_World_Rally_Championship" title="1983 World Rally Championship">1983</a>  <a href="/wiki/Scuderia_Lancia" title="Scuderia Lancia">Lancia</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1984_World_Rally_Championship" title="1984 World Rally Championship">1984</a>  <a href="/wiki/Audi_Sport_WRC_results" title="Audi Sport WRC results">Audi</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1985_World_Rally_Championship" title="1985 World Rally Championship">1985</a>  <a href="/wiki/Peugeot_Sport" title="Peugeot Sport">Peugeot</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1986_World_Rally_Championship" title="1986 World Rally Championship">1986</a>  <a href="/wiki/Peugeot_Sport" title="Peugeot Sport">Peugeot</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1987_World_Rally_Championship" title="1987 World Rally Championship">1987</a>  <a href="/wiki/Scuderia_Lancia" title="Scuderia Lancia">Lancia</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1988_World_Rally_Championship" title="1988 World Rally Championship">1988</a>  <a href="/wiki/Scuderia_Lancia" title="Scuderia Lancia">Lancia</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1989_World_Rally_Championship" title="1989 World Rally Championship">1989</a>  <a href="/wiki/Scuderia_Lancia" title="Scuderia Lancia">Lancia</a> </p> </div> </div></td><td class="navbox-list" style="border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;padding:0px;width:20em;"><div> <div> <p><a href="/wiki/1990_World_Rally_Championship" title="1990 World Rally Championship">1990</a>  <a href="/wiki/Scuderia_Lancia" title="Scuderia Lancia">Lancia</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1991_World_Rally_Championship" title="1991 World Rally Championship">1991</a>  <a href="/wiki/Scuderia_Lancia" title="Scuderia Lancia">Lancia</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1992_World_Rally_Championship" title="1992 World Rally Championship">1992</a>  <a href="/wiki/Scuderia_Lancia" title="Scuderia Lancia">Lancia</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1993_World_Rally_Championship" title="1993 World Rally Championship">1993</a>  <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Castrol_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="Toyota Castrol Team">Toyota</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1994_World_Rally_Championship" title="1994 World Rally Championship">1994</a>  <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Castrol_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="Toyota Castrol Team">Toyota</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1995_World_Rally_Championship" title="1995 World Rally Championship">1995</a>  <a href="/wiki/Subaru_World_Rally_Team" title="Subaru World Rally Team">Subaru</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1996_World_Rally_Championship" title="1996 World Rally Championship">1996</a>  <a href="/wiki/Subaru_World_Rally_Team" title="Subaru World Rally Team">Subaru</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1997_World_Rally_Championship" title="1997 World Rally Championship">1997</a>  <a href="/wiki/Subaru_World_Rally_Team" title="Subaru World Rally Team">Subaru</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1998_World_Rally_Championship" title="1998 World Rally Championship">1998</a>  <a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_Ralliart_WRT" class="mw-redirect" title="Mitsubishi Ralliart WRT">Mitsubishi</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/1999_World_Rally_Championship" title="1999 World Rally Championship">1999</a>  <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Castrol_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="Toyota Castrol Team">Toyota</a> </p> </div> </div></td><td class="navbox-list" style="border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;padding:0px;width:20em;"><div> <div> <p><a href="/wiki/2000_World_Rally_Championship" title="2000 World Rally Championship">2000</a>  <a href="/wiki/Peugeot_Sport" title="Peugeot Sport">Peugeot</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/2001_World_Rally_Championship" title="2001 World Rally Championship">2001</a>  <a href="/wiki/Peugeot_Sport" title="Peugeot Sport">Peugeot</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/2002_World_Rally_Championship" title="2002 World Rally Championship">2002</a>  <a href="/wiki/Peugeot_Sport" title="Peugeot Sport">Peugeot</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/2003_World_Rally_Championship" title="2003 World Rally Championship">2003</a>  <a href="/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_World_Rally_Team" title="Citroën World Rally Team">Citroën</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/2004_World_Rally_Championship" title="2004 World Rally Championship">2004</a>  <a href="/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_World_Rally_Team" title="Citroën World Rally Team">Citroën</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/2005_World_Rally_Championship" title="2005 World Rally Championship">2005</a>  <a href="/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_World_Rally_Team" title="Citroën World Rally Team">Citroën</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/2006_World_Rally_Championship" title="2006 World Rally Championship">2006</a>  <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ford</a><br /> <a 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title="2017 World Rally Championship">2017</a>  <a href="/wiki/M-Sport_World_Rally_Team" title="M-Sport World Rally Team">M-Sport</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/2018_World_Rally_Championship" title="2018 World Rally Championship">2018</a>  <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Gazoo_Racing_WRT" title="Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT">Toyota</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/2019_World_Rally_Championship" title="2019 World Rally Championship">2019</a>  <a href="/wiki/Hyundai_World_Rally_Team" title="Hyundai World Rally Team">Hyundai</a> </p> </div> </div></td><td class="navbox-list" style="border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;padding:0px;width:20em;"><div> <div> <p><a href="/wiki/2020_World_Rally_Championship" title="2020 World Rally Championship">2020</a>  <a href="/wiki/Hyundai_World_Rally_Team" title="Hyundai World Rally Team">Hyundai</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/2021_World_Rally_Championship" title="2021 World Rally Championship">2021</a>  <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Gazoo_Racing_WRT" title="Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT">Toyota</a><br /> <a 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Associated_Equipment_Company" title="Associated Equipment Company">AEC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albion_Motors" title="Albion Motors">Albion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alternative_Chassis_Engineering" title="Alternative Chassis Engineering">Alternative Chassis Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aveling-Barford" title="Aveling-Barford">Aveling-Barford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AWD_Trucks" title="AWD Trucks">AWD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedford_Vehicles" title="Bedford Vehicles">Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol_Commercial_Vehicles" title="Bristol Commercial Vehicles">Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_United_Traction" title="British United Traction">British United Traction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlyle_Works" title="Carlyle Works">Carlyle Works</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_H_Roe" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles H Roe">Charles H Roe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clough,_Smith" title="Clough, Smith">Clough, Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commer" title="Commer">Commer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crossley_Motors" title="Crossley Motors">Crossley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daimler_Company" title="Daimler Company">Daimler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Specialist_Vehicles" title="Dennis Specialist Vehicles">Dennis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duple_Coachbuilders" title="Duple Coachbuilders">Duple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Lancashire_Coachbuilders" title="East Lancashire Coachbuilders">East Lancashire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Coach_Works" title="Eastern Coach Works">Eastern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ERF_(truck_manufacturer)" title="ERF (truck manufacturer)">ERF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foden_Trucks" title="Foden Trucks">Foden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_of_Britain" title="Ford of Britain">Ford</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Southampton_plant" title="Ford Southampton plant">Southampton</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Motors" title="Guy Motors">Guy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honda_UK_Manufacturing" title="Honda UK Manufacturing">Honda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J_%26_E_Hall" title="J & E Hall">Hallford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jensen_Motors" title="Jensen Motors">Jensen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karrier" title="Karrier">Karrier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LDV_Group" title="LDV Group">LDV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leyland_Bus" title="Leyland Bus">Leyland Bus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leyland_DAF" title="Leyland DAF">Leyland DAF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leyland_Motors" title="Leyland Motors">Leyland Motors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Taxi_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="London Taxi Company">London Taxi Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longwell_Green_Coachworks" title="Longwell Green Coachworks">Longwell Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Bus" title="Marshall Bus">Marshall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maudslay_Motor_Company" title="Maudslay Motor Company">Maudslay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metro_Cammell_Weymann" title="Metro Cammell Weymann">Metro Cammell Weymann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modec" title="Modec">Modec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morrison-Electricar" title="Morrison-Electricar">Morrison-Electricar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Counties_Motor_%26_Engineering_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Counties Motor & Engineering Company">Northern Counties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Park_Royal_Vehicles" title="Park Royal Vehicles">Park Royal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reeve_Burgess" title="Reeve Burgess">Reeve Burgess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scammell" class="mw-redirect" title="Scammell">Scammell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seddon_Atkinson" title="Seddon Atkinson">Seddon Atkinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sentinel_Waggon_Works" title="Sentinel Waggon Works">Sentinel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelvoke_%26_Drewry" class="mw-redirect" title="Shelvoke & Drewry">Shelvoke & Drewry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smith_Electric_Vehicles" title="Smith Electric Vehicles">Smith EV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stevens_Vehicles" title="Stevens Vehicles">Stevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Straker-Squire" title="Straker-Squire">Straker-Squire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunbeam_Commercial_Vehicles" title="Sunbeam Commercial Vehicles">Sunbeam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornycroft" title="Thornycroft">Thornycroft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tilling-Stevens" title="Tilling-Stevens">Tilling-Stevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vulcan_(motor_vehicles)" title="Vulcan (motor vehicles)">Vulcan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wadham_Stringer" title="Wadham Stringer">Wadham Stringer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wales_%26_Edwards" title="Wales & Edwards">Wales & Edwards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Alexander_Coachbuilders" title="Walter Alexander Coachbuilders">Walter Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willowbrook_(bus_manufacturer)" title="Willowbrook (bus manufacturer)">Willowbrook</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Motorsport_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Motorsport in the United Kingdom">Motorsport</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Advanced_Engine_Research" title="Advanced Engine Research">Advanced Engine Research</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alpine_F1_Team" title="Alpine F1 Team">Alpine F1 Team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aston_Martin_in_Formula_One" title="Aston Martin in Formula One">AMR GP Limited</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arena_Motorsport" title="Arena Motorsport">Arena Motorsport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlin_Motorsport" title="Carlin Motorsport">Carlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chevron_Racing_Cars" class="mw-redirect" title="Chevron Racing Cars">Chevron Cars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cosworth" title="Cosworth">Cosworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Morrison_(driver)" title="Phil Morrison (driver)">Driftworks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judd_(engine)" title="Judd (engine)">Engine Developments</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ford World Rally Team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortec_Motorsport" title="Fortec Motorsport">Fortec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gibson_Technology" title="Gibson Technology">Gibson Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hewland" title="Hewland">Hewland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kahn_Design" title="Kahn Design">Kahn Design</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilmor" title="Ilmor">Ilmor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lola_Cars" title="Lola Cars">Lola Cars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McLaren" title="McLaren">McLaren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercedes_AMG_High_Performance_Powertrains" title="Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains">Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_in_Formula_One" title="Mercedes-Benz in Formula One">Mercedes AMG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M-Sport" title="M-Sport">M-Sport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munchi%27s_Ford_World_Rally_Team" title="Munchi's Ford World Rally Team">Munchi's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prodrive" title="Prodrive">Prodrive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radical_Sportscars" title="Radical Sportscars">Radical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Bull_Racing" title="Red Bull Racing">Red Bull Racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rodin_Motorsport" title="Rodin Motorsport">Rodin Motorsport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RML_Group" title="RML Group">RML Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Dowson_Engineering" title="Roger Dowson Engineering">Roger Dowson Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumo_Power" title="Sumo Power">Sumo Power</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Team_Dynamics" title="Team Dynamics">Team Dynamics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triple_Eight_Racing" title="Triple Eight Racing">Triple Eight Racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Van_Diemen" title="Van Diemen">Van Diemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Williams_Grand_Prix_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Williams Grand Prix Engineering">Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wirth_Research" title="Wirth Research">Wirth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xtrac" class="mw-redirect" title="Xtrac">Xtrac</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_car_manufacturers_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom">Passenger car<br />producers</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ariel_Motor_Company" title="Ariel Motor Company">Ariel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aston_Martin" title="Aston Martin">Aston Martin</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lagonda" title="Lagonda">Lagonda</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volkswagen_Group" title="Volkswagen Group">Volkswagen Group</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bentley" title="Bentley">Bentley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bentley_Crewe" title="Bentley Crewe">Crewe plant</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BMW" title="BMW">BMW</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mini_(marque)" title="Mini (marque)">Mini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plant_Oxford" title="Plant Oxford">Oxford plant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pressed_Steel_Company" title="Pressed Steel Company">Swindon plant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars" title="Rolls-Royce Motor Cars">Rolls-Royce</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Goodwood_plant" title="Goodwood plant">Goodwood plant</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Briggs_Automotive_Company" title="Briggs Automotive Company">Briggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caterham_Cars" title="Caterham Cars">Caterham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Brown_Automotive" title="David Brown Automotive">David Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ginetta_Cars" title="Ginetta Cars">Ginetta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaguar_Land_Rover" title="Jaguar Land Rover">Jaguar Land Rover</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jaguar_Cars" title="Jaguar Cars">Jaguar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Land_Rover" title="Land Rover">Land Rover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castle_Bromwich_Assembly" title="Castle Bromwich Assembly">Castle Bromwich plant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaguar_Land_Rover_Gaydon_Centre" title="Jaguar Land Rover Gaydon Centre">Gaydon Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaguar_Land_Rover_Halewood" title="Jaguar Land Rover Halewood">Halewood plant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solihull_plant" 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cosworth" title="Cosworth">Cosworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cummins_UK" title="Cummins UK">Cummins UK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunlop_Tyres" title="Dunlop Tyres">Dunlop Tyres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GKN" title="GKN">GKN</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/GKN_Driveline" class="mw-redirect" title="GKN Driveline">GKN Driveline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grayson_Thermal_Systems" title="Grayson Thermal Systems">Grayson Thermal Systems</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_Matthey" title="Johnson Matthey">Johnson Matthey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kahn_Design" title="Kahn Design">Kahn Design</a></li> <li><a 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