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Ogier Wins 2011 Rally Portugal
Ogier Wins 2011 Rally Portugal

27 Mar 2011, 14:27 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Citroen’s Sebastien Ogier found the perfect solution to leave his Rally Mexico crash behind him: he won the next round on the 2011 WRC schedule, in Portugal. Returning to the scene of his firs...

 
Latvala Targets No Crash in Difficult Rally Portugal
Latvala Targets No Crash in Difficult Rally Portugal

18 Mar 2011, 13:22 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The World Rally Championship will return to Europe next week for the 3rd round of the 2011 campaign, in Portugal. And while the Faro-based event gives most of the WRC competitors the creeps due to i...

 
Ford Manager Happy with Rally Mexico Performance
Ford Manager Happy with Rally Mexico Performance

7 Mar 2011, 15:48 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Although Ford and its two works drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala hardly provided any competition for its Citroen counterparts in the recent Rally Mexico, team boss Malcolm Wilson was qu...

 
Mikko Hirvonen Wins Rally Sweden
Mikko Hirvonen Wins Rally Sweden

13 Feb 2011, 16:46 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Mikko Hirvonen started off his 2010 World Rally Championship campaign in style this weekend, clinching the season opening Rally Sweden and heading a well-deserved 1-2-3 finish for Ford. Despite C...

 
Ford Unveils 2011 Fiesta RS WRC Challenger
Ford Unveils 2011 Fiesta RS WRC Challenger

1 Feb 2011, 15:24 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Having completed its recent testing programme in Sweden with the new Fiesta RS WRC last week, Ford now officially unveiled its challenger for the 2011 World Rally Championship. However, the event wa...

 
Ford Gets Fiesta RS WRC Back on the Road
Ford Gets Fiesta RS WRC Back on the Road

28 Jan 2011, 15:41 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ford did not alter its testing programme ahead of the 2011 World Rally Championship too much – considering Jari-Matti Latvala's crashing the test Ford Fiesta RS WRC the other week –...

 
Latvala Crashes Fiesta RS WRC During Sweden Test
Latvala Crashes Fiesta RS WRC During Sweden Test

24 Jan 2011, 11:57 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ford's testing programme with their new Fiesta RS WRC have taken an unexpected blow this past weekend, after Jari-Matti Latvala was involved in a crash at over 150 km/h (91 mph) during the seco...

 
Grönholm inherits Rally d'Italia win
Grönholm inherits Rally d'Italia win

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Mihai Dumitru / BP Ford driver Marcus Grönholm claimed victory in this weekend's Rally d'Italia Sardegna to open up a 7-point lead in the drivers' standings over Citroën's Sébas...

 
Ford Tips Latvala for WRC Title in 2011
Ford Tips Latvala for WRC Title in 2011

16 Nov 2010, 11:39 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Jari-Matti Latvala began the 2010 campaign of the World Rally Championship playing second fiddle to teammate Mikko Hirvonen at Ford, yet it was him who secured the most wins for the British team thi...

 
Latvala Takes First Rally Finland Win in Career
Latvala Takes First Rally Finland Win in Career

1 Aug 2010, 09:15 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / This year’s Rally Finland had a Finnish winner. However, it wasn’t Ford’s Mikko Hirvonen – as everyone was expecting – but his teammate Jari-Matti Latvala. The Ford dri...

 
Ford Confirms Hirvonen, Latvala for 2011
Ford Confirms Hirvonen, Latvala for 2011

14 Jul 2010, 12:36 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ford's team principal Malcolm Wilson today confirmed that no matter the final result of the negotiations with current Citroen Junior Team driver Sebastien Ogier, current rally drivers Mikko Hir...

 
Jari-Matti Latvala Wins Rally New Zealand
Jari-Matti Latvala Wins Rally New Zealand

9 May 2010, 09:53 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Jari-Matti Latvala scored his first WRC win of the season in the very final stage of Rally New Zealand, when he beat Citroen Junior’s Sebastien Ogier by more than 8 seconds to deny the French ...

 
Latvala Scores Fastest Time in Rally New Zealand Shakedown
Latvala Scores Fastest Time in Rally New Zealand Shakedown

6 May 2010, 08:20 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ford's Jari-Matti Latvala topped the WRC field in the Rally New Zealand pre-event shakedown, posting a time 0.2 seconds faster than second placed Sebastien Loeb. The reigning world champion was...

 
Students' Nurburgring 24H Focus RS to be Driven by Jari-Matti Latvala
Students' Nurburgring 24H Focus RS to be Driven by Jari-Matti Latvala

12 Apr 2010, 13:54 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Last month, we reported that a team of 20 students from the Cologne University of Applied Science are preparing a Ford Focus RS, supplied by the automaker, in order to enter it in this year’s ...

 
Loeb Cruises to Rally Jordan Win
Loeb Cruises to Rally Jordan Win

3 Apr 2010, 13:09 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Sebastien Loeb cruised to a comfortable win in Rally Jordan on Saturday and further increased his gap to 31 points from main title rival, Ford’s Mikko Hirvonen, in the overall classification. ...

 
Sebastien Loeb Takes Rally Jordan Lead after Day 2
Sebastien Loeb Takes Rally Jordan Lead after Day 2

2 Apr 2010, 13:44 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Sebastien Loeb will head into the third and last day of Rally Jordan with a 24.6-second lead over Citroen Junior's Sebastien Ogier, as the Frenchman managed some outstanding runs in the second ...

 
Latvala Leads Rally Jordan After SS5
Latvala Leads Rally Jordan After SS5

1 Apr 2010, 13:34 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Jari-Matti Latvala has taken the lead in Rally Jordan after the first leg on Thursday, as he topped the first 4 special stages of the event less than half of second ahead of Citroen's Dani Sord...

 
Mikko Hirvonen Wins Rally Sweden
Mikko Hirvonen Wins Rally Sweden

14 Feb 2010, 13:47 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Mikko Hirvonen said he wants to beat Sebastien Loeb for the title this season and he sure meant business, as the Finnish driver got off to a great start in his attempt to become WRC champion, in Swe...

 
Ford Confident in 2010 Title for Hirvonen
Ford Confident in 2010 Title for Hirvonen

27 Nov 2009, 11:31 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Following Mikko Hirvonen's almost clinching his maiden title in the World Rally Championship this season, Ford's boss Malcolm Wilson admitted confidence over his driver's prospects fo...

 
Ford Would Have Favored Latvala in Italy All Over Again
Ford Would Have Favored Latvala in Italy All Over Again

27 Oct 2009, 10:33 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ford's boss Malcolm Wilson insisted that he stands by his decision not to issue any team orders between his drivers during this season's Rally d'Italia, in Sardegna. At the time, Seba...