Gymkhana Nine! Ken Block Tears Up Buffalo After Australia Has A Panic Attack Over His Take On “Hooning”!


Gymkhana Nine! Ken Block Tears Up Buffalo After Australia Has A Panic Attack Over His Take On “Hooning”!

By all rights, the latest and greatest Gymkhana film from Ken Block and the Hoonigan crew is lock-step with the last eight: Block, this time in one of the two Ford Focus RS RX vehicles on the planet, proceeds to drive with the unabashed, high-revving style of a teenager without supervision on their sixth or seventh energy drink in a row, the surgical precision of a brain surgeon, and with as much disregard for his tires as an Aussie on a skidpad. There’s trains, there’s slides, there’s a Raptor hanging underneath a helicopter and there’s one particular clench-worth moment where Block comes within a fine hair of sending the ass end of the Focus off of the edge of a pier and into some rather chilly-looking water.

But there is one massive problem with Gymkhana Nine: Buffalo was never supposed to be the filming location. If you’ll notice, there’s plenty of references to the upcoming Forza Horizon 3 video game…it’s not the first time Block has partnered up with a video game…but FH3 is not set in Buffalo, New York. It’s set in an open-world Australia, where you can drive pretty much anywhere you want, on or off road. Unfortunately, as we all know, Australia and the word “hoon” is an entirely different animal than it is here in the States. Here, Block is a talented driver at the limits of his craft. There, he’s a public menace, capable of inspiring criminal behaviour in impressionable youths and must be stopped at all costs. You don’t think that the Australian governments and police forces would tolerate a rally car re-striping the roads and scaring the cute and cuddly animals away, would you?

So, instead of seeing a gigantic trail of tire smoke near the Sydney Opera House, we get Block going for broke in Buffalo. At least he puts his full effort into the driving mechanics of the video! Hit play below to check it out for yourself!


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