X Games 12 - Rally

[Marc]

If you missed the show there it is the full video of the event

http://www.guba.com/watch/3000012896
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X Games 12 - Rally

http://www.rally-america.com/event.x...?section=venue

X GAMES WELCOMES RALLY:

X Games 12 is primed and ready to get the grandest Action Sports competition of the year underway. This year, X Games is bringing Rally Car Racing to the masses as the newest sport to be added to X Games 12. Rally Car Racing will take place live on Saturday, Aug. 5 at The Home Depot Center and will be televised live on ABC at 5 pm EST. Elite drivers such as Colin McRae, Ken Block and Travis Pastrana, to name a few, will be vying for the title.

Rally Car Racing is a great fit for the X Games as this sport is like no other motorsport. X Games 12 has announced that Rally Car Racing drivers and co-drivers will be racing for Gold, Silver and Bronze medals as well as a prize purse of $110,000. The twelve Rally Cars participating in the first Rally Car Racing event will all be awarded prize money.

DRIVERS TO WATCH:

Travis Pastrana, Ken Block, Colin Mcrae and Tanner Foust are just a few of the Rally America superstars who will be competing in X Games 12.

X GAMES ENTRANTS:
( Driver / Co-Driver )

Kenny Bartram / Dennis Hotson
Ken Block / Alex Gelsomino
Paul Choiniere / Jeff Becker
Andrew Comrie-Picard / Marc Goldfarb
Tanner Foust / Scott Crouch
Matt Iorio / Ole Holter
Colin McRae / Nicky Grist
Rhys Millen / Garry Cowan
Lauchlin O'Sullivan / Scott Putnam
Travis Pastrana / Christian Edstrom
Andrew Pinker / Robbie Durant - Update 7/31 Pinker is droping out of X Games due to fundings
Patrick Richard / Nathalie Richard
Doug Shepherd / Pete Gladysz
Jon Nichols / Carl Schenk

RALLY COMPETITION SCHEDULE:
All times listed are Pacific Time (PT).

Thursday, August 3, 2006:
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Rally Car Practice Home Depot Center

Friday, August 4, 2006:
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Rally Car Racing Practice Home Depot Center

Saturday, August 5, 2006:
2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Rally Car Racing Home Depot Center

*Schedule subject to change. Please visit www.espneventmedia.com
for the most updated schedule.


THE HOME DEPOT CENTER :

5850 feet of racetrack will take over the grounds of the L.A. soccer stadium. Parking lots and playing field will host the rally event's tortuous course of asphalt and dirt.

X Games Rally Teams profiles:

http://www.rally-america.com/xgames_teams.php

For more information visit:
http://www.rally-america.com/event.x...?section=venue
http://www.rally-america.com
http://www.specialstage.com
http://expn.go.com/expn/preview
http://www.subaru.com/sub/misc/2006/rallyx/index.html - Get a FREE general admission to the event!

one more thing Rally America rocks! go STPR![/img]

[WheatKing]

Awesome.. guess i know where i'll be at 5pm on sat!.. watchin the TV..

[Buba]

I guess I haven't watched Rally in a looong time... The only guy I know is obviously McRae... Or is the rest pretty unknown??

[bartboy9891]

this was posted a few days ago

http://forum.finalgear.com/viewtopic...ighlight=rally

[Marc]

I wanted to give more information so its easier for other people.

[matt_shaw]

Rhys Millen is racing?


What doesn't this guy do.

[bartboy9891]

Originally Posted by Marc

I wanted to give more information so its easier for other people.

Just pointing out that you can post this info in the other thread. Its not a true repost though

[Marc]

There also giving out FREE admission to the event at this website http://www.subaru.com/sub/misc/2006/...aler_list.html

[Marc]

X Games 12 Rally start order:

Car 18, Iorio / Holter
Car 43, Block / Gelsomino
Car 7, McRae / Grist
Car 90, O'Sullivan / Putnam
Car 74, Lagemann / Fennell
Car 13, Comrie-Picard / Goldfarb
Car 1, Richard / Richard
Car 33, Millen / Sircombe
Car 429, Foust / Crouch
Car 103, Gubelmann / Krolikowski
Car 11, Choiniere / Becker
Car 199, Pastrana / Edstrom
Car 52, Shepherd / Gladysz
Car 97, Nichols / Schenk
Car 690, Bartram / Hotson

[jayjaya29]

Definitely watching!!!

[Marc]

LIVE UPDATES - http://www.rally-america.com/Update/day/day_index.html

Wed 02-Aug-06 15:21

It has been an exciting first day of the inaugural X Games Rally. The final scores are in and nobody could have predicted this finish! After gaining five seconds on Car 199, Pastrana / Edstrom on Special Stage 7 and tying them on Special Stage 8, Car 7, McRae / Grist moved into first place by a half a second at the end of the day. Additionally, 3rd and 4th place, held by Car 43, Block / Gelsomino and Car 90, O'Sullivan / Putnam, has closed up to less than a 5 second gap. With the true scores being divided by 5 (as previously explained), the differences are negligible - you will have to wait until Saturday's Super Special to know the winner!

The top 5 are as follows:

Car 7, McRae / Grist true score 50:28.2; divided - 10:05.6
Car 199, Pastrana / Edstrom true score 50:28.7; divided - 10:05.7
Car 43, Block / Gelsomino true score 51:37.2; divided - 10:19.4
Car 90, O'Sullivan / Putnam true score 51:42.1; divided - 10:20.4
Car 11, Choiniere / Becker true score 51:59.1; divided - 10:23.8

Currently, the teams are packing up and heading to the Home Depot Center in preparation for the practice sessions that will occur tomorrow and Thursday. We will post as needed throughout the week.

Saturday's Super Special at the Home Depot Center will begin at 2 PM PDT and will be broadcast live on ESPN and ABC. We will be posting during the Super Special on Saturday, as we do at all events, so please tune in.

[matt_shaw]

holy shit these commentators are pissing me off. they sound like they know nothing about rallying. one guy keeps using the word apex as a verb, it's really annoying.

[ESPNSTI]

Paul Page? Yeah, that guy is always annoying, not just with this.

[matt_shaw]

Travis Pastrana just won by like less then one second, but HUGE HUGE HUGE props to Colin Mcrae. Colin roles his car a few second to the finish and just keeps driving like nothing happened! IT WAS CRAZY!!!!

[ESPNSTI]

Hat's off for Travis Pastrana, I'm impressed.

[jayjaya29]

Originally Posted by ESPNSTI

Hat's off for Travis Pastrana, I'm impressed.

Yeah, me too, I didn't think that he would be this good to be honest.

Overall it was an okay event, the last course was definitely the best. The Commentators SUCKED BIG TIME...but it was alright. Not bad for the first time in the X-Games, I enjoyed it.

[matt_shaw]

Yeah me too! He wins gold in motox by doing the first double backflip and then wins gold in rally racing by beating one of the most succesful rally drivers of all time. Can it get any better?


ps: jayjay29 what did you think of colin's flip? haha

[jayjaya29]

Originally Posted by matt_shaw

Yeah me too! He wins gold in motox by doing the first double backflip and then wins gold in rally racing by beating one of the most succesful rally drivers of all time. Can it get any better?

Yeah, if he gets gold in his other 2 events....I have major respect for this guy.

[dophoto]

Ok i got up @ 5am to watch it! And did anyone record the whole rallying segment, and the final stage???

But Colin was going great until the roll. He was up by 1-1.5secs, but landed a bit too short, with too much angle and rolled.

thx
dave

[Marc]

It was a awesome event, especially the roll in the last segment by Colin. Now thats rallying.