Earlier this week we reviewed the Focus RS, Ford’s hottest hatch and the best performance car to come from the Blue Oval in quite some time. Unlike RS Fords past, the Focus RS wasn’t built to satisfy the homologation requirements of a particular racing series. But it turns out there is a competition version, developed in a partnership between Ford Performance, the UK’s M-Sport, and Ken Block’s Hoonigan Racing outfit. Meet the Ford Focus RS RX.

The Focus RS RX competes in the FIA World Rallycross Championship, a series similar to the Red Bull Global Rallycross, although the former is concentrated in Europe as opposed to the US. To find out more about the Focus RS RX, we spoke with Ford Performance Motorsports Supervisor Brian Novak, who happens to be a huge old-school computer nerd and Ars reader.

Ford has been competing in Global Rallycross with a Ford Fiesta—the car we rode in back in July at Red Bull’s round in Washington, DC. But the Focus RS RX is all-new. Novak told us: