Ford Motorsport has become known to all of us as one of the best teams to ever participate in motorsport events. I’ve been a witness of some of their triumphant moments in racing and I can say that they were successful for the years that they have joined the games and these years are still counting.

While I was getting some info about Dodge brake pads and the Chevrolet pickup handle relocation kit, I spent some sometime reading on the successful history of Ford Motorsport and what I was reading really caught my interest. By the way, I got the information from ford.co.uk.com and it really gave me the idea of how victorious Ford Motorsport has been from the year 1930 to 2005!

It is awesome knowing that the group started a long time ago and until now, Ford Motorsport continues to make history!

Here are the highlights of Ford Motorsport from 1930 to 2005:

1930s

• V8-engined cars twice won the famous Monte Carlo Rally

• Ford made its mark with a stream of wins by six-cylinder Zephyrs
  
• Maurice Gatsonides won the Monte Carlo Rally

• Victorious on the East African Safari
  
• Won Britain’s RAC Rally

• The Zephyr was replaced by the light but versatile and rugged Cortina
  
• Won the East African Safari
  
• Success on the Acropolis and RAC Rallies
  
• Roger Clark’s Lotus-engined car narrowly missed out on winning the London-Sydney Marathon
  
• Launch of the Escort and the beginning of Ford’s finest chapter in rallying history, winning the Circuit of Ireland, Tulip, Austrian Alpine, Acropolis and Scottish rallies in an eight-week period and then Finland’s 1000 Lakes Rally to help Ford secure the World Rally Championship for Makes
  
• Ford won the world title again

• The Escort RS1600 took over from the Twin-Cam
  
• Special overhead-valve engined cars dominated the 16,000-mile London to Mexico World Cup Rally, finishing first, with Finn Hannu Mikkola taking victory, as well as third, fifth sixth and eighth.
  
• Mikkola won the East African Safari and Clark entered the history books of British rallying by winning the RAC Rally

• Timo Mäkinen won RAC Rally
  
• Timo Mäkinen won RAC Rally in the new-style Mk2 Escort RS1800.
  
• Clark won RAC Rally and with Mikkola and Sweden’s Bjorn Waldegard spearheaded the official Ford team’s international charge over the course of the next few years as the Escort became virtually unbeatable
  
• Waldegard won three punishing world championship rallies: the East African Safari, the Acropolis and RAC events.
  
• Escort swept the board in the championship, winning the manufacturers’ title and the drivers’ crown for Waldegard, who edged out team-mate Mikkola

• From turbocharged RS200 to Ford Sierra
  
• Another Finn, Ari Vatanen, continued Ford’s success with victories in Greece,
  
• Brazil and Finland the first, and only, privateer to win the world drivers’ title.
  
• The introduction of the turbocharged RS200, which won 19 international rallies in the season before more rule changes led to the introduction of the Ford Sierra
  
• Frenchman Didier Auriol scored his maiden world victory on the Tour of Corsica

• The RS Cosworth and the final Escort World Rally Car make way for the Focus

• The new turbocharged four-wheel Escort, the RS Cosworth won in Spain

• The Cosworth won in Britain
  
• Five world championship rounds won by François Delecour, Miki Biasion and Franco Cunico. Delecour finished second in the drivers’ championship and Ford were runners-up in the manufacturers’ series
  
• Victorious in 25 European Championship rounds, as well as national titles in Africa and Austria, Switzerland and Portugal, Finland and Turkey
  
• Final world rally success came in Indonesia in with Carlos Sainz at the wheel
  
• Ford evolved the Escort World Rally Car. Sainz drove it to victory in Greece and Indonesia as the team finished second in the manufacturers’ championship
  
• The end of the season marked the end of the Escort’s career as an official Ford-entered rally car with a remarkable 46 world class wins
  
• Introduction of the Focus as the most technically-advanced rally car ever built, winning only its third event, the demanding Safari Rally, with Colin McRae, who also won the following Rally of Portugal

• The wins continue into the new century
  
• McRae won in Spain and Greece. Sainz victorious in Cyprus. Ford runners-up in the manufacturers' championship

• The team was second again as McRae and Sainz get another six world rally wins
  
• Introduction of a radical and revolutionary new Focus RS World Rally Car which took rally car design and technology to new frontiers. The car was a huge success and Markko Märtin claimed victories in Greece and Finland
  
• Markko Märtin won Rally Mexico. A new evolution was unveiled in April 2004 on Rally New Zealand and Märtin took that to victory on the final two asphalt events of the season in Corsica and Spain
  
• 50th consecutive points finish in the FIA WRC. Since 1973 and 411 world rallies, no other manufacturer has scored in more than 36 consecutive events.