Ken Block’s 14 year-old daughter goes full-send in Mustang Drift Car

Although the handbrake failed, Lia continued to make incredible figure-eight drifts despite it.

At 14 what type of car control did your parents have? Let’s change the question: What kind of car control did you have at age 14? It was probably not the same level as Lia Block’s. We’ve previously seen Ken Block’s motorsport-minded son drive around in his Gymkhana Escort and we recently witnessed his excitement at receiving a Fox Body Mustang as a birthday present. It’s kind of.
The Mustang was not the gift. Vaughn Gittin Jr., Mustang champion and drift expert, was the gift. Today’s video shows her time at the track. What do we see? Lia walked the Fox Body sideways with aggressive oppo-lock and turned wide donuts. She also nailed difficult transitions to the cheers from the crowd. This was an deep dive on the trials of motorsport living.

Vanilla-Ice-approved 5.0 Fox Body Tang suffered not one but three mechanical problems that could have prevented the action from continuing. The GT’s famous front face was too solid to allow airflow to the radiator. This caused the car to heat up quickly. Lia’s first complete opposite-lock drift, with the wheels on the brakes, saw the passenger tire make contact with the strut tower. This bent the wheel and tore the inner sidewall. The handbrake, a crucial component of drifting, stopped working for unknown reasons.

Ken Block's 14 year-old daughter goes full-send in Mustang Drift Car

Lia was able to experience the more casual side of hooning around. Lia even took on the task of drilling holes into the Mustang’s front fascia. This was a task she seemed to enjoy very much. The heating problem was solved, and the Mustang’s suspension was modified with borrowed tire and a new shock tower. This may sound familiar to you, but her father also had a wrong wheel on his Fiesta in Gymkhana. Is it fate or pure coincidence that gives us a glimpse of Lia’s future, or is this just a foreshadowing? It’s just coincidence. Probably.

This is what we’ll all say. She has the ability to follow in the footsteps of the elder Block if she chooses. Although the tutorial began with simple weight transfer maneuvers, it quickly escalated to more complex clutch-kicking and handbrake problems. Although it should have been an easy car to learn, the tutorial turned into something more complicated. Gittin Jr. was impressed with her progress. Lia persevered through all the lessons and failed attempts to figure-eight drift without using handbrakes by the end of the day.

She celebrated by eating a few donuts. The proud father moment at the end is pretty clear. Congratulations Lia.