2009 X Games Rally Competition.

[EJ25RUN]

First of all, let me say that this in no way is a real rally. More of a Rallycross event with just two cars.

A real rally consists of 3 days of driving, 15-20 special stages, and the winning driver would have covered over 200+ miles and accounted close to ten hours worth of driving time.

With that said, because Rally America gets hardly any coverage whatsoever, this is the closest thing we get to an actual rally competition. (Until Discovery HD finally gives us the WRC since SpeedTV = Nascar TV.

Here's some pics of the 2009 competitors.

Ken Block:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/subarufordxgames002.jpg

Dave Mirra
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/subarufordxgames004.jpg

Travis Pastrana
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/subarufordxgames005.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/subarufordxgames006.jpg
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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/subarufordxgames031.jpg


Ford:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/subarufordxgames012.jpg
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/subarufordxgames017.jpg
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/subarufordxgames021.jpg

Mitsubishi:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/subarufordxgames027.jpg













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BTW: To those of you who care about the real rallying: Hirvonen leads day 1 at Rally Finland but Seb is close...real close.

Leading positions after SS9:

Pos Driver Car Time/Gap
1. Mikko Hirvonen Ford 1h02m51.4s
2. Sebastien Loeb Citroen + 4.0s
3. Dani Sordo Citroen + 20.3s
4. Jari-Matti Latvala Ford + 29.5s
5. Matti Rantanen Ford + 1m12.7s
6. Henning Solberg Ford + 1m15.8s
7. Mads Ostberg Subaru + 1m35.6s
8. Jari Ketomaa Subaru + 1m37.0s
9. Sebastien Ogier Citroen + 2m13.2s
10. Matthew Wilson Ford + 2m17.1s

Kimi Raikkonen finished S9 in 17th overall in his S2000 class Fiat Abarth Grande Punto. His time was faster than S2000 regular Anton Alen.

[90_ACCORD]

cool pics. i really wish they would show wrc on US tv. although i get my fill on rallylive.com

[EJ25RUN]

cool pics. i really wish they would show wrc on US tv. although i get my fill on rallylive.com

http://www.importatlanta.com/forums/showthread.php?t=244299

[EJ25RUN]

Good job Kenny Brack. I guess being Swedish he knew how to hold a car sideways. Saying that, he won that little competition with precision driving instead of heavy sliding.

[NewGen33]

I hate I missed it. Tell me how are things looking for Audi I haven't really heard anything about them rally wise recently.

[Drummerboy]

i felt bad for deegan. Apparently a "hose" came off his turbo, i guess thats a coupling. and they never got it fixed.

Then pastrana kinda got robbed. Yes, it was his own fault, but i wish the final would have been more exciting.

[EJ25RUN]

I hate I missed it. Tell me how are things looking for Audi I haven't really heard anything about them rally wise recently.

Um....Audi hasn't rallyed since 1987 and the last event an Audi won was the 1987 Safari rally. They had the priveteers doing rally cross into the early 90's with the cars left over from Group B but that was it.

They proved 4wd in rally competition and went to compete in America in the SCCA Trans Am in 1988, IMSA GTO in 1989, DTM in 1990-1992, and Super Touring in 1993-1997.

Every time.....4wd would be banned.

(BTW...i did not edit your post, i pressed edit instead of quote when i wrote this the first time. That is why you see it at the bottum)

[slostang]

i felt bad for deegan. Apparently a "hose" came off his turbo, i guess thats a coupling. and they never got it fixed.

Then pastrana kinda got robbed. Yes, it was his own fault, but i wish the final would have been more exciting.

or an actual coolant and or oil hose feeding the turbo...

[dazn]

Good job Kenny Brack. I guess being Swedish he knew how to hold a car sideways. Saying that, he won that little competition with precision driving instead of heavy sliding.


this years contest just makes me hate ken block and tanner foust even more.
the only real race car driver won the race.

[murderrsiren]

it'd be nice if this would be on discovery theatre instead of the damn auction all the time.

[©hris]

saw this for the first time at CHucks house the other day.... i thought it was pretty bad ass! id love to do it