[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Ken Block going crazy (Page 1 of 2)
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Thanks for the imbed. Yes, he has skills. I'd like to see him do that on the skreets of New Orleans. 
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| I'm not saying he isn't a good driver but I absolutely despise his die hard fans who think he is the greatest rally driver that has ever lived, and gods own gift to the sport. If you ask these same people who Colin McRae, Tommi Makinen, or even Kimi Raikkonen is they would look at you like you're stupid. |
| Serious question... I don't follow WRC, don't know much about it. Block obviously has superhuman car control abilities, the videos and the stuff he did on Top Gear were just amazing. Why doesn't this translate in to success on the course? Are all of the rally guys that good, or does Block not do well with other cars on the track, or what? |
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Serious question... I don't follow WRC, don't know much about it. Block obviously has superhuman car control abilities, the videos and the stuff he did on Top Gear were just amazing. Why doesn't this translate in to success on the course? Are all of the rally guys that good, or does Block not do well with other cars on the track, or what? If not better. Block saw a gimmick to make him money. Others could do the same exact shit if they wanted, but they are full time racers and some that race in WRC also race in other venues such as F1 as well. Block on the other hand makes shoes and dicks around on the gymkhana course a bit too much. This by no means detracts from the fact that he is a good driver, just not the best. It's kinda sad though when you compare him to somebody like Travis Pastrana, whom has done pretty much everything under the sun (MX, Supermoto, Rally, you name it he's done it) and has had just as much success as Block, but has done so much more in other racing venues. |
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Serious question... I don't follow WRC, don't know much about it. Block obviously has superhuman car control abilities, the videos and the stuff he did on Top Gear were just amazing. Why doesn't this translate in to success on the course? Are all of the rally guys that good, or does Block not do well with other cars on the track, or what? Because you only get one take on the rally course. |
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His first video with the Subaru WRX sounds better. The Fiesta sounds like a swarm of angry hornets with shotguns. The WRX just sounds fucking sexy!
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His first video with the Subaru WRX sounds better. The Fiesta sounds like a swarm of angry hornets with shotguns. The WRX just sounds fucking sexy! http://youtu.be/rs-jAImScms It sounds like pissed off hornets with shotguns because of that nice little ALS switch you see in the beginning upon start up. The STi didn't sound like it had it. ALS or Anti lag system is basically a system that dumps fuel to be ignited in the exhaust ducting on decel to keep the turbo spooling even though you're foot isn't on the gas. A lot of rally car's use this so they can stay on the power and not worry about turbo lag. Also, comparing a Inline 4 with a flat 4 isn't really fair. The boxer rumble trumps the weed whacker sound everytime. |
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Skills for sure.
Honestly, I didn't even know he was an actual racer. I thought he just did drifting exhibitions. Before the driving bit, I just knew him as the owner of DCSHOECO. I don't even wanna attempt what he did in that video. I just wanna be a passenger along for the ride.
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His first video with the Subaru WRX sounds better. The Fiesta sounds like a swarm of angry hornets with shotguns. The WRX just sounds fucking sexy! http://youtu.be/rs-jAImScms It sounds like pissed off hornets with shotguns because of that nice little ALS switch you see in the beginning upon start up. The STi didn't sound like it had it. ALS or Anti lag system is basically a system that dumps fuel to be ignited in the exhaust ducting on decel to keep the turbo spooling even though you're foot isn't on the gas. A lot of rally car's use this so they can stay on the power and not worry about turbo lag. Also, comparing a Inline 4 with a flat 4 isn't really fair. The boxer rumble trumps the weed whacker sound everytime. I never knew that. I always thought it was just the drivers bouncing the engines off the rev-limiter for the hell of it. I remember reading one of the old class B rally drivers did that just to show off for the fans and give them a good show. Still, the Boxer rumble is soooooooo much better than the i-4. |
I know it's been posted here before, but I am more impressed by the driving/riding in this video than basically all of the gymkhanas, simply because the margin for error is so small.
and this is what it looks like when you fall outside that margin, no clipping cones, or hitting a solid wall.
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His first video with the Subaru WRX sounds better. The Fiesta sounds like a swarm of angry hornets with shotguns. The WRX just sounds fucking sexy! http://youtu.be/rs-jAImScms It sounds like pissed off hornets with shotguns because of that nice little ALS switch you see in the beginning upon start up. The STi didn't sound like it had it. ALS or Anti lag system is basically a system that dumps fuel to be ignited in the exhaust ducting on decel to keep the turbo spooling even though you're foot isn't on the gas. A lot of rally car's use this so they can stay on the power and not worry about turbo lag. Also, comparing a Inline 4 with a flat 4 isn't really fair. The boxer rumble trumps the weed whacker sound everytime. I never knew that. I always thought it was just the drivers bouncing the engines off the rev-limiter for the hell of it. I remember reading one of the old class B rally drivers did that just to show off for the fans and give them a good show. Still, the Boxer rumble is soooooooo much better than the i-4. Attend a local rally sometime. They are a hoot. And ALS can be hella loud. Sometimes rivaling gunfire.
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His first video with the Subaru WRX sounds better. The Fiesta sounds like a swarm of angry hornets with shotguns. The WRX just sounds fucking sexy! http://youtu.be/rs-jAImScms It sounds like pissed off hornets with shotguns because of that nice little ALS switch you see in the beginning upon start up. The STi didn't sound like it had it. ALS or Anti lag system is basically a system that dumps fuel to be ignited in the exhaust ducting on decel to keep the turbo spooling even though you're foot isn't on the gas. A lot of rally car's use this so they can stay on the power and not worry about turbo lag. Also, comparing a Inline 4 with a flat 4 isn't really fair. The boxer rumble trumps the weed whacker sound everytime. I never knew that. I always thought it was just the drivers bouncing the engines off the rev-limiter for the hell of it. I remember reading one of the old class B rally drivers did that just to show off for the fans and give them a good show. Still, the Boxer rumble is soooooooo much better than the i-4. Attend a local rally sometime. They are a hoot. And ALS can be hella loud. Sometimes rivaling gunfire.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhbuQM-bRuU&feature=relatedI love loud shit. That video gave me a boner. 
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His first video with the Subaru WRX sounds better. The Fiesta sounds like a swarm of angry hornets with shotguns. The WRX just sounds fucking sexy! http://youtu.be/rs-jAImScms It sounds like pissed off hornets with shotguns because of that nice little ALS switch you see in the beginning upon start up. The STi didn't sound like it had it. ALS or Anti lag system is basically a system that dumps fuel to be ignited in the exhaust ducting on decel to keep the turbo spooling even though you're foot isn't on the gas. A lot of rally car's use this so they can stay on the power and not worry about turbo lag. Also, comparing a Inline 4 with a flat 4 isn't really fair. The boxer rumble trumps the weed whacker sound everytime. I never knew that. I always thought it was just the drivers bouncing the engines off the rev-limiter for the hell of it. I remember reading one of the old class B rally drivers did that just to show off for the fans and give them a good show. Still, the Boxer rumble is soooooooo much better than the i-4. Attend a local rally sometime. They are a hoot. And ALS can be hella loud. Sometimes rivaling gunfire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhbuQM-bRuU&feature=relatedI love loud shit. That video gave me a boner.
Look up local scca rally races in your area. They are a ton of fun to attend as a spectator sport. Rally is bar none my favorite spectator sport, with supermoto and motocross coming up in a close second and third. Also, it doesn't take much to get into amateur rallying  .
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His first video with the Subaru WRX sounds better. The Fiesta sounds like a swarm of angry hornets with shotguns. The WRX just sounds fucking sexy! http://youtu.be/rs-jAImScms It sounds like pissed off hornets with shotguns because of that nice little ALS switch you see in the beginning upon start up. The STi didn't sound like it had it. ALS or Anti lag system is basically a system that dumps fuel to be ignited in the exhaust ducting on decel to keep the turbo spooling even though you're foot isn't on the gas. A lot of rally car's use this so they can stay on the power and not worry about turbo lag. Also, comparing a Inline 4 with a flat 4 isn't really fair. The boxer rumble trumps the weed whacker sound everytime. I never knew that. I always thought it was just the drivers bouncing the engines off the rev-limiter for the hell of it. I remember reading one of the old class B rally drivers did that just to show off for the fans and give them a good show. Still, the Boxer rumble is soooooooo much better than the i-4. Attend a local rally sometime. They are a hoot. And ALS can be hella loud. Sometimes rivaling gunfire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhbuQM-bRuU&feature=relatedI love loud shit. That video gave me a boner.
Look up local scca rally races in your area. They are a ton of fun to attend as a spectator sport. Rally is bar none my favorite spectator sport, with supermoto and motocross coming up in a close second and third. Also, it doesn't take much to get into amateur rallying .
It probably takes money. Something I don't have. 
But there was this one time that I ripped the handbrake and did a perfect u-turn slide around a Wendy's drive-thru in the snow when I was about 18.
I'll have to Google some SCCA races and see what's close to me. I'd like to watch something like that. |
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Kenny at Portugal round of WRC. Ouch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV0YvFhYzrE
As for the best rally driver, currently, the last eight years say Loeb. Looking that way isn't it.
Citroen is definitely a hard team to beat. It also doesn't help that Mitsubishi and Subaru are basically bowing out of the whole rally scene which makes me a very sad panda. They haven't really been relevant since the days of Makinen and McRae. |
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Kenny at Portugal round of WRC. Ouch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV0YvFhYzrE
As for the best rally driver, currently, the last eight years say Loeb. Looking that way isn't it.
Citroen is definitely a hard team to beat. It also doesn't help that Mitsubishi and Subaru are basically bowing out of the whole rally scene which makes me a very sad panda. They haven't really been relevant since the days of Makinen and McRae. And the Mini debacle this year didn't help the field. I wish more manufacturers would jump back in with works teams, give Loeb and Citroen some real competition and get the Evo vs. WRX death match back on track. 
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Kenny at Portugal round of WRC. Ouch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV0YvFhYzrE
As for the best rally driver, currently, the last eight years say Loeb. Looking that way isn't it.
Citroen is definitely a hard team to beat. It also doesn't help that Mitsubishi and Subaru are basically bowing out of the whole rally scene which makes me a very sad panda. They haven't really been relevant since the days of Makinen and McRae. And the Mini debacle this year didn't help the field. I wish more manufacturers would jump back in with works teams, give Loeb and Citroen some real competition and get the Evo vs. WRX death match back on track. Tell me about it. Ralliart and STi/Prodrive need to get their head out of their asses and get back to their roots. I'm tired of having a one horse town out on the circuit. I would hate to see the sport die, and all of the works teams pulling out isn't helping the end goal. 
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| The Gymkhana videos he has made are pretty wild. I think my favorite has to be the first one he did in the Los Angeles Pier, with him doing some wilds stunts on a heavily modded Subaru Imprezza; the newer ones he has done with the Ford FIesta re good, but not like the original one. |
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His first video with the Subaru WRX sounds better. The Fiesta sounds like a swarm of angry hornets with shotguns. The WRX just sounds fucking sexy! http://youtu.be/rs-jAImScms It sounds like pissed off hornets with shotguns because of that nice little ALS switch you see in the beginning upon start up. The STi didn't sound like it had it. ALS or Anti lag system is basically a system that dumps fuel to be ignited in the exhaust ducting on decel to keep the turbo spooling even though you're foot isn't on the gas. A lot of rally car's use this so they can stay on the power and not worry about turbo lag. Also, comparing a Inline 4 with a flat 4 isn't really fair. The boxer rumble trumps the weed whacker sound everytime. I never knew that. I always thought it was just the drivers bouncing the engines off the rev-limiter for the hell of it. I remember reading one of the old class B rally drivers did that just to show off for the fans and give them a good show. Still, the Boxer rumble is soooooooo much better than the i-4. Attend a local rally sometime. They are a hoot. And ALS can be hella loud. Sometimes rivaling gunfire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhbuQM-bRuU&feature=relatedI love loud shit. That video gave me a boner.
Stand right behind the start line at a Motocross.....it's so angry sounding it makes you giddy....and the 30 second girl is usually a cute Monster Energy babe. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Dont know the car setup, whats the big lever he keeps pulling on? Some sort of hand brake? On the dash seems to be a gear indicator and it looks like he is paddle shifting. You got it right. It's setup that way for quicker access. And more torque on the on the brake. |
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Dont know the car setup, whats the big lever he keeps pulling on? Some sort of hand brake? On the dash seems to be a gear indicator and it looks like he is paddle shifting. You got it right. It's setup that way for quicker access. And more torque on the on the brake. Correct, I'm pretty sure it all started from the drifting crowd and then made it's way to other forms of racing such as rally. |
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Block is a brilliant marketer lol... He never does much in wrc but has made Ford, subaru, monster, and dc millions. He is great at bringing people into whatever he's selling lol. He's good at gymkhana stuff but he's also the one who basically brought it mainstream.
Car is running 600ish hp & tq. So the drifting/ donuts aren't that hard to start. |
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His first video with the Subaru WRX sounds better. The Fiesta sounds like a swarm of angry hornets with shotguns. The WRX just sounds fucking sexy! http://youtu.be/rs-jAImScms His old STI sounded just like mine did on start up. Mine didn't have 530whp though
Fucking thieving bastards 
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Block is a brilliant marketer lol... He never does much in wrc but has made Ford, subaru, monster, and dc millions. He is great at bringing people into whatever he's selling lol. He's good at gymkhana stuff but he's also the one who basically brought it mainstream. Car is running 600ish hp & tq. So the drifting/ donuts aren't that hard to start. Exactly he's good at marketing and making money for poser dressers, but as a driver he sucks, not to mention he is a huge douche bag in real life, impossible to talk to.  Not a real driver IMHO, I can't stand him.
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he's does one thing well....crashing
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Quoted: Serious question... I don't follow WRC, don't know much about it. Block obviously has superhuman car control abilities, the videos and the stuff he did on Top Gear were just amazing. Why doesn't this translate in to success on the course? Are all of the rally guys that good, or does Block not do well with other cars on the track, or what? WRC doesn't have multiple takes. One bad corner can DNF you. |
