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Ken Block: Marketing visionary, action sports icon, motorsports star

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There's a famous image of rally driver Ken Block that is breathtaking for both its beauty and its sense of danger.

The image is ultra-wide, 2-by-6 feet when printed, the result of 25 photos stitched together to form one frame. In it, Block's helmet is barely visible behind the wheel of a 1,400-horsepower, methanol-fueled 1965 Ford Mustang as he navigates one of the most treacherous corners of Colorado's famed Pikes Peak hill climb. Block has taken the corner so fast and so wide that his front tires are smoking, while his back tires are kissing the mountain's edge and tossing a plume of orange dirt and rocks.