WRC: Ford Fiesta test with the engine of the Focus

In house development goes well Ford Fiesta RS WRC car next season that will collect the inheritance of the Focus WRC in the World Rally Championship. Between today and tomorrow the House of Detroit will play a very interesting test on the roads that usually host the Rally of Sardinia: the small car, which now runs in the Super 2000 class, will be mounted in the engine of the Focus with this year’s Mikko Hirvonen chasing the victory.

The objective of the test, that the Citroen has already played DS3 WRC engine mounted on the C4 WRC is to see how they react to the chassis and transmission power (300 hp) and the high torque (550 N / m) of this engine. If it in fact the car will have problems adapting to the best of the new 1.6-liter turbocharged engine that will be used in 2011. Also will build a base setting, which can be used to begin development will be complete even when the car engine, but it should not be ready before late summer.

Christian Loriaux, technical director of Ford, but did not want to give too many details about the test: “This test is part of the development program of the Fiesta S2000. For this we do not want to reveal too many details of the work we do “