---
title: "Watch Ken Block Slide All Over an Industrial Complex in Gymkhana 9"
description: "Tire smoke, tire smoke, and uh, more tire smoke."
date: "2016-09-13"
modified: "2016-09-13"
authors:
  - name: "Aaron Brown"
    job_title: "Staff Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-brown"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/5179/watch-ken-block-slide-all-over-an-industrial-complex-in-gymkhana-9"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "Gymkhana"
  - "Ken Block"
---

# Watch Ken Block Slide All Over an Industrial Complex in Gymkhana 9

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Put that Pumpkin Spice Latte down. It's that time of the year again: the [new Gymkhana video by Ken Block and Hoonigan](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bkX5VkZg8U>) has arrived.

In the [last Gymkhana video, *Gymkhana* Eight](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/2388/in-gymkhana-eight-ken-block-hoons-through-dubai>)[,](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/2388/in-gymkhana-eight-ken-block-hoons-through-dubai>) we saw global rally star, sneaker marketing whiz, and serial tire killer extraordinaire Ken Block slide around Dubai in his 650-horsepower Ford Fiesta RX43 rally car. There was a 747 jet, Dubai's fleet of supercar police vehicles made a cameo, and to top all of that off, there was a Ford Raptor on two wheels. In the ninth *Gymkhana,* shared to YouTube Tuesday morning, Block takes his new global rallycross car on a scenic tour of the industrial areas of Buffalo, New York. It's pretty much your average city tour, but instead of a tour bus, there is a race car, and instead of the slightly-livable ride that might come from that tour bus, there is a much less comfortable ride in a race car. There are slides, jumps, donuts, and all the vomit-inducing greatness has come to be expected from a new *Gymkhana* video.

Cut together in a seven minute clip, Block takes his 600-horsepower, striped-liveried Focus RS RX race car through what looks to be a standard array of industrial buildings in a seemingly near-abandoned commercial area in Buffalo, New York. In fact, putting all the slidey stuff aside, this video could probably double as a short film covering the afterlife of once-booming and industrious American cities that once were.

But it isn't that. This is a video about a young man who has a passion for burning rubber and who also happens to have an incredibly capable tool to do that with.

Also, there is a 2017 Ford Raptor that dangles from a helicopter.

Check it out:

https://youtube.com/embed/_bkX5VkZg8U

## Author
Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross.

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