Ford

[Reidy_fan]

sorry if this has been brought up before but why has none of the private teams not done anything with the Focus in recent years, it has a great chassis and the duratech lump is very potent I know FMC are not interested with the BTCC as they would rather waste money on the jag F1 team. It was teams like ford that got me interested in touring cars years ago with guys like Andy Rouse in the hellfire Sierra RS500

[JLD]

Think I read somewhere that Ford are showing an interest in Jonathon Palmer's rival Touring Car series (although I'm not convinced that 2 rival series would be a good idea).

[John]

Certainly one of the mock up pictures for this new series is of a Mondeo but I don't know any more about it than that.

The Focus was used in 2001 in the production class by GR Motorsport (4 cars) but never re-appeared in 2002 which was a shame cos they were good (GR actually won the teams championship - although this may be due to the fact they had 4 cars).

It would be nice to see some of these manufacturers back (Renault being another) but I guess for the minute their focus (sorry didn't mean that as a pun) is elsewhere including F1 and WRC.

[mondeoman]

Think you'll find the Jaguar F1 team is financed by Jaguar now not Ford, and they don't want to use the Focus as they use it in WRC.
I'd love to see Fords back in BTCC too, 2000 was too long ago, shame the Mondeo is oversized now, Fords are not certain whether they will continue in WRC, so who knows, the new Focus may appear in the BTCC within a few years.
It would be nice to see a few more manufacturers reappearing.

[Reidy_fan]

Originally posted by mondeoman
[B]Think you'll find the Jaguar F1 team is financed by Jaguar now not Ford,

yes and who owns Jag along with Volvo, Land Rover, Aston Martin and a large percentage of Mazda good old Ford Motor co. Like I said all they are doing is wasting money on F1

[Les]

my friend Nick Leason (no - not that one!!) has been working to get the budget together to run a focus. I still have my fingers crossed for him.

[steve21]

Originally posted by Les
my friend Nick Leason (no - not that one!!) has been working to get the budget together to run a focus. I still have my fingers crossed for him.


Fingers crossed for him it would be good to a focus on the grid for next year even if its not a works car

[mondeoman]

Originally posted by Reidy_fan
yes and who owns Jag along with Volvo, Land Rover, Aston Martin and a large percentage of Mazda good old Ford Motor co. Like I said all they are doing is wasting money on F1


Jaguar and the rest of PAG may be owned by Ford, but I think you'll find Ford dropped their financial input a couple of seasons ago, leaving Jaguar to finance it themselves.