The gold handle is a hydro handbrake that doesn't lock, as you saw super useful to toss the back end around. The black shifter is a sequential shifter that is a manual, but doesn't require a clutch except for launching from a stop, as the computer rev-matches the shifts. Pull back = up 1 gear, push forward = down 1 gear. It may be called a 65 Mustang, but all the technology is modern. Only a few pieces of sheet metal are original.
@@SayGahTaah not true, the chassis is pretty much a custom space frame setup but the shell is an original 1965 which was seamwelded and reinforced then work was done on the arches
@@UkStiggy yeah the chasis is all custom but the only thing from the mustang left was the a and b pillars and the roof. It's on hoonigans page from 6yrs ago
Rest in Peace Ken! You’re very missed brother! Truly! Ken gave his 16 year old daughter and rally driver Lia the hoonicorn just 2 months before he died because it was her dream car from the time he finished it. Great she has that as a memory of her amazing dad.
There are a bunch of these Gymkhana videos by Ken Block and a couple by other friends of his. They are very entertaining. This one get's much of it's entertainment from the dangerous nature of the course. There are better ones in terms of him showing off crazy driving skills. Do More Please!!
Agreed, the China mountain road in the F150 (Climbkhanna) is so bad ass as well! One of my favorite of them but next year for the first time he’s been brought on to Audi , his Hoonigan channel he goes to their HQ to see next gymkhanna 2022’s vehicle, an Audi instead of Ford . A futuristic recreation 1 off rallycar/Dakar looking wild vehicle so this next year must be an off-road rally type video instead of street. Think when he let Pastrana and Subaru Give gymkhanna a go Audi saw a chance to muscle in and do the same knowing he’s a big Audi fan as well. Lucky bastard!
@@MZ-bl6wg Yeah Ken parted ways with Ford right after the first season of Hoonicorn vs the World. The real reason his daughter has taken the spot of driving the car in the second season as he can't drive Fords anymore since he is no longer with them. I would imagine his Rally car will also be by Audi. It's good to see those guy get back into the more extreme side of Motorsports and not just the LMP1 prototypes.
Should do part 2 as well, even more impressive imo. He uses a truck instead. Also, the Hoonicorn, the special Mustang he is driving in this, has 1400 hp under the hood if I remember correctly
Yeah the 70’s wide body F150 in the China video is tied for me as a favorite with this one. 2022 he jsut announced Audi brought him to their HQ in Germany and built a wild futuristic looking 1 off rally/dakar looking vehicle so it’s back to the dirt next year. Look forward to these.
@@MZ-bl6wg saw that video as well, can you imagine being so big that a company like Audi tells you they want to make a car specifically for you? A buddy of mine said he had an idea of how the pitch to the design team went lol. 'Go design a car for Ken Block to drive like a f-ing maniac. Oh and don't lose to the Hoonicorn.'
OOOH! The company I work for actually makes the Pedal set used in this car!! I was hoping they would do a close up shot of his feet and hot damn 7:52 there they are! So crazy to think something our shop made is a part of this beast of a car.
Ken Block is one of the best precision drivers out there IMO. Give him anything with a motor and wheels and he will thread the needle. He is a rally car driver by trade but also an entrepreneur. Dave - he is the co-founder of DC shoes so he's all about extreme sports.
Totally agree, honestly , him and one of his best buddies Travis Pastrana are turning most of the motor sports around the globe on their heads with their talent. Hell Ken Block like you said is a world champion WRC Ford driver, champion World Rally Cross driver, now entering the E drift series and Dakars Electric class next year and Baja as a new trophy truck driver 2022 after Pastrana hoped in the Red Bull Troohy truck in the Mint 400 450 mile Baja race and his first race ever in a trophy truck competing agaisnt the 49 Best drivers in the world he took 3rd place after driving the truck 3 times in the previous weeks. He’s about to be a Baja legend and challenged KB to enter this year too and one of the top drivers rode passenger with KB his first time in a trophy truck said he’s a damn natural. Can’t forget skateboard legend and Snowmobile phenom. I don’t care what anyone says. To become a world champion in SO many top motor sports series within 2 years of entering , it’s pure talent!!! Wel and balls. Lol I love how Europe gave Pastrana and Block crap trying the WRC and both finished on the championship podium their first year in the WRC , both with multiple 1st place finishes thru the season. Proved everyone wrong. 👍👍
@@MZ-bl6wg what are you talking about, Ken Block is just a stuntman and a show off. He has NEVER won a WRC race ever. If you want to talk a about a REAL driver, you have to look at Sebastien Loeb, he has won the WRC 9 TIMES IN A ROW, that guy is a master.
Ken Block is an absolute beast! That spot on the mountain when the guy checked his brakes, that’s real. On your way down, you ride your brake a lot (you’re supposed to use your transmission but some people don’t know that). People have died early on because their brakes got so hot, they just faded and didn’t have any brakes and flew off the edge. It’s really sad. Whole families have died… 😔 So if your brakes are over a certain temperature, they’ll make you park and let them cool off. Once they’re cool, they’ll check again and off you go!
Not to mention 136 corners , over half of which are blind and no guard rails and so many look identical , it’s why some of the best hill climb drivers on earth have died here. Last year sadly Ducati Superbike legend /Dakar legend, Ducati factory rider was killed taking the new 227hp naked street fighter in qualifying ending that class allowed at pikes peak. This years winner overall and last years was a small local team of engineers unsponsored who won fastest time with a 600hp K24 Honda powered Formula 1 looking Frankenstein with the biggest wings I’ve ever seen, he said it’s all about controllable power ,a light car and insane downforce that is the new pikes peak formula instead of 1500hp , massive brakes of the past. Entering a new phase in hillcimbing. They beat the record Volkswagen electric factory pikes peak race car by 16 seconds unsponsored with little money and alot of used parts, bearing the $120M electric factory car built jsut to take the world record at pikes peak and the Nurburgring with top world engineers and world champ F1 driver . Jsut goes to show,…physics.
that turn at 11:00 he was going faster than he wanted and actually thought he was about to go over the edge. he just floored it to try and stay on the road and did, and wound up giving us that epic shot
Nah I think he did it on purpose to get as close to the camera that was set up on purpose. Flooring it would have the opposite affect if you're looking for added traction to get out of a slide. The only time he fucked up was towards the end where his rear end gave a little love tap to the railing.
Fun Fact: At ~13:30 in your video (about 7:40 in the actual video), the railing slide he did actually left a tiny area of the bumper grinded down into a small dimple. Ken left it there after re-painting the Hoonicorn again (I assume it's still there, even now in his daughter's ownership of it). Also, the gold thing that says [HOONIGAN] with the red button is a hydraulic handbrake (common in drift cars). The red button cuts power to the front-end, throwing it all to the rear, allowing the rear to swing out real easy. And the Hoonicorn is equipped with a sequential 6-speed manual transmission. Note that the car has a clutch pedal, but is not needed for shifting, but can be used for launching and clutch-kicking.
KB announced this month on his Channel Audi built 2022’s car and he unveiled it recently , looks like a futuristic 1 off Rally/Dakar looking car so it’s back to the dirt this year. Think Audi saw Pastranaa WRC prototype Subaru rally car shot at gymkhanna and had to one up Subaru and take the rally car to the dirt. So stoked!
The "Gold" lever is a brake lever that only modulated the rear brakes, while the normal (foot) brake pedal modulates all brakes (normal braking) The pulling the lever allows for the easily drifting around corners. The black lever operates the sequential gearbox. Each push goes to a lower gear, and each pull goes to a higher gear.
It’s a sequential transmission. Not an h-pattern so he’s shifting both up and down with that one stick. The gold lever is the handbrake and I believe the red button on top of it decouples the front axle making it rwd.
I did this drive last year, it’s far longer than you think it will be because of silly amount of corners. The brake check booth is a real thing, they make you pull over and park if they’re too hot to continue. Mind you, there is a massive gift shop next to the brake check booth 😂. Mine were just over 100F at the booth, he was quite impressed, got the thumbs up 😊
I wondered if they still did the brake check. We used to go to Colorado Springs for vacation almost every year. I remember looking over the edge and seeing more than one crumpled up vehicle. And my pops has me handing him beers from the backseat 😳 He wasn't an alcoholic. Just fond of a pint😏
The gold lever is basically a clutch / e-brake between the front and rear differentials. Think of the gold lever as a sort of 2wheel4wheel drive lever.
Something else that's super impressive is they have to tune the car for high elevation, getting the car to run at its peak performance on this 4WD monster at 14000 thousand feet is amazing
the handbrake is a hydraulic one, they are used in nearly all drift cars. The lever to the left is the gear shifter, and instead of using an H format it is just up and down, so if you push up you go up one gear, and if you push down you go down one gear.
Fun thing. I was stationed in the Army there at Ft Carson. We did a platoon pikes peak run twice a week. The donut shop at the top is very very high quality (at least last time i was there in 09).
Agreed 100% he talked about what an insane handful it is being 1400hp , twin turbo instead of NA and especially the 4 325 width tires at all 4 corners with AWD. Violent throttle to get those things out of grip. Him and Pastrana are legends in this kinda driving. Love it!
10:57 Ken said in a mini documentary that he overshot that turn in the wrong gear. Him being that close to the edge was accidental. Something like that. I cant remember the specifics
Yeah, the first corner he did it was what you said, the 2nd and 3rd time were intentional when he saw that the AWD system compensated amazingly with 2 wheels on asphalt and 2 in dirt he said he was able to power it out from the edge letting the front wheels yank him out so he slung it in too hot In the following 2 , unpracticed but he said the final 2 were a throwback to one of his first when he and Fellow skater Rob Dyrdek had a portion where he did a donut around rob in while he did donuts in a Kart and KB accidentally dropped both rear wheels off the docks edge but Subarus Rally AWD system similarly shifted traction to the front wheels and pulled him back on , one of his legendary moments that are now in all his gymkhanna videos as tributes to the first. 2022 he’s using a 1 off Audi rally/dakar restomod looking car Audi hand built for him for next years so he interesting to see how he does the wheels off in an obvious off-road Gymkhana next year, it’s a very Dakar rally vehicle height unlike any of his other cars so I’m stoked!
You guys need to understand just how insanely fast that car was. Check out some of the Hoonigan "This vs That" vids where Ken's daughter drives the car (to make it "fair") and drag races other crazy builds. You won't regret it!!!
couple tid bits: Ken Block has been on Top Gear scaring James May. That track he just drove called Pikes Peak is where Hammond almost died flipping Rimac car. That car is a drift car..kinda...its a all wheel drive drift car(not normal). Drift cars have a shifter and a huge hydro brake lever to initiate a drift. Ken Block has a series of drift videos called Gymkhana. Gymkhana 7 was the debut of that mustang...driving around LA..one of the best vids.
True but the reason Pikes peak is so deadly is it’s 136 corners that have to be memorized and half are blind corners and all drivers says so many of them look identicle with the tall lines on both sides it’s easy to misidentify a blind corner and overshoot the next. Very very few guardrails too, most of the most dangerous spots don’t have guard rails. The last 2 years have been won by a local who built his own car with some buddies and no sponsors and he said his 2 secrets are downforce )with the 2 biggest front and rear wings I’ve ever seen) and actually memorizing the entire race stretch, every corner. Spends the year closing his eyes and visualizing every corner bottom to top and using a simulator he built of the road. So many of the deaths have been from a world class driver not spending enough time on memorizing and relying on driving technique and the vehicle which will get you killed and does regularly.
I’ve never driven Pike’s Peak but I was young male driver in the middle of Northern California mountainous roads who likes speed. I’ve driven some stretches so frequently that I recognize plants and trees or even small pot holes. I would imagine that you would learn the feel of elevation and the views in the distance. It would be a thrill to drive one day. I would say I am an adrenaline junkie when it comes to driven windy roads. My motto is that anyone can speed on straight flat roads, you’re a good driver to speed on corners
Man, ive been up pikes peak, its 12miles long or 14,114 feet high and the fact he's doing this shit in his car doing donuts and drifting up the mountain is fucking insane!
The one on left side hannel is his shifting stick and the gold 1 that he pulls and ricks background horners is the ebreak which he made. It into a handbreak hes a genius but RIP ken block.
As a kid, we visited Colorado and took the train up Pikes Peak. I suspect it would give you Dave’s condition if we decided to drive up there and met this guy coming around a curve sideways in our lane! I’m sure they shutdown the road to the public for this event!
If it were me driving. When getting out of the car I would look like I'm shadow boxing for my hands going all over the place with the steering, counter steering, shofter and handbrake every second of the journey xD
Speaking of fog, don’t think you would guess this that California Central Valley gets so foggy that I’ve been on the wrong side of a 2 lane highway and didn’t know it. I’ve seen a news crew in front of a fiery crash in the fog and you could only hear the flames but couldn’t see it through the fog
Ended up eating some amazing cheese dip just after starting this... didn't pay any attention to the video but it played through entirely so u still got a view from me, but at this time the cheese dip was more important
I feel like nations have developed general profiles for car design mentality. The sleek, innovative lines of powerhouse italian cars. the hardy, classic frames and internals of british cars. the compact, tech-forward designs of japanese cars. and for america? POWER POWER POWER. Big, snarling machines made for straight-line performance and guzzling fuel like a fat kid guzzles pepsi.
If you wanna see something similar that is much more impressive check out Ryan Tuerck's mountain vids. If you look at the road Ken Block there are already rubber marks. Tuerck does it first take. Video to watch: Off Seasons Two: Ryan Tuerck Drifts The Wild: Tuerck'd Ep. 6
Dude videos don’t do it justice I lived in Denver co for a couple years and have gone up pikes peak to fucking race that??? This dude is actually insane
Funny enough Ken Block and Travis Pastrana have become best friends and 2 of the most talented vehicle drivers of all time, whether WRC, World Rally Cross, Baja SXS or trophy trucks, drift series, hill climb, those 2 are so naturally talented it’s wild. To enter WRC, WRX, Baja, etc with the worlds best and win multiple races first year in each sport and championship podium finishes first year in all as well it amazes me! A motorcross world champ and a shoe designer skate border are now 2 of the worlds best in a number of racing series and both factory sponsored, TP woth Subaru and KB with Ford and now Audi is wild. Travis Pastrana this year got invited by Red Bull to drive their backup 1,100hp trophy truck in the Mint 400 Baja race, 450 mile 150mph off-road desert race with the top 49 trophy truck drivers in the world in one of the hardest races in the world up there with Dakar and the Baja 1000, Travis said sure of course, and 2 weeks before the mint 400 he drove the truck for the first time . Drove it twice total for minimal time , comming from WRC to 46 inch 1100hp trophy trucks they put him in the backup truck to get his feet wet, neither they or anyone else expected him to make it 100miles before breaking or rolling it and he took 3rd place beating 47 of the worlds best!? Now signed as a factoet driver for 2022 he challenged Ken Block to get a truck and race next season too seeing their similar off-road talents translate so next year their competing agaisnt each other for their first seasons. Travis shut the entire sport up with his performance and hd he not had a mechanics problem earth on he was on pace to break the record…FIRST race, 3rd time in ANY trophy truck! Also both are 2 of the nicest guys in the world! I live 5 minutes from Travis Pastranas/Nitro Circus hidden Orem Utah HQ which I was able to be a part of the architectural design team on. Looks like a 100 year old retro it auto factory building but is brand new and everything in it is designed to be able to drive a side by side through all hallways, up all stair cases etc with a v ventilation system for for exhaust fumes, engineered concrete from stairs to all floors so a dirt bike tire won’t tear up the stair run edges concrete should as he put it “we have obstacle course contests with dirt bikes.” You’d never know it’s His except if you go down the dead end road at night when someone’s there and have the lights on becasue you can see in the 30’ ceiling in the entry he had us do a very special chandelier. A hardened steel chain attached to his first Baja 1000 race he competed in in a modified SXS Razor that he flipped end over end 27 times. It’s now hanging as it was with the Baja mud still on it and completely totaled from the ceiling as a chandelier wrapped in LED decorative lights. In the day U can’t see in the tinted glass but at night when it’s lit it’s an amazing sight. Seeing that or his Nitro Circus wrapped Dodge hellcat Ram TRX not in the underground bunker garage he often parks right out front the front doors casue it’s a dead end road. Ken block lives 45 minutes up Provo canyon near park city ski resort where his build shop is and mini winter x games training private little resort is where all the best snowboarders and x games skiers stay with him and use his private lift and runs /half pipes to train staying in his modest mountain home. Travis and Ken have made utah their home full time for Ken and half the year for Travis and are known as the 2 nicest most humble legends in motor sports. First time I met Pastrana as design kick off, he was truly the nicest guy I’ve ever met and shit you not actually introduced himself to me “how are ya, I’m Travis, thanks for your time.” Obviously is been looking forward to that meeting since initial contact and am a huge fan and he introduces himself like Anyone wouldn’t know who he is and didn’t even say his last name, jsut humble as hell, didn’t want some gawdy world class building all would know but wanted one NOONE would know or guess. Designs it jsut like nitro circus. Wild and planning to utilize indoor and outdoor spaces and routes to literally have race courses with his buddies!??? When he mentioned the chandelier idea he wa so humble asking if it “was stupid” I said , um no, it’s probably the coolest idea I can imagine from a motor sports legend!” Not a pristine SXS but a totaled one with original dirt and fluids al Over it!? They’ve both also got involved with Black Rifle Coffee Company (they have a TH-cam channel) 5 US Special Operations Veteran Soldiers/Operators thst started a Veteran run coffee company in Utah. Travis and Ken have donated time and money to events for Ptsd vets and other promotional ads jsut to support our military and BRCC. Examples of what celebs should be.
When did they put guard rails on the climb ????? They weren't their in 2018 . Watch some older clips as it was a dirt road to the top . Nice the Park to shut down the road or could you imagine cars coming down.
The gold handle is a hydro handbrake that doesn't lock, as you saw super useful to toss the back end around. The black shifter is a sequential shifter that is a manual, but doesn't require a clutch except for launching from a stop, as the computer rev-matches the shifts. Pull back = up 1 gear, push forward = down 1 gear. It may be called a 65 Mustang, but all the technology is modern. Only a few pieces of sheet metal are original.
Yeah. This is pretty much just a rally car. Albeit a VERY suped-up rally car
@@John_Redcorn_ I don't think it would fair too well on anything other than smooth roads, it's too low for gravel etc lol
I believe just the roof is original
@@SayGahTaah not true, the chassis is pretty much a custom space frame setup but the shell is an original 1965 which was seamwelded and reinforced then work was done on the arches
@@UkStiggy yeah the chasis is all custom but the only thing from the mustang left was the a and b pillars and the roof. It's on hoonigans page from 6yrs ago
Rest in peace Ken! You will be forever in our hearts!
Rest in Peace Ken! You’re very missed brother! Truly! Ken gave his 16 year old daughter and rally driver Lia the hoonicorn just 2 months before he died because it was her dream car from the time he finished it. Great she has that as a memory of her amazing dad.
They have a TH-cam series of him teaching her to drive it at 14 and her smoking several more than decent cars with it at 14!!!!
There are a bunch of these Gymkhana videos by Ken Block and a couple by other friends of his. They are very entertaining. This one get's much of it's entertainment from the dangerous nature of the course. There are better ones in terms of him showing off crazy driving skills. Do More Please!!
The Gymkhana-2020 with Travis Pastrana
Agreed, the China mountain road in the F150 (Climbkhanna) is so bad ass as well! One of my favorite of them but next year for the first time he’s been brought on to Audi , his Hoonigan channel he goes to their HQ to see next gymkhanna 2022’s vehicle, an Audi instead of Ford . A futuristic recreation 1 off rallycar/Dakar looking wild vehicle so this next year must be an off-road rally type video instead of street. Think when he let Pastrana and Subaru Give gymkhanna a go Audi saw a chance to muscle in and do the same knowing he’s a big Audi fan as well. Lucky bastard!
@@MZ-bl6wg Yeah Ken parted ways with Ford right after the first season of Hoonicorn vs the World. The real reason his daughter has taken the spot of driving the car in the second season as he can't drive Fords anymore since he is no longer with them. I would imagine his Rally car will also be by Audi. It's good to see those guy get back into the more extreme side of Motorsports and not just the LMP1 prototypes.
It’s crazy that pikes peak wasn’t fully paved till 2011 most of it was just a gravel road until then
Him going through the streets of L.A. is really great too
The Stig has a poster of Ken Block on his bedroom wall.
Should do part 2 as well, even more impressive imo. He uses a truck instead. Also, the Hoonicorn, the special Mustang he is driving in this, has 1400 hp under the hood if I remember correctly
Yeah the 70’s wide body F150 in the China video is tied for me as a favorite with this one. 2022 he jsut announced Audi brought him to their HQ in Germany and built a wild futuristic looking 1 off rally/dakar looking vehicle so it’s back to the dirt next year. Look forward to these.
@@MZ-bl6wg saw that video as well, can you imagine being so big that a company like Audi tells you they want to make a car specifically for you? A buddy of mine said he had an idea of how the pitch to the design team went lol. 'Go design a car for Ken Block to drive like a f-ing maniac. Oh and don't lose to the Hoonicorn.'
OOOH! The company I work for actually makes the Pedal set used in this car!! I was hoping they would do a close up shot of his feet and hot damn 7:52 there they are! So crazy to think something our shop made is a part of this beast of a car.
Ken Block is one of the best precision drivers out there IMO. Give him anything with a motor and wheels and he will thread the needle. He is a rally car driver by trade but also an entrepreneur.
Dave - he is the co-founder of DC shoes so he's all about extreme sports.
Totally agree, honestly , him and one of his best buddies Travis Pastrana are turning most of the motor sports around the globe on their heads with their talent. Hell Ken Block like you said is a world champion WRC Ford driver, champion World Rally Cross driver, now entering the E drift series and Dakars Electric class next year and Baja as a new trophy truck driver 2022 after Pastrana hoped in the Red Bull Troohy truck in the Mint 400 450 mile Baja race and his first race ever in a trophy truck competing agaisnt the 49 Best drivers in the world he took 3rd place after driving the truck 3 times in the previous weeks. He’s about to be a Baja legend and challenged KB to enter this year too and one of the top drivers rode passenger with KB his first time in a trophy truck said he’s a damn natural. Can’t forget skateboard legend and Snowmobile phenom. I don’t care what anyone says. To become a world champion in SO many top motor sports series within 2 years of entering , it’s pure talent!!! Wel and balls. Lol I love how Europe gave Pastrana and Block crap trying the WRC and both finished on the championship podium their first year in the WRC , both with multiple 1st place finishes thru the season. Proved everyone wrong. 👍👍
@@MZ-bl6wg what are you talking about, Ken Block is just a stuntman and a show off. He has NEVER won a WRC race ever. If you want to talk a about a REAL driver, you have to look at Sebastien Loeb, he has won the WRC 9 TIMES IN A ROW, that guy is a master.
Ken's the man! A true gymkhana god!
Ken Block is an absolute beast! That spot on the mountain when the guy checked his brakes, that’s real. On your way down, you ride your brake a lot (you’re supposed to use your transmission but some people don’t know that). People have died early on because their brakes got so hot, they just faded and didn’t have any brakes and flew off the edge. It’s really sad. Whole families have died… 😔 So if your brakes are over a certain temperature, they’ll make you park and let them cool off. Once they’re cool, they’ll check again and off you go!
Not to mention 136 corners , over half of which are blind and no guard rails and so many look identical , it’s why some of the best hill climb drivers on earth have died here. Last year sadly Ducati Superbike legend /Dakar legend, Ducati factory rider was killed taking the new 227hp naked street fighter in qualifying ending that class allowed at pikes peak. This years winner overall and last years was a small local team of engineers unsponsored who won fastest time with a 600hp K24 Honda powered Formula 1 looking Frankenstein with the biggest wings I’ve ever seen, he said it’s all about controllable power ,a light car and insane downforce that is the new pikes peak formula instead of 1500hp , massive brakes of the past. Entering a new phase in hillcimbing. They beat the record Volkswagen electric factory pikes peak race car by 16 seconds unsponsored with little money and alot of used parts, bearing the $120M electric factory car built jsut to take the world record at pikes peak and the Nurburgring with top world engineers and world champ F1 driver . Jsut goes to show,…physics.
that turn at 11:00 he was going faster than he wanted and actually thought he was about to go over the edge. he just floored it to try and stay on the road and did, and wound up giving us that epic shot
Nah I think he did it on purpose to get as close to the camera that was set up on purpose. Flooring it would have the opposite affect if you're looking for added traction to get out of a slide. The only time he fucked up was towards the end where his rear end gave a little love tap to the railing.
@@willvr4 yea he was trrying to get closer to the edge, but he thought he was going over. they all talk about it in The Gymkhana Files
Fun Fact: At ~13:30 in your video (about 7:40 in the actual video), the railing slide he did actually left a tiny area of the bumper grinded down into a small dimple. Ken left it there after re-painting the Hoonicorn again (I assume it's still there, even now in his daughter's ownership of it).
Also, the gold thing that says [HOONIGAN] with the red button is a hydraulic handbrake (common in drift cars). The red button cuts power to the front-end, throwing it all to the rear, allowing the rear to swing out real easy. And the Hoonicorn is equipped with a sequential 6-speed manual transmission. Note that the car has a clutch pedal, but is not needed for shifting, but can be used for launching and clutch-kicking.
RIP Ken Block. Legend
YES! Please do more car content!
Rest in Peace Ken..up there drifting in heaven now.
Ken Block is a legend. He's ripping corners in heaven now, Race In Peace Ken.
I hope you fellas get around to do more of these. Gymkhana series are great! Maybe the one filmed in London next? It's a lot of fun.
KB announced this month on his Channel Audi built 2022’s car and he unveiled it recently , looks like a futuristic 1 off Rally/Dakar looking car so it’s back to the dirt this year. Think Audi saw Pastranaa WRC prototype Subaru rally car shot at gymkhanna and had to one up Subaru and take the rally car to the dirt. So stoked!
The "Gold" lever is a brake lever that only modulated the rear brakes, while the normal (foot) brake pedal modulates all brakes (normal braking) The pulling the lever allows for the easily drifting around corners.
The black lever operates the sequential gearbox. Each push goes to a lower gear, and each pull goes to a higher gear.
I like prefer V1 Hoonicorn. That thing sounded insane.
It’s a sequential transmission. Not an h-pattern so he’s shifting both up and down with that one stick. The gold lever is the handbrake and I believe the red button on top of it decouples the front axle making it rwd.
ah ok i was wondering about the red button. i sorta thought that's what it was doing..
I did this drive last year, it’s far longer than you think it will be because of silly amount of corners. The brake check booth is a real thing, they make you pull over and park if they’re too hot to continue. Mind you, there is a massive gift shop next to the brake check booth 😂. Mine were just over 100F at the booth, he was quite impressed, got the thumbs up 😊
I wondered if they still did the brake check. We used to go to Colorado Springs for vacation almost every year. I remember looking over the edge and seeing more than one crumpled up vehicle. And my pops has me handing him beers from the backseat 😳 He wasn't an alcoholic. Just fond of a pint😏
The gold lever is basically a clutch / e-brake between the front and rear differentials. Think of the gold lever as a sort of 2wheel4wheel drive lever.
If you wanna see sketchy climb watch Travis Pastrana mt washington. Newest one :)
Something else that's super impressive is they have to tune the car for high elevation, getting the car to run at its peak performance on this 4WD monster at 14000 thousand feet is amazing
Health and Safety Mike nearly had a full blown nuclear meltdown.
Mike: This shit not gonna happen on my watch! And put your reflective vest on!!
We need to watch Mike watching Deadliest Catch in a dark room like a horror movie.
Love you guys man!! Keep doing what y'all doing! 🤘
the handbrake is a hydraulic one, they are used in nearly all drift cars. The lever to the left is the gear shifter, and instead of using an H format it is just up and down, so if you push up you go up one gear, and if you push down you go down one gear.
both hands and both feet constantly doing something different while being 2 feet from a cliff… lol there may have never been anything more impressive
thanks for doing this guys, really glad you enjoyed it
Great suggest Big Matt. Ken Block is a beast.
'Raggin it round like a knob'
😂😂😂
Fun thing. I was stationed in the Army there at Ft Carson. We did a platoon pikes peak run twice a week. The donut shop at the top is very very high quality (at least last time i was there in 09).
You usually only use the hand brake to start the slide, the rest is throttle control and steering. Theres a definite art to it.
Agreed 100% he talked about what an insane handful it is being 1400hp , twin turbo instead of NA and especially the 4 325 width tires at all 4 corners with AWD. Violent throttle to get those things out of grip. Him and Pastrana are legends in this kinda driving. Love it!
He's got a good video of ripping through London in the first version of that mustang.
James may actually rides with Ken block too
And in the 2nd version of Top Gear Ken Block did a "tour" of London with Matt LeBlanc as his passenger.
Excellent vid to react to, please do more from Hoonigan and Ken Block!! And don’t skip the outro scenes!!!!!!!
RIP Ken Block. You are very much missed.
10:57 Ken said in a mini documentary that he overshot that turn in the wrong gear. Him being that close to the edge was accidental. Something like that. I cant remember the specifics
Yeah, the first corner he did it was what you said, the 2nd and 3rd time were intentional when he saw that the AWD system compensated amazingly with 2 wheels on asphalt and 2 in dirt he said he was able to power it out from the edge letting the front wheels yank him out so he slung it in too hot In the following 2 , unpracticed but he said the final 2 were a throwback to one of his first when he and Fellow skater Rob Dyrdek had a portion where he did a donut around rob in while he did donuts in a Kart and KB accidentally dropped both rear wheels off the docks edge but Subarus Rally AWD system similarly shifted traction to the front wheels and pulled him back on , one of his legendary moments that are now in all his gymkhanna videos as tributes to the first. 2022 he’s using a 1 off Audi rally/dakar restomod looking car Audi hand built for him for next years so he interesting to see how he does the wheels off in an obvious off-road Gymkhana next year, it’s a very Dakar rally vehicle height unlike any of his other cars so I’m stoked!
You guys need to understand just how insanely fast that car was. Check out some of the Hoonigan "This vs That" vids where Ken's daughter drives the car (to make it "fair") and drag races other crazy builds. You won't regret it!!!
Soon as I see Hoonigan in my suggestions my adrenaline spikes lol
couple tid bits:
Ken Block has been on Top Gear scaring James May.
That track he just drove called Pikes Peak is where Hammond almost died flipping Rimac car.
That car is a drift car..kinda...its a all wheel drive drift car(not normal).
Drift cars have a shifter and a huge hydro brake lever to initiate a drift.
Ken Block has a series of drift videos called Gymkhana.
Gymkhana 7 was the debut of that mustang...driving around LA..one of the best vids.
You guys should check out BJ Baldwin's "Recoil" videos. It's the offroad version of this and his driving skills are equally amazing.
R.I.P. Hoonicorn. R.I.P.
AWD Monster
That road must be crazy to drive during the Colorado winter-- one wrong move and you go sailing off the mountain.
Freaking love Ken Block 😤
Yeah he's a beast. And a smart entrepreneur as well.
great video , rest in paradise ken
Hey Office Blokes!
the car has a Sequential gearbox so up shift is pulling the black lever down and down shift is pushing it up, and the gold lever is his E-brake
If you drive windy roads enough you can recognize where to break or speed up by road markers, rocks and guardrails.
True but the reason Pikes peak is so deadly is it’s 136 corners that have to be memorized and half are blind corners and all drivers says so many of them look identicle with the tall lines on both sides it’s easy to misidentify a blind corner and overshoot the next. Very very few guardrails too, most of the most dangerous spots don’t have guard rails. The last 2 years have been won by a local who built his own car with some buddies and no sponsors and he said his 2 secrets are downforce )with the 2 biggest front and rear wings I’ve ever seen) and actually memorizing the entire race stretch, every corner. Spends the year closing his eyes and visualizing every corner bottom to top and using a simulator he built of the road. So many of the deaths have been from a world class driver not spending enough time on memorizing and relying on driving technique and the vehicle which will get you killed and does regularly.
I’ve never driven Pike’s Peak but I was young male driver in the middle of Northern California mountainous roads who likes speed. I’ve driven some stretches so frequently that I recognize plants and trees or even small pot holes. I would imagine that you would learn the feel of elevation and the views in the distance. It would be a thrill to drive one day. I would say I am an adrenaline junkie when it comes to driven windy roads. My motto is that anyone can speed on straight flat roads, you’re a good driver to speed on corners
The gearsbox being used in the car is a sequential gearbox. It makes it where all he has to do is push forward or back to change gears
Man, ive been up pikes peak, its 12miles long or 14,114 feet high and the fact he's doing this shit in his car doing donuts and drifting up the mountain is fucking insane!
The one on left side hannel is his shifting stick and the gold 1 that he pulls and ricks background horners is the ebreak which he made. It into a handbreak hes a genius but RIP ken block.
Great video. Cool music at the end too. Black Flag - Rise Above.
Ken showing that there is in fact something called "too much power"
I remember the Suzuki Escudo doing Pikes Peak back in the 90s on unsealed roads. The OG of balls out vehicular lunacy.
i remember that on a certain game............it was blisteringly fast lol
@@bigmatt2896 Yep, tuning the fuck out of it on Gran Turismo so it made 1500hp was hilarious. Couldn't even turn the thing.
@@keynesianeconomics4113 lol gran turismo that was it, quality game and yeah it was out of control
As a kid, we visited Colorado and took the train up Pikes Peak. I suspect it would give you Dave’s condition if we decided to drive up there and met this guy coming around a curve sideways in our lane! I’m sure they shutdown the road to the public for this event!
Excuse me, Daz’s condition!
Mike is absolutely correct, the gold one is his hydro e-break.
If it were me driving. When getting out of the car I would look like I'm shadow boxing for my hands going all over the place with the steering, counter steering, shofter and handbrake every second of the journey xD
Speaking of fog, don’t think you would guess this that California Central Valley gets so foggy that I’ve been on the wrong side of a 2 lane highway and didn’t know it. I’ve seen a news crew in front of a fiery crash in the fog and you could only hear the flames but couldn’t see it through the fog
Pike’s peak on Hwy 24 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Never clicked on a video so fast in my life.
Rip ken🙏
He went thru 10 sets of tires, filmed over 4-5 days, not one continuous clip
haha I was gonna say there's no way any pair of tires could handle that.
Please react to all of Ken Block’s videos. He’s a legend
You should check out the video of him on the streets of Los Angeles, absolutely insane.
Ken block the best to ever do it.👊🏽💯
the one with the gold handle is the handbrake and its a sequential gearbox
Need to do Travis's gymkhana now :p
Ended up eating some amazing cheese dip just after starting this... didn't pay any attention to the video but it played through entirely so u still got a view from me, but at this time the cheese dip was more important
You guys should do all of Ken's gymkhanas. They are crazy
Is this how Daz drives on his way home from work, or on the way to the pub?
No, he lives at the pub
@@timhefty504 Lol, probably not. But I bet he could easily find his way there, even in a thick fog.
R. I. P
Yall need to react to the gymkhana series
Gold is a handbrake and the black is gears forward is down gear and back is up gear
Not surprising he needs a tire company as a sponsor.
well. Ken is The Tire Slayer.
Rip Ken
Alright lads! Good one.
Christ that's cool
The gold one is the hand brake
I feel like nations have developed general profiles for car design mentality. The sleek, innovative lines of powerhouse italian cars. the hardy, classic frames and internals of british cars. the compact, tech-forward designs of japanese cars. and for america? POWER POWER POWER. Big, snarling machines made for straight-line performance and guzzling fuel like a fat kid guzzles pepsi.
This car is far from stock. The only thing that makes this a Mustang is the chassis and part of the frame.
If you wanna see something similar that is much more impressive check out Ryan Tuerck's mountain vids. If you look at the road Ken Block there are already rubber marks. Tuerck does it first take.
Video to watch: Off Seasons Two: Ryan Tuerck Drifts The Wild: Tuerck'd Ep. 6
That was freaking amazing
Haha I used ask for this all the time.
The big gold boi is in fact his hand brake
That's insane!😳
Dude videos don’t do it justice I lived in Denver co for a couple years and have gone up pikes peak to fucking race that??? This dude is actually insane
You guys should check out Travis Pastrana in Annapolis, Maryland.
You guys would love the 99 turns in china
Yea one of the sticks is the handbrake.
gold one is hand brake/ e brake
If you guys like this content you should also look into "nitro circus" a reaction to some of their best moments would be great.
I agree. I think they would love Nitro Circus 🤡
Funny enough Ken Block and Travis Pastrana have become best friends and 2 of the most talented vehicle drivers of all time, whether WRC, World Rally Cross, Baja SXS or trophy trucks, drift series, hill climb, those 2 are so naturally talented it’s wild. To enter WRC, WRX, Baja, etc with the worlds best and win multiple races first year in each sport and championship podium finishes first year in all as well it amazes me! A motorcross world champ and a shoe designer skate border are now 2 of the worlds best in a number of racing series and both factory sponsored, TP woth Subaru and KB with Ford and now Audi is wild. Travis Pastrana this year got invited by Red Bull to drive their backup 1,100hp trophy truck in the Mint 400 Baja race, 450 mile 150mph off-road desert race with the top 49 trophy truck drivers in the world in one of the hardest races in the world up there with Dakar and the Baja 1000, Travis said sure of course, and 2 weeks before the mint 400 he drove the truck for the first time . Drove it twice total for minimal time , comming from WRC to 46 inch 1100hp trophy trucks they put him in the backup truck to get his feet wet, neither they or anyone else expected him to make it 100miles before breaking or rolling it and he took 3rd place beating 47 of the worlds best!? Now signed as a factoet driver for 2022 he challenged Ken Block to get a truck and race next season too seeing their similar off-road talents translate so next year their competing agaisnt each other for their first seasons. Travis shut the entire sport up with his performance and hd he not had a mechanics problem earth on he was on pace to break the record…FIRST race, 3rd time in ANY trophy truck!
Also both are 2 of the nicest guys in the world! I live 5 minutes from Travis Pastranas/Nitro Circus hidden Orem Utah HQ which I was able to be a part of the architectural design team on. Looks like a 100 year old retro it auto factory building but is brand new and everything in it is designed to be able to drive a side by side through all hallways, up all stair cases etc with a v ventilation system for for exhaust fumes, engineered concrete from stairs to all floors so a dirt bike tire won’t tear up the stair run edges concrete should as he put it “we have obstacle course contests with dirt bikes.” You’d never know it’s His except if you go down the dead end road at night when someone’s there and have the lights on becasue you can see in the 30’ ceiling in the entry he had us do a very special chandelier. A hardened steel chain attached to his first Baja 1000 race he competed in in a modified SXS Razor that he flipped end over end 27 times. It’s now hanging as it was with the Baja mud still on it and completely totaled from the ceiling as a chandelier wrapped in LED decorative lights. In the day U can’t see in the tinted glass but at night when it’s lit it’s an amazing sight. Seeing that or his Nitro Circus wrapped Dodge hellcat Ram TRX not in the underground bunker garage he often parks right out front the front doors casue it’s a dead end road. Ken block lives 45 minutes up Provo canyon near park city ski resort where his build shop is and mini winter x games training private little resort is where all the best snowboarders and x games skiers stay with him and use his private lift and runs /half pipes to train staying in his modest mountain home. Travis and Ken have made utah their home full time for Ken and half the year for Travis and are known as the 2 nicest most humble legends in motor sports. First time I met Pastrana as design kick off, he was truly the nicest guy I’ve ever met and shit you not actually introduced himself to me “how are ya, I’m Travis, thanks for your time.” Obviously is been looking forward to that meeting since initial contact and am a huge fan and he introduces himself like Anyone wouldn’t know who he is and didn’t even say his last name, jsut humble as hell, didn’t want some gawdy world class building all would know but wanted one NOONE would know or guess. Designs it jsut like nitro circus. Wild and planning to utilize indoor and outdoor spaces and routes to literally have race courses with his buddies!??? When he mentioned the chandelier idea he wa so humble asking if it “was stupid” I said , um no, it’s probably the coolest idea I can imagine from a motor sports legend!” Not a pristine SXS but a totaled one with original dirt and fluids al
Over it!? They’ve both also got involved with Black Rifle Coffee Company (they have a TH-cam channel) 5 US Special Operations Veteran Soldiers/Operators thst started a Veteran run coffee company in Utah. Travis and Ken have donated time and money to events for Ptsd vets and other promotional ads jsut to support our military and BRCC. Examples of what celebs should be.
Bj baldwin recoil would be a great reaction!
R.I.P the hoonicorn 😢😭
Surprised yall didn't do the one he did in London. Where office blokes mike was the underground street racing king
When did they put guard rails on the climb ????? They weren't their in 2018 . Watch some older clips as it was a dirt road to the top . Nice the Park to shut down the road or could you imagine cars coming down.
Yea I think because someone died recently
you actually did a gymkhama vid, nice. there's alot more goods one too
They done this in London i believe.
you have to watch ken block in a german ford plant. i believe its a german plant
PLEASE DO HOONICORN VS THE WORLD ITS THIS CAR VS TONS OF DIFFERENT CRAZY FAST CARS
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