2009 X Games Rally Competition.

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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:


Dave Mirra


Travis Pastrana







Ford:





Mitsubishi:




















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.