Climbkhana Is At Last Here In All Its Tyre-Shredding Glory

Ken Block's latest celebration of drift has been worth the wait, with eight glorious minutes of Pikes Peak tyre shredding to enjoy

Matt Robinson

26 Sep 2017

We’ve been waiting almost a year for Ken Block’s Climbkhana film. For whatever reason it’s taken an age to edit, so has it been worth it? You betcha.

In fact, I’m going to stick my neck out and say it’s probably the best video Block has ever done. The cinematography is stunning, there are props aplenty for the 1400bhp ‘Hoonicorn V2’ to drift around, and there’s even what looks like a cheeky reference to the famous Ari Vatanen ‘Climb Dance’ video shot at Pikes Peak back in the late 1980s.

Sit back, relax, hit play, and enjoy eight or so minutes of tyre smoke and V8 noise.

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

Like cmon?? The same shit over and over again…

It is…. But you gots to admit, its pretty impressive

In a way so is pretty much everything. Haters love to hate though.

a car guy that’s tired of watching crazy modified cars do stunts…. seems a bit off

You can’t even do this in Forza though…

You could say he’s at a PEAK in his career

… yayyyyyyyy punz r us 😂😂

Getting blinded by the sun Ari Vatanen style, I do it sometimes when going to college at early hours and my friends ask me why I do that with my hands if I got sunglasses in the glovebox and Im like “cuz 80’s badass mate”

Private road, loads of tyres and fuel and a twin turbo V8.. Must be a good job to be in

I wanna see more off-road style gymkhana like that top gear one with the subaru

But is it as good as Climb Dance?

Definitely not…

Well, this is on asphalt, so of course it’s not, and I think Block himself recognises it: did you notice the “hands acting as a sunvisor” and the massive dirt smoke, without any car being filmed? There were references to Climb Dance all along