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Alright, we're ready to go.

Okay.

Go to two.

Radio check, check.

The thing about that mountain is...

KB has landed.

Get him in the car
and get him here.

It's a killer...

Copy that.

Putting a car at 14,000 feet,

it doesn't act the same
way it does at sea level.

Car feels like it
still wants to kill me.

That's good, that's a good thing.

You can really tell on camera.

How far is good
for our BPS, gentlemen?

We're getting in
the car and rolling GoPros.

GoPros are rolling.

Alright,
stand by guys, stand by!

Okay,
here we go. And three...

Two...

One!

Action, action!

- Who is Ken Block?
- Insane.

If you get maimed,

it makes the story more
interesting.

The real Ken Block,
or the Ken Block you know?

He's an artist.

Ken Block is gnarly.

He's dangerous.

It depends on the day.

You know, between
the racing that we do...

Block
was absolutely flying here!

To the Gymkhana videos,

there's so much behind the scenes.

It's a team.

I mean, that was cool, but
is that all you got?

If that dude crashes
and dies, I don't get paid.

You know that's...
Have I reached my limit

of what I can do with this?

Sure, I'll give you a version.

I'm very happy to have
so many people out here in Tokyo

where I'm able to show
them what I'm able to do

with my Ford Fiesta.

Day three,
number six, plus, what,

three rehearsals?

All saying the same thing.

Right now,
introduce you!

What is it at home,
like, early evening?

It's
back to the drivers!

- It's actually midnight.
- It's midnight, yeah.

Rally driver!

It's not too bad.

Super style!

Ken Block, from USA!

The thing for me is,

Pike's Peak is one of
the most famous hill climbs

in the world, and I think it's
the second oldest race

in all of America,

so just such an incredible
experience,

driving that road and...

And the tires worked
very consistently

all the way through.

It's funny to start
with something so simple.

Two days of shooting, four guys.

2008, the day we uploaded Gymkhana,

it connected to the
mainstream in a way...

We didn't see this
as a big video series.

It wasn't like I had any
great, fucking forecast

of what was gonna happen, but...

Ken Block!

YouTube!

20 or 30 million views,
in just a couple months.

- And Ken said...
- Oh shit, we... we got something here!

Within weeks, the... you know,
the sponsors were like,

"Hey, you gonna do
that again, right?

"You gonna do something more,
what's next?" You know, and...

It ended up becoming a franchise.

It just really touched the
nerve of showing motor sports

in a way no one had seen it before.

I think one of the things I've
learned in doing these films

is that it becomes
harder and harder for us

to re-manufacture something
that happened very naturally.

Like, before we even
started filming Gymkhana Ten,

I'd spent a year and
a half working on it.

It's the 10th one, so there's
an expectation of, like,

"Okay, you keep making
this bigger and better,

"what the hell are
you gonna do for ten?"

This is about to
become a whole other TV show!

- Do you have a projector?
- What?

No, I got a screen.

- Is it dirty?
- No, I just...

Give me a second while I
air drop all of this to this.

It does look like
a construction worker!

Wait, you're not prepared?

- No!
- So surprising! - Weird.

Dammit, my phone died!

No!

By the way... by the way, hold on!

Let's break the wall for a second!

Most Scotto thing ever,
electronics die!

Oh, we have to charge this,
'cause all the photos

are on my phone, unless I
can find them on iPhotos.

Well, you could just
draw us pictures.

- Really? Really?
- I mean,

we could talk tricks!

My parents raised me
up until, like, 12 or 13

in Long Beach,
California, in the city,

where I skateboarded,
rode BMX bikes,

all that sort of thing,
city kid stuff.

And then, they moved me
down to an avocado grove

in north San Diego,
putting me in a place

where, like,
there's nothing to do, uh,

so you gotta buy me a dirt bike.

My parents were really
against me riding dirt bikes,

'cause you get a lotta
injuries from that.

I have a lot of injuries from it,

but I loved the aggressive
nature of dirt bikes.

Jumping, sliding, riding in dirt.

I was actually up in Yosemite
on vacation with my parents,

and there used to be a
little bump in the road

over a bridge, so I went over
it, jumped a little bit,

and kept going,
uh, got pulled over.

I got... you know, a park ranger.

Super mad at me and yellin' at me,

and said I almost
killed him, and like,

I didn't want to get in trouble.

You know, my parents are

close by somewhere
in the campground.

And anyway, I was like,
"Okay, what are you gonna do?"

He's like, "I'm gonna arrest you!"

I'm like, "Aw, crap!"

So, I got arrested
for jumping my car.

Now if I don't jump,
people get mad at me!

We talked about
donuts around Dyrdek.

- Yep.
- Reverse entry turn.

- Yep.
- Center axis donuts.

- Yep.
- Figure eight, jump.

And the rock holding back
the car for the launch.

Which I got a positive email about.

Nice.

Alright, so let's
look at these photos.

I got out of college,
and thought, like,

"I'm gonna go become
a war journalist!"

Because, during my junior year,

9/11 happens,
and I live in New York City.

It's been my home.

My first feature story ever
was about

the rampant gentrification
of Red Hook, Brooklyn,

and why it wasn't welcome.

Yeah, "I grew up in this city,
please don't come here!"

And in the end, I write about cars.

Throughout the whole thing,
there's sections of light,

and then there's
also darker sections.

Depending on the tricks
and the needs for sparks,

- we can do things.
- But even going

in and out of the light
would be cool.

All of the younger
culture mags in New York,

at least in the time
when I was there,

GQ or Maxim, or Vibe,

or Complex, or...

Everyone knew each other,
and I happened to be

the one person in the group
who knew automotive.

So, I'd write for every
one of the magazines

under a fake name.

I mean, that would make

a natural figure eight, or
a donut-type thing anyway.

- How wide is that gap?
- There's varying.

There's 35's, there's 45's,
and then there's 65, 75's.

Let's start in the 75's.

Considering
those are massive, but...

It's all gonna depend on
this roll the dice thing

of what... how much
this thing grips.

So it may be awesome, or it
may be like I'm driving on ice.

- Which I would predict.
- I'm guessing ice.

And there's some good under-areas,

like, you've got these kind
of like overlooks and stuff.

Which A, for camera,
but also just gives us

kind of a different
texture inside there.

This is...

It's not easy to do
the stuff I'm trying to do.

The Hoonicorn,

I'm afraid to drive this thing
on Pike's Peak.

Say it, like, three times!
I'm brain dead.

Okay, look for
the Pennzoil display

with the Hoonicorn on it,

or visit online at this address.

Look for the Pennzoil display
with the Hoonicorn on it.

Look for the Pennzoil display
with the Hoonicorn on it.

...with the
Hoonicorn on it in stores.

In stores? In the store?

You can just say
on it, forget the store.

I'm just part race car driver,
part marketing person.

I think what's
really unique about Ken

is that he gets in and
out of so many cars.

You know, when you
think of most racers,

they're dedicated to one series...

Formula One, and NASCAR,
sports car racing...

Those guys,
that's about all they do.

Ken jumps between
so many cars racing...

...so many cars filming...

...so many cars in daily life,

yet he's able to put it
on the edge at any moment,

in any vehicle.

And I'm like, "Whoa!

I never have seen
that before!"

It's a moving chicane, but
it's a counter moving chicane,

you know, so the chicane's
actually coming at you.

In racing, a chicane is
something you put in

to slow a car down
on a straightaway,

so it's basically a moving chicane,

but we've added some
extra violence to it

by adding blades.

'Cause more violence
makes everything better!

Hey, Dirker,
do you copy, it's Jeff.

Yeah, Jeff, go ahead!

The action is the
car slaloming the snowplows.

You'll see that.
Keep this scene back lit.

Copy that.

Alright, good.

I mean, one of the
main reasons why I'm here is,

you know, I've raced this
mountain so many times,

so I kind of understand
the dynamic of the mountain,

and also, I understand
cars pretty well,

except that this car is
so wild and different.

The Hoonicorn is
one of the most unique

all wheel drive vehicles.

You know, a '60's muscle car

with modern-day,
all-wheel drive technology,

and a very modern engine in it.

It's genuinely the funnest
thing I've ever driven.

It just drives like I'm
fighting its effort to kill me!

Where's Ken?

Hey, Dan, Dan?

I'm still...
I'm still waiting on KB.

Coming back up the hill.

10-4.

Here we go, guys,
car is on the move!

Alright, guys, we're gonna
come up in the Suburban.

We're gonna go to our
armed car position, okay?

Everybody stand by
for picture, please!

Stand by!

- What's that?
- Am I rolling on this take?

- Yes, this is a real take.
- You got it.

Car is on the move.

Ready, and three...

two... one!

Action, action, action!

We're always looking
for that real killer shot.

You know, he delivers
99% of the time.

We normally use the first take.

You know, he's
absolutely on the money.

It's Scotto, Derek.

We're gonna film something
else real quickly

while we wait for you guys.

Figure it'd be at least
five minutes, correct?

Number one, to get
a car to perform here,

the altitude has to be addressed.

I mean, the engine management here,

you climb over a mile in altitude.

- Yeah.
- And, this is

an altitude that the FAA
requires that you wear oxygen

- in an airplane, you know?
- Right.

There's a lot going on up here.

I mean, one of the reasons
we're back here

is because we had such an issue

with the Hoonicorn last time.

So, think about a bag
of chips at sea level.

They kind of have some air space,

and then you bring them
to the top of Pike's Peak

and 14,000 feet, and
they're hard as a rock.

Same thing was
happening with that car,

except it wasn't sealed off

quite as good as a
bag of Lay's, and...

Oil was coming out of it,
so... a bit of an issue.

When you lose oil, you
eventually lose motors,

and things like that, so...

- Yeah.
- And that's the thing

I think about a hill climb is,

I mean, think about
how much it affects you.

You can feel yourself being winded,

and it just becomes
an issue of what...

- Right.
- It's the same thing

for a car, I mean,
it runs on oxygen.

It's like, that's
what makes it work.

Scotto to Derek,
does Ken have coms on?

So Ken, I just reviewed
through the footage.

It's not the best shot,

but your action looks
really good on it.

So, just give me the
wildest exit you can.

I mean, that's what
we're trying to get,

so however you want to
throw that out there,

if it's getting it
towards the armed car

with throwing a little
more sideways, you know,

as wild as possible's best.

And this'll be our last run.

One more run, last run.

Stand by!

Three... two... one.

Action, action!

That's pretty rad!

That's really great!

Ken, that line was perfect!

Our success over
the last ten years...

What's up, girl?

Has relied on us building
an incredible crew.

Take this guy, Magic,
one of our camera ops.

Ken's drifting right
into the barrier

just as the helicopter
passes overhead,

but we only know he's
close to the barrier

if we get a proximity shot,

so Magic has to stand there
three feet from the Hoonicorn,

right under the helicopter.

Oh, and also, I have him
standing on top of an apple box

at the edge of a cliff.

This is a cliff,
like 1,000 feet down,

but that's what it
takes to get the shot.

So guys,

we are officially moving
on to our next section.

So, I'll park on top
and just shoot him?

Yeah, you just
will want to chase him

on the high side, looking down,

so that we can kind
of do it that way.

That way, we play the edges

instead of the face on this side.

It should be good with a
little bit of snow falling

at the same time!

Good for
the over crank stuff, yeah!

This is what Pike's Peak is about!

Changes all the time.

Good, that's the way.

Now, that's a good move!

- Today, I got called Fat Paul Walker.
- Really?

I took it kind of as a compliment.

It's better than Fat Bam Margera.

Hey, Jeff, I'm gonna move Cotto

into the center of this donut,

and Ken's gonna do
donuts around him.

I'm gonna put him on a super wide,

and he's just gonna kind of spin with him.
You cool with that?

It's not my body out there!

We got an ambulance
up there if you need it!

Thanks, bud!

So, just be... Oh, lightning.

Hey, Jay, I just wanna let you know

there is some lightning
in the background.

I know, I've been
talking with the race team.

I'm tempted to scoop people up
and get 'em in the van.

Brian, do you copy?

I'm on two, on two.

10-4.

I mean, we got the pieces
that I think we need, so...

...needs to get vehicles
hunkered down.

Alright, sounds good.

I'll wait for you guys
down here to grab us.

It would suck to get
struck by lightning

after a good day,
you know?

Yeah, for tomorrow,

I mean, it's looking
just like it did today.

- This morning was clear.
- Yeah.

As of right now, I just
actually had lightning hit

at Cattle Mound.

Oh, before when we were up there,

it hit the peak behind
the peak we were at.

- Yeah.
- You could see it hit.

I don't know, with
the lightning and stuff

being that close,

I know the top's gonna get worse.

The radar coming in, nothing.

It's not...
Nothing left for us today.

- Right.
- 'Cause it's gonna be wet.

It's actually hailing up there.

Starting line still
could dry out later,

but it's up to you guys.

For tomorrow, there's some
other stuff we can pick up...

Yeah, I was out there.

One conversation we might
want to have with Ken tonight

- is...
- Drift to the edge.

It's like that big rig shot...

at that Evo corner.

Like, is that something
that's really gonna

- sketch you out?
- To me, it's not a rig shot,

and I don't want to do it
more than once.

I just knew that at some point,

we're gonna use a particular turn,

because it is the one turn

that really has the most
dramatic views still down,

looking from probably, like,
12 and a half thousand feet,

and there's been some very
iconic photos on this corner.

Now, what makes it still
really usable for us

and what we want to do
is there's no guardrail.

'Cause I think you want
that moment of kind of

suck in your stomach, where
you think the car's goin' off,

- but yet...
- Is that the same...

- Yeah, that's the corner.
- I mean,

that's how old and
iconic it is!

See how it's not a cliff?

See how it's not even
45 degrees there?

Yeah, but I mean,
the pole we have hangs, what,

eight feet off the side of the car?

Yeah, but it's still
not looking off a cliff.

It's still just gonna look down,
and you'll see a bank with rocks.

But if you're looking forward,
you're not looking straight down.

You're looking forward.

You will feel the earth
drop out from underneath you.

Just a couple years ago,

a Mitsubishi Evo went off there.

He thought he was on a different
corner, and this corner comes.

It looks just like a corner
before, one step below.

And he came in there thinking
he was in a different turn and...

And as you come through it,

you're waiting to
see the guardrail,

and then you break
at that guardrail.

So, he came around this corner
looking for the guardrail.

It wasn't there,
and the corner tightens.

It's a 45 degree, roughly,
you know, face of gravel

with big rocks in it, and...

Luckily, he was in a very
safe and well-built car,

and tumbled a couple hundred
yards down this thing,

and... lived,

but, you know,
it could've been really bad.

So, that particular corner, I knew,

was something we had to shoot.

It's kind of the
iconic Pike's Peak shot,

of the cars drifting around
in the mornings.

We didn't shoot it the first day,

which... , then I
had to think about it

the whole first day!

And then, talking
to Brian, he's like,

"Yeah, first thing up is,
uh... Evo corner."

And I'm like, "Oh, really?"

So, you can think about
it all night long.

Yeah, I'll tell you,
you all sleep on it!

Yeah!

You forget how much
bigger this mountain is,

after we were at Mt. Washington.

Like, "Oh, yeah!"

I don't think
there's any comparison.

I'm still gonna argue on that!

Mt. Washington,
90% of the road,

you're not dead if you go off it.

You're more likely to die hitting
a tree than you are falling.

I mean, look at the Evo!

The Evo shows that
big, nice, long rolls

just take the impact right out!

Comfortable rolls like that!

Yeah, comfortable rolls!

So, you know, it's early morning.

I know what everyone's expecting.

I know Brian and I

have even talked about
how many tire marks

I'm able to put down
on this corner,

'cause it's sketchy.

But also, there's no reference,
there's nothing.

Even when you're sitting
in the driver's seat,

there's tarmac, there's a little
bit of gravel on the edge,

and then it's just sky, you know?

I really had to walk
the corner several times,

and look at it.

I'd driven it and looked at it
for a couple days,

just so I had some sort of visual.

I actually went out there
on that morning

and set a stack of rocks.

I made a stack of rocks

on that dangerous,
sketchy part right there.

I made a little stack of rocks.

You guys, our
track is hot and locked.

Everybody stand by
for picture, please!

It was a pretty
nerve-wracking moment,

because the car, actually,
wasn't working that great

for those last two days
of shooting.

This is the highest
we've ever driven this car.

We never got this far
last time ,

so this is the farthest
up this car has driven.

As you climb and climb,

the throttle response is different,

so when you press the throttle,

you don't get the same delivery

as you start climbing up the W's.

So, I had to just keep
driving through this stuff,

and the way that I drove through
this particular problem was

I'd have to be on the gas
earlier than I wanted.

So, if I had said I needed
to be full throttle here,

well, that meant

I actually had to try and
be full throttle here.

Normally, the reaction
with most of our cars

is very quick, and for some reason,

we were just havin' some issues.

We're all ready here.

From our side, Brian
can do that ready, ready.

- Action, action.
- Action, action, everybody!

Roll cameras, action, action!

And so, I went and drove it

for the fist time on camera.

The first time I went through,

I was being a little conservative,

and I had a very conservative
line through there.

We also... it'd be
good from Ken's standpoint.

The camera's are reporting

that he's not very
close to the edge.

Ken, are you on coms?

Copy.

Alright, now that we got
the test run out of the way,

let's take it all the way
to the edge.

No pressure.

Copy that, no problem.

So, I went back down to reposition,

and while I'm repositioning,
I'm thinking,

"Man, is this gonna take 20 tries?"

And I think back to the
moment when I was doin'

Gymkhana Nine...

...and we were trying to get
that water's edge moment.

That took a lot of tries,

because I had to be within
inches to make it look good.

Brian's like, "Oh,

"you're still four inches off!"

I'm, like, "Is this
just too much for me?"

So, as I was going back down,

and getting ready for
the second run,

I think,
"Is this time for me to quit?

"Can I handle this?
"Can my nerves handle it?"

We prepared ourselves
from our side,

with recovery,
and how to recover the car,

if it went over.

You know, the consequences
on Gymkhana Nine,

with the water's edge.

Yeah, there was a water
drop 15 feet below,

but it's water.

It would suck, I mean
it'd hurt a little bit.

But, that... how far
down you tumble.

I mean, the Evo that
crashed there was lucky.

- Yeah.
- They were lucky to walk away.

So anyway, that's
all going through my mind,

and there I was.

I'm in the moment, and I'm
in a place where I wanna be.

I'm doing one of the raddest things

I can possibly do,

and what happened
that second run was...

And so I took the second run.

I'm just like, "Okay,
I'm just gonna step up

"a little bit."

But, the problem with the
engine setup in those turbos,

it's hard to add 10%.

Oops.

This was such an
important shot for us.

It's such that iconic moment

that I wanted to watch
it from our hero camera,

so I was sittin'
right behind Magic,

looking at it through the lens,

and as it was happening,
there was that realization that

he wasn't gonna pull it back out.

I'm 90 degrees,
basically, to the road.

I know I've gotta keep
the front wheels on tarmac,

or I'm going off.

This is one of the worst places

to go to the edge here, too.

No guardrails, nothing,
and Ken just ran it

clear to the edge.

No intimidation.

And, when I got to the end
and started slowing down,

I called over,
"I hope you like that,

"'cause I'm not doing that again!

"That was as good as
I could fucking do it!

"So, it'd better be good enough!"

Holy shit!

Dude,
I thought it was over.

It was awesome, 'cause
it was a little bit of

the old days of the dirt driving,

combined with the pavement.

I mean, I don't know how we
could get a more epic shot.

And, I mean, Ken, again,
just blows me away.

Seriously, seriously!

All my years, that's the
best thing I've ever seen!

Oh, Ken,
that is so beautiful.

I've got that from
the camera car up there, too.

It's so good!

Thank you, sir, thank you!

By the way, next year at 50,

you can't do this stuff any more!

- It was way too good!
- 50's the cutoff!

But until then,

we got a lot to do before November!

You know,
I've watched Ken from afar

for many, many years,
and you come into a corner

rotating a car at angles that
I've never even witnessed,

and those are the moments,
as a director, you just say,

"Okay, it can't get
any better than this!

"We can walk away!"

To me, it's one of
the most beautiful shots

that we've ever gotten, and
it's one of the most dramatic,

and the image of it really
hearkened back to years ago

when that road was completely dirt,

and guys were driving that
thing flat out sideways.

To me, this really is a homage
to that level of driving,

and that sort of
skills that it takes

to drive up that mountain.

Because you don't
have to do that today,

but I wanted to do it that way.

I mean, you know,
I don't know when it started,

but certainly even
the fist year I ran here,

which was way back in 1990,

the reward at the summit
was to get up here

and have a warm, fresh-made donut.

And I swear, it's never a time

that I come up here to the summit I
don't feel like I gotta get a donut.

The Pike's Peak Evo corner,
which, arguably,

I would say is now
the Hoonicorn corner!

Did we know how rad
it would turn out? No.

The whole success of
Gymkhana's been based on these

iconic moments where you say,

"Holy shit, this is incredible!

"I gotta share this with someone!"

I mean, that's the thing
about Gymkhana Ten,

that we're trying to
find those moments.

We want this one to be
the best ever.

It could be something
that lives in Sweden,

stuff that comes out of Texas,

Detroit.

We've set everything in
motion for it to be the best,

most dynamic one ever,
but what are these moments

that put it above the rest?

I don't know yet.

It's almost like... it's like
we're chasing something

that we can't get.