Ken Block off to WRC

Hey I am a WRC champion too!

if WRC stands for Western-ohio-region Rally Cross.

Hell let's make everyone a WRC champion!

---

Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

W-reck
R-ally
C-arz
?

---

Ted Mendham
www.rensport.net

tedm Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Ken Block reportedly teaming up with Ford to join
> WRC

Meh.

That article says more about what passes for 'journalism' today than it does about Block or his PR machine. The regurgitator (hard to call him a writer much less a reporter or journalist) clearly was writing about things he neither knew about nor bothered to get cleared up.

wile it would be Block's rookie season in the WRC it obviously isn't Atkinson's. It would also (being generous) be Monster's rookie season as a team, however being run under M-Sport really waters that down for anyone that understands what that means.

---

First Rally: 2001
Driver (7), Co-Driver (44)
Drivers (16)
Clerk (10), Official (7), Volunteer (4)
Cars Built (1), Engines Built (0) Cages Built (0)
Last Updated, January 4, 2015

Quote
john vanlandingham
Blame is for idiots. losers.

He's probably getting paid $30/post. Research isn't worth it at that rate.

Journalism is dead.

-Dave

Morison Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> tedm Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Ken Block reportedly teaming up with Ford to
> join
> > WRC
>
> Meh.
>
> That article says more about what passes for
> 'journalism' today than it does about Block or his
> PR machine. The regurgitator (hard to call him a
> writer much less a reporter or journalist) clearly
> was writing about things he neither knew about nor
> bothered to get cleared up.
>
> wile it would be Block's rookie season

I thought was a few years ago when all the acnnoucements and press releases were all about for the both the boys taking on the world in PWRC..

Mybe they did a hymen reconstruction so he can bust his cherry again.



in the WRC
> it obviously isn't Atkinson's. It would also
> (being generous) be Monster's rookie season as a
> team, however being run under M-Sport really
> waters that down for anyone that understands what
> that means.
>
>

---

John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

john vanlandingham Wrote:

> I thought was a few years ago when all the
> acnnoucements and press releases were all about
> for the both the boys taking on the world in
> PWRC..

Pastrami was supposed to run a full PWRC season, but didn't IIRC.

Block has only ever intended to enter select events. (I believe one of his PWRC entries was one Pastrami didn't run, but could be wrong.)

Again, I'd suggest you could conceivably have a rookie season in WRC (from a class standpoint) even if you had won a PWRC championship. Being a rookie gives you some easy excuses and more bragging rights... (think F1 champions winning 'rookie of the year' in Indy Car, Although the champion from a support series would be the better parallel.)

---

First Rally: 2001
Driver (7), Co-Driver (44)
Drivers (16)
Clerk (10), Official (7), Volunteer (4)
Cars Built (1), Engines Built (0) Cages Built (0)
Last Updated, January 4, 2015

Quote
john vanlandingham
Blame is for idiots. losers.

Pete Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Hey I am a WRC champion too!

I'm an officer in the WRC...the Wilton Rally Club...so is Ted! Chris Sanborn is the president, since he actually lives in Wilton.

---

Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

Morison Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> john vanlandingham Wrote:
>
> > I thought was a few years ago when all the
> > acnnoucements and press releases were all
> about
> > for the both the boys taking on the world in
> > PWRC..
>
> Pastrami was supposed to run a full PWRC season,
> but didn't IIRC.

You recall correctly.
After disastorous results, SRTUSA hired some stand ins for at least 2 rounds rather than pay penalties for breach of the rule requiring entrants for the PWRC to attend minimum x events.
One of the Higginses did Rally GB for them, the other can't recall.
A very embarrassing thing like erectile disfunction and premature squirt:
Could get it up enough and shot the load way too early.

>
> Block has only ever intended to enter select
> events. (I believe one of his PWRC entries was one
> Pastrami didn't run, but could be wrong.)

Still the first WRC event was his first debut, hard to debut a second time unless your a rackstar where "together again for the first time" is the rule.
>
> Again, I'd suggest you could conceivably have a
> rookie season in WRC (from a class standpoint)
> even if you had won a PWRC championship.

meaning? You're differentiating between the class and the EVENT?
Entering the World rally Championship event Rally Mexico is not entering a World Rally Championship event?
Que?

Being a
> rookie gives you some easy excuses and more
> bragging rights... (think F1 champions winning
> 'rookie of the year' in Indy Car, Although the
> champion from a support series would be the better
> parallel.)

Hence the hymen reconstruction operation I was suggesting.


like I said, some people can just hit the RESET buttom and start all over.

>
>
>
>
>

---

John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/22/2009 12:18AM by john vanlandingham.

> Block and the WRC can only hope
> that his presence will help to bring WRC into more
> TV sets across America.

Umm, yeah. Doesn't the WRC have to be broadcast in America in the first place for this to happen? Maybe they mean South America...

Doivi Clarkinen Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Umm, yeah. Doesn't the WRC have to be broadcast in
> America in the first place for this to happen?
> Maybe they mean South America...

a) It is far easier to bring something to more people if you start out with no-one having it.

b) Actually WRC is being broadcast on the specialty network HD Theater in the United States.

---

First Rally: 2001
Driver (7), Co-Driver (44)
Drivers (16)
Clerk (10), Official (7), Volunteer (4)
Cars Built (1), Engines Built (0) Cages Built (0)
Last Updated, January 4, 2015

Quote
john vanlandingham
Blame is for idiots. losers.

>
> a) It is far easier to bring something to more
> people if you start out with no-one having it.
>

Good point. Very clever.


> b) Actually WRC is being broadcast on the
> specialty network HD Theater in the United States.
>
>

Wow, impressive. Never even heard of that. I bet some people even have that.

Doivi Clarkinen Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > a) It is far easier to bring something to
> more
> > people if you start out with no-one having
> it.
> >
>
> Good point. Very clever.
>
>
> > b) Actually WRC is being broadcast on the
> > specialty network HD Theater in the United
> States.
> >
> >
>
> Wow, impressive. Never even heard of that. I bet
> some people even have that.
>
>
>
They are on Sundays, but it is during the day and I have issues with sitting on my ass watching tv during the day on weekends...my biggest NSASCAR complaint also.

http://www.livesockets.com/article.php?id=2458&siteID=

HD theatre is a re-brand of Showtime HD .... I think but could be wrong.
Specialty broadcaster that you'd need to subscribe to, but TV none the less.

---

First Rally: 2001
Driver (7), Co-Driver (44)
Drivers (16)
Clerk (10), Official (7), Volunteer (4)
Cars Built (1), Engines Built (0) Cages Built (0)
Last Updated, January 4, 2015

Quote
john vanlandingham
Blame is for idiots. losers.

All you need to do is have a friend with cable and buy him pizza every week. Good enough for me!

-Dave

eyesoreracing Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> All you need to do is have a friend with cable and
> buy him pizza every week. Good enough for me!
>
> -Dave

I've heard of cable....

---

John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.