Less than 24 hours after making freestyle moto history with a double backflip, Travis Pastrana and co-driver Christian Edstrom won the debut X Games Rally Car Racing event. But rally legend Colin McCrae did his best to steal Pastrana's thunder on the final turn of the final at The Home Depot Center.
McCrae, who entered Saturday's "Super Special" ahead of Pastrana by 0.5 seconds overall, appeared to be headed for the gold as he re-entered the stadium for the final push to the finish line.
That's when the car got loose on McCrae and co-driver Nicky Grist and rolled over. True to his reputation as a rally car racing legend, McCrae didn't miss a beat, kept his foot on the pedal, and when the car landed back on its tires gunned to a silver medal finish -- missing gold by just 0.52 seconds.
Ken Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino drove away with the bronze .
Even Pastrana, who also took gold on Friday night in Moto X Best Trick, had praise for McCrae following the competition.
"It's an honor to be next to Colin McCrae," said Pastrana. "I'm very surprised to have won the first X Games rally car event. No words can describe it. It's been the best week of my life. I'm so happy that rally racing has a presence in the X Games."
McCrae, disappointed the gold got away from him, was still excited about Rally Car Racing's debut at X Games 12.
"It's not the way I wanted to finish," said McCrae, "But it was the best show we could possibly put on here at X Games. I'm so happy to get the first X Games rally racing silver medal."
Block added, "It's exciting to take the first X Games bronze and to be racing in the presence of Travis Pastrana and Colin McCrae."
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