BLOCK & ATKINSON, RWD PRACTICE
A Rally video, from last month, has DC Co-Founder and Rally Team Member Ken Block having a bit of fun in a vintage rear wheel drive Ford Escort at Team O’Neal’s Rally School in New Hampshire. World Rally Championship driver, Chris Atkinson joined Block for the practice and video that resulted, now live at dcshoes.com/auto.
Block purchased the vintage rear-wheel-drive rally car to practice and have fun in. Wanting to broaden his rally skills, the Euro-only-spec 1978 Ford Escort MK2 helps him let loose in a few non-Rally America Championship events. With 280 BHP, the car boasts a four-cylinder Millington engine, sequential gearbox with paddle shift and was converted from right-hand drive.
Block took the car to Team O’Neil’s Rally School in July 2009 to put the vintage rally car through it’s paces, and Former Subaru World Rally Team driver Chris Atkinson joined Block to break it in. Neither Block nor Atkinson have much experience in RWD cars, so the rally session and video is a good look at the two of them to flip flopping between the driver and passenger seats.
Ken Block will be out in action next weekend in the Ford Escort Mk2 on the International Rally New York.
Meanwhile, according to UK publication Motorsport News, Block is thought to be considering the possibility of starting his own team, to contest selected rounds in 2010 WRC and a full season in 2011. The DC Shoes co-owner is said to be currently in talks with Malcolm Wilson about running an M-Sport Monster Energy Drink supported Ford Focus WRC next year. Chris Atkinson is being linked to drive the second car in the team.
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