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    Ford Escort RS1800 driven at the Race Retro 2008 by Alan Watkins Ford Escort RS1800 with open bonnet Codenamed "Erika", the third-generation Escort was...
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    the RS1800 as the CVH engine was being phased out. The RS1800 shared its engine with the 130 PS (96 kW; 128 bhp) version of the then-current Escort XR3i...
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    developed and manufactured by Ford's European operations, and had been positioned below the Escort (later the Focus). Ford had sold over 15 million Fiestas...
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    professional drive, in a Ford Escort RS1800, on the RAC Rally. He crashed out on the second day, but by then he had impressed Ford team manager Stuart Turner...
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    a Ford Escort. He became the first overseas driver to win the East African Safari Rally in 1972, partnered by Gunnar Palm and again in a Ford Escort. In...
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    British rally driver. He won the British Rally Championship with a Ford Escort RS1800 in 1977 and with an Opel Manta 400 in 1985. In 1978, he won the Rally...
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    Ford took the 1979 manufacturers' title with Hannu Mikkola, Björn Waldegård, and Ari Vatanen driving the Ford Escort RS1800. In the Group B era, Ford...
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    RS2000, Ford Capri RS3100 1975 - Ford Escort RS1800 1976 - Ford Escort RS Mexico, Ford Escort RS2000 Mk II 1981 - Ford Escort RS1600i 1984 - Ford Escort RS...
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    RS1600) 1974 RAC Rally (Ford Escort RS1600) 1974 Rallye Côte d'Ivoire (Ford Escort RS1600) 1975 RAC Rally (Ford Escort RS1800) 1976 Rallye Côte d'Ivoire...
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  • for Drivers was won by Ari Vatanen driving a Rothmans Rally Team Ford Escort RS1800, the only time a privateer team has won the Drivers' Championship...
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    manufacturers' title with the Fiat 131 Abarth in 1977, 1978 and 1980, Ford with its Escort RS1800 in 1979 and Talbot with its Sunbeam Lotus in 1981. Waldegård...
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    Munari – as a result, Waldegård left Lancia and joined Ford in late 1976. Driving Ford Escort RS1800 models, Waldegård won three of the world's most punishing...
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    Roger Clark Stuart Pegg Ford Escort RS1800 1977 25th Lombard RAC Rally York Björn Waldegård Hans Thorszelius Ford Escort RS1800 1978 26th Lombard RAC Rally...
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  • the creation of machines based on the Citroën Xantia, Peugeot 306 or Ford Escort RS2000. A third division was added, for two-wheel drive cars up to 1...
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    Ford Mondeo Mk 2 1.6 88 bhp (Engine codes: L1N, L1Q) Ford Fiesta Mk 3 1992–1995 (1.6 90 bhp Si) (1.8 105 bhp S/XR2i 16V) (1.8 130 bhp RS1800) Ford Escort...
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    Fiesta RS1800. The Orion also received the same changes, only for the name to be shelved a year later and the saloon models absorbed into the Escort range...
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    Gordini engine), DAF 555 Coupé 4WD (with a Ford engine), DAF 66M (with Ford engine), Toyota Corolla, Ford Escort RS1800 and Audi Quattro. Dutch International...
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    Robson G., "Ford Escort RS1800" Rally Giants, page 16, Veloce Publishing Ltd, 2008, ISBN 1845841409, 9781845841409. Robson G., "Ford Escort RS1800" Rally Giants...
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  • his privateer 1981 World Drivers' Championship success aboard the Ford Escort RS1800. The association with Prodrive would last until 1992, when their sponsorship...
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    Cosworth (redirect from Ford Cosworth)
    Escort RS Cosworth, but also in the creation of other Ford models; the Escort RS1600, Escort RS1800, RS200, and Scorpio 2.9i 24V. In the US, the name has...
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    Waldegård Ford Escort RS1800 2 7 112 1 1980  West Germany Walter Röhrl Fiat 131 Abarth 4 6 118 54 1981  Finland Ari Vatanen Ford Escort RS1800 3 5 96 7...
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  • Championship Co-Drivers' champions List of World Rally Championship records Ford Motor Company Limited, a British registered company, was the winning manufacturer...
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    His hat-trick of wins was followed by Hannu Mikkola's successes in a Ford Escort TC. In 1968, Castrol produced a film titled Flying Finns, documenting...
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  • Sport Fiat 131 Abarth FSO Polonez 2000 Rally Ford Escort RS1600 Ford Escort RS1800 Ford Escort RS2000 Ford Escort BDA Ferrari 308 GTB Sunbeam Avenger 1600...
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    Björn Waldegård Hans Thorszelius Ford Escort RS1800 6 h : 42 m : 40 s 2 Hannu Mikkola Arne Hertz Ford Escort RS1800 6 h : 44 m : 8 s 3 Markku Alén Ilkka...
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    excursions included rallying a Ford Zodiac in Eastern Europe, a Ford Capri in the Tour of Britain; and a Ford Escort attached to a Sprite Alpine to compete...
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    machinery. Ford had a long and successful history in rallying, winning the World Rally Championship (WRC) in 1979 with the Ford Escort RS1800 and drivers...
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    Martin Schanche, (Ford RS200 E2) drove 3 ½ laps (1 lap = 1,400 m) in 2:28.8 Minutes during the 1990 FIA ERC round Sverre Isachsen, (Ford Focus T16 4X4),...
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    section of the rally (Sintra), in the "Lagoa Azul" stage, Portuguese works Ford rally driver Joaquim Santos came over a crest in his RS200 getting too loose...
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  • Abarth 1978* Russell Brookes Chris Porter Ford Escort RS1800 1979 Hannu Mikkola Arne Hertz Ford Escort RS1800 1980 Timo Salonen Seppo Harjanne Datsun 160J...
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