FIA RALLY: Victory for Ford and McRae on Rally Argentina
May 7, 2001
May 7, 2001 Colin McRae and Nicky Grist today won the Rally Argentina after dominating this gruelling fifth round of the FIA World Rally Championship in their Ford Focus RS World Rally Car. They led from the very first kilometre of the 1337km, four-day gravel rally and were joined on the podium at the Cordoba finish by ... Continue reading
FIA RALLY: Rally Argentina, End of Leg 2 Report
May 6, 2001
May 6, 2001 Colin McRae and Richard Burns continue to swap seconds at the front of the fifth round of the FIA World Rally Championship, the Rally Argentina, which continued south of Cordoba today. Despite Subaru driver Burns's best efforts, the Ford of McRae has kept its lead in excess of 40 seconds throughout today's ... Continue reading
FIA RALLY: McRae controls Rally Argentina from the front
May 5, 2001
May 5, 2001 Ford Martini drivers Colin McRae and Nicky Grist continue to lead the Rally Argentina after controlling this fifth round of the FIA World Rally Championship from the front during today's second leg. They lead by 37.1sec in their Ford Focus RS World Rally Car with just one day remaining. Team-mates Carlos Sa ... Continue reading
FIA RALLY: Rally Argentina, End of leg one report
May 5, 2001
May 05, 2001 Ford's Colin McRae has dominated the opening day of the fifth round of the FIA World Rally Championship, the Rally Argentina. Having set two fastest times on yesterday's evening's superspecials on the outskirts of Cordoba, the Scot topped the timesheets on today's first three stages to open up an advantage ... Continue reading
FIA RALLY: Rally Argentina, Round 5 of the 2001 FIA World Rally Championship
May 4, 2001
Posted By Terry Callahan Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel May 4, 2001 World rallying's top drivers are likely to face mixed conditions on the FIA World Rally Championship's visit to South America, the Rally Argentina, which starts from Cordoba later this evening. The reconnaissance period for the event (the fifth r ... Continue reading
FIA RALLY: Ford's amigos ready to tango in Argentina
Apr 28, 2001
Posted By Terry Callahan Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel April 28, 2001 After four European rallies in the opening three months of the FIA World Rally Championship season, the Ford Martini team makes its first long haul journey of the campaign next week with the drivers still waiting to sample the pure gravel road ... Continue reading
RALLY: Ford Focus to star in Rally of Germany
Apr 18, 2001
April 18, 2001 FORD FOCUS TO STAR IN RALLY OF GERMANY BERLIN - Ford announced today (Tuesday) that it will be entering two Ford Focus RS WRC rally cars on the ADAC Rallye Deutschland in July. Ford's French ace Francois Delecour will pilot his regular 'RS' branded car while Austrian star Raimund Baumschlager will drive ... Continue reading
FIA RALLY: Sainz stays on points trail for Ford in Spain
Mar 25, 2001
March 25, 2001 Ford Martini drivers Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya emphasised their status as the most consistent pairing in the FIA World Rally Championship by claiming their fourth points scoring finish in as many events on Spain's Catalunya Rally which ended today. The Spanish duo finished sixth in their Ford Focus RS W ... Continue reading
FIA RALLY: Rallye Catalunya - Costa Brava, Introduction
Mar 23, 2001
March 23, 2001 The world's top rally drivers are poised to enjoy a change of conditions on the fourth round of this year's FIA World Rally Championship, the Rallye Catalunya-Costa Brava, which starts from the Spanish seaside resort of Lloret de Mar tomorrow. After torrential rain turned the last round in Portugal into ... Continue reading
FIA RALLY: Rallye Catalunya - Costa Brava
Mar 19, 2001
March 19, 2001 Fourth round of the 2001 FIA World Rally Championship. This is a momentous event for two reasons. Firstly the arrival of Citroen as a registered contender in the FIA Manufacturers Championship, secondly the first round of the FIA's new cost limiting Super 1600 championship. CHARACTER OF THE EVENT The fir ... Continue reading
FIA RALLY: Ford anticipates Spanish calm after the storm
Mar 17, 2001
March 17, 2001 Just 12 days after the finish, the Ford Martini World Rally Team switches from the mudbath that was the Rally of Portugal to the Catalunya Rally, hoping the bad weather which blitzed the Atlantic coast does not cross the Iberian peninsula to the Spanish Mediterranean for the first all-asphalt event of th ... Continue reading
FIA RALLY: Rally of Portugal: Makinen Wins
Mar 12, 2001
Tommi Mäkinen celebrated his 100th FIA World Championship rally start in style by winning the third round of this year's series, the Rally of Portugal, which finished near Porto this afternoon. The Finn was made to fight hard for his 22nd victory at this level, though: Carlos Sainz snatched the lead on today's penulti ... Continue reading
FIA: TAP Rallye De Portugal, End of Leg One
Mar 10, 2001
Drivers and organisers have had to battle against the weather on today's first full leg of the third round of the FIA World Rally Championship, the TAP Rally of Portugal. Several weeks of rain had left stages in extremely muddy condition and event chiefs were forced to cancel two repeat runnings of tests in the afterno ... Continue reading
RALLY: End of leg 1 report, Rally of Portugal
Mar 9, 2001
Appalling conditions greeted tonight's opening action in the Rally of Portugal, third round of the FIA World Rally Championship. Incessant rain during the past few weeks has turned the gravel roads which host this third round of the FIA World Rally Championship into a muddy morass. A combination of glutinous mud and ba ... Continue reading
ALMS: Michelin Quick Facts - Superflo 12 Hours of Sebring
Mar 9, 2001
March 17 at Sebring International Raceway * Top Teams To Ride On Michelin Tires - A total of 14 cars will be riding on Michelin tires. In the prototype division, Michelin-shod cars include the factory-supported efforts from Audi and Panoz as well as the Champion (Audi), Johansson (Audi) and Pescarolo (Courage) teams. I ... Continue reading
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