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Rally car drivers in same dilemma as soccer
Sunday, August 03, 2008
CARSON, Calif. (AP) -- The American drivers of rally car racing face what might be called the soccer problem: slap in the face How to make a harmon s face value beauty sport that much of the world is nuts for catch on in the United States.
"It really never had any momentum in the U.S. whatsoever," said Tanner Foust, the defending gold medalist in the event smily face coloring pages that is a recent addition to the X Games and will be held for the third time Sunday. "Kind of like soccer was 10, 15 years ago." The sport, in which small stock cars weave wildly through street courses, over bumps, dirt gravel and even at times deep throat gag cock face fuck ice and snow.
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But even auto racing fans in the United States often know nothing of its existence.
"It's an ultimately cool sport," Foust said, not comprehending why the sport with its flash and speed has not caught on. "It's probably like drag girl fart in face racing is in England. It's one of those things where there's a cultural gap."
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The sport had a heady debut two years ago when Travis Pastrana, who had already wowed those X Games with two gold medals and an unprecedented double-backflip on a motorcycle, was the surprise winner of the event over European rally giant Colin McRae, who rolled his car but still finished the race.
"The X Games is one of those formats where you can take a sport that's in the shadows in the U.S. and put a spotlight on it in away that you couldn't temporary face lift at home possibly have imagined," Foust said. "Other action sports sponsors have found their brake flange to hub face way into this sport."
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Pastrana's teammate Ken Block, who finished second to Foust last year, had been a rally car fan since he saw it on man with on face shone "Wide World of Sports" as a kid.
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Block yanked the wheel one way and another, virtually never holding it straight.
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"I never realized that there was a championship here in the states," he said. "It had never been on my radar."
Foust said that kind of oblivion is not uncommon.
"Rally racing has been going full seasons for decades and decades in the U.S., for 30, 40 plus years. Some of my driving heroes like funny face clip art Rod Millen could compete in rally racing here in the U.S. There were some factory teams back then ... but those sort of went away. Subaru has serif type face been kicking that back in recently, and of course X afternoon face lift Games has added a big boost."
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