{"id":160102,"date":"2021-01-08T21:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T04:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160102"},"modified":"2021-01-08T21:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T04:22:02","slug":"drifting-rally-car-video-ken-block-and-ford-split-after-11-year-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160102","title":{"rendered":"Drifting Rally Car Video &#8211; Ken Block and Ford Split After 11-Year Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>After over a decade of racing, Gymkhana videos, and one-off drift builds, Ken Block&#8217;s partnership with Ford is coming to an end.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ken Block, the 53-year old rally car driver turned Gymkhana drift master, announced he and Ford are parting ways for 2021. The driver is now a &#8220;free agent,&#8221; according to Hoonigan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s simply been a dream come true to work with the company that built the truck that my Dad drove when I was a teenager,&#8221; Block said in a release. &#8220;I\u2019m super appreciative to Ford for the support over the years, but I am also looking forward to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadandtrack.com\/news\/a35162410\/ken-block-ford-contract-ends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C7Tl7Zn-KRE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rvZyjFzx2Y4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After over a decade of racing, Gymkhana videos, and one-off drift builds, Ken Block&#8217;s partnership with Ford is coming to an end. Ken Block, the 53-year old rally car driver turned Gymkhana drift master, announced he and Ford are parting ways for 2021. The driver is now a &#8220;free agent,&#8221; according to Hoonigan. &#8220;It\u2019s simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,24,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drifting","category-rally-car","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160102","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=160102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160103,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160102\/revisions\/160103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}