History will be made on Vodafone Rally de Portugal this week when the new-for-2011 FIA WRC Academy breaks cover.
The eagerly anticipated young driver training series, a joint initiative between the FIA, motorsport’s world governing body, and WRC promoter North One Sport, replaces the Junior World Rally Championship. But the WRC Academy’s revolutionary format means that this is no straightforward replacement.
Rather than being allowed to pick and choose their cars and teams as was the case with the JWRC, all 20 drivers currently registered for the WRC Academy will do so in identical Ford Fiesta R2s prepared by the British M-Sport organisation from a facility in Krakow, Poland, and run on Pirelli control tyres. This places the onus firmly on driving talent.
Credit: World Rally Championship (www.wrc.com)
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