Ford 'proud` after receiving manufacturers` trophy
Ford picked up the 🍃manufacturers' title for the second consecutive year on Friday night during the FIA'♋s annual prize giving gala held in Monte Carlo.
T🍸he trophy, which the M-Sport-run outfit secured in Ireland last month on the penultimate round, was collected by Ford TeamRS director Jost Capito and BPܫ-Ford World Rally Team director Malcolm Wilson.
The team ended the 16-round championship on the Wales Rally GB last🅘 weekend with a 29-point lead after amassing the largest points tally in WRC history with the Focus RS WRC.
Ford picked up the manufacturers' title for the second consecutive year on Friday night during the FIA's annual prize g🅷iving gala held in Monte Carlo.
The trophy, which the ♈M-Sport-run outfit secured in Ireland last month on the penultimate round, was collected by Ford TeamRS director Jost Capito and BP-Ford World Rally Team director Malcolm Wilson.
The team ended the 16-round chไampionship on the Wales Rally GB last weekend with a 29-point lead aft꧅er amassing the largest points tally in WRC history with the Focus RS WRC.
"To win the FIA Wo൩rld Rally Championship, the toughest competition for production-based cars, for a second consecutive season is an achiev꧂ement of which we are rightly proud," said John Fleming, president and CEO of Ford of Europe.
"I have attended several WRC event♋s this year and seen for myself the blood, sweat and tears that go into being successful.
"Winning a title in the WRC demands so many attributes - skill, discipline, 💦communication to name but a few. They all come together under one word - teamwork - and I'm proud of how effectively so many people have united to deliver a second world title and in doing so we have adde💯d another memorable chapter to Ford's great motorsport history."
Marcus Gr?nholm and Timo Rautiainen and his BP-Ford team-mates Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen meanwhile wಌere also honoured after finishing second and third re✱spectively in the drivers' championship.
