In the last Gymkhana video, Gymkhana Eight, we saw global rally star, sneaker marketing whiz, and serial tire killer extraordinaire Ken Block slide around Dubai in his 650-horsepower Ford Fiesta RX43 rally auto.
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Ken Block is back inspiring young petrolheads and making old people wonder why he wasting tyres in his latest video, Gymkhana 9 ─ and it has already amassed more than two million views in a day.
However, the NSW Police Force intervened, with production house Hoonigan told that the project would be “bad” for Australia.
We’re all talented at certainly things.
“Apparently we were going to be “bad” for Australia and as we got closer and closer to filming we started to lose more and more locations that we had secured, ultimately forcing us to abandon the concept”.
It’s not the first time that such restrictions have been levied on motoring spectacles.
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The drifting video takes place in the “raw industrial playground” of Buffalo, New York and releases the same week as the Forza Horizon 3 Demo. So, when it was suggested that they consider Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour – far removed from visual landmarks like the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge – the dream of an Australian setting was binned. In the meantime, check out Block’s latest above.
