Ken Block & Chris Atkinson = RWD fun

Vintage Rally Car Practice!
A new Rally video has DC Co-Founder and Rally Team Member Ken Block having a bit of fun in a vintage rear wheel drive Ford Escort at Team O’Neal’s Rally School in New Hampshire. World Rally Championship driver, Chris Atkinson joined Block for the practice and video that resulted, now live at dcshoes.com/auto.


Block purchased the vintage rear-wheel-drive rally car to practice and have fun in. Wanting to broaden his rally skills, the Euro-only-spec 1978 Ford Escort MK2 helps him let loose in a few non-Rally America Championship events. Don’t let the vintage shell fool you—under the hood sits a 2.4-liter, four-cylinder Millington engine that boasts 280 BHP. Couple that with a WRC-styled paddle shifting, six speed sequential gearbox and you have one fast vintage rally car.

Block took the car to Team O’Neil’s Rally School in July 2009 to put the vintage rally car through it’s paces, and Former Subaru World Rally Team driver Chris Atkinson joined Block to break it in. Neither Block nor Atkinson have much experience in RWD cars, so the rally session and video is a good look at the two of them to flip flopping between the driver and passenger seats.

Block will enter select races each year with this car, including Rally Defi in Canada this coming weekend, September 11-12. Block returns to serious Rally America National Championship competition—in a Subaru Impreza WRX STI—at Rally Colorado, September 19-20.




Ken Block and Chris Atkinson

Gymkhana 2.1 – Ken Block & Rob Dyrdek

How do you improve on DC Co-Founder and Rally Team Member Ken Block’s insane Gymkhana Practice and Gymkhana TWO videos? On the heels of the hilarious episode of “Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory” on MTV, DC has released Gymkhana 2.1, a funny new video available now online featuring longtime friends Dyrdek and Block whipping around a Gymkhana course side-by-side—Block in his high-powered Subaru Impreza WRX STI, Dyrdek in his comical and somewhat powerful miniature version of Block’s rally car.


Gymkhana 2.1 takes the epic cinematography and driving from Block that you’ve come to expect from the Gymkhana videos and mixes in Dyrdek and his “mini-Gymkhana” kart. The two, who have worked together and been good friends since Dyrdek joined the DC skate team in 1995, decided to get the kart built and film the clip when Dyrdek made an appearance in the Gymkhana TWO video earlier this year. A custom mold was made to build it nearly identical to Block’s Subaru Impreza WRX STI (except for the head-out-the-roof part). The kart was wrapped in the same graphics as Block’s competition rally car, and a custom fireproof, FIA certified driving suit just like Block’s was even made for Dyrdek by Alpinestars.

The complete version of Gymkhana 2.1 features more of what’s seen on Dyrdek’s hit MTV show. Filmed in the same high-quality, HD style as the previous installments of Block’s Gymkhana videos, Dyrdek and Block brought the filming crew to El Toro Airfield to document the whole thing. The Gymkhana 2.1 video features all the near run-overs, drifting, racing and shenanigans that occur when two unique individuals like Dyrdek and Block hit the tarmac in polar-opposite-sized whips.


Alpinestars made Rob this custom driving suit specifically for this session.



Dig what you see? More of Rob's fantacy...

The Fantacy Factory – amazing indoor skate plaza, foam pit, basketball set up, garage for his 3 wheeled car, pet living quarters and much, much more.


Mr. Dyrdek in the Fantasy Factory office surrounded by 17 years of Alien Workshop Skateboard history.


Watch all full episodes of the season one, here.

Fantacy Factory

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Ken Block - Gymkhana TWO Project

Yep! Here it finally is – the Gymkhana Two Project aka THE INFOMERCIAL!!!



Ken Block, proper nutter, LOL

Ken Block's Gymkhana TWO Project

So you all have seen the first Gymkhana film that was pretty insane. Want some more? Fo'sure!!! But how to one-up the previous film!?!



Ken's got new weapon for the Gymkhana two mayhem. The WRX STI 2009 aka GYM2, built by Crawford Performance.


It's featuring Full Race cage, Recaro Carbon/Kevlar bucket seat, Brembo big brakes, Tein coilover suspension, Crawford Performance SR5 2,65 l Race Engine and tons of STi & Prodrive goodies, like the carbon fibre wing. The Volk TE37 [DC-edition] wheels are wrapped in BF Goodrich G-Force rubbers. The whole lot built in just 43 days!!!


"The best thing is driving the new gymkhana car that Subaru built for me (code name GYM2). It’s incredible…like 10 times better than my original gymkhana STI (GYM1). It’s ridiculously fun…it’s like a video game (only without the “restart” button)."
- Ken Block


The film will feature new surprises (read stunts) and some othet DC sponsored heros, like pro skater Rob Dyrdek. The film is shoot at new secret location.

So, the video is already shot??? "Well, yes…most of it. It was four days of high-speed fun, high stress situations, and massive amounts of BFG rubber ingestion (I was blowing rubber out my nose for three days after). But, what could me more fun than trashing a new race car around an amazing setting?"
- Ken Block



The new film is to launch June 1st 2009. Watch this space!

More info: DC-Shoes Auto site.


Ooh, have you seen the Gymkhana 1 Bonus video!?! Unseen footage of the first film - Whoops...


Pretty crazy stuff, lol