Ford and Ken Block have parted ways after 10 years

Just one of Ford’s star motorists, Ken Block, is parting approaches with the Blue Oval following 10 several years. The partnership is ending amicably, with each Block and Ford CEO Jim Farley sending out many thanks by means of social media.

“I want to thank you for anything you have performed for the firm and how very pleased we are of anything that you have accomplished,” Farley claimed in a YouTube movie loaded with movie clips of Block’s automotive stunts.

Block has also supplied a statement, from his Hoonigan Racing web-site, indicating “It’s basically been a dream come true to function with the firm that built the truck that my Father drove when I was a teenager. I’m tremendous appreciative to Ford for the assist more than the several years, but I am also hunting ahead to what an unrestricted 2021 retains, and the skill to unfold my wings a little bit and play with a lot other toys.”

Some of those people other toys may perhaps incorporate cars this kind of as the Audi Quattro S1 Team B rally car, which Block lately tweeted a image of, indicating, “Just one of my favorite rally cars of all time … and now with my open partnership with Ford, I may get to at last travel just one!”

Block now phone calls himself a “totally free agent,” as the conclude of the partnership indicates he will now be able to travel non-Ford cars on camera. Block was catapulted into globally fame with the Gymkhana series, which he commenced with his a Subaru WRX STI, a car he even now owns. Ford snatched Block away from Subaru, and put him in the driver’s seat of a Fiesta WRC car.

In his 10 years with Ford, Block ongoing his Gymkhana movie series and built cars this kind of as the all-wheel-travel, 1,four hundred-horsepower ’65 Mustang-bodied Hoonicorn and the Ford F-one hundred fifty-based mostly Hoonitruck. Very last December, Block handed the Gymkhana baton to Travis Pastrana and back to Subaru.

What the long term retains for Block is anyone’s guess, but it truly is confident to be entertaining and will most likely contain plenty of tire smoke.