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Kenneth Paul Block (November 21, 1967 – January 2, 2023) was an American professional
rally Rally or rallye may refer to: Gatherings * Demonstration (political), a political rally, a political demonstration of support or protest, march, or parade * Pep rally, an event held at a United States school or college sporting event Sports ...
driver with the
Hoonigan Racing Division The Hoonigan Racing Division is a motor racing team that competes in the American Rally Association fielding a Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC car for Ken Block. The team previously competed in the World Rally Championship, Global RallyCross Championship ...
, formerly known as the Monster World Rally Team. Block was also one of the co-founders of
DC Shoes DC Shoes is an American company that specializes in footwear for action sports, including skateboarding and snowboarding. The company also manufactures apparel, bags, accessories, hats, tshirts, and posters. History The company was founded in ...
. He also competed in many action sports events, including
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,
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, and
motocross Motocross is a form of off-road motorcycle racing held on enclosed off-road circuits. The sport evolved from motorcycle trials competitions held in the United Kingdom. History Motocross first evolved in Britain from motorcycle trials competi ...
. After selling his ownership of DC Shoes, Block shifted his business focus to Hoonigan Industries, an apparel brand for auto enthusiasts. He was the co-owner and "Head Hoonigan In Charge" (HHIC) at the company before his death. In January 2021, Hoonigan Racing Division and
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announced that they were parting ways after 11 years. In April, Block announced that he would be going back to Subaru. In September, Block announced that he would be on a new partnership with
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for "joint projects in the field of electric mobility".


Rallying


2005

In 2005, Block began his National
rallying Rally is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (often called ''rally racing),'' navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed. ...
career with the Vermont SportsCar team. Vermont SportsCar prepared a 2005 Subaru WRX STi for Block to compete. His first event of the rallying season was
Sno*Drift Sno*Drift is a rally racing event held in Montmorency County, Michigan, annually, with headquarters in Atlanta, Michigan. The event is currently the first Rally America National Rally Championship event of the season. Currently the event is or ...
, where he ended up finishing seventh overall and fifth in the
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class. During the 2005 season, Block had five top five finishes and placed third overall in the Group A class and fourth overall in the Rally America National Championship. At the end of his first rallying year, Ken Block had won the
Rally America The Rally America National Championship was the national championship of rallying events in the United States. The inaugural season was in 2005. Rally America was also the name given to the organization that sanctioned the championship, was brie ...
Rookie of the Year award.


2006

In 2006, Block, along with his DC rally teammate
Travis Pastrana Travis Alan Pastrana (born October 8, 1983) is an American professional motorsports competitor and stunt performer who has won championships and X Games gold medals in several disciplines, including supercross, motocross, freestyle motocross, an ...
, signed a new
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deal with
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. Through this deal with Subaru, the teammates became known as "Subaru Rally Team USA." With the new rally season, Block also got a brand-new Vermont SportsCar prepped 2006 Subaru WRX STi. He competed in the first-ever
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rally event at
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. In the competition, Block ended up finishing third to take the bronze. He went on to compete in the 2006 Rally America National Championship, where he finished second overall.


2007

In 2007, Block competed in the
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rally event, where he placed second overall and won a silver medal. In the 2007 Rally America National Championship, Block finished third overall. During this season, Block also entered in a few rounds of the
World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the FIA. There are separate championships for drivers, co-drivers, manufacturers and t ...
;
Rally Mexico Rally Mexico, formerly known as Rally America is a round of the FIA World Rally Championship. The rally entered the championship schedule in the 2004 season. The event's itinerary is based in the state of Guanajuato. The stages take place in t ...
and
Rally New Zealand The Rally New Zealand is an annual rally race in New Zealand. It was first included as a round of the World Rally Championship in 1977. The race is famous for its fast flowing gravel roads which carry the competitors through forests and alongside ...
. In Rally New Zealand, Block recorded two top-five stage times in the Group N class. At the end of 2007, Block had achieved 19
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and 8 overall victories in rally events.


2008

In 2008, Block was provided with a brand-new rally-prepped 2008 Subaru WRX STi to compete. Block decided to compete in the Rallye Baie-des Chaleurs of the
Canadian Rally Championship The Canadian Rally Championship is an automobile rallying championship sanctioned by the Canadian Association of RallySport (CARS) held since 1957 in Canada. Canadian rallying history The Canadian Rally Championship (CRC) is Canada's only natio ...
to gain some experience with his new 2008 rally car and prepare for the
World Rally Championships The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the FIA. There are separate championships for drivers, co-drivers, manufacturers and t ...
later in the year. Block gained his first Canadian rally win at the event. This was only the second event for the new car. Block and his
co-driver A co-driver is the navigator of a rally car in the sport of rallying, who sits in the front passenger seat. The co-driver's job is to navigate, commonly by reading off a set of pacenotes to the driver (what lies ahead, where to turn, the severity ...
were unable to get any championship points at the event due to not having a Canadian competition license. Block competed in the Rally New York USA competition and finished in first place. In the X Games XIV rally competition, Block finished tied for third place with
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. This occurrence was due to both competitors having issues with their car. Block, who made it to the semi-finals of the event, had a
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problem after landing the car awkwardly on a jump. With both bronze place competitors in damaged cars unable to compete, the medals were awarded to both of them. Block competed in the 2008 Rally America National championship, which concluded on October 17, 2008. In the event, he finished second overall with a strong victory in the last event. In the Lake Superior Performance Rally (LSPR) stage, Block finished over one minute ahead of his next closest competitor and secured the second overall position. Next up for Block this rally season is three World Rally Championship events.


2009

Block appeared in a segment of motoring show ''
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''. Block filmed the hit YouTube video "Gymkhana 2".


2010

For 2010, Block ended his partnership with Subaru, and joined Ford to compete part-time at the
World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the FIA. There are separate championships for drivers, co-drivers, manufacturers and t ...
for Monster World Rally Team, where he drove a
Ford Focus RS WRC The Ford Focus RS WRC is a car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford Europe and M-Sport and based on the Ford Focus Climate 2-litre production hatchback, developed to compete in the World Rally Championship. The RS stands for ''Rallye Sport ...
08 together with long time co-driver Alex Gelsomino. Block therefore became the first ever American driver to campaign for the World Rally Championship. He scored two points after finishing 9th at the
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. Also, he ran his sixth season of the Rally America Championship in an open class
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, as well as his fifth X Games. On February 27, Block won the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood (
Rally America The Rally America National Championship was the national championship of rallying events in the United States. The inaugural season was in 2005. Rally America was also the name given to the organization that sanctioned the championship, was brie ...
) for the 5th consecutive time. This broke the record held by John Buffum.


2011

On March 23, Block and his co-driver Alex Gelsomino were taken to hospital, having rolled their
Ford Fiesta RS WRC The Ford Fiesta RS WRC is the World Rally Car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford Europe and M-Sport for use in the World Rally Championship 2011–2016. It is based upon the Ford Fiesta road car, and replaced the Ford Focus RS WRC, whi ...
during the shakedown stage of the 2011 Rally de Portugal in
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A representative of the Monster World Rally team later stated that both men were fine. He finished 8th at the
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and 9th at
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, scoring 6 points.


2013

On his first race of 2013 season, Block scored well, entering top-ten in the Mexican rally, thus receiving his first six points for the championship and scored a best-ever 7th overall finish.


2014

Castrol returned as Block's sponsor. He participated in the WRC located in Catalunya, Spain. He was in 10th place until the last stage where he suffered a tire puncture and lost a significant amount of time. He finished in 12th, which was his second to last season at the WRC.


Rallycross


X Games

Block's X Games results are as follows: * 2006: 3rd, * 2007: 2nd, * 2008: 3rd, * 2009: 7th * 2010: ** Rally Racing: 10th ** RallyCross: 7th * 2011: ** Rally Racing: 11th ** RallyCross: 13th *
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: 2nd, * 2013: ** Foz do Iguaçu: 8th ** Munich: 2nd, ** Los Angeles: 6th * 2014: 12th * 2015: 11th


American rallycross

Block competed at the
Global RallyCross Championship The TitansRX International Series (formerly known as Red Bull Global Rallycross or Global Rallycross) is a group of rallycross series, currently organised by racing driver Max Pucher and businessman Chip Pankow. The initial series was series ru ...
from 2011 to 2015. He finished runner-up in 2014 and third in 2013 and fifth in 2012, collecting six wins and 15 podiums. Block returned full-time for the 2018 Americas Rallycross Championship, where he claimed two podiums and ranked fourth in points.


European rallycross

In 2014, Block was third in the Norway round of the
FIA World Rallycross Championship The FIA World Rallycross Championship (official abbreviation is World RX) is a rallycross series organised by the FIA in conjunction with series promoter Rallycross Promoter GmbH (founded by Red Bull and KW25). From the inaugural season in 2014 ...
and won the Norway round of the
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. For the 2016 season, Block decided to compete full-time in the
World Rallycross Championship The FIA World Rallycross Championship (official abbreviation is World RX) is a rallycross series organised by the FIA in conjunction with series promoter Rallycross Promoter GmbH (founded by Red Bull and KW25). From the inaugural season in 2014 ...
. At
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, Germany, Block finished third in the Supercar Final and achieved his second podium in the series. In 2017, he finished 9th in points, with a best finish of 7th at Britain and France.


Gymkhana

Block produced a series of
gymkhana Gymkhana () ( ur, جِمخانہ, sd, جمخانه, hi, जिमख़ाना, as, জিমখানা, bn, জিমখানা) is a British Raj term which originally referred to a place of assembly. The meaning then altered to den ...
videos which have drawn millions of views on YouTube. In 2009, for the
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show ''
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'', Block took
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out for
Gymkhana Gymkhana () ( ur, جِمخانہ, sd, جمخانه, hi, जिमख़ाना, as, জিমখানা, bn, জিমখানা) is a British Raj term which originally referred to a place of assembly. The meaning then altered to den ...
-style driving at Block's stunt course at
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, an operational California airport, also starring Ricky Carmichael. In 2010 Block took the feature car from the previous episode (a
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) for a lap of the Top Gear test track. He rolled the car and was unable to complete a lap but was unhurt. On August 24, 2010, Block released the first of a three part Gymkhana 3 video release featuring his new Ford Fiesta. On September 14, 2010, Block's third Gymkhana video, featuring a Ford Fiesta, was released on YouTube. The video got more than seven million views in its first week. On August 16, 2011, the fourth Gymkhana video, ''The Hollywood Megamercial'' was released on YouTube, featuring Block driving around the
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backlot. On July 9, 2012, Block released his fifth Gymkhana video on YouTube, featuring Block driving his Ford Fiesta in San Francisco and
Travis Pastrana Travis Alan Pastrana (born October 8, 1983) is an American professional motorsports competitor and stunt performer who has won championships and X Games gold medals in several disciplines, including supercross, motocross, freestyle motocross, an ...
on a dirtbike. After 24 hours, the video was viewed 5.1 million times, making it the top-viewed video of the previous week. Main video series * ''Ken Block Gymkhana Practice'' (2008;
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) * ''Ken Block Gymkhana Two the Infomercial'' (2009; Subaru Impreza) * ''Ken Block's Gymkhana Three, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l'Autodrome, France'' (2010;
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) * ''Ken Block's Gymkhana Four; The Hollywood Megamercial'' (2011;
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) * ''Ken Block's Gymkhana Five: Ultimate Urban Playground; San Francisco'' (2012; Ford Fiesta) * ''Ken Block's Gymkhana Six – Ultimate Gymkhana Grid Course'' (2013; Ford Fiesta) * ''Ken Block's Gymkhana Seven: Wild in the Streets of Los Angeles'' (2014;
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) * ''Ken Block's Gymkhana Eight: Ultimate Exotic Playground in Dubai'' (2016; Ford Fiesta) * ''Ken Block's Gymkhana Nine: Raw Industrial Playground'' (2016; Ford Focus) * ''Ken Block's Gymkhana Ten: The Ultimate Tire Slaying Tour'' (2018; Ford Fiesta,
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,
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,
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and
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) Other videos * ''Ken Block Drifts London'' (2016; Ford Mustang) * ''Ken Block's Climbkhana: Pikes Peak Featuring the Hoonicorn V2'' (2017; Ford Mustang) * ''Ken Block's Climbkhana Two: 914hp Hoonitruck on China's Most Dangerous Road; Tianmen Mountain'' (2019; Ford F-150) * ''Ken Block's Electrikhana: High Stakes Playground; Las Vegas, in the Audi S1 Hoonitron'' (2022; Audi S1 Hoonitron)


Locations


Other motorsport activities

In 2005, Block, along with his DC Shoes associates, participated in the Gumball 3000 Rally. For the event, they sent out three modified 2004 Subaru WRX STis sponsored by
DC Shoes DC Shoes is an American company that specializes in footwear for action sports, including skateboarding and snowboarding. The company also manufactures apparel, bags, accessories, hats, tshirts, and posters. History The company was founded in ...
. In 2006, Block competed in the
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competition along with Brian Scotto. They were teamed up in a 2006 Subaru WRX STi and finished forty-fifth overall. In 2006, for the
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show ''
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'', Block jumped his Subaru WRX STi rally car and a max height of . In 2007, Block joined the DC Shoes Snowboarding team at New Zealand's Snow Park. Block did massive jumps and assisted in snowboarding tricks while driving his rally car on the mountain alongside the snowboarders. A crash after landing a large jump cracked one of the vertebrae in his spine; he was flown to the hospital. The session made the cover of the December 2007 issue of ''Snowboarder Magazine'' and closed out the ''MTN.LAB 1.5'' DVD. In 2010, Block co-founded
Gymkhana Grid Gymkhana Grid is a gymkhana car race held annually in different venues around the world since 2010. It was co-founded by racecar driver Ken Block, clothing brand DC Shoes and promoter Chris Willard. However, the 2011 edition was cancelled af ...
, a gymkhana race held annually around the world. He won all-wheel-drive event in 2014, beating Jake Archer in the final duel. In 2021 Block raced in the
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in the
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class finishing in 4th. Block also holds the world record for the world's fastest
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, a modified Ford Raptor called the RaptorTrax.


Video games

Block appeared in three installments of
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' ''
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'' racing video games. Block is featured as a driver in 2009's '' Colin McRae: Dirt 2'', along with his Subaru Rally Team USA Impreza. In 2011's ''
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'' he is seen as a driver and
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teacher, his Monster World Rally Team vehicles are available in the game, including the Ford Fiesta GYM 3, and the Ken Block Ford Focus WRC. His Hoonigan/Monster Ford Fiesta appears extensively in 2012's '' Dirt: Showdown'', and his trademark gymkhana style of driving is featured at the ''Head-to-Head'' and ''Trick Rush'' race modes as well as the ''Freestyle'' section. Block appears in the 2015 ''Need for Speed'' video game as the style icon. His Hoonigan-branded cars have also featured in
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's '' Forza'' racing video game series. Their first appearance was in expansion packs for ''
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'' and '' Forza Motorsport 7'' in 2017. Later they were offered as launch cars for 2018's ''
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'' and 2021's ''
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''. In 2021, Block started a collaboration with drag racing game ''
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''.


Signature wheels

In 2021 Ken Block collaborated with Rotiform and Fuel Off-Road through Wheel Pros to make 4 sets of signature wheels.


Rotiform KB-1

Featured on his : * His 1965 Ford Mustang aka Hoonicorn uses the Rotiform KB-1 in a 5x120 PCD, with a 26 offset in a 18x10.5 tire width. It is a forged 3pc type wheel in gloss white. * For his 1986 Ford RS2000 uses the same wheels in a 54 offset, with a 18x9.5 tire width , in a 4x108 PCD. It is a forged mono2 style wheel in gloss white * His 2016 Ford Focus RS uses the same wheels in a 42 offset , with a 19x18.5 tire width, in a 5x108 PCD , It is a forged mono2 style wheel in gloss white


Fuel off road the block

Featured on his : * 1977 Ford F-150 aka Hoonitruck uses the Fuel Block in a 5x120 PCD, with a -48 offset in a 20x10.5 tire width. It is forged beadlock type wheel in gloss white. * 2017 SVCOFFROAD Ford F-150 Raptor uses the Fuel Block in a 6x135 PCD, with a 0 offset, in a 17x9 tire width. It is forged beadlock type wheel in a matte black with a gloss black ring. * 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor uses the Fuel Block in a 6x135 PCD, with a 0 offset, in a 17x9 tire width. It is forged beadlock type wheel in a matte black with a gloss black ring.


Rotiform VCM-E

Featured on his : * 1994 Ford Escort RS Cosworth WRC AKA Cossie V2 uses the Rotiform VCE-M in a 4x108 PCD with a 31 offset., in a 18x8.5 tire width. It is a forged 3pc in gloss white * 2015 Ford Fiesta ST RX43 uses the Rotiform VCE-M in a 5x135 PCD with a 54 offset., in a 18x8.5 tire width. It is a forged Monoblock style wheel in gloss white


Rotiform GTB

Featured on his 1978 Ford Escort Mk2 RS uses the Rotiform GTB in a 4x108 PCD, with a 13 offset., in a 17x9 tire width. It is a forged Monoblock style wheel in gloss white .


Other appearances on TV/YouTube

Ken Block has made an minor appearance on the Motortrend show called Ignition with Jonny Lieberman . The purpose of his appearance was to promote the 2017 Ford Raptor .


Death

Block died at age 55 in a
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accident near his
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in
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, on January 2, 2023. The
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sheriff's department reported that Block had been riding in the Mill Hollow area when his snowmobile upended on a steep slope and landed on top of him. Block was declared dead at the scene of the accident. As a mark of respect, the number 43 would be retired from the
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for the 2023 season in his honor. "It's with our deepest regrets that we can confirm that Ken Block passed away in a snowmobile accident today." Hoonigan confirmed in a statement on Instagram. "Ken was a visionary, a pioneer and an icon. And most importantly, a father and husband. He will be incredibly missed."


Racing record


Complete Rally America results

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Complete WRC results

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PWRC results


Complete Global Rallycross Championship results

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Complete Americas Rallycross Championship results

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Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results

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Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

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† Five championship points deducted for receiving three reprimands in a season.


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External links


Hoonigan – Official Site

Hoonigan Racing Division – Official site


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Ken Block Interview

Gymkhana racing improved by Ken Block
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