As technical director of the BP Ford World Rally Team, Loriaux was responsible for the most successful World Rally Cars of 2007: the Ford Focus RS WRC 07 and its closely related predecessor, the ’06.

Loriaux joined the team in December 2001. The experienced Belgian heads the 15-strong engineering department responsible for the development of the Focus RS World Rally Cars at M-Sport, based in Cockermouth, UK.

Loriaux’s motorsport career started in 1991 when he joined Banbury-based Prodrive as a design engineer. He became chief engineer there in 1998, and was responsible for the Subaru Impreza WRC that took the late Richard Burns to the world title in 2001. His decision to join Ford was regarded as a major coup for the squad; his first car for the team was the radical and highly praised 2003 Focus RS WRC.