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I’m gutted by the news of Ken Block’s passing today. He was a great ambassador for the sport of rally. .
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. This picture is from last summer’s New England Forest Rally. He was on his second pass of the Concord Pond Stage when he broke the record time for the stage. Intercom problems caused a drop in stage times later in day one. He came back strong on day two but came up a fraction of a second short of the win. RIP Ken.
For those who don't know, Ken Block is a rally driver and the co-owner of DC Shoes.
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a good friend sent me a link to a video of this monster in action...I'm still wondering how Ken Block got into my mind and reproduced what I dream out...
check it out for yourself:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qanlirrRWs&feature=youtu.be
CarArt from internet image: HDR (+2.0, 0.0, -2.0) jpegs into photomatix, tone mapped and final jpeg finished in CS3 with topaz
Block rounds the North Bend hairpin during the first semi-final in which he would finish fourth.
Sadly late on Monday the 2nd of January 2023 he would lose his life in a snowmobile crash in Utah, aged 55. R.I.P.
Ken Block leads Tanner Foust through a particularly dusty section of the rally track at Circuit of the Americas, Austin during ARX racing on July 14th, 2018.
Ken Block racing at Circuit of the Americas, Austin during the World Rally Cross/Americas Rally Cross event on September 30th, 2018.
MOC: The Hoonicorn.
For info on the model of the car itself, please click the picture below.
I ended up being pretty happy with how The Hoonicorn turned out, but I wanted to present it in a proper setting, not least because I needed to incorporate the signed 1x6x5 panel. This seemed a logical solution for that, not least because if you do a Google Image search for the car, quite a few of the pictures are from the 2014 SEMA show in Las Vegas, where it was on display in a booth with white walls and a floor with a pattern of what looked like two shades of gray and two shades of yellow.
So that's where I started, and then I added a couple of speakers and a microphone stand, a drinks table, some lights, an information poster, a trophy, a wall-mounted helmet (with a splash of appropriate lime green colour)... and a couple of minifigs, one being a fictitious manager and the other being Minifig Ken himself.
The stickers are from various sources, like LEGO and eBay, but the most important ones come from the online Hoonigan store - but some I just couldn't get in the right size, so the '43' stickers on both sides of the car are hand-cut from clean white LEGO sticker residue. And because I needed the wheels in this specific colour, I asked Auri of Chrome Block City to make me some. Being the great guy he is, he agreed. The exhaust pipe surrounds, headrests/rollcage, and rear badge are from the same store, in custom metallic silver.
I'm planning to add Brickstuff lights to this vignette at some point, which should make it look even better, particularly in a badly lit room.
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Goodwood Festival of Speed 2023.
Audi S1 e-tron quattro Hoonitron
Designed and developed for motorsport legend Ken Block, who tragically passed away earlier this year, the Audi S1 e-tron quattro Hoonitron is a one-of-a-kind, all-electric racer. Inspired by the legendary Audi Sport quattro S1 from the nineteen-eighties, the modern-day interpretation was developed at Audi Sport’s headquarters in Neckarsulm and created by Head of Design Marc Lichte and his team. Under the skin, the S1 e-tron quattro Hoonitron is based around a carbon fibre chassis and powered by two motor-generator units – one on each axle. As the electric motors reach maximum speeds of 28,000rpm, the engineering team defined a gear ratio of about 12:1 to enable high-speed drifts. Taking losses into account, this results in around 3,000 Nm of torque on each axle, or 6,000 Nm in total.
MOC: The Hoonicorn.
For the complete backstory, click the picture below - trust me, it'll explain a lot :)
And no, this is probably not for the purists. Move on, nothing to see here...!
This is my take on The Hoonicorn, Ken Block's rather heavily modified 1965 Ford Mustang used in his Gymkhana Seven driving video. Which has 41 million views on YouTube.
If you clicked the top link in this text, you'll see that the car is now painted in different colours than the ones I've chosen to build it in - I chose black because that was the original colour... and because it's much easier to make the LEGO version look right in that colour :)
This is not a perfect copy, I'll be the first to admit - but that's partly because I didn't want it to be. Mainly, the proportions are off - it's slightly too long compared to its width (which is particularly obvious when viewed straight from the side), and too tall compared to a minifigure. But I wanted to make it roughly the same scale as the LEGO Speed Champions sets currently on offer, and it looks quite nice next to those.
Neat details include the rear diffuser, gearshift and upright parking brake lever (I'll reluctantly go with the US terms as this is clearly a very American car) - and, of course, the fact that it seats Minifig Ken, which was important to me.
The stickers are from various sources, like LEGO and eBay, but the most important ones come from the online Hoonigan store - but some I just couldn't get in the right size, so the '43' stickers on both sides of the car are hand-cut from clean white LEGO sticker residue. And because I needed the wheels in this specific colour, I asked Auri of Chrome Block City to make me some. Being the great guy he is, he agreed. The exhaust pipe surrounds, headrests/rollcage, and rear badge are from the same store, in custom metallic silver.
MOC: The Hoonicorn.
For the complete backstory, click the picture below - trust me, it'll explain a lot :)
And no, this is probably not for the purists. Move on, nothing to see here...!
This is my take on The Hoonicorn, Ken Block's rather heavily modified 1965 Ford Mustang used in his Gymkhana Seven driving video. Which has 41 million views on YouTube.
If you clicked the top link in this text, you'll see that the car is now painted in different colours than the ones I've chosen to build it in - I chose black because that was the original colour... and because it's much easier to make the LEGO version look right in that colour :)
This is not a perfect copy, I'll be the first to admit - but that's partly because I didn't want it to be. Mainly, the proportions are off - it's slightly too long compared to its width (which is particularly obvious when viewed straight from the side), and too tall compared to a minifigure. But I wanted to make it roughly the same scale as the LEGO Speed Champions sets currently on offer, and it looks quite nice next to those.
Neat details include the rear diffuser, gearshift and upright parking brake lever (I'll reluctantly go with the US terms as this is clearly a very American car) - and, of course, the fact that it seats Minifig Ken, which was important to me.
The stickers are from various sources, like LEGO and eBay, but the most important ones come from the online Hoonigan store - but some I just couldn't get in the right size, so the '43' stickers on both sides of the car are hand-cut from clean white LEGO sticker residue. And because I needed the wheels in this specific colour, I asked Auri of Chrome Block City to make me some. Being the great guy he is, he agreed. The exhaust pipe surrounds, headrests/rollcage, and rear badge are from the same store, in custom metallic silver.
Jan. 26, 2010; Gladwin, MI, USA; Rally racer Ken Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino during a private test on a county road in northern Michigan. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas
Rally RACC Catalunya - Rally de España, SS 5 Gandesa. Ken Block &Alex Gelsomino, M-Sport Ford World Rally Team, Ford Fiesta WRC