He’s again. Once more. For the fourth time in his profession, Carlos Sainz begins one other Ford journey at this week’s Rallye du Maroc.
The Spaniard joined Ford’s Dakar program in Could, however subsequent week’s World Rally-Raid Championship finale offers a maiden aggressive outing within the Raptor. Sainz might need turned a web page, began a brand new chapter, however his storied time with Ford and M-Sport is worthy of a ebook in itself.
We don’t have house for that ebook, however we do have house to think about 5 nice moments in his time with Ford to date. Right here goes – and these are in chronological, reasonably than ranked, order.
1983 Formulation Ford Competition
This one’s a contact disingenuous, but it surely was a 1600cc Ford Kent engine which powered the then 21-year-old into the motorsport limelight and on a path in direction of the highlight. He drove a Madgwick Motorsport Van Diemen RF83 Scholar on the Manufacturers Hatch-based occasion within the fall, ending fourth in his warmth to maneuver into the quarter-final. That was so far as he would get, but it surely helped him ease his method into the Formulation Ford 2000 sequence within the UK in 1984.
“I don’t keep in mind a lot about that [Festival],” Sainz advised DirtFish. “For me, rallying was at all times the precedence, but it surely was harder to seek out sponsorship in Spain to go rallying – for racing it was just a little bit simpler.”
