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Being Ken Block

By Constatine Papanicolaou (video), Micah Abrams (story)
ESPN Action Sports

Friday, July 17, 2009

In November of last year, just after his 41st birthday, Ken Block was driving through the backwoods of Bancroft, Ontario. Unfazed by the snow-covered pine trees whipping past at more than 100 mph, or the snow-covered roads under his wheels, he drove the way he's most comfortable driving: flat-out. But when his co-driver Alex Gelsomino spotted Antoine L'Estage off the road, fixing a flat tire, the whole calculus of the Rally of the Tall Pines changed. Rally, after all, is a motorsport in which yo ...

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