Fiesta SportTrophy UK confirmed

M-Sport, the team behind Ford’s FIA World Rally Championship programme, is delighted to announce the Fiesta Sport Challenge (FSC) for 2011.

The mixed surface series, now in its second year, will start with the Malcolm Wilson Rally based at the team’s Dovenby Hall HQ in Cockermouth. The series will then join the BRC Challenge for the rest of the season. All the events will be National B permit.

On-event technical support for the one-make championship will once again come from the team at M-Sport who will attend each round with full parts support and the championship will be administered from the Dovenby Headquarters.

The championship is aimed at all competitors, young and old, experienced and amateur, all with the desire of enjoying close competition allied to professional support.

M-Sport is offering a prize fund that will provide financial support for competitors on each round, with the winner receiving £500 plus additional product support. At the end of the season, the championship winner will receive the opportunity to test a Ford Fiesta S2000 with tuition from an M-Sport WRC driver. The top finisher in the championship and one ‘wildcard’ will win the opportunity to go forward to the FST International Shootout, where they will have to compete against the world’s best FST drivers to win a residential placement at M-Sport.

With the cars able to compete throughout the world in near identical pan! European championship events without having to change specification, this is the original venture into international competition and offers a direct stepping stone into the World Rally Championship limelight.

2011 will also see the start of the FIA WRC Academy, a new six round series using Ford Fiesta R2 Rally cars supplied by M-Sport. The series will act as a step forward for young drivers to work their way up the ranks into world rallying. The series is hoping to attract drivers from across the world and, with an arrive and drive set up, it is likely to attract a diverse crowd. With the ‘rungs’ falling into place on Ford’s ‘Ladder of Opportunity’, there can be no better place to start rallying than the Fiesta Sport Challenge.
– Credit: www.rallybrc.co.uk