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WRC is televised in 188 countries in 21 languages, including the Discovery Channel HD, with a total audience of 816 million. WRC MEXICO has an attendance of more than 300,000 spectators.  Ponce and Bill Bridge are returning to Guanajuato Mexico as the local favorite team for the 3rd time to race against the top world teams in 2012, and trying to add WRC GERMANY to the challenge in the future.  Ponce has been the only Mexican American driver to ever finish 2 consecutive WRC Mexico events without any prior rally experience.  They are now racing for Laredo Texas, the city under 7 flags. 

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 was the first and remains the only Mexican American racer to ever participate in the King of the Hammers.  He began back in 2009 with adpoted co-driver Heath Catron in a rig built by John Despain.  Later, Ponce hooked up with Bill Bridge, his WRC co driver for KOH LCQ 2010 where they put on a great show for their Mexican American fans.  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 built by Dave & Javier's Gulf Coast Crawl Shop.  They raced as an international guest star team representing Team Mexico, and stepped up to the challenge of finishing this endurance race by starting and finishing in 37th spot, despite all their adversities and limited resources. No other team has been able to accomplish this goal in the history of KOH.  4 Movies have been released by Pinned TV, "First Crusade", "Second Crusade", "Anarchy" and the "Valley of Kings".  WRT appears in 3 of the recent movies.  King of the Hammers is an Ultra 4 Racing sanctioned event.  Bill Bridge and Ponce return for 2012 in a new Ultra 4 rig built by Bridge, more news soon...