For the very first time ever, Ken Block and the renowned Gymkhana series goes electric. Women and gents, welcome to Electrickhana.
Ken Block has designed ten wildly effective Gymkhana movies with more than a billion views on YouTube exactly where he flexes his remarkable driving abilities driving the wheel of fairly major equipment. All of these devices until now operate on fossil fuels.
Ken Block and Hoonigan are using the Audi S1 Hoonitron to the superior-stakes playground of Las Vegas for their all-new video clip.
The S1 Hoonitron reportedly has 6,000 Nm (4,425 lb-ft) of torque which is no match for individuals lousy tyres.
The video clip description suggests it runs an 800-volt process and while there is no point out of the electrical power it does not genuinely issue.
Drive enjoy and take pleasure in!
The Audi S1 Hoonitron has two electric powered motors, all-wheel travel, electrical power galore, a carbon fiber chassis, and totally complies with the safety requirements of the FIA, motorsport’s governing human body. Audi Activity designed it as a a single-of-a-kind auto exclusively for Ken Block. Its physique shell, for which Audi Style and design led by Marc Lichte is accountable, right away evokes memories of the legendary Audi Sport quattro S1 with which the four rings billed to the top in the popular Pikes Peak hill-climb race. Ken Block and his staff engaged in close trade with the Audi departments during the improvement of the car or truck.
“With the S1 Hoonitron we broke fully new floor at Audi,” claims Oliver Hoffmann, Member of the Board for Technical Growth at AUDI AG. “Developing a thoroughly electric prototype for the distinctive requirements of our husband or wife Ken Block was a huge and interesting obstacle to which the full team rose with traveling colours. It is terrific to see how ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ is presented in an all-new environment.”
