Automotive icon and entrepreneur Ken Block has died aged 55 following a snowmobile accident, leaving behind his wife and three children - KenBlock
pick-up because he lives up in the mountains. However, there is one other Ford that I know he’s got in his garage and, because I own one myself, I can’t resist asking him about it.
Honesty, self-deprecation, an appreciation not only for historic Escorts but rear-wheel drive in general – this answer endeared him to me enormously, as you can imagine. I spoke to a few of the Hoonigan Racing mechanics that look after his cars and the Escort is by all accounts fairly extraordinary, with a rear end that wouldn’t look out of place on a WRC car. Should be interesting. Talking of WRC, I ask Block about the differences he experienced between rallying in America and in the WRC.
‘I still enjoy it. Last year I got a seventh overall [in Mexico] and I’m still really proud of being able to race and be in the top ten in the WRC, but unfortunately a lot of other people had these really crazy expectations that I was going to go battle Loeb or something, and believe me, I’m far off ever being able to do that! But it’s been great.
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