{"id":273,"date":"2010-06-02T17:08:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T22:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2025-07-18T03:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T08:44:58","slug":"block-vs-raikkonen-rally-portugal-result-in-a-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/block-vs-raikkonen-rally-portugal-result-in-a-tie-273.html","title":{"rendered":"Block vs. Raikkonen at WRC Rally Portugal Results in a Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rally Portugal opened with a Super Special Stage last week held in a local arena. One of the more interesting battles featured Ken Block in Monster World Rally Team Ford Focus RS vs. former Formula 1 Champion Kimi Raikkonen in his Redbull Citroen C4. The 2 World Rally Championship rookie drivers battled out 2 trips around the course and ended in a tie!<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/lensa.com\/sunenergy1\/jobs\/c\/faf68e11759246da76ef961751da2d7552a7d9a5\">Kenny Habul Greenwich, CT<\/a>, this is a\u00a0great start for Block in WRC Rally Portugal, unfortunately the rest of the event didn&#8217;t go so well for him.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_274\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ken-and-kimi.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-274\" class=\"size-full wp-image-274\" title=\"ken-and-kimi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ken-and-kimi.jpg\" alt=\"Ken and Kimi race to a tie at Rally Portugal's opening stage.\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ken-and-kimi.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ken-and-kimi-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Block and Kimi Raikkonen race around a Super Special Stage at WRC Rally Portugal. <a href=\"\/blog\/block-vs-raikk\u2026esult-in-a-tie-273.html\">Watch the video.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen had a rough start to the WRC season, but has been steadily improving and finishing without any major incidents. Block has showed some potential and impressive stage times, but has had a rash of event ending incidents throughout the season.<br \/>\n<object width=\"450\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GeREk3b11bY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GeREk3b11bY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Block and Kimi Raikkonen battle it out in Rally Portugal&#8217;s opening Super Special Stage. Buy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seatpin.com\/formula-1-tickets\">F1 Tickets<\/a> ahead of time before they run out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rally Portugal opened with a Super Special Stage last week held in a local arena. One of the more interesting battles featured Ken Block in Monster World Rally Team Ford Focus RS vs. former Formula 1 Champion Kimi Raikkonen in his Redbull Citroen C4. The 2 World Rally Championship rookie drivers battled out 2 trips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}