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Ford Focus RS WRC - Roman Kresta - Rally Australia 2005

This was originally supposed to be the first non-Finn skin here on this site. I promised my friend Voittanen to make this skin as a thank you for him, as he found me one tricky logo in the rear wing for the previously released Gardemeister skin. The logo in question is the L. M. Gianetti one. I know you guys would've lost your sleep over it if I did not tell that. Right, judging from the results it was an "allright" rally for Roman, nothing crazy spectacular results wise. He finished 6th in the rally, as some of the bigger names (Grönholm, Loeb & Solberg) dropped out of the rally. Voittanen was able to tell me, that the Ford boys were impressed with the new Focus in the rally, but they were not allowed to have full power early on in the rally, to maximise the testing kilometers for the car. Understandably. Apparently later in the rally they got to put the engines in to full power mode. The fact that Roman set very good times on the last few stages do make t...

Ford Focus RS WRC - Toni Gardemeister - Rally Australia 2005

In a way one-off livery. In a way absolutely not. Well, this is the 2005 Ford team livery from Gardemeister's car. But the car is from 2006? Well as 2005 championships were settled already before Australia and with new regulations coming for 2006, Ford decided to bring out it's 2006 weapon for a test on the 2005 season finale. Although it wasn't initially designed for this very car, I like the livery very much. Hence why I made it. Toni's rally was not the greatest. Well to be honest the car built for new (read: slower) specs played it's part too. But Toni seemed to be struggling somewhat as well. He set a few competitive stage times here and there but he wasn't able to consistently challenge for the stage wins. With other drivers suffering from various misfortunes, Toni was able to climb all the way to fifth, before his engine overheated on the penultimate stage and he had to retire from the rally. Oh and yes, this was the only rally, where this car was s...