With the X-Games coming up this weekend, drivers are practicing all over Southern California in preparation. Unlike a skateboard, cars need to be thoroughly run-in before competition, and sometimes things break at the last minute. So, thorough practice sessions are necessary, and I just happen to be one of the lucky few that BF Goodrich invited to Irwindale Speedway (I mean a rock quarry down the street from Irwindale Speedway) to check out Samuel Hubinette and Andrew Comrie-Picard giving their matching Mitsubishi Evo’s a real thrashing. Formula Drift Champion Hubinette, in the newer Evo X, was extremely excited about this weekend’s competition, saying, “Driving a rally car, even though it’s new for me, feels very natural. Coming from drifting, ice racing in Sweden, and stunt driving, Rally is a natural extension of my abilities, and it’s just really, really fun. The jump they are building will be the biggest I’ve ever done by far, but as long as you keep your speed right, it’s one of the easier parts of the course.”
Comrie-Picard, known simply as ACP by, well, pretty much everyone, was looking great, hustling his Evo IX around the short course and scaring the crap out of any journalist willing to hop in the passenger seat.
Mega-Rally-Gallery after the jump!
