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Originally Posted by crmalcolm
The contract to build/tune engines for the Ford Motorsport WRC contract.
In 1997 Ford selected M-Sport to run their WRC campaign.
In 1998 Ford selected M-Sport to design and build the Focus RS WRC.
When the Focus RS WRC was launched, Mountune were a long way along the development path, so continued as the engine builder/tuner for the 1999 season.
Then, during 1999, M-Sport took the engine tuning contract for the Ford Motorsport away from Mountune and gave it to Cosworth.
This eventually was then given to Pipo for the initial build, with M-Sport taking the rebuild in-house.
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As it was a factory team, the change of engine builder is usually down to the car manufacturer rather than the team running the cars. As far as I am aware the engine build programme went directly from Mountune to Pipo.