fair enough calling him a shit driver is a bit harsh but i honestly think he gets way more credit than he deserves and that takes away from what truly great drivers have achieved. whenever i hear people say ken block is so awesome!! what does that make Sebastian Loeb? I think it just kinda degrades the truly elite drivers.
Sebastian Loeb doesnt have monkeys on ladders, explosions and jaws though does he. No. No he does not.
This isnt rallying though is it. He is good at what he does, driving a mentaly powerful mentally grippy mentally fast car like a loon to be super entertaining. Its like when Tiff Needell did drifting. No doubt he could rinse most people in most other motorsports, but despite supposedly being the king of sideways, he wasnt all that hot at drifting. And its irrelivant to this whole thing, but its not like KB is shit at rallying, the results speak for themselves, he would kick most rally drivers asses still, he just isnt Loeb etc
I fully agree with the above, Ken is good as putting on a show for the camera and he's ok at rallying but he's not the best and never will be. The thing is his sponsors are clearly out to make the most of him and putting his talent to use by creating these short films / adverts getting him into the mainstream and on the monitors of every school kid and adult alike where as you need to be a supporter of rallying to watch it and to know of Loeb etc. He IMO isn't going to be remembered by rallying supporters in years to come like the greats but as a marketing tool he works and is 'product' that sells worldwide. He gets paid a shit load for knobbing about in a really expensive car rally car - i'd like that life myself so can't knock him one bit!
It's not one camera, it's lots of GoPro's with the footage edited together. Quite a good idea but not quite what I was expecting from seeing a picture of the making of. I just laughed when he hit the guy on the ladder, how one of the GoPros flew off. I was more interested in the work put into filming it and the locations than the film itself to be honest. Was good, but not the best I don't think. EMT guys just seemed a bit pointless in the mix to be honest.
i preferred the others for some reason :s, seems like the focus was more on the surroundings and poking fun at themselves than the mental car stunts. still good though
These arguments have happened before I'm pretty sure of it. Fun vid, hoontastic. I'd love to do what he does, I wouldn't want to be him because he's ugly, I wouldn't like to be in his shoes because the #43 DC's are shit but yeh I would love to do what he does!
His results do speak for itself. He's scored 0 points this year in WRC with 22 drivers ahead of him. I don't think thats kicking most rally drivers asses. Most recently at X games 17 this year in the rallycross event, he was 6 seconds off tanner foust (who is incomparably a better driver) over a 40 second lap. That's ridiculous.
but noone has ever said tiff is awesome at drifting. People, lots of people say ken is awesome at rallying. He's not. I just dont think people actually watch/follow WRC.
What do you reckon, 15,000 people worldwide rally drive? That makes him better than 14,978 of them ...... 5th Gear and Top Gear both have, and they are teh oracle for your average man in the street. Its all relative, how someone sitting in front of a computer screen who probably hasnt ever been to a rally event is able to judge whether Block is better than Meeke or worse than Foust baffles me in the first place.
"Epic Meal Time" who are trying to rehash the typical angry internet cookery show thing again, like it hasn't been done fuckloads of times already (some funny, most annoying...) Eh it was another Ken Block video, nice seeing some bits where he hadn't left black lines in previous takes and stuff, interesting on-car camera setup had some bits looking like a video game xD He sure loves donutting around segways xD It was entertaining but wtf bhangra music.
The haters on this thread are almost as entertaining as the video itself thoroughly enjoyed that, damn fine piece of marketing based entertainment Was anyone trying to pretend it was something else? No, they weren't.
blah blah blah blah blah ... you are COMPLETELY missing the point .. it is an advert and nothing more. He's not saying he's the best at anything, what he is saying is 'buy DC'. The 10 year old kids watching it don't care about his results, they think it looks cool, they buy his products. End of.
It's about entertaining. For sure he's got skill, no doubt. But it's about entertaining people. And for about 9 minutes, I was entertained a fuck load!!