Professional motorsports can still learn from Ken Block, JRHildebrand writes.
The only time I ever had a one-on-one moment with Ken Block was at some sticky-floored nightclub in Las Vegas during SEMA in 2013. We were assembled there, along with a number of athletes across other sports, as guests of GoPro, our sponsor at the time.
What I really wish I had said, with the benefit of a decade’s-worth of humility, is simply, “Gymkhana changed my life.”Gymkhana is the Schrödinger’s Cat of modern motorsport. It’s expressive of motorsport’s greatest attributes while simultaneously not being motorsport as we know it. It’s evocative like a Senna qualifying lap but playful like a Jackass stunt. It is, at the same time, a guy having fun and a guy skillfully starting a new religion.
Motorsport’s reason for being doesn’t come into question when it’s right. When it’s truly remarkable, people watch, and it hums along like a well-oiled machine. It really is that simple. At its best motorsport is subliminally entrancing. It can be from the sound, from the motion and behavior of the car, or from a deep insight into the human spirit present behind the wheel. If it strikes a combination of these factors it sucks you in and absolves you of any thought behind the “why” of it all.
Ken helped millions of existing fans and motorsport newcomers scratch an itch many didn’t even know they had, just by doing what he wanted. He fearlessly leaned into his own deepest desires, because sometimes you gotta do what the chemicals in your brain tell you.
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