By now just about every gearhead with access to the Internet is familiar with rally driver Ken Block’s series of Gymkhana videos and the crazy builds they do for some of them, but this is on a completely different level. Actually, it’s on 1/18th of the level. You see, the guys at HPI Racing put their own spin on Ken Block’s Gymkhana 6 using an RC car version of Block’s rally Fiesta and a 1/18th scaled track, and the results are inspiring.
After watching about four seconds of this you’ll be wondering why you didn’t think of it first. The track is replete with cues from Block’s videos, like the bulldozers that create archways for the car to drift under by propping themselves up via the front and rear blades, objects that are lined up in a curve for the car to smack while gliding along in opposite lock, and a track layout made with barriers forged from red and white construction paper.
And of course, this being a video sponsored by GoPro, there’s no shortage of camera angles to catch all the action from – we even get an hood cam view when the RC screams through shoe boxes miniature shipping containers and does some of Block’s signature donut-around-a-moving-object stuff while some baller jams play in the background.
We’re digging the whole thing. But you know what’s missing? The jumps! Where are the jumps?! Maybe they’re saving them for RC Gymkhana 2. Make sure you stick around for the end though – that’s when the carnage starts.