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Remembering a showman

“Passion sometimes is perhaps more important than winning all the time,” said 2003 World Rally champion Petter Solberg when asked during an Autosport podcast last week to sum up the career of the late Ken Block, who died aged 55 in a snowmobiling accident.

Solberg couldn’t have hit the nail on the head any harder. Block wasn’t a world champion and, while a look over his career shows that he was capable of competing at the highest level, he enjoyed limited success. But what the American gave to motorsport, and in particular the rally scene, cannot simply

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