Christian loriaux biography
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Ford World Rally Team
World Rally Championship manufacturer team
For the current M-Sport WRC team supported by Ford, see M-Sport Ford World Rally Team.
The Ford World Rally Team, also known as the Ford Motor Co. Team prior to ,[2][3] is Ford Motor Company's full factory World Rally Championship team. In its current form, it has been a competitor since the season, when Ford Motor Company's motorsport arm selected the Malcolm Wilson Motorsport company to run its factory team,[4] entering the Ford Escort World Rally Car. The new team took their first victory in the Acropolis Rally.[1]
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[edit]Ford would end the season with a win for Hannu Mikkola on season ending Lombard RAC Rally, at the hands of an Escort RS, he would be followed home by Björn Waldegård and Britain's Russell Brookes, all in similar machin
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Q&A: Christian Loriaux (Ford) - EXCLUSIVE.
by Rob Wilkins
TO HEAR THE INTERVIEW IN FULL WITH CHRISTIAN LORIAUX: CLICK HERE
Christian Loriaux is the technical director at the BP Ford World Rally Team and the man responsible for heading up the grupp that designs and develops the Focus RS WRC car. We caught up with Christian at the end of October and here he speaks exclusively to Rallycourse and Radio about his role, the challenges it encompasses and more
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Christian, Ford introduced the new Focus RS WRC 07 this year for the Rally land i norden. What were the main changes made to the car in comparison to the 06 model?
Christian Loriaux:
There were not tons of changes, because the '06 car was already so evolved and competitive. It was difficult to man it much better. But we refined a fair bit in terms of aerodynamics with a new rear wing. We had a new front bumper too because with the original one we had very little time for testing and it was effectively too low. The
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The name of Christian Loriaux has been part of the World Rally Championship history since he joined RAS Sport in the late 80s (yet an engineering student). Once he graduated, he joined Prodrive, where his work culminated with the design of the iconic Subaru Impreza WRC He then moved to M-Sport, where no less iconic cars were designed and developed under his lead: the Ford Focus WRC03, the Focus WRC06 or the Fiesta RS WRC ().
Far from being inactive, his recent contribution to the design and development of the Hyundai i20N Rally1 represented such a great opportunity to know how this process evolved that we could not miss. We had the opportunity to talk to him during the recent Central European Rally and here is the result.
Christian, you joined Hyundai in May , when the Rally1 car was in full development. What was your role when you joined the team?
CL: I joined at the time as Technical Advisor*. There was already a prototype car built, and the team was in place. They had already