But Block wasn’t just famous for his stunt driving. The man from California won a number of events in the Rally America championship in well over a decade of competing. He also took part in the WRC with Ford, scoring points several times on the world stage, and competed in the Global Rallycross and World Rallycross championships, again with Ford. He was a championship runner-up in both GRC and Rally America.
Block was a regular at our own Goodwood Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard for a number of years, bringing most of his mad creations, leaving audiences awestruck at the spectacle of his balletic performances. His Ford Mustang Hoonicorn, F100 Hoonitruck, Fiesta RX43, Escort Cosworth ‘Cossie’ and more starred in Block’s repeated appearances, with the Duke of Richmond joining him as a passenger.
While Block officially ‘retired’ from doing Gymkhana in 2020, handing the driving reins of the franchise over to Travis Pastrana, he very quickly joined Audi to launch a new, all-electric series of videos. His first, called Electrikhana, was released just over two months before his death, and saw Block and an extreme, all-electric homage to the original Audi Quattro rally car, take over Las Vegas.