Ken Block Is Taking His Ford Escort RS Cosworth Rally Car on Tour
Master hooner’s ‘Cossie World Tour’ kicks off in early 2019 and will include the legendary Ford competing at worldwide stage rally events.
Ken Block and Hoonigan Racing are planning a wild new program for Block’s 2019 race season: the “Cossie World Tour,” a multi-stop race spanning the globe in a newly-built ’90s- era Group A Rally Ford Escort RS Cosworth. The tour kicks off in early 2019 and will include the legendary Ford while targeting a series of iconic stage rally events from Europe, the Americas, and Oceana.
“I grew up watching late-’80s and early-’90s rally racing,” says Block. “There is just something special to me about tearing through stages in these legendary machines. Sadly, last year’s American Rally Association campaign in my Ford Escort RS Cosworth Group A racecar ended in a crash that resulted in the car burning to the ground. While myself and my co-driver luckily escaped from it, the car left the stage as a burnt carcass. Before it was even fully extinguished though, I knew we were going to have to build another one, possibly with a bit more flare. And power. I won’t give too much away; I’ll just say the new Cossie is going to be rad.”
To document Block and his world tour with the new Cossie, Hoonigan is developing a new episodic video series. It will follow the efforts from start to finish: the new racecar build, the racing, and the spontaneous in-between adventures of Block and his team. In addition to telling the story of the tour, the series will also focus on all things rally, new and old. It will blend the modern day narrative with a unique documentary-style format that will reach well beyond just the racing that Block will be competing in.
‘There is just something special to me about tearing through stages in these legendary machines.’
“Nothing compares to rally,” says Hoonigan C.C.O. Brian Scotto. “It’s all the things that make motorsport great. It’s fast, it’s dangerous, and the stories that are spawned from it are legendary, which is why I have always been attracted to it from a storytelling perspective. I’m excited for the Tour and the show we are building around it, because it will give us a chance to explain the amazing world of rally in a very different way than it has been before.”
Cossie World Tour locations and series release schedule will be announced early next year.