WRC, KING OF THE HAMMERS, Best in the
Desert, IRC and Rally America – Smart Investments with world wide results
WRC is televised in 188 countries in
21 languages, including the Discovery Channel HD, with a total audience of over 816 million
plus 12 million visitors to wrc.com. 2012 will see a total of 12 rallies staged across the world, including Mexico. WRC MEXICO has an attendance of more than 300,000 spectators.
Ponce and Bill Bridge will return to Guanajuato, for WRC Mexico as the local favorite
team for the 3rd consecutive time to race against the top world teams in 2012, they also plan on adding the WRC GERMANY
to their challenge in the future. Ponce raced for the host city of Guanajuato in 2008 & 2010, he was the first and
remains the only driver to ever race and finish from Guanajuato Capital. He will now be racing for the
city of Laredo Texas USA, aka the city under the 7 flags. Ponce is the only driver in the history
of WRC MEXICO to ever finish 2 consecutive rallies without any prior rally experience.
The King of the Hammers race has grown since 2008 to be
the Ultimate Desert Race in the world and now has over 50,000 spectators, Ponce remains the first and only
Mexican racer.KOH is covered by Pinned TV, ESPN, Spike TV, Speed Channel,
FOX Sports and popular magazines such as Crawl Magazine, that prints 80,000 magazines per month and are distributed in
the USA, Canada and Europe. Ponce returned in 2011 with new teammate Dave Gutwillig in an Ultra 4 rig (alias
the Piņata) built by Dave Gutwillig and Javier's Gulf Coast Crawl Shop, to
be the first mexican american team to race and finish 37th out of 100 teams. They started off on spot 37th
and maintained a constant pace thru the desert and rock sections, without any pre running. 3 Movies have been released
by Pinned TV, "First Crusade 2008", "Second Crusade 2009", "Anarchy 2010", and "Valley of the Kings 2011. The
team appears in 3 of the recent movies. Bridge and Ponce reunite for 2012, more updates coming soon...
Bill Bridge drove his supercharged Ford Buggy while Ponce rode shot gun for the KOH LCQ 2010.
Pinned TV mounted a camera in their race rig to capture the action and carnage of this unique team.
Ponce and Dave Gutwillig and Jaiver Ibarra joined forces to take on the
The King of the Hammers 2011 race, Ponce planned a unique team strategy that proved
to be a success. Ponce started and finished the race doing the desert sections then jumped into the co
driver seat to navigate Dave Gutwillig, who raced and crawled his fabrication in the desert and rock sections. Both
managed to start and finish in spot #37, without any pre-running, no beadlocks, only 4 good sticky comp tires, no radio communication with
their pit team, and no GPS! The team flag waved proudly and never fell down, the fans cheered on this team at every
check point, it was an unbelievable experience.
