Being the daughter of Ken Block has its perks and as this video reveals, that includes having the opportunity to drive some pretty epic cars while receiving tutelage from the rally driver himself.
While many of us remain in lockdown, Block recently made the trip to Utah with his 13-year-old daughter Lia and had some fun at a drift pad at the Utah Motorsports Campus.
Lia has a little bit of racing experience under her belt and was handed the keys to Block’s custom-built Ford Escort Gymkhana car which we’re sure isn’t particularly easy to drive, let alone drive sideways. But first, Block gave his daughter some instructions from the driver’s seat about how to kick out the tail of the car and maintain a slide.
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For the first portion of the video, Block teaches his daughter the art of slamming on the brakes of the Ford, pressing in the clutch, accelerating, and then dumping the clutch to initiate a slide. In the second half, it’s time to start using the handbrake or as we like to call it, the ‘fun handle.’
Block first started rallying in this very Ford Escort back in 2008 but since then it has been transformed into a rear-wheel drive Gymkhana car. Power is provided by a 2.5-liter naturally-aspirated four-cylinder engine that produces 355 hp and revs to a dizzying 9,000 rpm.
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