That is the story of the Ford Focus TCR: the way it got here to be; why it turned one of many first TCR challenge to be scrapped, and likewise its origins, that are partly in a TC1-specification WTCC automobile that by no means bought off the drafting board.

First, let’s wind again to the place it began, and that’s on the finish of one thing else — the collapse of an earlier WTCC challenge, the Ford Focus S2000 TC and Enviornment Motorsport.