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Video: Ken Block has taught his 13YO daughter to do doughnuts

15th May 2020
Henry Biggs

Not many parents are comfortable to let their teenage kids behind the wheel, even once they’re old enough to get a learner’s licence. So what dad would be cool enough to let his 13-year-old daughter behind the wheel of his 355PS drift-prepped Mk2 Ford Escort and teach her to do doughnuts?

The clue’s in the car of course; the supercool dad is Ken Block and in his latest video he teaches his daughter Lia – already an accomplished UTV racer – the fine arts of clutch and throttle control, not to mention sequential gearboxes and drift handbrakes.

In what looks like an awesome day of father-daughter bonding, Block and Lia have a huge tarmac apron at the Utah Motorsports Campus to play on, progressing to handbrake turns and precision doughnuts round a traffic cone. Anyone who has taught their offspring to drive will be very impressed at Block’s relaxed patience and unstinting enthusiasm while prospective drifters may pick up a few tips.

Lia even tells her dad, “I have so much more respect for you know.” And what parent has ever heard that halfway through a driving lesson? Looks like Lia might be a chip off the old Block (sorry, I had to).

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