FreestyleXtreme Magazine Issue 2 | Page 17

BLOCK VS HAMILTON I N LATE MAY THE opening stage of the 2014 Red Bull Global Rallycross series went down in the tropical island of Barbados. The race would feature the likes of Ken Block, Scott Speed, Tanner Foust and Nelson Piquet Jr burning some serious rubber and flying through the air around the newly renovated Bushy Park Circuit. £ It’s On!!! This however would not be the only petrol fuelled excitement to happen on the Caribbean island that weekend. In what would turn out to be the most raved about and hyped part of the entire weekend, the Top Gear Live crew had managed to set up one of the craziest car racing exhibitions ever seen. The world famous BBC TV show managed to pull some real strings in order to present ecstatic petrol heads with Rallycross / Gymkhana phenomenon Ken Block racing one-on-one in his Hoonigan Racing Division Ford Fiesta Rallycross car against British F1 championship hopeful Lewis Hamilton in his full 2013 F1 spec V8 Mercedes. u FreestyleXtreme | 17