By Andrew Chesterton
Gymkhana legend and Top Gear Man of the Year, Ken Block, has finally confirmed he’ll be contesting the WRC this year, so we here at TG.com thought it time we reminded everyone exactly why we love the Blockster so much.
For all those people out there who had the misguided notion that much of Ken Block’s talent was due to the set-up of his WRX, shame on you firstly, and secondly, prepare to be proven wrong. This latest video sees Block and Aussie WRC strar Chris Atkinson thrashing an old Ford Escort [...]
Posted by Jamie Hibbardat 12:07 pm on Wednesday June 3, 2009
Ken Block’s first gymkhana video had millions of views – which is massive by anyone’s standards. So what would you expect him to do with that kind of audience? Market his new line of DC gear to it of course! Block’s a savvy businessman, so you can count on him to do things differently:
Posted by Tom Fordat 11:28 am on Friday March 27, 2009
Giving airtime to the criminally brilliant petrolheads among us is what we love to do, so here’s a little bit of a Ken Block fix for all of you who loved his ‘gymkhana practice’ from a few months back. You can see more of Ken’s peculiar brand of in-car lunacy all over the interweb, but [...]
Posted by Tom Fordat 7:22 pm on Thursday December 4, 2008
One of my favourite classic vids, this time from Ken Block and his Subaru. We like Ken here at TG. He’s both clever <em>and</em> insane. As the other video on the ski slope proves…
Posted by Tom Fordat 7:05 pm on Thursday December 4, 2008
Ken Block doing Subaru gymkhana, which looks a bit like autotesting here. Except – as with everything our beloved Ken does, faster and with more tyre smoke. Consider that when the term ‘use all the road’ is usually deployed, driving instructors rarely mean ‘use all the road, and the verge and other bits with bushes [...]
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