After two years of a partnership that
had M-SPORT and Ford behind the Ford Focus
RS RX of Hoonigan Racing Division, the team
announced that all parties will leave the FIA World
Rallycross Championship once the current season ends.
Ken Block and Andreas
Bakkerud, the current drivers of the program, came on social
media to announce the end of the commitment, while Dave
Pericak, Director of Ford Performance, said it was time to
take a break and move on.
The team leaves the championship with
three wins in its debut season with Andreas Bakkerud, one of the only
drivers who was able to put a fight to the Solberg-Ekström battle,
and this put him on third in the standings, and the team had four
other podiums in 2016. Even though Bakkerud still achieved four
podiums this year, the Focus RS RX wasn't on par with the top runners
to fight for a win, and while Block was often in the semifinals, he
didn't go past of it in 2017.
As for the future, Block will now
commit to his usual Gymkhana GRID events and videos, and next year he
will switch to rallying again, with the new machine to be revealed
soon. Bakkerud still has to sort out where he would go, as he is
again left searching for a ride, like in the circumstances that let
him made the move from Olsbergs MSE to Hoonigan.
Their final World RX event is the Cape
Town RX in South Africa on November 10th.
PHOTO - Andreas Bakkerud
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