FH6 Ford Focus ST 2022 Objective: Use a Custom Race, Not the Map Event

Stuck on the Forza Horizon 6 Ford Focus ST 2022 objective? Map road races keep a default car-class restriction that blocks the car. Run a Custom Race against Drivatars instead — here's the exact setup.

The Ford Focus ST 2022 objective has tripped up a lot of new players, and the reason is sneakier than it looks. The community has found that the problem usually isn’t the car — it’s the event restriction quietly blocking it. You drive the right car into the right race, finish clean, and nothing registers. That’s not bad luck; it’s Forza Horizon 6 judging cars by its own database tags rather than by what you, a reasonable human, think a hot hatch is. The fix is to stop hunting the map and run a Custom Race instead.

Why the default map event fights you

Some map events keep a default car-class restriction after your first run — and that restriction can be narrower than the objective itself. A road race might lock to Super Hot Hatch while the Focus ST sits in the plain Hot Hatch bucket. To you they’re both two-door pocket rockets. To the game they’re different categories, and the stricter one wins.

This is a very FH6 kind of trap: players read cars the way real life reads them, and the game reads a tag. Once you accept that, the workaround is obvious — bypass the default restriction and set the car class yourself.

The fix: run it as a Custom Race

Pick a blue road race you’ve already completed, then don’t just hit “start” on the default event.

1. Open the event screen.
2. Skip the default race.
3. Choose Custom Race.
4. Change the car restriction so the Ford Focus ST 2022 is eligible.
5. Keep the class the objective requires — if it asks for B class, leave it at B; don’t bump it to A.
6. Run the race and finish it normally.

That’s it. The Custom Race option runs offline: your opponents are Drivatars, and the difficulty follows your own settings. Players are clear that this is not an online race and not EventLab — it’s a configurable version of an event you’ve already cleared. Worth saying, because the word “custom” makes a lot of people assume online lobbies or a build editor.

Still not completing? Work the checklist

Some players report doing all this and still not getting the tick. If that’s you, resist the urge to change cars — the specified car is almost always correct. Instead, work through the variables one at a time:

• Try a different completed road race.
• Confirm the objective is actually active that day.
• Keep the car at the required class — don’t tune it past the limit.
• Restart the game, then run it again.
• If the objective calls for a road race, don’t gamble on a street or off-road event.

If you’re running a Custom Race but built it on the wrong event type, it may not count either. Match the discipline the objective names, not just the car.

The takeaway for future objectives

Treat this as a template, not a one-off. Next time an objective says “complete event X in car Y,” don’t grind the map looking for a race that will let the car in. Ask two questions first:

• What is this car’s in-game class and category?
• Can a Custom Race let me set the restriction so the car qualifies?

If the answer to the second is yes, go straight to Custom Race and save yourself the trial and error. FH6’s objective system doesn’t punish you for driving slowly — it punishes you for not guessing its classification logic. If you’re new to all of this, the beginner guide covers how classes and events fit together, the car database shows where any model actually sits, and the Forzathon and Festival Playlist guide explains the wider objective economy these tasks plug into.

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