Deegan, Foust form new rally car team
July 23, 2010
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP)—Brian Deegan, the high-flying freestyle motocrossstar who founded the Metal Mulisha, is joining Tanner Foust on the new Rockstaretnies rally car racing team.
They will drive Ford Fiesta rally cars in the X Games next week, competingin Rally Car Racing and SuperRally.
Deegan has been racing trucks in the Lucas Oil off-road series and made hisdebut in X Games rally car racing last year, finishing fourth despite mechanicaltroubles. He also plans to get into NASCAR.
The 10-time X Games medalist says moving more into four-wheel racing issafer than flipping dirt bikes, although he’ll never fully give that up.
Foust is the 2007 X Games Rally Car Racing gold medalist and a movie stuntdriver.