Ford's factory return to the WRC gives DirtFish twenty-five times its usual start

The explainer landed in the same week as a three-way title decider in Sardinia, and its comment section quickly turned into a wish list of brands rally fans want back.

Channel: DirtFishStory of October 2, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 80,091 views a day, 25 times a normal first day on this channel (3,175).

Ford is back in rallying after 16 years. Why?

"Ford is back in rallying after 16 years. Why?" is DirtFish's explainer on the news that the Blue Oval will return to the World Rally Championship as an official factory team. The comeback is set for 2028, with a new car being built for the regulations the series brings in for 2029. Ten hours after it went up, the video had nearly 50,000 views. That puts it on course for about twenty-five times a usual first day for the rally outlet.

"Back" needs a little unpacking, because Ford cars never really left the stages. After the factory effort that won the manufacturers' titles in 2006 and 2007, the British team M-Sport kept Ford-badged machinery in the championship, from the Fiesta to the Puma Rally1. The video's description frames the real question as what Ford's plan is this time, and why now.

That history is what the comment section keeps returning to. Several viewers ask whether this means a Ford works operation alongside M-Sport, and others credit M-Sport for keeping Ford's flag flying through the years without full support. The most-liked comment wishes Subaru would follow. Others go further and draw up a list that reads like a poster from an old bedroom wall: Peugeot, Mitsubishi, Lancia, Citroën, Škoda. A few grumble that Ford's road cars lean toward SUVs, the new Capri among them. One hopes Ott Tänak might return in some role.

The timing gave the channel a story outside its own calendar. DirtFish's week was built around the season finale in Sardinia, where Elfyn Evans, Sami Pajari and Oliver Solberg went in with a shot at the title. The Ford explainer has already drawn about three times the views of the channel's title-decider preview, which went up three days earlier.

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The numbers

For a rally channel whose new videos usually open to a few thousand views, this first day stands well apart.

the video's first day

usual first day here

3,175

this video

80,091

subscribers

438,000

total views

154,659,516

views per day

121,300

typical day: 200,016

the video

views

49,627

likes

1,221

comments

146

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

The Story Till Now

502,000

Live The Dash

468,000

DirtFish

438,000

Edwin Olding

410,000

All 4 Adventure

397,000

Tsumi

384,000

As of October 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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