If you love spectacular videos with custom machinery and - often - crumpled canvas at the end, you've got to know Ken Block.
The American pilot, world star of the gymkhana, this practice which consists of going as fast as possible on a course bristling with obstacles of all kinds, died Monday following a snowmobile accident, at 55 years old.
His machine went backwards and fell on him, according to the details of the TMZ site.
Knowledgeable Businessman
"It is with our deepest regrets that we can confirm that Ken Block passed away today in a snowmobile accident," said his company, Hoonigan Industries.
Ken was a visionary, a pioneer and an icon.
And above all, a father and a husband.
He will be missed terribly.
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The Californian, married and father of three children, had made an appearance in the World Rally and Rallycross Championships for a few seasons, but it was above all for his taste for spectacle and staging that he had made know from 2008. To his almost two million subscribers on YouTube, he regularly sent videos in which he took up all kinds of challenges, especially in cars, sometimes in motocross or on a snowboard.
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