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As we reported a couple of weeks ago, Gymkhana hero Ken Block will race for Ford in the WRC next year.
This is good news... unless you're James May, who is currently refusing to answer his phone in case Mr Block is on the look-out for a co-driver.
If you're wondering how he'll will fare against the likes of Sebastien ‘Driving God' Loeb, Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala, take a look at this clip of the Blockster in action, breaking his own stage record at the New England Forest Rally in his Impreza STI.
It is, as the Welsh say, proper tidy. We love the quad headlights peeking out above the bonnet, too.
So, on the basis of this evidence, do you think Block is quick enough to challenge Super Seb in the WRC? Thoughts please. And roll on 2010...
Video: Block and load
Our quest for increasingly tortuous Ken Block-related headlines continues with this excellent rally clip
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KMTV commented on this article
at 12:21 pm on 30 October 2009
Hmm, I wonder if he's more showman than sportsman. It'll be interesting to see how he handles a fully fledged WRC car up against the established drivers.
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LazyAmerican commented on this article
at 12:34 pm on 30 October 2009
He's definitely a sportsman as well, but he'll need to take less chances than he usually does. He can wreck out of a stage going for broke
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arginite commented on this article
at 01:23 pm on 30 October 2009
He should be good, but not a challenge to the top ranking drivers.
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kartmaster4213 commented on this article
at 02:50 pm on 30 October 2009
I was out in the stages for rally GB and seeing the way that loeb and hirvonen could go full on balls out fast over some of those crests and narrow corners i don't think that mr block could touch them, even if he was in a more competitive car than a scooby.
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Mikeado commented on this article
at 03:19 pm on 30 October 2009
Well first he'll need to get used to a non-Subaru, which may or may not be tricky. Then he will need to sharpen his skills on dirt rather than on a runway full of cones, becuase he needs to get used to all sorts of surfaces, rather than just American dirt - loose, slippy, snow & ice - (although I don't know how many of those he'll have come across in Rally America). He won't be instantly dominant, but give him a few years and he'll be up there at the top. Once Monsieur Loeb retires.
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