18 sports racing cars from racer-showman Ken Block. Choose the most cool car, without which the extreme Gymkhana show would not be itself.

Block STyle Ford Focus ST (2013)

The Block STyle ST doesn't have the distinctive black-and-green paintjob of the other cars on this list, but it shares a unique design and limited production run. The model was developed with the support of Fifteen52 as part of the Project ST program in 2012.

Ford Bronco (1974)

One of Ken Block's least known cars is this fantastic 1974 Ford Bronco. It was built by NSB Performance (Edgewater, Florida). An old jeep that has found new life, was Ken's wedding anniversary gift to his wife. The model is powered by a new 5.0-liter V8 engine paired with a six-speed transmission automatic transmission transmission The updated Bronco offers 435 hp. With. and 542 Newton-meters of torque under the hood.

Ford Fiesta ST RX43 (Gymkhana 6 / Gymkhana 8) (2015)

Built for a racing team, the M-Sport competed as a rallycross car in 2013. This 600 hp hot hatch also made its debut in the sixth episode of Gymkhana. It accelerates to 96 km/h in just two seconds and wears an angry black-and-white livery on its body, like a medieval blanket, which was inspired by the sports livery of the 2011 rally car. Interestingly, a reconstruction - called the RX43B - was built for FIA use World Rally cross in 2014.

It is also worth noting that the sports car turned out to be so memorable and popular that various manufacturers radio controlled models they immediately began making copies of it using combustion engines and electric motors.

Ford Focus RS RX #43 (2016)

This Ford Focus The ZEBRA RS is the fruit of a fruitful collaboration between Ford Performance, Hoonigan Racing and British company"M-Sport". The car was built for rallycross racing. The model is powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. At the same time, the RS power reaches 600 hp. s., the car can accelerate to 96 km/h in two seconds.

Ford Escort MK2 RS (1978/2015)

This 1977 practical monster, born Ford F-150, has a whopping 941 horsepower. With. in its updated turbocharged innards is an EcoBoost V6 engine. The body is made of hand-molded aluminum, and all the power goes to the asphalt thanks to the all-wheel drive system. The Hoonitruck was first shown at the SEMA custom car show, but will debut at new series Gymkhana 10.

Ford F-150 RaptorTRAX (2013)

Say hello to the Ford F-150 RaptorTRAX. As the name suggests, it changes off-road tires on crawler. This whole thing looks simply amazing. The model runs on a 6.2-liter supercharged V8. The pickup produces 600 hp. With. and has a six-speed automatic transmission. He made his debut in the video "Monster Energy", which was filmed on Mount Baldface in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.

Ford Mustang Hoonicorn RTR 1965 (Gymkhana 7/Climbkhana: Pikes Peak)

The craziest "Ken-Block car" that has existed so far is this Ford Mustang Hoonicorn, which debuted in 2016. Powered by a compressor V8, the first version offers 845 Horse power and 976 Newton meters of torque. Enough to ruin the tires in Gymkhana 7.

A few months later, the second version of Hoonicorn arrived. The debut model this time received a twin turbocharger for the previously installed engine Roush-Yates V8, which is capable of developing a power of 1,400 hp. s., and 1.695 Newton meters of torque. The debut was the video Climbkhana: Pikes Peak.

Ford Escort RS Cosworth (1991)

It's hard to pick a clear winner between the two classic models Ford Escort and the categorical rally variation of the RS200. Under the hood of the Cosworth is a rebuilt 2.0-liter turbocharged engine power 340 hp With. Its body is covered in a unique paint job that pays homage to the already mentioned 2016 Ford Focus RS RX. It was a true classic come to life...

Why was? Yes, the car just burned out this year during one of the races. Ken was driving, but that didn't help Ford.

Ford Focus RS (2016)

Unlike other cars on the list, this model looks surprisingly tame. It looks like Ken Block decided to make his own out of it sport car for everyday use. Before us is a slightly modified 2016 Ford Focus RS.

Aside from the wheels (a set of forged Monoblock-Turbomacs from Fifteen52), the only update to the RS is its chassis. Otherwise, everything is standard for the “RS” version: 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine turbocharged produces 350 hp. With. and 475 Newton-meters of torque.

Ford F-150 Raptor (2017)

If the Ford Focus is not big enough, you can look at the modified one. Like the 2016 RS version, this truck feels pretty tame compared to the other vehicles on the list. However, it offers upgrades such as an improved all-terrain suspension, forged two-piece wheel disks Turbomac HD Rider by Fifteen52 and Toyo tires Open Country.

Ford Fiesta R2 (2014)

This small fry - 2014 Ford Fiesta RS cannot count on the laurels of a winner. But it is especially worth noting that it all started with her. The model is powered by a modest 1.0-liter three-cylinder engine that produces just 177 hp. pp., and is equipped with a sequential five-speed gearbox transmission This may not be the most famous car on this list, but it certainly plays important story V racing history Ken Block.

Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2009 (Gymkhana 2)

Ken Block equals Ford? This was not always the case. Built for Gymkhana 2, this 2009 Subaru Impreza WRX STI - with a 566-horsepower turbocharged four-cylinder engine. 828 Newton-meters of torque is a nice bonus.

Ford Fiesta GYM3 2011 (Gymkhana 3)

Following the success of the first two Gymkhana videos, Ken Block and his team have released this retro-inspired Ford Fiesta, which is filled to the brim with all sorts of the latest sports technology.

The kid works on a 2.0-liter pumped Duratec engine Olsbergs from Fiesta 600 l. With. with 895 Newton meters of torque. Power and torque are transferred to the asphalt surface through six-speed gearbox gears and four-wheel drive.

One of the most famous daredevils automotive world and the chief tire destroyer - we're talking about Ken Block - presented a new car for the next Gymkhana: the rear-wheel drive Ford Escort Mk2 RS. This merry fellow's taste is becoming more and more exotic - let's see where he started?

Here she is, new toy Ken Block: second-generation rear-wheel drive Ford Escort RS. With a wide track, naturally aspirated 2.5 engine producing 333 hp. somewhere at 9000 rpm, and a seventh gearbox.

All this wealth is Ken’s new car for the next Gymkhana, which is due out in 2016. However, even before the premiere, “Escort” should appear in several videos that Blok is going to shoot with his military friends.

In general, Blok was and remains a racer - he participates in both rallies and rallycross. But the results of these competitions seem to concern only him - everyone else is just waiting for the release of the next Gymkhana or choosing good sneakers and T-shirts well-known company. However, the passion for rallying did not go in vain - look at Blok’s first “gymkhanamobile”.

This Subaru Impreza WRX STI in a sedan body – this is what Blok filmed in the pilot part of “Gymkhana”. He brought the car almost from the rally stages, having peeled off only the name of the co-driver. True, for filming the “verse” they added a little power - up to 537 hp, taken from a 2.7-liter turbo engine. Ken also performed a fantastic 52-meter jump on it.

For the second part of “Gymkhana,” Blok, inspired by success, prepared new car. Subaru Impreza WRX STI again. Only now it’s the next generation hatch. Moreover, it was his own – before turning into a show car, it served as Ken’s daily car.

The guys from Crawford Performance helped him. In 800 man-hours, the studio stripped the car down and reassembled it using racing components, making some parts of the body out of carbon fiber and forcing the hatch to lose as much as 270 kilograms of weight. They didn’t forget about the engine either - the turbocharged “two and seven” was increased to 566 horses and 611 Nm.

Next, Ken Driftovich Block radically changed course and switched to the rallycross Ford Fiesta from the craftsmen from Olsbergs Motorsport Evolution. The baby, whose weight barely exceeded 1100 kg, was equipped all-wheel drive and a turbocharged “four” with a power of approximately 840 horsepower. However, the output was later limited to 650 hp - and this was enough for the block.

The car turned out to be extremely successful - Ken made not only the third, but also the fourth, fifth and sixth parts of Gymkhana using the same 650-horsepower Fiseta. The only things that changed were the wheels (in any case, no one spoke publicly about other upgrades) and the design. Separately, Blok boasted that the Fiesta could be quickly converted both for gymkhana and for participation in rallies or rallycross.

You saw “Fiestas” from the third and fourth parts a little higher. This copy is from the fifth “Gymkhana”.

By the seventh drift short film, Blok had matured to 845 forces. In the latest this moment“Gymkhana” debuted an all-wheel drive, completely custom projectile, stylized as a 1965 Mustang.

His V8 spins up to 8000 rpm and allows Blok to do such things... However, you remember anyway?

But let's take a break from Gymkhana and remember Ken's other, no less cool cars. Do you think that Blok’s new car is his first Exort? No matter how it is, he met the Escort Mk II back in 2009 at Team O'Neal's Rally School rides.

Then Ken tested an almost 300-horsepower rear-wheel drive 1978 Ford with a 2.4-liter Millington engine paired with the notorious rally driver Chris Atkinson. Apparently, he liked it - soon he had the same one of his own (pictured).

A version of the Impreza WRX STI hatch, which remained outside the scope of Gymkhana. However, the tracked Subaru also got a couple of beautiful shots.

Well, this big guy from Ken Block's garage got a lot more attention - meet the absolutely crazy snowmobile with the powerful name Ford F-150 RaptorTRAX!

6.2-liter V8 with a mechanical supercharger, lots of music “outside”, mounts for snowboards, a special compartment for something edible and even a built-in mini-grill. Well, and four Mattracks caterpillars, of course.

Ken Block is a famous rally driver, showman and simply an extraordinary person. Having learned about his life and professional moments, you can get acquainted with his sporting achievements, and at the same time. In a word, take a look and be charged for a long time with positive emotions, irrepressible energy and specific determination.

But tell me, dear friends, how is the life of an inconspicuous, ordinary and ordinary person? All of us know that it takes place in several stages, first kindergarten, then school, then college, and so on, etc. This initial part of life can be characterized as a learning stage of learning about the world and initial formation. Next comes the main routine stage of the existence of homo sapiens, this is work. And this is where most of us get bogged down completely and irrevocably, a person’s interests are finally narrowed to the essential and the very development of personality slows down, but in the end this everyday and urgent approach to everything as a whole leads to the final loss (fading) of all interest to life itself.

But for non-ordinary people, life happens (proceeds) completely differently. They never tire of enjoying living, creating and improving; in the end, for such abundance of life, life itself pays them back in the same coin. So the biography of Ken Block, this extraordinary and amazing man in motorsport, will be a confirmation for you of all the words we have spoken.

Born November 21, 1967. Rally racer, skateboarder, snowboarder, also involved in motocross. Where does he get so much money for such not the cheapest sports, you ask. The thing is, Ken is the co-founder of the famous American company for the production of shoes for extreme sports, "DC Shoes".

This significant event for him happened back in 1993 and it is safe to say that it completely changed his life. And it’s not even about money, but about the connections and opportunities that the very production of these accessories for extreme sports gave him. His business partner Damon Way, in order to promote a new brand, managed to convince his brother, skateboarder Denny Way, and with him his friend, Canadian professional skater Colin McKay, to terminate the previously signed contract with their sponsors and conclude new agreement with the shoe company "DC Shoes". Thus, the first two models of sneakers began to bear the name of these two athletes. And this “pair of shoes” was brought and given to the budding businessmen right direction and new impulse. Without these connections, who knows if we would have ever heard of the company "Droors Clothing" or the more well-known acronym "DC Shoes".

Most powerful Ford Fiesta in the world at 600 hp

An avid snowboarder and skater, Ken Block knew exactly what citizens like him needed and wanted from the company. Having created a small business in California, this passionate man did not give up on his plans and dreams, it took him very little time for this small company producing and selling skateboard shoes to become one of the world's leading brands.

In 2004, the company was acquired by a larger competitor, Quiksilver, Inc. After this, the company began to grow at a more significant pace and began to develop its business in many areas, including the production of various accessories, opening company branches in different parts of the world.

With this progress in business, Ken Block had a rare opportunity to fulfill his dreams, to do what he had dreamed of for so long. This is how his rally racing career began.

And here Ken specifically showed everyone this active approach to his new hobby. He did not become an ordinary and ordinary rally racer, but showed rallying from a completely different side of the matter, not as a sport, but as an art.

His motorsports career began with the Vermont SportsCar team. The first car in which he began to compete was the Subaru Impreza WRS STi model, and his first sports season was the American National Rally Championship Sno*Drift, in which, as a debutant, Ken Block showed quite good results, taking seventh place in the overall standings and fifth place in your group.

On next year Subaru sponsored this motorsport prodigy. The team was named “Subaru Rally Team USA”. In 2006, he took part in the X Games for the first time, finishing third on the podium for the first time.

In 2007, he was second at the same X Games races. And at the America auto racing, Ken finished third, thereby taking an honorable third place. In the same season, Ken Block took part in the stages of the world rally championship and took places in the top five several times.

2008 - new Subaru Impreza WRX STi. And again new rallies, again new victories for Blok. Canadian rally championship Rallye Baie-des Chaleurs, in which he again wins. However, this result was not counted because his team did not have a license to participate in competitions in Canada. At New York, Ken Block takes first place, and at the X Games he is awarded bronze and takes third place on the podium.

2010 - Block participated in several stages of the World Rally Championship with the Monster World Rally team. This time it's racing car became the Fiesta RS model.

2011 - there was an accident, the pilot and his navigator ended up in the hospital, but to his (their) happiness everything worked out.

And to this day, Ken Block continues to delight us all with his amazing victories and various performances, as well as various stunts and crazy extraordinary actions in auto racing.

And then...(?) And then there was more than one video, it became the main connecting factor for Ken’s popularity. If it weren’t for these video recordings, no one would have ever heard about this entertainer and would not have looked at the rally from a completely different side of the matter (issue), not as a sport, but as an art itself.

The show hypercar is probably one of the Top 5 craziest tuned cars Ford versions Mustang in the history of American automobile manufacturing of all times. But as it turns out, the monster, pumped up for demonstration flights along the improvised track for Gymkhana, is not extreme enough for Ken Block.

Say hello to the Hoonicorn, the V2, which is just as cool as the first Hoonicorn, with the only difference being that the new supercar for Ken Block has almost twice the insane amount of power.

Under the wide hood is the same 410 cubic inch (6.7 liter) Roush-Yates V8 engine, but now it has the advantage of being able to play with the installed twin-turbo and system direct injection methanol into the mixture.

The power from this modification did not increase, it soared. If 845 hp. in the original model, for many it seemed too much, then 1,400 (!) horses generally seem like a completely unnecessary waste of fuel and engine life. Although, no matter how you look at it, as they say, no matter what the child amuses himself with...

"We got approval for a new video starring Hoonicorn, but I need more power to implement the work plan," Block said. "So I conceptualized the idea I wanted, which involved two Garrett turbos sticking out from under the hood - and took the idea to my team. They put the theory into practice and added methanol to get the power setting I wanted. In the end we ended up with 1,400 horsepower! It turned out to be a little more power than planned, but I'm glad about it!

In other words, it all started when Ken Block wanted to change the appearance of the hellish all-wheel drive model"65, and ended up with an additional 555 hp added to the already super-powerful huge engine. Not bad!

The appearance has changed though. Her style is based on Americanism, visualized by the stars and stripes, sometimes colored in the style of the US flag.

It's obvious that updated car with a twin-turbo engine will become even more difficult to drive, in particular due to the fact that an insidious turbo lag will appear in the once atmospheric system.

He even admits that it will be a challenge: "When I say this is absolutely the craziest thing I've ever driven, I'm not exaggerating. Not at all! The torque from the engine destroys the Toyo tires so quickly that I can barely change gears. It's truly a mind-blowing, crazy experience to drive it . It is amazing".

We look forward to a new video from Ken, in which he will once again set the heat in his new super-powerful car.

Ken Block is a racing driver and showman who, during his career, has earned the status of the main daredevil of the automotive world and the thunder of tires. He took part in many car races, but most fans fell in love with him thanks to his participation in Gymkhana - a type of motorsport that involves overcoming obstacles on a pre-prepared track and demonstrating driving techniques. This must be done in the minimum amount of time maximum speed. And so Ken Block presented to the public a new car for the upcoming Gymkhana - the Ford Escort Mk2 RS.

Besides the chic appearance Capable of delivering a visual orgasm to all car enthusiasts, this steel horse has the following characteristics:

• sequential gearbox;
• widened track;
• 333 horsepower.

You only have to look at Ken Block's first car to see that he loves racing and luxury cars more than life itself.

This is a Subaru Impreza WRX STI. To participate in the first Gymkhana, Blok modified it slightly: he added a little power - up to 537 hp. Using the same car, he made a 52-meter jump, which is now the stuff of legends.

The success of the first Gymkhana inspired Ken, and for the second part he prepared even more cool car. This time it was also the Subaru Impreza WRX STI, but the next generation hatch.

Like his first car, it also underwent modifications, with help from Crawford Performance. They literally rebuilt the car, boosting the engine to 566 hp. and 611 Nm.

For the next race, Ken Block chose a Ford Fiesta, which was “pumped up” especially for him by the masters from Olsbergs Motorsport Evolution. His car was equipped with a turbocharged “four” with approximately 840 horsepower. Although the output had to be reduced to 650 horsepower, this did not affect the success of the race. Moreover, Ken Block used the same car in the fourth, fifth and sixth parts of Gymkhana.