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2003 will see the
eighth season for the Kumho Tyres Ford Fiesta XR2
Championship. The cars all began life as road going 1600cc
XR2s and apart from a roll cage, fire extinguisher system
and various minor modifications, including stripping most
of the interior, remain much the same. You can often see
the original road car dashboard, steering wheel, etc on a
racing XR2, just to show how
 close
they remain to the road cars that they started life as.
The cars run on a control Kumho tyre and the parity of the
car configurations allow for close and exciting racing,
with the onus very much on driver skill to make it to the
front of the field.
This class
of racing is one of the best on offer by the SMRC and
provides entertaining battles right down the field (well,
except for the lead - hopefully that'll change next
season!) every time. In fact, the high quality of racing,
and the low budget required to get started, make it so
popular that regularly an extra qualifying race is
required just to whittle the field down to the maximum
amount of 28 allowed in the Championship race!.
 In
2002
Nick Sanderson
especially had a great year, with by far the most
competitive form of his XR2 career and he was unlucky to
finish outside the top five in the standings. |
