Ken Block kills his ex-WRC Escort Cosworth with fire!

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
23 Jul 2018
1 min read

Ken Block has had a day he would rather forget, destroying his genuine Group A ex-World Rally Championship Ford Escort.

Having recommissioned the rare, super-desirable Escort Cosworth RS earlier this year, Block claims a transmission fault caused him to clip a rock, rolling the Ford twice.

The Escort immediately started burning fiercely and was not able to be saved. Thankfully Block and his co-driver got out unhurt.

Can you ever forgive Ken Block for destroying this legend of a racecar? Comment below.

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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