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M-Sport targets more ERC success with revamped Fiesta
M-Sport is aiming to build on its winning finish to the 2025 FIA European Rally Championship by unleashing an updated Ford Fiesta Rally2 for 2026.
After Jon Armstrong completed last season with victories on JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion and Croatia Rally, British firm M-Sport has revealed details of the latest evolution of the multiple title-winning Fiesta Rally2.
In a press release issued today, M-Sport confirmed that the car will feature “a range of performance and reliability enhancements, including engine and electrical updates, revised suspension geometry, improved cockpit cooling, a new rear brake cooling kit, and a lightweight components package”.
It stated that: “Initial production of the upgrade components has been allocated to new car sales, with a limited first batch of upgrade kits subsequently made available to existing Fiesta Rally2 customers for pre-order, ahead of April delivery”.
Jürgenson will showcase the uprated Fiesta during the 2026 season
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Romet Jürgenson, who finished second to Armstrong on JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion in September, has been tasked with putting the upgraded Fiesta through its paces on the opening three rounds of the FIA World Rally Championship, “following extensive development work with the M-Sport engineering team throughout 2025”, according to M-Sport.
Armstrong’s JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion victory marked the first for the Fiesta in the ERC since Adrien Fourmaux won Rally Islas Canarias in November 2020 and helped him to secure the runner-up spot in the final ERC standings.
