X Games 16 Drivers on Tech House & Speed Radio
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
 Tech House & Speed, the only weekly webcast with exclusive content from the world of sports car racing, tonight pays tribute to X Games 16 in Los Angeles this weekend. The Rally Car Racing and new Super Rally competition at X Games is one of the hottest competitions at the Action Sports Expo.
But, in addition to the X Games salute, Tech House & Speed will visit with ALMS Lime Rock winner Klaus Graf from his home in Germany. Graf is climbing into a title shot with ALMS points leaders David Brabham and Simon Pagenaud of Highcroft Racing. The win at Lime Rock moved Graf to within seven points of the Highcroft pair tied at the top of the standings.
Graf talks about his chances for the championship and his growing relationship with Greg Pickett, owner of the Cytosport Muscle Milk Porsche RS Spyder team that earned its first overall ALMS win at Lime Rock.
It’s the X Games content that sets this show apart, however. The second segment tonight is defending Rally Car Racing gold medalist Kenny Brack, the 1999 Indy 500 winner, who is officially retired from racing but returns for special one-off events such as X Games. Brack is methodical in his preparation for the Rally Car Racing competition and the new Super Rally competition that will take place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Friday and Saturday.
Brack returns in the Ford Fiesta he drove to the gold medal last year.
Also tonight, two-time Formula Drift champion Sam Hubinette returns to the Tech House & Speed roving studio as he prepares for his X Games debut in Super Rally competition. Hubinette is one of the best drifters in the world but he cut his racing teeth on rallycross competition which is the European version of X Games Super Rally. So this isn’t new for Hubinette, it’s actually a return to his roots and he’s look forward to the opportunity.
With Hubinette is his teammate and friend Andrew Comrie-Picard, the 2009 North American Rally Champion who added drifting to his resume this season in Formula Drift. ACP is helping Hubinette get ready for X Games by preparing one of his Mitsubishi Evo 10s, the one he used to win his 2009 championship, to put Sam in the middle of the action.
“He’s helped me make the transition to drifting,” ACP said. “And now I get the chance to help him get back into a rally car but watching him this morning he doesn’t need much help at all,” ACP added.
Finally, Tech House & Speed visits with Action Sports legend Brian Deegan, founder of the iconic Metal Mulisha brand. Deegan will be one of four Ford Fiesta drivers in X Games rally competition. And to help in the preparation of the cars, Deegan built a scale replica of the X Games track in his front yard outside Temecula, CA, for testing and development of the Ford team cars.
The Deegan/Metal Mulisha compound includes an off-road shop, a foam pit, supercross track and freestyle motocross facility plus more so the rally/off-road practice track in the front yard was hardly out of the ordinary!
“Brian knows how to live,” said Brack, a teammate of Deegan’s on the Ford team, who’s building his own “compound” or home in London. “But I’d have to talk to the Queen to building something like this in London,” Brack said with a laugh.
“It’s easier to bring everyone to me than for me to spend so much time away from my family,” Deegan said. The only time he has to leave is to practice his stock car racing. “I don’t have a track yet. Even the driveway is gravel,” Deegan added.
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