RE: Climbkhana: Time For Tea

RE: Climbkhana: Time For Tea

Tuesday 26th September 2017

Climbkhana: Time For Tea?

Ken Block attacks Pikes Peak the only way he knows how... sideways!



It seems like it was only a month ago that we reported on Ken Block's Terrakhana but he's already moved onwards, and most definitely upwards...

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!

 

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dotgillingham

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37 posts

94 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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No expense spared. Apart from a sun visor!

Agent XXX

1,248 posts

105 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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he was a bit sh*t in the World RallyCross Championships last year. Completely outclassed

Thermobaric

725 posts

119 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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I found this a bit underwhelming really. I guess there's only so many things you can go sideways around.

unsprung

5,467 posts

123 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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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.




Inspectre

435 posts

218 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Fantastic....loved every second of his latest episode. The handvisor was particularly funny. Excellent Work.

PunterCam

1,069 posts

194 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Thermobaric said:
I found this a bit underwhelming really. I guess there's only so many things you can go sideways around.
Pretty much my feelings. Great watching people actually on the edge in motorsport - that will always be interesting - but there's only so much dicking around in a car I can watch.

hammo19

4,898 posts

195 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Awesome.......Aaron Kaufman needs to respond now!

Gus265

264 posts

132 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Loved it! Assumed the "handvisor" was a tribute to Ari Vatenen's Climbdance. Also, I don't care how good a driver you might think you are, setting up that "pike edge" slide and brushing the Armco with your rear quarter is properly major Cojones! Could have looked very stupid!

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!

Mr-B

3,765 posts

193 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Agent XXX said:
he was a bit sh*t in the World RallyCross Championships last year. Completely outclassed
That's because he only gets "one take" for each rally stage.

Gd500 said:
He was unfortunate that all those cones had been left on the track...

Was it all done in 1 take? Sometimes there's tyre marks on the road, other times there isnt.
Some scenes are done in one but tyre marks show other parts have taken a few attempts.

Still the boy got skillz to hang the arse end off the edge like that!

ZX10R NIN

27,490 posts

124 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Enjoyed that.

Stick Legs

4,824 posts

164 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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I understand the people who dislike Ken Block, and in an ideal world the guys who made the most out of the world of rallying would be those that were the best drivers.
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.

chris333

1,034 posts

238 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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TheKen Block videos are usually good fun to watch, but this one is not a patch on Climb Dance!

Krikkit

26,500 posts

180 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Bit more info on the car, sounds like a frightening thing indeed. 1400hp, twin-turbo, methanol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9-1PoYv2Y4

BrewsterBear

1,503 posts

191 months

Tuesday 26th September 2017
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If he was a talented driver he'd have done it properly. I appreciate there is skill in drifting, but the Pikes Peak is not about going sideways, it's about going fast and Ken can't. If Loeb cared he'd be pissing himself. He doesn't and he isn't.

GravelBen

15,654 posts

229 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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Bit of fun, I liked the Climb Dance references. Would be more interested to see what it could do driven fast instead of (or as well as) gooning around though.

dinkel

26,886 posts

257 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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Gus265 said:
I can't believe 1400 Bhp is that easy to tame either.
Easy? We mere mortals would be dead within 20 secs.

generationx

6,644 posts

104 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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Lots more info here:

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!

eybic

9,212 posts

173 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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dotgillingham said:
No expense spared. Apart from a sun visor!
I guess you haven't seen Climb Dance?

lewishollings

199 posts

85 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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Gd500 said:
He was unfortunate that all those cones had been left on the track...

Was it all done in 1 take? Sometimes there's tyre marks on the road, other times there isnt.
Probably because sometimes he gets it right first time and other times he doesn't

wowman

66 posts

152 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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Entertaining to watch, but the article spares the only information I really care about: what's his time?