Hybrid Technology will used by Ford WRC in future

The hybrid technology will be included in the World Rally Championship, in 2013, according to senior Ford of Europe motorsport manager Gerard Quinn. Quinn said that hybrid technology for the World Rally Car was the Ford to produce easily accessible and should be used.

"Overview of hybrid technology is something we must look to the future," said Quinn. "I think we should look for 2013. I'm no engineer, but I think there is a certain level that the Ford shelves. We are not trying to reinvent the wheel. Of course there is a balance, how to the weight of work and do such things, but we should race the cars between stages, and operated without the engine. "

Citroën produced and run - but do not compete with - a hybrid C4 WRC. Morrie Chandler, president of the WRC Commission, said the sport was already talking about the possibility of using hybrid technology. "We have not a day on this issue," said Chandler. "We are going to talk about possibilities. We think outside the box. Hybrid speaks, and if it is enough to work with and have a race - a hybrid car does not prove anything. But if you have three or four, they can race in and compared to the normal car. We need that, but it is one thing, do it right. "

Ford’s Target in WRC Next Season

M-Sport managing director Malcolm Wilson is confident of team functioning private apartment next to the BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team in the series next season.
Such a measure would require the amendment of the Rules of the FIA, who now says that a team may only participate in WRC cars approved before 2009.
Regulation changing needs of the FIA has already stated that the current World Rally Cars - including those approved before 2009 - is outlawed in the WRC next year.
Wilson will compete Fiesta RS WRC WRC teams currently provide the highest level in the Focus RS WRC Stobart namely, Monster Munch and World Rally teams.
Wilson said: "We have not discussed it really yet, but our intent is to" Fiesta RS WRC for M2 [run WRC teams]. We have no choice - that is the regulation that we are a team of developers to run for an M2 but if the car out of the current law that we can do not what is. We already have considerable interest and discussions with teams such as Monster are underway for next year. But as I said, nothing is finished. " The first Fiesta RS WRC should be run in its final form in September.

World Rally Championship Teams and Drivers

20 different manufacturers have a round of World Rally Championship, and ten others have completed the podium.
Suzuki and Subaru WRC moved at the end of the season in 2008, both cited the economic slowdown currently affecting the automotive industry for their retreat.
WRC type A team will consist of about 40 people to the events, with a 60-100 in addition to the basic team.
The producer and manufacturer-backed teams usually have two or three drivers involved in every rally and score points to the right. The total number of crew (pilot and his co-pilot) filed in demonstrations of 47 (Monte Carlo and Mexico) to 108 (Great Britain) during the 2007 season.

History of World Rally Championship

World Rally Championship was by experienced international meetings, nine of which are already part of the International Championship of Manufacturers (BMI), which was contested from 1970 to 1972 have been formed. In 1973, the World Rally Championship, the first season of the WRC was started with the 42nd Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo, 19 January.
Alpine-Renault wins the championship of the world's leading manufacturer, with its Alpine A110, Lancia after the title three years in a row, won the V6 Ferrari Lancia Stratos, the first car designed and built specifically for the rally. The first drivers' championship was not awarded until 1979, although the 1977 season and 1978 included the FIA Cup for Drivers, won by Sandro Munari Italian and Finnish Markku Alen, respectively. Swede Bjorn Waldegard was the first official world champion, Hannu Mikkola against Finland with a point.
Fiat manufacter took the title with Fiat 131 Abarth in 1977, 1978 and 1980, Ford Escort RS1800 in 1979 and Talbot Sunbeam Lotus in 1981 with her. Waldegard was by German Walter Röhrl and Ari Vatanen as a world champion Finn was the driver.

World Rally Championship Introduction

World Rally Championship (WRC) is a series of rally organized by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The championship driver and constructor World Cup championships separate, but on the basis of the same scoring system. The series currently consists of 13 events in three days focusing on the surface of gravel and tarmac to snow and ice. Each rally is in 15-25 special against the clock on closed roads run divided. The sport's commercial rights from the International Sportsworld Communicators, who produce the daily administration of event highlights shown in 186 countries.
The WRC was formed known and popular with international meetings, most of which was already part of European Rally Championship and / or the International Championship for Manufacturers, and the series was contested in 1973. World Rally Car is the current specification of the vehicle in the series. It evolved out of the cars of the group that replaced the banned group B super sports cars like the Audi Quattro. World Rally Cars are on passenger car production in integrated two-liter four-cylinder, but have turbochargers, anti-lag system, all-wheel drive sequential gearbox (paddle shift), aerodynamic parts and other improvements resulting in the cost of WRC car to around $ 1,000,000 (€ 700,000) for about £ 500,000.
The WRC has three championships and support the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC), Production World Rally Championship (PWRC), and the Super 2000 World Rally Championship (SWRC), which at the same events and the steps that are controversial, the WRC but with different rules. The standard car, Super 2000 and the first bicycle race market participants through the steps as soon as the WRC drivers.