I’ve never seen people having more fun working, not even in the porn industry. The recipe is just the same today, but the budget is bigger. If a product is nothing more than a reflection of the fun people have making it, you can see how Block & Co turned a day’s cocking about in an Impreza into a global sensation.
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Again, the Tall Man lurks, should I attempt to record any of it.īut what you need to know about Gymkhana, is that on location, it’s even cooler than you could ever imagine. It’s mind-blowing stuff and takes the Gymkhana franchise to new levels. The crew shows me some of the footage already shot. He sits way back in the chassis, has a paddle shifter for the first time on a Gymkhana-steed and a massive, I mean MASSIVE handbrake lever embossed with the Ken Block logo, which he deploys at any opportunity. Ken’s control centre is simple, but very effective. And no, I’m not going to tell you what it is, but it involves horsepower, immense skill and tyre death. Rubber scrubbed, he runs me through one of the scenes they’re about to shoot. In effect, it’s a Group B Fiesta – a Ford Duratec turbo’d to buggery and completely unrestricted. It’s agile too – running a short wheelbase and three mechanical differentials for that trademark-Block-four-wheel-drift. This thing is ball-tearingly fast - on slicks it’s run 0-60mph in 1.9sec. The motor sits pinned to the limiter until the tyre smoke begins to fill the cabin. And then just when I think he’s about to wander back to the surface truck BANG! he pins it in second and third, grabs a hoon-full of handbrake and pitches us way beyond the perpendicular, into something that feels almost backwards. He cuts a few girly weaves to release the oily surface layer, giving the vaguest suggestion of the car’s performance. Fresh rubber has just been fitted for the next scene.Ĭlick here to learn about Ken Block's Gymkhana Fiesta
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I’m riding shotgun with him in his new Gymkhana weaponry – a 650bhp Ford Fiesta. Ken Block doesn’t scrub tyres in the way other people scrub tyres in.
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‘Come see us film Gymkhana’, said The Tall Man (Ken Block’s marketing bloke) from the Monster World Rally Team, so I went on Saturday.