Mountune Racing

Mountune Racing is a specialist automotive engineering company. It was formed in 1980 by Dave Mountain to provide Mini race engines.

In the late 1980s, Mountune started preparing Cosworth YB engines for motorsport, producing numerous championships, and forging a long-term association with Ford Motor Company.

To date, Mountune has supplied engines for road and rally racing, supporting championship teams from Ford, Formula Palmer Audi, Ascari and Petronas/Proton. In 2009, they were contracted to build the new Audi race engines for the new FIA Formula Two Championship. The company currently provides Ford engines for the British Touring Car Championship.

Drivers who have used Mountune engines include, Stig Blomqvist, Colin McRae, Mohammed bin Sulayem, François Delecour, Carlos Sainz, Malcolm Wilson, Pentti Airikkala, Robbie Head, Miki Biasion, Gwyndaf Evans, Juha Kankkunen, Tommi Mäkinen, Guy Smith and Tom Chilton.

The company was acquired by Roush Industries in 2004, joining expertise and premises with Roush Europe in Brentwood, England.[1] In 2008, after a Roush Europe management buyout, the parent company became Revolve Technologies Ltd.

Highlights

yearaccomplishment
1992British Rally Championship Group N
1993Four wins in the World Rally Championship
1994Monte Carlo Rally
1995European and British Formula Ford Championships
1996British Rally Championship
1997Two wins in the FIA World Rally Championship
1998FIA Middle-East Rally Championship
1999Safari Rally Kenya
1999 Portugal Rally
2000FIA Middle-East Rally Championship
2002Monte Carlo Rally Super 1600
2003Touring Car lap record at Macau
2004LMP1 Le Mans diesel sports prototype
2005Formula Ford Duratec
2006European GT3 with Damax
20072-litre S2000 Ford Duratec Engine design and development for Ford Australia Super 2000 Fiesta in Australian Rally Championship
2007Yamaha R1 Superbike engine design and development for Jentin Racing in the British Superbike Championship
20072-litre Mitsubishi engine design and development Emotive/Lola for its US single seater programme
2008Jaguar XKR V8 s/c engine design and development for Jaguar Cars in the FIA European GT3 Championship
2009V6 BTCS engine design, development and builds for Chad/Kia in BTCS
2009F2 Championship engine design, development and builds for FIA F2 Championship
2009BTCC engine design, development and builds for Arena Motorsport Focus ST

References

  1. "Roush acquires Mountune". Aftermarket News. Retrieved 8 April 2008.

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