blockwoood: I remember a spare car in the back of your double stack trailer a few years ago. It wasn't dirt oriented what was it?

ACP: That was a Nissan 240 SX with an SR20 swap that I have been doing a little drift practice with for a couple of years. I hadn't had it for very long at that time, and we had loaded it up in the trailer to take it out for a test session at a track in Oklahoma after 100 Acre Wood. One of my crew guys for that event (he's with us at 100 Acre Wood this year again, come to think of it) is a really good Canadian drifter. The car is pretty beaten up at this point, but we've had a lot of fun with it.…..more

Miki Biasion scored his first World Rally Championship victory on the '86 Marlboro Rally of Argentina and gave Lancia a huge boost to their title ambitions that year. Martini team-mate Markku Alen brought his Lancia Delta S4 home in second place, but the Finn was unhappy that team orders had not been issued for him to win - in order to help his Drivers' Championship hopes. Local hero Jorge Recalde finished the event fourth in the remaining works Delta.

This is only Part VII and the rest is all on YouTube - holy Rally!

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For Ken Block's newest rally-inspired shoe and apparel collab, Huck Gee, an urban artist who has created some of the most popular "Dunny" vinyl toys for Kid Robot, created a cartoon Block-skull with Ken's #43 on the forehead. A new DC Team Works Collection. The collection includes a four sneakers, a shirt, and a New Era Fitted cap to accompany Ken Block's move to the Ford Fiesta for MWRT 2010.

The colors from the collection will share the black, white and green livery of the rally car, which are also that of the team sponsor, Monster Energy. More here: http://blockwood.bnqt.com/blogs/detail/Ken-Block-and-Kid-Robot/5453.html

The collaboration shoe will be the murdered out black on black (pictured) and be released in Fall of 2010 (right after X Games). The Team Works Collection with more fruit-loops paint drip with flouro green will be available for Holiday 2010 to cap off the season.

More pics after the jump.…..more

Big ACP now occupies the smallest square on Dodge Motorsports driver pages. ACP (Andrew Comrie-Picard) will be racing a short schedule of Formula Drift events alongside Samuel Hubinette.

Generally deals like this don't happen over night, on the eve of 2008 X Games in Los Angeles, ACP had just gotten NOS sponsorship and I met him to film a time-lapse of the new graphics going on the Evo - the place? NuFormz, the shop at which Sam Hubinette's Viper was prepared.…..more

Last week after the WRC's official season launch event in Paris, the Monster World Rally Team headed north to M-Sport's headquarters in sunny ol' Cockermouth, England for some much needed seat time in the MWRT Focus RS WRC. Unfortunately, Block and Gelsomino were greeted with a few inches of white stuff covering the once gravel test stage they were set to run. To point out the obvious for the uninitiated...the chances of snow at Rally Mexico are nil, and if it does blizzard, it will surely be the sign of the apocalypse. That said, the gravel test was moot.

"I am really disappointed," says Ken Block. "It s already going to be very hard going into my WRC premiere with very little seat time in the car. Now, I may not have any seat time at all!" While attempts were made to still utilize the testing despite the conditions, it was to no avail. "The stage was downright scary...gravel tires just do not work on ice," explains Block.

More details and a photos at http://www.monsterworldrallyteam.com/blogs/mexico-test-now-more-snow