A few days ago, The Drive told we about Ken Block’s 2018 racing schedule. One of Block’s racing goals for 2018 is to take his Ford Escort Cosworth Group A convene automobile to a few U.S. theatre convene races. During Hoonigan’s many new part of a Field Trip series, Block took a automobile to Hungry Valley, California to give a automobile a scold shakedown.
The 1991 Ford Escort Cosworth Group A convene automobile has indeed been used to film a nonetheless to be expelled Gymkhana 10 and during a exam still defended a Gymkhana 10 livery. The automobile is mostly duration scold with a difference of a Hoonigan branded palm brake. Block will be pushing a automobile during 3 theatre convene events: Oregon Trail Rally, Apr 20-22, New England Forest Rally, Jul 20-21, and a Idaho Rally International, Sept. 15-16.
Helping Block with a convene automobile exam was his Hoonigan Racing Division organisation as good as co-driver Alex Gelsomino who has been co-driving for Block for scarcely 12 years and about 107 rallys. Block and Gelsomino start by recce-ing a roads, that means using a convene march to emanate a set of gait notes—a reconnoitering run.
The twin eventually heads out for a competition gait run and finds out issues with a automobile that apparently need to be bound before it is competition ready.
“Half approach by a stage, we get an blunder with a diffs. So when we lift a handbrake instead of removing a good initial slip into a dilemma and removing a good spin in how we wish it, a front wheels only close adult and we go straight.” Block laughs about.
Check out Hoonigan’s newest Field Trip part “Ken Block Ford Escort Cosworth RS Gravel Testing” below.