Motorsport is all about getting people to buy cars. In Ford’s case, it’s trying really rather hard to make American’s think small, and buy its really rather good new Fiesta.

So as well as lending various bloggers cars as part of its Fiesta Movement campaign, ahead of the car’s launch in the US in 2010, Ford has also entered a two-car Fiesta team the Pike’s Peak Hill climb race on July 19th.

The cars will be driven by rally cross nutter Andreas Eriksson, and rally legend Marcus Grönholm.

As you’d expect, the Fiestas that will take on the 12.4 miles and 156 corners of the Pike’s Peak course aren’t exactly a run of the mill Zetec S models.

The cars are prepared by Swedish team Olsbergs MSE, and are based more closely on the Ford Focus WRC car. But thanks to the liberal “unlimited” class that the Fiestas will run in, the 2.0-litre engines will put out more than 800hp, shooting the cars from 0-62mph in just 2.8 seconds.