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Professional rally driver Ken Block died in a snowmobile accident in Utah on Monday.

He was 55 years old.

Earlier today we ran our " video of the week" and it was about Travis Pastrana's recent rip-roaring run across Florida -- all tailor-made for YouTube.

Gymkhana craziness is always fun to watch, and this year's edition sees Travis Pastrana going nuts in Florida.

Ken Block is a man of many talents, many of which have nothing to do with driving. But he’s still best known for showboating from behind the wheel in the highly entertaining and well-produced Gymkhana video series. Here, Kenneth and the Hoonigan team choose a visually engaging locale and creatively rips up the pavement in some of the coolest custom-built rally cars ever to grace the screen.

Due to Block’s partnership with Ford, the majority of those cars wore the Blue Oval. But he’s since entered into a new professional marriage with Audi where he’s supposed to help push the brand’s all-electric agenda. The unification has apparently yielded its first mechanical offspring, with the insane-looking Audi S1 e-tron Quattro Hoonitron having debuted on Wednesday. Predictably electric, the vehicle is heavily inspired by the Group B legend that shares the parts of the name that don’t utilize the word tron.

A few days ago, Jack Baruth reminded us that an autocross event organized by Gymkhana GRID was cancelled, because a company by the name of DC Shoes claimed the rights to the word Gymkhana. If I would have been in Gymkhana GRID’s, well, shoes, I would have told DC Shoes to pound sand. What happened?