Proof that Ken Block can't race

[goodhart]

I'm pretty sure the only reason that argument is being made is because guys like schumacher, all these other rally drivers, etc, were all recognized as drivers and made it big.

From my understanding, Ken Block got big by making shoes, then decided, "hey, I am rich mofo, I think I'll try this". He made a couple gymkana videos, and everybody started saying "ZOMFGGG1!!11!!1 I MUST HAVE SUBARU RALLY CARZZ RUBBLEEEZZZZZ!!!11!!111!!!1 DC SHOES SIDEWAYS HATZ AND LIME GREEN MONSTRER EVERYTHING!!1!!!11!!"

Thus, why he has so many haters, he didn't come up through the ranks of racing, he just hopped in with a bunch of money and decided hey WTF, I'll give this a shot, he has sucked at at, and has still gotten 9,000% of the attention guys like Sebastian Loeb get who win all the time and deserve attention.


Example: This would be like if Greg Camarillo for the Vikings made a couple videos of him making crazy ass catches in a controlled environment with weeks, possibly months of practice doing just what he is doing in the video, whoring out Monster/DC shoes gear, and him all the sudden becoming more famous than Adrian Peterson. LOL


I'm not hating, just explaining. I'm not a Block fan, nor a Block hater, his Gymkana videos are pretty sweet, I just don't see whay he is worshipped by so many because of them. The End.

[s1ngletracker]

Sure thre is the occasional prodigy that comes along. But most people are good at what they do from practice. So I guess I don't see where that makes them wrong.

I don't agree with this. Most of the people who are at the top of a sport are there because they are genetic, naturally gifted freaks. The people who can just pick up the sport and, from the start, are beating people with a lot more experience. If we could all be at the top with just practice, well, then we wouldn't be at the top, by definition.

We could all likely be close to Block with practice, but we would still be nowhere near Sebastian Loeb. Sure, he practices a lot, but he's also a genetic freak.

[A//// Guy]

People who make a statement in society, fashion etc, are usually the ones who are followed. IE Lady Gaga, etc.

People that go beyond the norm are remembered and its usually by crazy ideas and designs or retarded riced out monster sponsored subis.

[t-revzr]

LOL so true.

Yea I really dont get this thread either.

Who cares who he is or what he does. If you dont like him, dont pay attention to him. I dont like tons of celebrities. You dont see me making posts about Bill Maher or Beyonce everyday.

If you guys are so good at driving, try and beat him at his own game and be a millionaire?

+1 I agree with you Peter!

Oh and I call dibs on the blond e in that pic!

[MATCHBX]

But on the flip side, he should still be capable of acting in a professional manner in a professional setting. It's true, it doesn't really matter how he treats his team, that's between him and them. But when he's treating volunteers and staff at the events that garner his paycheck like shit too, that's when it stops being a "who cares" situation and starts being one where he needs to grow up and learn to control himself.

This is exactly what made up my opinion on him. I never really heard much or paid too much attention to him before my encounters with him. He has some talent, but he needs to learn how to treat others before he can gain any respect from me for anything he can do, whether he's good at it or not.

I used to think of Travis P. like this before until I really got to know him and saw him in action (not just in a car, but how he conducts himself with fans and such). He gained all kinds of respect from me just from his actions, not his talent. There are plenty of others in the rally community that I would say the same about, so I'm not just jumping on the Pastrana bandwagon here. I could start listing, but half of you wouldn't know who they were and I would use up way too much bandwidth.

[Tachyon]

I don't agree with this. Most of the people who are at the top of a sport are there because they are genetic, naturally gifted freaks. The people who can just pick up the sport and, from the start, are beating people with a lot more experience. If we could all be at the top with just practice, well, then we wouldn't be at the top, by definition.

We could all likely be close to Block with practice, but we would still be nowhere near Sebastian Loeb. Sure, he practices a lot, but he's also a genetic freak.

True to a point, but more so of sports that are based around physical ability. Racing is more of a practiced skill than physical feat.

It would be worth noting, some of the reason Loeb has so much success over some of the Finn's is his driving style is fairly atypical of traditional rally canon. Lobe's background is Tarmac. He understands clean racing lines and at an instinctual level. He keeps things neat and tighty, with a minimal of the showyness that people associate with rally. Mix that with 15 years of racing before WRC and it's easy to see how his approach works. I have witnessed faster drivers time and again than Loeb, especially on loose surfaces. But the rate of DNFs from those drivers is their undoing.

Of course unless you grew up racing from a very early age, I suspect it may be very difficult if not impossible to reach the skill level and consistency of a top world-class driver in any format of racing.

BTW, does anybody know if they were using a control tyre in that video? If they were, amazing difference in tyre preservation between drivers.

[Halon]

Example: This would be like if Greg Camarillo for the Vikings made a couple videos of him making crazy ass catches in a controlled environment with weeks, possibly months of practice doing just what he is doing in the video, whoring out Monster/DC shoes gear, and him all the sudden becoming more famous than Adrian Peterson. LOL



So in your example above, would that then mean that Camarillo SUCKS at receiving? He may not be a pro-bowler, but is he still alright or does he flat out SUCK?

[goodhart]

^^ LOL, I think you're looking a bit too hard into my example. It was a bad one at that. I would compare Block more to say.....the Detroit Lions backup Punter as far as comparing success at their respective occupations. :D (Ken Block being a professional race car driver in this example of course)

[s1ngletracker]

True to a point, but more so of sports that are based around physical ability. Racing is more of a practiced skill than physical feat.


I dont know if that is true. There are going to be people who are better than I at physics, no matter what I do. Same goes for video games, throwing a frisbee, and most things, physical or mental, and anything in between. The idea is more than genetic predisposition makes certain things easier, makes you naturally better at certain skills or ways of thinking.

But in a sense I agree, it makes less of a difference than say, sprinting, where physical composition is hugely important.

[DoughtCom]

LMFAO DC made them take the video down.