Gymkhana Ten Is A Five-Car Tyre-Shredding Epic
Coming up with ideas for these Gymkhana videos must be a colossal task. The online world expects Block and co to up the ante every time, expecting each one to surpass the last.
Against all odds (there was quite a bit to top in Gymkhana Nine, after all), Kenneth from the Block and his team have pulled it off. How? By having more of everything. More cars. More locations. More crazy ideas.
Let’s start with the cars. They’re all Fords - because sponsorship - but they are, each in their own way, awesome. We have a Ford Focus WRC car. We have Hoonicorn. Which at one point is being towed by Block’s GT racing car-engined F-150 ‘Hoonitruck’. There’s a Fiesta WRC car, a Focus World Rallycross machine, and our personal favourite, an ex-works Escort Cosworth WRC.
In terms of locations, Lulea in Sweden, Detroit, Guanajuato in Mexico, Los Angeles and Shamrock in Texas are all hit with Ken Block’s trademark blend of drifting and general car-based tomfoolery.
As for the crazy ideas, we don’t want to give too much away, but the Escort Cosworth sparking away on bare wheels in slow motion is a particular highlight.
You’re going to enjoy this.
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.
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I watched it in its entirety last night, pretty cool… But I can’t help thinking that the Gymkhana is now a bit repetitive ans overplayed? Climbkhana was probably the last genuinely exciting one…
Anyone else agree??
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Same. I feel like with them trying to put as much content in this it almost backfired as it didn’t give any of the cars or locations enough time. I think it would have been better if it had just been the hoonitruck section, as that produced the only real ‘gymkhana’ moment, which was the snail. Gymkhana 5 still stays on top for me.
i agree, you can only watch someone do donuts around random objects so many times before it gets boring.
Nothing can beat Jezza’s Farmkhana… Am I right?
This video is proof that the Hoonicorn can never not be cool
I watched it twice I loved it so much! The fact that the city that I live not to far from is in here is cool
I’m excited for the next one with Travis
I actually didn’t like it,it felt forced,
”Here I have Gynkhana!”
”ken, this is the tenth time you’ve shown gymkhana in a row”
Well, this will be Ken’s last Gymkhana, so he’ll finally be putting it to rest. A good ‘finale’ of sorts.
Err did I miss it or something. Pretty sure there wasn’t a Focus WRC car in 10. If you’re talking about the car Oliver Solberg was in, that was the third M Sport Focus RX car.
Also RIP Cossie
Skidding on what would be a $4000 set of wheels… because shredding fancy tyres isn’t enough.
How bad is the sound of Hoonitruck????
That twin-turbo Ford GT V6 sounds very bland. Heck, the 4 cylinder cars (Cossie, Focus RX and Fiesta WRC) sound much better.
I don’t even mention the gloriousness of the Hoonicorn V2…