With the season opener for World Rally Championship 2011 starts for Team Ford Abu Dhabi a new era. In the Swedish Rally (10th to 13th February) the team will work first time with the all-new Ford Fiesta RS WRC at the start. The wheel vehicle - according to the current technical regulations with 1.6-liter EcoBoost turbocharged gasoline direct injection and equipped - has completed in recent months, over 12 000 kilometers of test drives. Solo 2854 km of which were held in Sweden, the scene of the first of 13 World Championship races in 2011 and probably the only ones in the snow.
The Swedish Rally leads over 2060 km, 351 km took them to go out on the 22 special stages as a driver pairings Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen and Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila to the start, the 25-year-old runner-Latvala 2008 in Sweden here his first World Cup race victory, his five Years older team-mate won the Rally 2010. The snow tires of the new partner Michelin have almost 400 to seven millimeters long spikes in the tread. Khalid Al Qassimi
and Michael Orr, a third Fiesta RS WRC will pilot the factory team. In addition, the partner brings team Stobart M-Sport Fiesta one each RS WRC for Henning Solberg / Ilka Minor, Mads Ostberg / Jonas Andersson and Matthew Wilson / Scott Martin at the start. The Monster World Rally Team to enter the Fiesta Crew Ken Block / Alex Gelsomino, and the new team FERM Power Tools has Dennis Kuipers / Frederic Miclotte and PG Andersson / Emil Axelsson named.
With Christian Riedemann (23) from Sulingen and gravel specialists Knof Philipp (20) from Wülfrath also two young German rally talents have got hold one of the limited slots in the newly created WRC Academy. The follow-up series of the Junior World Championship consists of six European races for this year's World Rally Championship (Portugal, Italy, Finland, Germany, France and Great Britain). All participants start on identical Ford Fiesta , prepared by M-Sport to the so-called R2-regulation and used. Riedemann, who is competing in 2011 by Michael Wenzel as a passenger, was already in the past Year with the 170-horsepower front-wheel drive in the Ford Fiesta Sporting Trophy very successful. Knof has declared 2010 the privately-organized and highly competitive Volvo Original Cup for the second year won his rally career thinking.
Source: ampnet / jri
The Swedish Rally leads over 2060 km, 351 km took them to go out on the 22 special stages as a driver pairings Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen and Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila to the start, the 25-year-old runner-Latvala 2008 in Sweden here his first World Cup race victory, his five Years older team-mate won the Rally 2010. The snow tires of the new partner Michelin have almost 400 to seven millimeters long spikes in the tread. Khalid Al Qassimi
and Michael Orr, a third Fiesta RS WRC will pilot the factory team. In addition, the partner brings team Stobart M-Sport Fiesta one each RS WRC for Henning Solberg / Ilka Minor, Mads Ostberg / Jonas Andersson and Matthew Wilson / Scott Martin at the start. The Monster World Rally Team to enter the Fiesta Crew Ken Block / Alex Gelsomino, and the new team FERM Power Tools has Dennis Kuipers / Frederic Miclotte and PG Andersson / Emil Axelsson named.
With Christian Riedemann (23) from Sulingen and gravel specialists Knof Philipp (20) from Wülfrath also two young German rally talents have got hold one of the limited slots in the newly created WRC Academy. The follow-up series of the Junior World Championship consists of six European races for this year's World Rally Championship (Portugal, Italy, Finland, Germany, France and Great Britain). All participants start on identical Ford Fiesta , prepared by M-Sport to the so-called R2-regulation and used. Riedemann, who is competing in 2011 by Michael Wenzel as a passenger, was already in the past Year with the 170-horsepower front-wheel drive in the Ford Fiesta Sporting Trophy very successful. Knof has declared 2010 the privately-organized and highly competitive Volvo Original Cup for the second year won his rally career thinking.
Source: ampnet / jri
Ford Focus RS WRC
Photos: Auto-Medienportal.Net/Ford
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