The Gymkhana Files 1x5

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While Los Angeles is now behind them, the team splinters and communication grinds to a halt. Brian heads back to Hoonigan Media Machine, continuing to prep GymkhanaTEN, while Ken heads back to racing. After the lackluster results the team has seen in the first half of the season - Ken faces a difficult decision about his future in the World Rallycross Championship, and an unexpected announcement to the team. While those conversations weigh heavily on Ken, Brian heads halfway around the world to Sweden to ensure that the team is better prepared for the next segment.

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1. - So the current relationship for Ken and Brian

2. going into Gym 10— Um...

3. You ever been married?

4. You know how like in the beginning,

5. like, it's beautiful?

6. You love each other, you communicate well.

7. Right, it's this beautiful thing.

8. It's fresh.

9. And then as time goes on,

10. the communication falls off a little bit.

11. Hey guys, we have a bunch of shit to shoot outside,

12. but let's shoot inside where it's really dangerous.

13. I know you're doing what you can.

14. - You still love each other, but there's definitely

15. been some shouting matches in front of the kids.

16. - An hour and a half left, we haven't really done anything.

17. - 55 minutes left, we can't get shit done in a fuckin' hour.

18. - He's like, I'm fucking done. I'm out.

19. I understand why both of you feel this way,

20. but ultimately, we still gotta get this thing done.

21. - Well, and it kinda goes without saying

22. L.A. was a bit of a disaster.

23. - We got through it and then we all kind of just split

24. and went our ways, right?

25. So I went back to New York and Brian came back to Hoonigan

26. and Ken went back to racing.

27. - It's time for me to move on.

28. I don't mind running the team,

29. use my social media and marketing power

30. to make Ford one of the leaders in rally cross.

31. Help them sell small cars,

32. 'cause that's what this is all about.

33. - The discussion point was Ken could continue

34. to kind of be the head of the team.

35. Pop into a few races,

36. and then we'd run like a two-car operation

37. with Andreas as lead driver.

38. - So now I'm saying yeah, okay, I'm stepping out of the car.

39. We're gonna hire someone else to take my seat.

40. - Andreas, like, he's gonna be a champion.

41. There just isn't a doubt in my mind.

42. He's made of the stuff that makes him a champion.

43. - A drying track for Q one in Estering

44. and it was Andreas backward who set the early pace,

45. finding some grip on a very greasy stock grid.

46. - And I'm like, bop!

47. And we have a big car, you have a small car.

48. I just see his car like, pew!

49. Oh, do, do!

50. - But we got a call this week.

51. - Ford didn't see the same value

52. in Ken just being kind of like the figure head of the team.

53. I get it. It sucks, but, like, from Ford, I totally get it.

54. - It's not gonna be easy but that's the reality

55. and that's what we have to deal with.

56. - What are we gonna talk about this time?

57. - Everything about you.

58. - In life, in general?

59. About me?

60. - About your hair.

61. - It's really bad. You know that's genetics.

62. It's from my father. He had curly hair.

63. I got it too.

64. It's bad, bad, bad, bad.

65. - Uh...

66. so I mean, obviously,

67. you know the one thing we haven't talked about

68. is the future.

69. And you know I've pushed very hard on them on this car.

70. And basically

71. it's come down to budgets

72. and return on investment.

73. And so going forward—

74. - You're joking with me now?

75. - I wish I was.

76. I am not joking with you.

77. - After every—

78. - We're missing this week.

79. We're out.

80. They just...

81. I— I feel like hell telling you this.

82. I seriously—

83. - Yeah, I know, I know, I know.

84. I understand.

85. - This isn't, you know.

86. - Hey, I'm caught by a very big surprise.

87. Like even after all we have done.

88. - They're continuing on with me, I still have my contract.

89. But unfortunately I have to apologize.

90. - No, no, that's the hard part with the motorsport.

91. You know, I don't know what I could do differently,

92. but I'm sure it's the backside of the motorsport.

93. When you're not performing, also.

94. - My wife and my kids and I really like you, Andreas

95. You're our other son.

96. Mike is gonna be devastated.

97. But you know, I don't—

98. I don't have— I don't have another solution for you.

99. I'm sorry.

100. - Okay, thank you.

101. - I wonder if Ken understood

102. how much responsibility the race team was gonna be

103. when it started.

104. - Fuck.

105. - I think when this all began,

106. this was, I wanna take the money I made

107. from working really hard at DC Shoes and go racing.

108. And it quickly became not a hobby,

109. but like a whole new business.

110. If Ken stops what he's doing, it's going to trickle down

111. and affect hundreds of people.

112. - So this team will no longer exist after South Africa.

113. So unfortunately that's our last event.

114. I want these guys to know how much they all mean to me

115. and what we've tried to do.

116. So, yeah, not fun.

117. I really want to thank you all.

118. I just really appreciate the effort that everybody's put in.

119. So Andreas who's not out here right now,

120. 'cause I just had to tell him, and he's devastated.

121. So I'm gonna try and help him in any way that I can

122. but it's really tough on him.

123. - Even though it looks very dark now,

124. I'm sure I will turn every stone,

125. work extremely hard to get back.

126. That's what I'm gonna do.

127. Fuck.

128. - So thank you again,

129. I really wish that it was continuing on.

130. Thank you.

131. That's it, thank you, Derek.

132. - You know I think bang your head against a wall,

133. try to make this thing work and trying to win

134. and not getting a result.

135. You know, you're away from your kids, away from your wife.

136. You're sacrificing a lot that people don't see.

137. Like you're just living the dream.

138. You're a race car driver.

139. What more could you want?

140. And it's like, no one wants to just be a race car driver.

141. They want to be a winning race car driver.

142. - Since Southgate was such a fucking fiasco,

143. it was decided I'd head to Sweden really early.

144. Scout the locations, make sure we don't have a repeat

145. of all the same mistakes.

146. - We are in northern Sweden,

147. very close to the border of Finland.

148. But you'd never know,

149. 'cause there's no point of reference.

150. But look at this.

151. This is like amazing.

152. - I don't like coffee 'cause my parents drank so much coffee

153. when I was a kid.

154. So I don't know, I just like tea.

155. My grandmother, who's Irish,

156. would give me what she called Irish tea.

157. Which was basically like half milk, half sugar

158. and like a dip of tea in it.

159. Basically just warm milk.

160. I don't know man, coffee's just too hipster for me.

161. I think one of the most frustrating things for me

162. and it's very kind of similar to how Southgate felt,

163. it was like, it's very easy for me to do this

164. when we're doing it on tires.

165. 'Cause like, I've been around the car enough.

166. I understand exactly like what it's gonna do

167. and what it's not gonna do on tires.

168. I know the capability of what we can do.

169. When I come here and scout,

170. I'm kind of just doing the math in my head

171. of like, well, this is about how much room he needs

172. in a corner.

173. - And I got some signage too, so I wanted Swedish signs.

174. - The other signs that I saw this weekend

175. that I thought you might be interested in, Matt,

176. is like moose crossing, reindeer crossing.

177. - Yeah, and you know what I like about the signs

178. especially out here where everything's so white out,

179. it's gonna give the driver some point of reference.

180. - Which Ken's gonna need 'cause it's so white

181. so being able to use some obstacles

182. that look good for us as a dressing point of view,

183. but for him can be like a point of reference.

184. - Exactly.

185. - In Detroit, Ken blew out two wheels

186. 'cause he didn't have a visual frame of reference

187. so we're working on that.

188. I don't think I've ever seen a sign

189. that says you're more fucked than that sign.

190. It's just like a variable that none of us really know.

191. Like, we don't have a ton of experience.

192. We've done rallies on snow

193. but that's kind of very different.

194. Um, and just sort of understanding what that grip is

195. versus everything else.

196. By the way, this is such a cool, look at this.

197. Amazing, I don't know how we don't have this in America.

198. So anyway.

199. - I think he's 38 years old, yeah.

200. - He's this wild and crazy dude who's like doing backflips

201. - and riding mountain bikes. - 35.

202. - They think he's in his 30s. - Uh, 34.

203. - 27. - 35.

204. - What if I told you Ken was turning 50 years old?

205. - 50? - No way.

206. - Really? - Geez.

207. - That would be unbelievable 'cause he looks so young.

208. - Like, you know, most people don't realize he's 50.

209. That's a— You're old, you're old.

210. He walks with a little bit of a limp

211. 'cause he's got arthritis in his ankle.

212. Like, I'm not trying to be mean, but like you're old.

213. - That's awesome.

214. And he can still do what he can do, ah?

215. - Now I like him even more.

216. - No! - Can she have a little bit of space?

217. Thank you.

218. - He absolutely wants to slow down, a little bit, right?

219. His kids are getting older.

220. You know, he wants to spend more time with them

221. as they're now able to have conversations

222. that mean something,

223. versus being six and just sneezing into your mouth

224. when you're talking to them.

225. - I don't know, he's a good guy.

226. Yeah, I don't know.

227. Even if he's not working, he's looking at magazines

228. or Facebook or internet sites or blogs

229. or commercials or whatever it might be.

230. You know, he's always thinking.

231. Come.

232. - Come here.

233. when he started World Rally Cross,

234. you know, the kids were older and they were like,

235. we don't wanna be gone for six weeks

236. traveling the world.

237. We want to do our dance performance.

238. And so they have to stay and do the practice.

239. We can't travel.

240. So not being able to go with him,

241. it's definitely difficult,

242. because, I'm sure he doesn't like this comment,

243. but I was like, I'm a single mom again.

244. You know.

245. Would I have preferred that he didn't do it,

246. even from the beginning?

247. Sure.

248. But I'm not the kind of person

249. that's gonna crush someone's dreams.

250. You know what I mean? That's not something I would ever do

251. is be like oh no, you can't chase your dream.

252. That would be, you know,

253. I don't think that's my position to tell someone

254. not to go do something like that.

255. - I mean the reason we did the F-150,

256. so basically, obviously we did the Hoonicorn,

257. and the Hoonicorn was wildly popular.

258. And then obviously, with the idea of doing Gymkhana 10,

259. we decided that we needed to kind of

260. build a special vehicle again.

261. You know, we're using a Fiesta,

262. which we've used the Fiesta previously.

263. we're using a Focus which we've done previously.

264. We're reusing the Hoonicorn because the Hoonicorn rips.

265. And then, obviously, we purchased the Cosi.

266. Because we wanted something

267. that was a little bit more classic,

268. but still rad.

269. And then it was like, all right,

270. well now we need to do a new kind of special build.

271. The F-150 was kind of the most wild looking

272. of the initial renders that we did.

273. Worked with this guy named Khyzyl who's out of the UK.

274. He's like a video game car design guy.

275. And then we took the initial design

276. that we worked on with him and we started working with the guy

277. that did the elevation drawings for the Hoonicorn,

278. Andy Blackmore.

279. The F-150's kind of an iconic vehicle.

280. Better known as a truck that Uncle Jesse

281. on Dukes of Hazzard drove, which is kinda cool.

282. So they needed a codename for this build here.

283. Yeah, truck's called Uncle Jesse, internally here.

284. - Matt, this is Chris. - Chris?

285. How you doin' man? Matt, nice to meet you finally.

286. - The best part about the build process is the delivery.

287. You ready to take a look?

288. - Yeah, no please.

289. - Seeing the customer's eyes light up.

290. To see it for the first time.

291. The smile, how big the smile is.

292. - Oh my God.

293. - That's a really cool experience.

294. - Yes! Holy shit, this is bananas.

295. All right, I'm feeling good about this now.

296. - Opens right up.

297. - Yeah, no, this is gonna work.

298. This is, yeah, you guys do a nice job.

299. - Thank you, thank you. - Wow, okay.

300. When we test, are we just gonna run

301. without any panels on you think?

302. - We'll definitely run aluminum doors,

303. aluminum fenders, probably no box sides.

304. Just time wise I don't see it happening.

305. I'd like to finish the grill off a little bit more

306. just to give it some, a bit more character.

307. But it'll pretty much be like what you see right now.

308. - This is ridiculous, I meant this is amazing.

309. - They started making aluminum panels back here.

310. There is an aluminum corner for the back of the bedside.

311. - This is very expensive.

312. - It started as a sheet of aluminum, pressed.

313. - See that's beautiful.

314. That's a lost art.

315. You're probably holding five grand.

316. - Right now? Sweet.

317. - I think this might be my new favorite toy

318. that Ken has.

319. This is nice.

320. - I don't want to say everything's falling apart

321. 'cause that's very like the sky is falling.

322. But the last shoot went miserably.

323. Ken's got to finish out of season that doesn't even matter.

324. Let's just focus on Gymkhana, that's what matters right now.

325. If it was me, it's like why even bother finishing

326. out the year?

327. But contractually I guess he has to.

328. And ya know, you gonna go back

329. and you know you're not gonna do great.

330. And even if you do, why does it matter?

331. I mean it'd be completely ironic if they go back and win.

332. Onto Q2 in South Africa.

333. Final race of the day and the big guns were in action.

334. Ken Block making the move to come through and take the checkered flag.

335. It was a great performance by him.

336. It would be enough to see him at the top of the overnight standings.

337. - Division one for Ken too.

338. I feel fantastic for Ken, been winning for 11 years.

339. We've had our highs and our lows.

340. But very nice moment last night to see him lead.

341. - I haven't had this early success with this car

342. in two years so it feels good.

343. - All me and Katie wanted to do after that

344. was to do that, finish up and give this with the whole thing

345. and go have an adult beverage at the end.

346. - You're good, you're like, have fun.

347. - Play nicely. - We'll try.

348. There is Ken Block,

349. of course he's the other guy I think he's most keen

350. to take a win here.

351. - It's gonna be the last race for Bacaroot,

352. as well as Ken Block.

353. So they also want something really, really special.

354. - We came here with this car to try and win races

355. and win a championship

356. and it's been two of the most difficult years of my career.

357. So to actually end it here on a positive note

358. would be really good.

359. - Block would love to make it through

360. to the final.

361. He's had a good on form weekend.

362. - There's a rule that when you come off the track

363. you have to be a certain weight.

364. Inside, Ken, inside.

365. - Oh!

366. - So they check us every time

367. there's a qualifier race that's done.

368. They actually check the weight to make sure we're not

369. doing anything funky.

370. Just gotta keep it nice

371. and tight as you can.

372. - C'mon, c'mon Ken!

373. - Brock's in there.

374. Light around the outside, unbelievable!

375. Ken Block leads!

376. Crowd is going absolutely mental!

377. - All the way to the checker,

378. go, go, go, go, go!

379. - I came off the track and automatically

380. up on the scales.

381. The scale guy's like, "You're underweight."

382. I'm like, I'm probably—

383. - You're missing half a car.

384. - Yeah.

385. - Ken, I need feedback on the vehicle.

386. - Front right seems a bit off.

387. - Okay, copy.

388. No interviews, straight for the pit.

389. - Forget the tires.

390. Get the body work on descending right, under the tires.

391. - Less than 10 minutes.

392. - Stupid things as quick as we can.

393. - If you have a bunch of damage

394. in a race when you come off and you're missing half the car,

395. of course it's gonna be underweight.

396. We did everything possible to get there

397. to be in the final.

398. If I woulda been in the second row in the final,

399. I would've been in fourth position.

400. You know the stewards made a decision

401. and I didn't find out really 'til they

402. were starting the race.

403. - Ken Block, oh wow.

404. No!

405. Ken Block, who qualified for the final for the first time,

406. is being replaced by Kevin Hanson in the finals.

407. Probably been underweight because of the amount of panels

408. that were missing from the car.

409. - Well, that shouldn't happen.

410. Green light for start,

411. look to get the best of star.

412. - You know, they just never called me up to go race.

413. - This part of Ken's life, which is racing FIA is over.

414. - You know, in our world there's this thing

415. that we say you're only as good as your last trick.

416. Who wants your last trick to be that?

417. - Aw!

418. - I have to say what a fantastic team

419. and thank you very much.

420. - That's a wrap.

421. - L.A. definitely left a pretty bad taste in my mouth

422. and sometimes things like that just get away from ya.

423. And they do in every relationship.

424. Where you're like shit, I can't take that back.

425. Like that's always gonna be there.

426. I don't I would say I regret it

427. but I think we both wish it didn't happen.

428. - Holy hell.

429. We kind of handled it the way that men handle things.

430. You don't talk about it.

431. And you both just have an understanding

432. that okay, we're not gonna do this again.

433. Happy birthday.

434. - Oh hey, Brian's here.

435. - It just gets better the more you look at it.

436. Yeah, I've been looking at it for like an hour and a half.

437. - It's nice, right? - It's really nice.

438. - It's beautiful. - Can we dial in more flames?

439. I haven't seen it run yet but I already know I want more flames.

440. - By the way, we already had a conversation of what the antenna's for.

441. - It leaned up. - Is it come?

442. - That's Derek Radio right there.

443. - Oh my God. - That's actually really,

444. - that's actually really smart. - Derek hasn't said anything yet.

445. - Yeah, where's Derek?

446. - Hey, Derek! - I love it.

447. - Good afternoon, sir. - I love it.

448. - Yeah.

449. - I love this thing, are you kidding me?

450. - Yeah, the boys at Detroit did a great job.

451. - This is the best vehicle we have.

452. - So will we have spares of these for shooting?

453. - Yes, we'll have a spare one of these for shooting.

454. - We'll have a spare rear? - They're all off the shelf

455. and all four axles are identical.

456. - Oh, you hit a wall.

457. Boom, boom, put the on it.

458. - You don't have to carry as many spares.

459. - That's actually really smartly done.

460. - God, this is so sick.

461. I've been saying it, but this is my new favorite.

462. - I said it before too,

463. I think this is my new favorite.

464. - Very, very nice.

465. - Okay, so now can I invite you to get changed, sir?

466. - All right.

467. - Connected, yeah?

468. - You good, okay.

469. - Videotape.

470. - Live and clear, birthday boy.

471. - Dick.

472. Copy.

473. Starting up.

474. - Copy, all clear.

475. We should go up the hill to take the first righthander.

476. The outside line is slightly bumpy

477. so watch your break point into that.

478. - Copy, thanks.

479. - The F-150, which still doesn't have a name

480. at this current point, the Hoona truck.

481. Hopefully, it's what it takes for the next Hoonicorn.

482. It's a Ford F-150 the way you've never seen one before.

483. - Yes, yes, yes!

484. The stakes for everyone involved in Gym 10

485. is that we're still managing to like entertain people.

486. Never done Gymkhana in a truck before.

487. - This is insane.

488. - People are gonna say, holy shit.

489. - This is fuckin' crazy.

490. - That's crazy.

491. I think.

492. - It's so good.

493. - Oh yeah.

494. It's amazing.

495. - Like this truck is gonna be our new Hoonicorn.

496. At least we sure hope it will be.