Ken Block Turns Las Vegas Into Audi S1 Hoonitron Playground
For the initially time at any time, Ken Block and the well known Gymkhana sequence goes electric powered. Girls and gents, welcome to Electrickhana.
Ken Block has produced ten wildly effective Gymkhana movies with over a billion views on YouTube in which he flexes his awesome driving expertise driving the wheel of rather severe equipment. All of these equipment right until now run on fossil fuels.
Ken Block and Hoonigan are having the Audi S1 Hoonitron to the high-stakes playground of Las Vegas for their all-new online video.
The S1 Hoonitron reportedly has 6,000 Nm (4,425 lb-ft) of torque which is no match for people lousy tyres.
The video clip description says it runs an 800-volt procedure and though there is no point out of the electric power it does not really matter.
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The Audi S1 Hoonitron has two electrical motors, all-wheel drive, ability galore, a carbon fiber chassis, and thoroughly complies with the basic safety requirements of the FIA, motorsport’s governing human body. Audi Sport designed it as a just one-of-a-type car exclusively for Ken Block. Its human body shell, for which Audi Layout led by Marc Lichte is dependable, instantly evokes recollections of the famous Audi Sport quattro S1 with which the 4 rings billed to the prime in the famed Pikes Peak hill-climb race. Ken Block and his staff engaged in shut exchange with the Audi departments for the duration of the growth of the motor vehicle.
“With the S1 Hoonitron we broke fully new floor at Audi,” states Oliver Hoffmann, Member of the Board for Complex Enhancement at AUDI AG. “Developing a absolutely electric powered prototype for the exceptional necessities of our companion Ken Block was a large and thrilling problem to which the entire staff rose with traveling colours. It is good to see how ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ is presented in an all-new natural environment.”