Ken Block, pictured right here on the 2017 World Rallycross Championship in Barcelona, Spain, died yesterday in a snowmobile accident, his firm stated.
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Ken Block, pictured right here on the 2017 World Rallycross Championship in Barcelona, Spain, died yesterday in a snowmobile accident, his firm stated.
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Ken Block, an motion sports activities legend who co-founded DC Footwear and Hoonigan Racing, died on Monday at age 55 after a snowmobile accident.
Hoonigan first introduced the loss of life on social media. The Watasch County Sheriff’s Workplace later confirmed that Block was driving a snowmobile close to his house in Utah round 2 p.m. when he tried to navigate up a steep slope, inflicting the craft to fall again on high of him. Officers pronounced him useless on the scene.
“Ken was a visionary, a pioneer and an icon. And most significantly, a father and a husband,” Hoonigan wrote within the assertion. “He might be extremely missed.”
Block co-founded DC Footwear, a preferred skateboarding and shoe model, in 1984, constructing the model into a worldwide success by means of strategic sponsorships and athletes’ endorsements.
After promoting the corporate in 2004 for $87 million, he turned higher often called a rally automotive legend, profitable 16 nationwide titles within the sport from 2005 to 2014.
He additionally earned 5 medals within the X Video games and have become certainly one of solely 4 People to attain factors within the World Rally Championship.
Block was additionally aggressive in motocross and skateboarding, however his true name to fame was documenting his automotive aeronautics on social media.
His YouTube web page, which amassed over 1.95 million subscribers, credit itself for driving America’s burgeoning appreciation for motorsports.
Block had shared footage concerning the heavy snowfall at his Utah ranch on social media hours earlier than the accident, writing, “hell yeah!” throughout an Instagram photograph of snowmobiles.
That is how some mornings at my ranch in Utah look this time of 12 months – freshly coated with snow! Fortunately we’ve the Ski-doo sleds, @CanAm Mavericks (one on tracks!) and Defender, and the Kubota equipment to dig us out and hold the property maintained. pic.twitter.com/LXJG1A6yPr
— Ken Block (@kblock43) December 29, 2022
Tributes to the icon have been pouring in throughout his platforms on Tuesday morning.
“Ken was really an idol and inspiration for me, getting me into rally. […] I’ve by no means been hit so onerous by somebody’s passing,” wrote Fb person Troy Dawson.
Dave Smith, a YouTube commenter wrote, “I by no means understood the draw to excessive sports activities till watching certainly one of his movies. HE was the draw.”
Block’s legend is prone to stay on by means of the rally racing success of his household. His 16-year-old daughter, Lia, has been competing for Hoonigan racing since age 11 and his spouse, Lucy, made her all-wheel-drive rally debut this 12 months.
