The star of Ken Block’s future Gymkhana video clip – an Audi S1 e-tron quattro electrical warm hatch encouraged by a Pikes Peak racer – is ready for its first general public appearance.
Drift king and stunt driver Ken Block is producing the switch to electric power, with an all-new hero motor vehicle he is about to display in community for the initially time.
Block will pull the wraps off his new drift partner — officially the Audi S1 e-tron quattro Hoonitron — at the Laguna Seca racing circuit around Monterey in California all through the annual Automobile 7 days celebrations from 17-21 August.
The new Hoonitron will then star in the next instalment of his Gymkhana online video sequence, ‘Electrikhana’, ahead of the close of the calendar year.
The Hoonitron e-tron is a main improvement for Block on lots of fronts, as it alerts his switch from Ford to Audi — immediately after starting his Gymkhana occupation with Subaru in an Impreza WRX — as properly as his move to electric energy.
Initial described by Generate past December, the new Hoonitron is also Block’s very first function-built drift car or truck, commencing from a specially-built carbon fibre chassis and including two electric powered motors for its signature quattro all-wheel generate.
The automobile was developed and designed by Audi in Germany and motivated by the famous Audi Activity Quattro S1 that conquered the Pikes Peak hillclimb in Colorado in 1987 with Walter Rohrl — now a manufacturer ambassador for Porsche — driving.
Block examination drove his new vehicle in Germany in non-public right before it was shipped to the United states for his Electrikhana function, but couple of other facts have emerged.
The reveal in California in the course of the Monterey Motorsport Reunion, just one of the world’s premier once-a-year gatherings of historic racing cars and trucks, is anticipated to deliver the very first reliable details — and maybe even the headline ability determine for the automobile.
The e-tron Hoonitron will be joined at Laguna Seca by the primary Audi Sport quattro S1, which nevertheless retains the report for the fastest time on the Pikes Peak climb — 10 minutes 48 seconds — when the function was continue to totally run on a gravel surface area.
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