RIP: Ken Block

Waking up to the news of Ken Block's death was a bummer...not a good way to start off the end of a holiday break and heading back to work.

I'm not the biggest "car guy" in the world. I'm not a car performance person...I don't know horsepowers, or torques, or gear ratios or any of that stuff. But I like cars. I like the beauty, the art, and the speed. It's entertainment and rally racing was one of my first entries into a love of cars going fast and doing things that they probably shouldn't. Ken Block was a part of that along with Sebastien Loeb and a host of others. It was appointment viewing for me back in the days of the Speed Channel.

Block's talent was immense as was the entertainment he created with his crew and his family. I like to think there is a host of young folks that watched him and said, "I want to do that," not unlike many do with other athletic heroes. I didn't grow up with Ken Block but he's one of the few atheltes that caught my attention as an adult and one I loved to watch and follow. His Hoonigan brand is something I also admired and something I had once thought RLD could be modeled after...it didn't quite work out that way but it was always a dream. 

The universe has spoken and sadly it took away a good dude way too soon.