Ken Block Turns Las Vegas Into Audi S1 Hoonitron Playground

For the to start with time at any time, Ken Block and the renowned Gymkhana series goes electric. Women and gents, welcome to Electrickhana.

Ken Block has established ten wildly profitable Gymkhana films with more than a billion sights on YouTube in which he flexes his awesome driving capabilities powering the wheel of rather major equipment. All of these machines until eventually now run on fossil fuels.

Ken Block and Hoonigan are using the Audi S1 Hoonitron to the large-stakes playground of Las Vegas for their all-new video.

The S1 Hoonitron reportedly has 6,000 Nm (4,425 lb-ft) of torque which is no match for these bad tyres.

The video clip description claims it operates an 800-volt system and though there is no mention of the energy it does not really make any difference.

Thrust enjoy and delight in!

The Audi S1 Hoonitron has two electric powered motors, all-wheel generate, power galore, a carbon fiber chassis, and absolutely complies with the safety criteria of the FIA, motorsport’s governing body. Audi Sport developed it as a just one-of-a-variety car or truck completely for Ken Block. Its entire body shell, for which Audi Design and style led by Marc Lichte is liable, quickly evokes memories of the legendary Audi Sport quattro S1 with which the 4 rings charged to the prime in the well-known Pikes Peak hill-climb race. Ken Block and his crew engaged in near exchange with the Audi departments in the course of the growth of the auto. 

“With the S1 Hoonitron we broke solely new ground at Audi,” claims Oliver Hoffmann, Member of the Board for Complex Enhancement at AUDI AG. “Developing a completely electrical prototype for the one of a kind necessities of our companion Ken Block was a significant and exciting obstacle to which the whole staff rose with flying shades. It is good to see how ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ is presented in an all-new environment.”