Top 10 Cars Of Gymkhana Grid
Filled with 500-600hp cars, Gymkhana Grid had more than a few nicely built competitors. Here are just 10 of our picks from the crowd.
Filled with 500-600hp cars, Gymkhana Grid had more than a few nicely built competitors. Here are just 10 of our picks from the crowd.
Using elements of autocross as well, the Gymkhana Grid event boiled down to a mixture of timed drifting and “real” gymkhana.
SCCA and time attack racers were parked next to show vehicles that could barely fit credit cards between their tires and wheel wells.
The all-wheel drive class was led by Ken Block’s Gymkhana 3 Ford Fiesta and Tanner Foust’s X-Games/Rallycross Ford Fiesta.
What do you do when you’re multi-million-view Internet famous, successful, and one year older? In Ken Block’s case, you throw a party and geta custom Ford Fiesta cake from your friends.
We talk with Formula Drift and time attack driver Kyle Mohan at Ken Block’s Gymkhana Grid event. Mohan’s ride is a 400hp turbocharged rotary FC3S Mazda RX-7 racecar that is also used in drift and time attack.
Inside Ken Block’s Gymkhana Three Ford Fiesta during some pre-video release testing at Hollywood Park. Watch as Block gives a ride to Formula Drift star Daijiro Yoshihara.
For the third video, Block takes on L’Autodrome de Linas-Montlhery in France, which has a distinctively European feel to it and some massive banking. Block even demonstrates the banking’s steep 51-degree incline by standing on his Fiesta at an angle.
Take a closer look at the Cusco All-Japan Gymkhana Championship Lancer Evolution. It’s immediately obvious that their style of gymkhana is different from ours. While ours is all about entertainment, big smoke, drifts, and staying sideways, the Japanese form looks like pure autocross with a couple smoke-less spin turns thrown in.
We speak with rally driver Ken Block and drifter Kyle Mohan about the upcoming Gymkhana Grid race series. Part autocross, part drifting – entries include Subaru WRX STI, Ford Fiesta, Nissan 350Z, 240SX, and Mitsubishi Evo.
With millions upon millions of views online, the gymkhana stunt videos from rally racer Ken Block have put the sport’s name on everybody’s mind. While it may have been the case that gymkhana was a mystery to American gearheads just a few years ago, it’s out of the shadows now.
With TV bragging rights on the line and no standardized rulebook to worry about, most of the turbocharged, all-wheel drive cars were making near 600hp.
Mother Nature is actually out to puncture and flip your rally car but that’s just part of the fun. So, how come rally racing isn’t as big as NASCAR in the US?