Summer X Games 16 Rally 2010

[bradk12fan]

Drivers from the Rally America National Rally Championship series will once again be invited to compete in ESPN’s Summer X Games 16 competition, the leading action sports event broadcast live on ESPN.

Rally America, Inc. will be the sport organizer for the X Games 16 Rally Car Racing event. The selection criteria for the twelve athletes receiving an invitation for Rally Car Racing at X Games 16 is as follows:

1. The three Rally Car medalists from X Games 15; Kenny Brack, Travis Pastrana, and Tanner Foust.

2. The top four overall Rally America National Championship drivers not otherwise invited as of June 8, 2010.

3. Five “At Large” entries yet to be determined. “At Large” entries may or may not be competitors currently active in the Rally America National Championship.

If a driver invited using criteria 1 or 2 declines his invitation, the invitation will become “At Large”. Criteria 2 will not automatically be extended beyond the 4th driver not otherwise invited. Although SP and 2WD National championship points leaders as of June 8, 2010 are not automatically invited unless they meet criteria 2, they will be strongly considered by the selection committee.

This summer’s X Games 16 event location and dates, and a television schedule will be announced in the near future by ESPN.

[bradk12fan]

X Games adds Super Rally to Rally events:

The ESPN X Games are coming to the LA Coliseum July 29 to August 1, and for the first time, SuperRally will be coming with them. Americans might know SuperRally as the Harley Davidson events, but it's actually a renaming of the European sport of RallyCross, which looks for all the world like motocross but with cars.

The field begins with 12 drivers who will do time trial runs to decide the grids for three elimination races. According to ESPN, "The winner of the Elimination heats and the highest seeded driver who has not yet advanced will compete in a four-lap last chance qualifier (LCQ). The winner of the LCQ will join the winners of the Elimination heat races in the five-lap final race."

We're not quite sure how that's going to work, but we're sure there'll be a lot of wheelspin, jumps and flying dirt, which is really what this is all about anyway. Tickets for the X Games go on sale June 24.

[bradk12fan]

X Games 16 will be July 29th - August 1st 2010

[bradk12fan]

X Games 16 starts next week on Thursday, July 29th

[Oldtony]

RallyCross was very big as a TV event in the early 70s. Peter Brock and Colin Bond (a couple of youngsters on the way up) finally became so dominant in a couple of very strong roll cages with a bit of Torana XU1 tacked on, that they developed hero status.
Don't know if there are asny film clips still around but as I recall they were certainly spectacular.

[Joel]

RallyCross was very big as a TV event in the early 70s. Peter Brock and Colin Bond (a couple of youngsters on the way up) finally became so dominant in a couple of very strong roll cages with a bit of Torana XU1 tacked on, that they developed hero status.
Don't know if there are asny film clips still around but as I recall they were certainly spectacular.

I haven't seen videos but the pictures certainly are spectacular aswell.

[bradk12fan]

Here's an espn.com preview article on the introduction of Super Rally to X Games 16:

http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/summer/2010/news/story?page=x-games-16-introducing-superrally

SuperRally is going to look a lot like rallycross, a sport that's been big in Europe since its debut in the U.K. in the 1960s. And it rocks. And rolls. And flips. And crashes. A lot.

At X Games, we'll see a short course through the Los Angeles Coliseum, and cars will grid up four at a time. Expect that the big gap jump will be in the joker lap. I was co-driving the car that flipped end over end at X Games 14, and we were the only ones on the jump at the time. I can only imagine what it's going to be like when a couple of guys are gunning for it at the same time ... let's just say I hope they don't try to swap places midair. - Tanner Foust

[bradk12fan]

And here's the schedule for all 4 days of X Games 16:

http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/summer/2010/news/story?page=x-games-16-schedule-thurs

[bradk12fan]

X Games 16 got under way earlier today with the elimination rounds of the BMX Street Competition, tonight is the Moto X Freestyle, Moto X Super X, and the Skateboard Big Air Ramp

[bradk12fan]

And Travis Pastrana wins Gold in Moto X Freestyle, and does a double back flip in celebration.

Also, Australian Jake Brown, who had a horrifying 50 foot fall in 2007, at X Games 13 takes home the Gold for the 2nd year in a row in the Skateboard Big Air Ramp competition.

Here's Jake Brown's X Games 13 crash:

[Joel]

The mega ramp is ridiculous, I can''t imagine standing at the top getting ready to go down, going down my driveway was bad enough as a kid.