Immediately after having clinched his fifth 100 Acre Woods Rally, American Ken Block and his team flew to Mexico, to prepare for their first World Rally Championship event driving a Ford Focus RS WRC.
Mexico is the first of seven WRC rounds Ken Block will tackle this year.
X-Games maestro Block only had one freezing/muddy day to test out his new Monster WRC Ford Focus, a car vastly different from the Fiesta he drives in the America Rally series.
The test took place in Greystoke Forest, near the M-Sport headquarters in Cumbria, England, two weeks ago. In the morning, the drivers were greeted with snow-covered roads and below freezing temperatures. Not exactly ideal conditions for Mexico testing!
The day was shaping up to be a repeat of a previously aborted test that was snowed out, but the midday sun came out to melt the ice and frost, allowing the team to successfully put in a much needed 170km of seat time before their inaugural WRC Event.
"This weekend in Mexico I'll be up against the greatest rally drivers on earth and, believe me, I will be truly humbled because I am basically a novice in the WRC," Block admitted.
"I'm on a good development process to get to the top level and it's going to take a while but I'm going to do my best. It's going to be an incredible experience."
Mexico is the first of seven WRC rounds Ken Block will tackle this year.
X-Games maestro Block only had one freezing/muddy day to test out his new Monster WRC Ford Focus, a car vastly different from the Fiesta he drives in the America Rally series.
The test took place in Greystoke Forest, near the M-Sport headquarters in Cumbria, England, two weeks ago. In the morning, the drivers were greeted with snow-covered roads and below freezing temperatures. Not exactly ideal conditions for Mexico testing!
The day was shaping up to be a repeat of a previously aborted test that was snowed out, but the midday sun came out to melt the ice and frost, allowing the team to successfully put in a much needed 170km of seat time before their inaugural WRC Event.
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"This weekend in Mexico I'll be up against the greatest rally drivers on earth and, believe me, I will be truly humbled because I am basically a novice in the WRC," Block admitted.
"I'm on a good development process to get to the top level and it's going to take a while but I'm going to do my best. It's going to be an incredible experience."