Climbkhana: Time For Tea?
Ken Block attacks Pikes Peak the only way he knows how... sideways!
This time out good old Kenneth is following in the footsteps of motorsport luminaries like Ari Vatanen, Walter Rohrl and, more recently, Sebastien Loeb by taking on Pike's Peak.
In traditional Hoonigan fashion, Block uses his all-wheel-drive Mustang Hoonicorn V2 with 1,400hp of twin-turbo goodness to attack the 14,110ft summit. With helicopter shots aplenty and a smorgasbord of GoPro angles - including one of the spooling turbos shooting flames as he downshifts - clearly no expense was spared.
The motorsport fans among you may notice the little nod to the aforementioned Ari's Climb Dance before he gets very sideways, very close to the cliff edge. You can watch the video here, sphincter clenching cliff hangers and all!
Next up: Our mate Ken performs his gymkhana stunts in Brussels.
Driving a renewables-recharged Toyota Prius, Ken circles Jean-Claude Juncker as he speaks at a smart rose-wood lectern, weaves in and out a field of rolling balls of red tape, and bursts through a haystack blockade manned by potato-tossing French farmers.
I can't believe 1400 Bhp is that easy to tame either.
My thought was: why not do it again as fast as you can and see how much quicker you are than Sebastian Loeb's Super Peugeot!
Carry on please Ken - it would be sad if you stopped!
Was it all done in 1 take? Sometimes there's tyre marks on the road, other times there isnt.
Still the boy got skillz to hang the arse end off the edge like that!
However hats off to Ken as he has opened the skill involved in rallying to a world of people who don't wear duffel coats and bobble hats and stand in woods.
The world would be a poorer place without him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9-1PoYv2Y4
http://www.speedhunters.com/2017/09/behind-scenes-...
Basically done over the course of a year and three major shooting sessions.
Visually stunning as usual, but with this subject matter I don't think it needed the donut sections, just a good old time attack.
Keep 'em coming Ken!
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