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Petter Solberg fourth overall after day 1 in Wales Rally GB

Posted on November 11, 2011 | No Comments
At the end of the first three stages Petter and Chris are fourth. Jari-Matti Latvala led the rally for the first two stages, two runs through the legendary Great Orme stage, but Sebastien Loeb took the lead from him on SS3. Loeb’s Citroën team-mate Sebastien...
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Matthew Wilson supports road safety at Wales Rally GB

Posted on November 11, 2011 | No Comments
M-Sport Stobart Ford World Rally Team driver Matthew Wilson heads a crop of young rally drivers leading the way in helping to promote road safety. The 24-year old Englishman is lending his support to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) in Wales,...
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Stobart’s Mads Ostberg battles for sixth with Spain’s Daniel Sordo

Posted on November 11, 2011 | No Comments
M-Sport Stobart Ford World Rally Team driver Mads Østberg is only 0.5 seconds adrift of sixth place after the first day of action at the final round of this year’s FIA World Rally Championship, Wales Rally GB. Team-mates Matthew Wilson and Henning Solberg lie ninth...
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Mikko Hirvonen makes his mark as WRC title duel blasts off in Wales

Posted on November 10, 2011 | No Comments
Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen were quick to make their mark as the long-awaited battle for the drivers’ title in the FIA World Rally Championship began this afternoon. The Finns were fastest through Wales Rally GB’s opening forest...
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Richard Parks explores new limits with Stobart’s Wilson

Posted on November 9, 2011 | No Comments
Britain’s Matthew Wilson took former Welsh international rugby player and world record-holding explorer, Richard Parks, for a thrilling ride in his Ford Fiesta RS World Rally Car at the Wales Rally GB pre-event shakedown test this morning. Wales Rally GB marks the final round of...
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Paint your message Orange with the FERM Power Tools World Rally Team

Posted on November 8, 2011 | No Comments
The FERM Power Tools World Rally Team today made a novel offer to motorsport fans to send a message to the world using the medium of sponsorship that will feature as part of the livery of Dennis Kuipers’ WRC car in a forthcoming round of...
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Loeb and Elena in pursuit of their eighth title

Posted on November 8, 2011 | No Comments
Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena, who hold all the records in the FIA World Rally Championship, find themselves up against a new challenge. The Citroën Total World Rally Team crew will start Rally Great Britain with the aim of winning their eighth title, a unique feat in the history...
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MINI WRC TEAM – Wales Rally GB 2011 Preview

Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
The MINI WRC Team is now heading home for Wales Rally GB and the final round of the FIA World Rally Championship. The UK’s forest stages are famous worldwide and an event including them has been part of the WRC since its inception in 1973. Not only is...
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Petter Solberg – Wales Rally GB 10-14 November

Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
After a week in sunny Tenerife with his family, Petter Solberg is now in Wales to join the rest of the Petter Solberg World Rally Team for the final event of the 2011 World Rally Championship, Rally Wales GB. The permanent Service Park is housed...
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Stobart strive for podium on WRC season closer

Posted on November 4, 2011 | No Comments
The M-Sport Stobart Ford World Rally Team will be looking to end the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) season in style at the wheel of the Ford Fiesta RS WRC by finishing on the podium at next week’s Wales Rally GB. The Cumbria-based squad have...
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Mikko Hirvonen pins world title hopes on final round win in Britain

Posted on November 4, 2011 | No Comments
Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team’s Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen start next week’s Rally GB (10 – 13 November) knowing that victory could deliver them a maiden world title. The Finns lie second in the FIA World Rally Championship drivers’ standings in a Ford...
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Sebastien Loeb wins RACC Rally de Espana 2011

Posted on October 23, 2011 | No Comments
Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena drove a perfect race on the Catalonian gravel and killed two birds with one stone thanks to the sixty-seventh victory of their career. First of all, they gave the Citroën Total World Rally Team their seventh world title with one round still to go...
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Stobart’s Mads Ostberg secures best ever finish on asphalt

Posted on October 23, 2011 | No Comments
M-Sport Stobart Ford’s Mads Østberg secured his best ever result on asphalt after finishing sixth at this weekend’s RACC Rally de España in the Ford Fiesta RS WRC. Team-mate Henning Solberg finished eighth but Matthew Wilson retired after he tore the front-left wheel off his Fiesta RS...
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Strong event for Dennis Kuipers brings more points

Posted on October 23, 2011 | No Comments
Dennis Kuipers was a on a mission during the last two days of Rally de España. On the final day the FERM Power Tools World Rally Team duo started their hunt for points in eleventh position and finished the rally ninth overall. Today was about one thing:...
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Double podium in Spain sends Ford’s title fight to final round

Posted on October 23, 2011 | No Comments
Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen’s quest for a maiden FIA World Rally Championship title will go to a final round shootout after Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team claimed a double podium in Rally de España today. They finished second in a Ford Fiesta RS...
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