At an event that celebrates the young, new and radical, it was instead 43-year-old former Indianapolis 500 winner Kenny Brack who emerged with a gold medal Sunday in the Rally Car Racing Super Special while making his X Games debut in Carson. San Francisco Chronicle
Brack, a CART and IRL driver from Sweden who retired from racing after the 2003 season, leaped onto the roof of his car to celebrate his win in the final official event of the action sports showcase.
“It was fantastic to come back to the states this way,” Brack said. “It’s a fun event.”
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After thanking the X Games’ organizers and sponsors, Brack playfully thanked his competitors who “let me win.”
Defending champion and nine-time X Games gold medalist Travis Pastrana took the silver medal after he crashed into a wall towards the end of the first lap and wasn’t able to complete the head-to-head final race.
The crash, along with another wreck and early exit from Moto X Best Trick on Friday night, made for a down week for Pastrana. He has been the X Games’ most successful and dynamic star in recent years.
Though Brack accepted an invitation to compete in the X Games, the 43-year-old said he doesn’t plan on coming out of retirement. Brack occupies his time with his family and a young driver program.
“I’m not looking to get into this full-time again,” Brack said. “It’s a lot easier standing on the sidelines telling somebody how they need to do it than to actually do it yourself so that’s what I enjoy now.” The Associated Press
Pastrana, 25, a freestyle motocross star who gave up that sport for a safer career in rally car racing, hit a wall midway through the two-lap race and could not continue because of front-end damage.
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Pastrana added: “I was kind of handed the races all the way and really wanted to get some racing in, and I finally had a good shot and I hit a wall—not for any other reason [other than] that I was pushing very, very hard.”
“If he wasn’t quite so fast that would not have happened.” Los Angeles Times
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