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  • KEN BLOCK'S GYMKHANA EIGHT
  • letmetalktomark
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    Yes its much more of the same but this time its even betterer!

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hf6ke1-i3E[/video]

    Worth watching right to the end of the credits …..

    sandwicheater
    Full Member

    The police have some very nice cars.

    salad_dodger
    Full Member

    Considering that Castrol pay Ken Block $1m for each and every Gymkhana film he makes, I wonder how much the Dubai Tourist Board gave him for that?

    letmetalktomark
    Full Member

    He can’t be doing too well as he only drives a Fiesta or an old Escort 😉

    bigdaddy
    Full Member

    That was awesome! Some playground for him. The new focus tease was good too… He still not tha good at rallycross though

    fasthaggis
    Full Member

    I wonder how much the Dubai Tourist Board gave him for that?

    I think they paid for a training film,so that some of those cheeky wee scamps from the UAE can get some top tips an tricks, before heading over to Knightsbridge. 😉

    ghostlymachine
    Free Member

    before heading over to Knightsbridge.

    Gymkhana 9?

    stgeorge
    Full Member

    Considering that Castrol pay Ken Block $1m for each and every Gymkhana film he makes, I wonder how much the Dubai Tourist Board gave him for that?

    Probably not as much as it cost them to get rid of all the rubber from the pristine cobbled/tiled areas!!

    grum
    Free Member

    Meh. Yeah we get it you’re really good at doing donuts, now you’re doing them in a horrible glitzy disneyworld for rich bellends. 😐

    downhilldave
    Full Member

    Excellent, thanks Mark 😆

    TooTall
    Free Member

    I love good driving, but watching a bloke do donuts over and over and over again in slightly different places is not very entertaining. I kept hoping he was going to do something else interesting.

    neilforrow
    Full Member

    Great driving, but makes me want to go to dubai even less than I did before. Not that I thought that was possible. What an odd place.

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    I quite enjoy these usually, but they managed to make that one particularly dull!

    timc
    Free Member

    same pony same tricks vol 8…

    bit stale for me now tbh

    rocketman
    Free Member

    that was awesome would love one of those Fiestas

    hammyuk
    Free Member

    The driving in the last Transformers was better.

    footflaps
    Full Member

    but they managed to make that one particularly dull!

    Very tedious!

    leeph
    Free Member

    More impressive was the lack of traffic on sheikh zayed road.

    Starting to get a bit stale these videos.

    rs
    Free Member

    mostly boring, best bit was the drag race, watching a fiesta beat all those super cars!

    ElShalimo
    Full Member

    rs – Member
    mostly boring, best bit was the drag race, watching a fiesta beat all those super cars!

    I have a sneaky suspicion that it’s not the 1.25 Studio

    rs
    Free Member

    I have a sneaky suspicion that it’s not the 1.25 Studio

    😥 aw! are you telling me he chipped it?

    dragon
    Free Member

    Wow a man does skids for 8 minutes, how incredibly dull. Possibly exciting if you are a 13 year old boy, otherwise embarrassing.

    jimjam
    Free Member

    30 seconds in I thought, this looks like more of the same bollocks. Skipped forward a bit….more of the same bollocks…..skipped forward again….more of the same bollocks.

    Just a stultifying lack of creativity or imagination in any of these. The first one was mildly diverting on account of it being the first one. After that I’ve skipped through the rest in the vain hope there might be something different. There isn’t.

    snaps
    Free Member

    that was awesome would love one of those Fiestas

    Fill your boots

    Or here

    Cheap second hand one

    butcher
    Full Member

    As awesome as the filming, and the locations are….I was willing that to end. Would rather just watch the bloke thrash about a bit than drive round in circles around every object he can find….over and over again.

    Definite lack of creativity.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Nice flying from the Porter.

    FunkyDunc
    Free Member

    That Focus is very very ugly.

    I thought it was very close in the drag race, only his gearing kept him in front, then the vayron was easily catching

    Torminalis
    Free Member

    These videos are all pretty samey but he was the most fun thing to watch at Goodwood. Lots of supercars pottering up the hill and then Ken Block barges past in a giant muscle car thing.

    scuttler
    Full Member

    Probably not as much as it cost them to get rid of all the rubber from the pristine cobbled/tiled areas!!

    Now I don’t know too much about migrant labour in Dubai, but I have an inkling they didn’t pay over the odds to get some chaps in to scrub them clean in 38C sunshine.

    bluearsedfly
    Free Member

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3_9b3BcCIQ&feature=iv&src_vid=sKOaF7esBFY&annotation_id=annotation_1698464353[/video]

    Still not as good as this.

    PrinceJohn
    Full Member

    Nor as good as where they lifted the closing credits tune from….

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE[/video]

    Northwind
    Full Member

    Enjoyed that… Yeah, nothing new in the driving though nice to see the close range / high accuracy stuff but it’s the locations and spectacle and film making that make it interesting as much as anything else (seeing Danny Macaskill do a move on a roof is different from seeing him do the same move in Edinburgh, or on Inchkeith… Same thing.)

    Also, sometimes things like the fairly stock rolling doughnuts around the Raptor near the start, are setup for a similiar setpiece later on, like the jumbo.

    More single shot/first shot stuff in this one, as well- in some of them, you can see they’re endlessly repeating sequences to get the shot, there’s so much rubber down.

    Think I’d rather watch BJ Baldwin in his overgrown rc car though

    Dare I say it, if you don’t like videos of cars sliding about, other videos are available…

    ghostlymachine
    Free Member

    I wonder what the desert just out of shot looks like. Full of Ken Blocks bumpers would be my guess.

    Look out for changing sticker patterns

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    Dare I say it, if you don’t like videos of cars sliding about, other videos are available…

    What if you do like watching videos of cars sliding about, but thought this one was of money-over-substance, a really missed opportunity and had nothing of real interest in it.
    In a way it fit perfectly with Dubai 😉

    Nothing wrong with criticism imo. Nobody has to take it personally on his behalf!

    grum
    Free Member

    What if you do like watching videos of cars sliding about, but thought this one was of money-over-substance, a really missed opportunity and had nothing of real interest in it.

    This.

    I’ve enjoyed some of his previous videos but this one was dull as ditchwater.

    it’s the locations and spectacle and film making that make it interesting as much as anything else

    I agree that’s often the case, but here…. nah.

    stewartc
    Free Member

    He must be really winning everything in the rally world with those driving skills?

    benp1
    Full Member

    Was the handbrake gold plated just for this video?

    ghostlymachine
    Free Member

    Gymkhana 8, Doughnuts in Dubai.

    😉

    jimjam
    Free Member

    stewartc – Member

    He must be really winning everything in the rally world with those driving skills?

    Ya he’s like the best driver in the world. I think he won the World Rally Championship of America. F1 drivers are lucky their cars are too slow for him. If he went to F1 he’d wreck some shit.

    benp1
    Full Member

    He came over for some WRC european events (I think), didn’t do very well, went home to be global world (i.e. just in the US) champion back home I think

    He does have very good car control though!

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