No matter what the competition, the climate, the surface, the conditions, or the country; the Ford Escort was consistently successful, at all levels of the sport. Even the less modified Group 1 Escorts (sometimes called 'showroom' category cars) were victorious. Memorably, there were three consecutive outright wins by Escort RS2000s in the 1974, 1975 and 1976 Tours of Britain, multi-discipline endurance events that combined racing with long-distance rallying.