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Mountune Racing
Industryautomotive engineering
Founded1980
OwnerRevolve Technologies Ltd
Websitemountuneracing.com

Mountune Racing is a specialist automotive engineering company. It was formed in 1980 in Maldon, Essex by David Mountain[1] to provide Mini race engines.

In the late 1980s, Mountune started preparing Cosworth YB engines for numerous motorsport championships. David Mountain quickly realised the potential of this twin cam, 4 valve turbocharged engine and started development for race and rally applications. Mountune’s team of engineers worked closely with Ford’s own motorsport group based at the Boreham facility in the UK to supply various works teams and hundreds of privateers with Ford YB engines, forging a long-term association with Ford Motor Company.

In 1990, the Mountune powered Ford Sierra RS500 of Robb Gravett won the British Touring Car Championship, resulting in Mountune supplying race winning engines to customers around the world. In the early ’90s, Group A rallying was the pinnacle of its sport and the works Escort Cosworth’s were all powered by Mountune built, 2-litre Ford YB engines.

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 both Ford and Subaru engines for the British Touring Car Championship.

Drivers who have used Mountune engines include, Robb Gravett, Stig Blomqvist, Colin McRae, Mohammed bin Sulayem, François Delecour, Carlos Sainz Sr., 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.[2] In 2008, after a Roush Europe management buyout, the parent company became Revolve Technologies Ltd.

Highlights

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Calor Gas powered 2 litre Ford Duratec, built and prepared by Mountune Racing
year accomplishment
1990 British Touring Car Championship Group A
1992 British Rally Championship Group N
1993 Four wins in the World Rally Championship
1994 Monte Carlo Rally
1995 European and British Formula Ford Championships
1996 British Rally Championship
1997 Two wins in the FIA World Rally Championship
1998 FIA Middle-East Rally Championship
1999 Safari Rally Kenya
1999 Portugal Rally
2000 FIA Middle-East Rally Championship
2002 Monte Carlo Rally Super 1600
2003 Touring car lap record at Macau
2004 LMP1 Le Mans diesel sports prototype
2005 Formula Ford Duratec
2006 European GT3 with Damax
2007 2-litre S2000 Ford Duratec engine design and development for Ford Australia Super 2000 Fiesta in Australian Rally Championship
2007 Yamaha R1 Superbike engine design and development for Jentin Racing in the British Superbike Championship
2007 2-litre Mitsubishi engine design and development Emotive/Lola for its US single seater programme
2008 Jaguar XKR V8 s/c engine design and development for Jaguar Cars in the FIA European GT3 Championship
2009 V6 BTCS engine design, development and builds for Chad/Kia in BTCS
2009 F2 Championship engine design, development and builds for FIA F2 Championship
2009 BTCC engine design, development and builds for Arena Motorsport Focus ST
2016 BTCC Independent Champions with Motorbase, 13 wins for Mountune powered cars (7 for Motorbase, 6 for BMR Subaru)

References

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  1. ^ "About us". Mountune Racing. Archived from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Roush acquires Mountune". Aftermarket News. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2008.
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