When rally icon Ken Block went to Japan in the early 90s, he once spent $200 at an arcade playing a racing simulator. The title? Sega Rally, the classic racer that would help hype up the sport to a future driver who would eventually take rally cars to places they’ve never gone before.<\/p>\n
“Even before I was a rally driver, that was just the type of racing I would like to do in video games,” says Block. “Going around a regular track just wasn’t as interesting to me as sliding around and jumping a car…\u00c2\u00a0 Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When rally icon Ken Block went to Japan in the early 90s, he once spent $200 at an arcade playing a racing simulator. The title? Sega Rally, the classic racer that would help hype up the sport to a future driver who would eventually take rally cars to places they’ve never gone before. “Even before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car","category-video_games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10068,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10058\/revisions\/10068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}