In its current form, it has been a competitor since the 1997 season, when Ford Motor Company's motorsport arm selected the Malcolm Wilson Motorsport company to run its factory team, [4] entering the Ford Escort World Rally Car. The new team took their first victory in the 1997 Acropolis Rally. [1]

Jan 20, 2025 · Donning an updated livery, the 2025 Ford Puma Rally1 racers will make their debut at the Monte Carlo Rally next week.

Today, Ford Performance competes as part of the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team, scoring over 300 consecutive points finishes. The team races in a single WRC class, with drivers piloting the Ford Puma Rally1, a modified hybrid version of the Puma.

The Ford Puma Rally1 is a Rally1 car built by the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team that was used in the World Rally Championship in 2022.It is based upon the road car version of Ford Puma crossover, and was developed for the purpose of replacing the Ford Fiesta WRC, which competed between 2017 and 2021. [3] The car was revealed at the 2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Feb 21, 2022 · From touring cars to Le Mans to the WRC (there’s lesson three), meet the Ford Escort RS1800, the car that won Ford the manufacturer’s world rally title in 1979. Developed especially for rallying, the RS1800 featured a strengthened and widened platform and a Cosworth-fettled twin-cam engine.

The Ford Focus RS WRC is a car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford Europe and M-Sport and based on the Ford Focus Climate 2-litre production hatchback, developed to compete in the World Rally Championship.

KENYA - M-Sport Ford World Rally Team faced an intense and unrelenting battle across four demanding days on Safari Rally Kenya. All three of M-Sport’s Ford Puma Rally1 cars made it to the finish of the gruelling event, all taking positions in the top ten overall. ... The crew's effort to keep the car going, despite the odds, was nothing short ...

Jul 8, 2021 · The M-Sport Ford World Rally Team (WRT) today revealed for the first time a prototype of the new Puma Rally1 rally car that will help usher in an exciting new era of electrified competition in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) from 2022.

Dec 13, 2016 · With the prospect of seeing the Blue Oval in the ascendancy once again, it’s seemed like the right time to look back through Ford’s history to pick its five greatest rally cars of all time. Will...

Jan 18, 2022 · Ford’s bold new hybrid world rally car has been revealed, and now we get to see its new, official livery. The car was revealed in testing livery at the Goodwood Festival of Speed – and there...