If someone were to say the word 'rallycross' to you, you'd probably think of muddy, wet circuits, rear-wheel-drive Escorts or, if you are a little younger, Group B refugee monsters driven by irascible Norwegians.
What you almost certainly would not think of is sunshine, the streets of Los Angeles and the effortlessly cool (if a little self-conscious) X Games.
But that is where rallycross shone last weekend, with X Games 'vets' such as Tanner Foust, Travis Pastrana and Brian Deegan getting their mettle tested against some tough competition from the 'Old World'. This came in the form of double World Rally Champion Marcus Gronholm, and European rallycross superstar Liam Doran.
In recent years rallycross, which was once such a captivating spectacle, has been looking a bit tired, so could a spot of X Games glamour herald a revival for one of the most potentially exciting forms of motorsport? Have a look at the video below and decide for yourself...
But while it's nice to see our cousins across the pond embracing rallycross (even if they did call it SuperRally in 2010), we just hope they remember who invented it, back on a winter's Saturday in February 1967 at Lydden Hill in Kent...
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