M-Sport, the team behind Ford’s FIA World Rally Championship programme, is delighted to announce registrations are now open for the Fiesta SportTrophy UK (FST UK) and Fiesta SportChallenge (FSC).

Norway’s Steve Røkland celebrated his victory at last week’s FST International Shootout by taking to the wheel of a Ford Fiesta S2000 alongside M-Sport Stobart Ford driver Matthew Wilson.

Wilson found himself in the co-driver's seat as he offered advice to the FST Sweden champion who drove M-Sport’s award-winning car around a specially constructed rally stage at Carlisle airfield.

Both the Fiesta SportTrophy and SportChallenge 2011 Champions were in action at Carlisle Airfield on Friday as the pairing received their prize of a test in the Ford Fiesta RS WRC and Ford Fiesta S2000 respectively.

FST Champion, Osian Pryce, and FSC Champion, Jack Rowe, were both been competing in Cumbria this week; Pryce as part of the Pirelli Star Driver Shootout near Penrith and Rowe as part of the sixth annual Fiesta SportTrophy International Shootout at M-Sport Ltd.

Reigning Swedish Fiesta SportTrophy Champion Steve Røkland has finished his season on a high by winning the 2011 FST International Shootout, held on Wednesday and Thursday this week at M-Sport in Cumbria.

Røkland  from Kongsvinger in Norway beat off stiff competition from 13 other finalists to take the victory at the sixth annual Shootout.  He was joined in the final six by fellow Norwegian Petter Kristiansen, Britain’s Jack Rowe and Phil Scholes and Belgian duo Hugo Arellano and Manu Canal.

Last weekend saw the successful debut of the all-new Ford Fiesta MS1 as, piloted by the 2010 FST International Shootout winner Stephen Barker, Ford and M-Sport’s latest global rally car assumed the role of Course Car on the Coppermines Grizedale Stages Rally in South Cumbria.

Based in the Grizedale Forest, the 40 mile event also marked Barker’s competitive debut on British soil. Partnered by fellow M-Sport employee, Richard Millener, the duo successfully navigated the tricky stages to secure an unofficial time which would have placed them inside the top 15 as the 4^th2WD car overall - a huge achievement for Barker and the MS1 alike.