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 816 million. WRC MEXICO has an attendance of more than 300,000 spectators.  Ponce and Bill Bridge returned to colonial Guanajuato Mexico in 2010 as the local favorite team for the 2nd time to race against the top world teams.  Ponce is the only Mexican American driver to ever finish 2 consecutive WRC Mexico events, without any prior rally experience in 2008 and 2010.  Ponce is also the first and only team to represent the host city of Guanajuato. The team plans to add a WRC Europe event in the future.  Their FIA homologated Peugeot is valid to race until Dec 2013 at any FIA event, so who knows what can happen.  Many have tried to copy what Ponce has accomplished at WRC Mexico but have not succeeded.  Ponce finished a WRC with zero rally experience in a rental and named rookie driver in his class back in 2008.  Then returns in 2010 with another rally car that he ended up driving from central Mexico up to the USA to prep then back down to WRC, raced and drove back to the USA in the rally.  Ponce used the excuse that he drove the Peugeot rally car because he wanted more seat time, but the truth was that was his daily driver at the time! Ponce finished took a second place in 2011.     

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 is the first and remains the only Mexican American racer to ever participate and finish 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 partnered up with Bill Bridge, his WRC Mexico 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 Ibarra'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 returned in 2012 in a new Ultra 4 rig built by Bridge, they ran an excellent Pole Position race.

The SCORE International Baja races re the toughest, most spectacular off-road races in the Americas since 1962 and are covered by several major networks at a worldwide level.  In 2013, Ponce had an opportunity to pre run the Baja 250 and 500.  Ponce has been offered a racing opportunity with a European Team and will be taking on the Score Baja challenge in the future once the European team finishes their rig. Ponce plans on using all the skills that he has learned from past multi world class motorsports where he managed to finish even though he had zero experience in those motorsports; such as UROC Super Crawl 2006, WRC 2008 & 2010, MXRRA 2007-2009, Venezuela Extreme Rally 2009, King of the Hammers 2011, Nordic and Euro Trials 2007, GORM (German Off Road Masters) 24 Hour Race 2012, and the Ultimate Rally Mexico. So keep an eye on this unique Mexican American Minority Racer in the Baja 2014 season.