Ken Block debuts Audi S1 Hoonitron in ‘Electrikhana’

Ken Block’s newest all-electric drift automobile, the Audi S1 Hoonitron, has made a dramatic debut on the streets on Las Vegas within the newest Gymkhana video, dubbed Electrikhana.

All through the nine-minute video that’s now stay on YouTube, the S1 Hoonitron will be seen doing elaborate drifts, donuts, and even jumps at main vacationer sights scattered round Las Vegas.

There are a variety of cameos in the course of the video, together with quite a few iconic Audi Pikes Peak, Group B, Trans Am, Le Mans and DTM racers, in addition to nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen.

The Audi S1 Hoonitron was first revealed in December 2021 and later detailed earlier this week with design cues from the legendary Quattro S1 E2 Pikes Peak hillclimb automobile from the Nineteen Eighties.

Which means there are field flares, a wedge-like profile, and a few outrageous aerodynamic parts on the entrance and rear.

This practice-built electrical car (EV) has an 800V electrical structure and options 4 battery packs taken from an Audi Q7 plug-in hybrid (PHEV), with two electrical motors producing an undisclosed quantity of energy.

Though we don’t know precise system outputs, we all know the Hoonitron chewed by means of greater than 100 tyres in the course of the filming of the Eletrikhana, which is greater than double the standard quantity.

Contained in the S1 Hoonitron, Block sits again within the cabin together with his toes elevated in the same method to a Method 1 or Le Mans Prototype driver. He mentioned throughout a latest video it was one of many hardest driving positions he had ever skilled.

This isn’t the primary time Ken Block has subbed fire-breathing petrol engines for electrical motors. Earlier than he teamed up with Audi, he leant on his partnership with Ford to get behind the wheel of its 1044kW Mustang Mach-E electrical SUV idea.

It’s not clear what different fruit Block’s partnership with Audi will bear.

The pair alluded to engaged on Audi’s high-tech Dakar racer after they introduced the partnership earlier in 2021, but it surely’s not clear what position the Hoonigan group will play in creating the competitor.

Audi has since revealed a second-generation model of the RS Q e-tron electrical range-extender prototype that’s mentioned to be 15 per cent extra aerodynamic thanks partly to reworked physique panels.

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