Ken Block

After selling his ownership of DC Shoes, Block shifted his business focus to Hoonigan Industries, an apparel brand for auto enthusiasts.

His first event of the rallying season was Sno*Drift, where he ended up finishing seventh overall and fifth in the Group N class.

[7] During the 2005 season, Block had five top five finishes and placed third overall in the Group A class and fourth overall in the Rally America National Championship.

[8] In 2006, Block, along with his DC rally teammate Travis Pastrana, signed a new sponsorship deal with Subaru.

[6] With the new rally season, Block also got a brand-new Vermont SportsCar prepped 2006 Subaru WRX STi.

[6] In 2007, Block competed in the X Games XIII rally event, where he placed second overall and won a silver medal.

[10] Block and his co-driver were unable to get any championship points at the event due to not having a Canadian competition license.

[11] In the X Games XIV rally competition, Block finished tied for third place with Dave Mirra.

In the Lake Superior Performance Rally (LSPR) stage, Block finished over one minute ahead of his next closest competitor and secured the second overall position.

[15] For 2010, Block ended his partnership with Subaru, and joined Ford to compete part-time at the World Rally Championship for Monster World Rally Team, where he drove a Ford Focus RS WRC 08 together with long time co-driver Alex Gelsomino.

Also, he ran his sixth season of the Rally America Championship in an open class Ford Fiesta, as well as his fifth X Games.

[17] On March 23, Block and his co-driver Alex Gelsomino were taken to hospital, having rolled their Ford Fiesta RS WRC during the shakedown stage of the 2011 Rally de Portugal in Faro, Portugal[18] A representative of the Monster World Rally team later stated that both men were fine.

[27] Block returned full-time for the 2018 Americas Rallycross Championship, where he claimed two podiums and ranked fourth in points.

In 2010, Block took the feature car from the previous episode (a Reliant Robin) for a lap of the Top Gear test track.

On August 16, 2011, the fourth Gymkhana video, The Hollywood Megamercial was released on YouTube, featuring Block driving around the Universal Studios backlot.

Block is featured as a driver in 2009's Colin McRae: Dirt 2, along with his Subaru Rally Team USA Impreza.

His Hoonigan/Monster Ford Fiesta appears extensively in 2012's Dirt: Showdown, and his trademark gymkhana style of driving is featured at the Head-to-Head and Trick Rush race modes as well as the Freestyle section.

[76] In 2023, a racing styled car with the name "Hoon" and number 43 was added to version 2 of CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077.

[77] In November 2023, CSR Racing 2 released an update which added a #KB43VER event featuring a playable 1965 Ford Mustang GT Hoonicorn V1 vehicle.

Block also appeared four times on the BBC motoring show Top Gear, being interviewed by presenter James May in 2009,[82] before making a brief appearance in 2010 crashing a Reliant Robin, returning in 2016 where he drifted his Hoonicorn around the empty streets of London with Matt LeBlanc,[82] and portraying a police officer chasing LeBlanc, Chris Harris and Rory Reid in 2018.

[84] His daughter Lia (born October 1, 2006) began competing in the American Rally Association in 2022, winning the O2WD Driver's Championship the following year at age 16, before the end of season series, enabling her to enter the final race with her father's legendary Ford Escort RS Cosworth.

The Wasatch County sheriff's department reported that Block had been riding in the Mill Hollow area when his snowmobile upended on a steep slope and landed on top of him.

Travis Pastrana and Colin McRae with Ken Block in 2007
Block testing Ford Fiesta for the 2010 Rally America season
Participation in 2014 Rally Catalunya