To honor the memory of driver Ken Block, players gathered on the GTA 5 (Grand Theft Auto Online) multiplayer for one last lap. Here is the result in video.
The week began with the tragic death of Ken Block, a motorsports legend, at the age of 55. A new tribute was paid to him in GTA 5.
Ken Block immortalized in GTA 5 multiplayer
Ken Block will have left his mark, literally and figuratively, in motorsport by having been THE legend of drifting. A discipline in its own right where the driver must control his racing car to make it slide on the track. For example, he had burned the asphalt of San Francisco in 2012 driving a Ford Focus. An icon who was not only famous on the circuits.
Because of his fame and his love for cars, he participated in the biggest video game licenses that exist such as Forza Horizon, Need For Speed or DiRT. Several studios took to Twitter to express their sadness like Playground Games (Forza Horizon) “Devastating news. Ken Block was a legend in motorsport and he will be sorely missed. Our deepest condolences to his family and the Hoonigans team”or Polyphony Digital (Gran Turismo 7) “Our sport lost a great man today. Ken was a visionary and a true legend who inspired so many of us. Rest in peace, Ken! ».
Grand Theft Auto Online community, multiplayer GTA 5, reacted otherwise with a video from Reddit user xz_VyRus. He and his auto meeting group have assembled cars in the colors of Ken Block’s emblematic cars like the AWD Mustang Hoonicorn or the F-150 Hoonitruck.
