According to a tweet by Alyssa Roenigk who is an ESPN Senior Writer for Action Sports.  Snowboard/Skateboard double threat Shaun White AKA ”The Flying Tomato” has signed a deal with BF Goodrich to compete in Rally Racing in a car built by Vermont Sports Car which further suggests that if this is true Shaun White’s other partner in this deal will be Subaru.  This makes a whole lot of sense since Travis Pastrana parted ways with Suby a few months ago to compete in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.  With Pastrana going in circles (literally) Subaru needs another action sports hero who is just as popular as Pastrana to stay a favorite among the X Games skater/snowboarder demographic. 

Although, I should tell you that so far there is no official confirmation from White’s camp, Vermont Sports Car, Subaru, or any rally racing sanctioning body on this matter.  Which means despite this move theoretically making a whole lot of sense, it could all just be talk.  If we find out any new information we’ll let you know!

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UPDATE: Alyssa Roenigk released a full article with the details of this story.  According to the article Shaun’s camp is currently downplaying any notion that he is looking to enter rally racing professionaly.  Shaun’s agent was quoted in the article as saying “Ninety nine percent no. The goal is not to compete, but if he takes to rally like a fish to water, who knows?”  Shaun’s camp is stating that the deal with BF Goodrich is for a series of commercials featuring White practicing drifting and driving at an abandoned airport in Orange County (AKA El Toro, maybe the Top Gear USA track?).  If Shaun does decide to go full-on into rally racing it could be a steep learning curve for him.  Shaun himself admitted during the BF Goodrich announcement that “My brother sold me out and told BFGoodrich I couldn’t drive stick.”

It looks like Shaun and his agent would like us to believe that any professional or competition-focused effort in rally by Shaun is highly unlikely at this point.  I guess we will just have to keep our eye on this to be sure of that.

UPDATE 2: It looks like BF Goodrich has launched a Shaun White micro-site that has several videos of his “driver’s training” one of which has Formula Drift driver Sam Hubinette showing Shaun how to drift in his Dodge Viper!

[Source: ESPN]

It doesn’t take a genius to assume that after the huge success of his first two Gymkhana videos Ken Block would be inclined to make a third.  Especially now that he has a new ride in a rally spec Ford Fiesta.  This time around Mr. Block decided to launch a blog specifically centered on the creation of the next Gymkhana video.  He’s also decided to hold a contest in which the grand prize winner will get to visit the set of Gymkhana 3 and get a ride along in Block’s Gymkhana Ford Fiesta.  The details are in the video below.

What do you do for fun when you’re a the co-founder of DC Shoes and a successful rally car driver? If your name is Ken Block you have your crew build you a 530HP STi and turn an abandoned air field into one giant gymkhana course.  Oh you also get a professional film crew to direct and cut a short flick of the entire thing and give it to 0-60 mag to put it on the internet.  The video you are about to watch will blow your mind…no foolin’…

Our buddies at RiceBoyTV got bored one day and decided to stalk down DC Shoes Co-Founder and Subaru rally driver Ken Block at his job.  To my surprize not only did Ken not kick them out but he even gave them a guided tour!  Who would’ve thought?  I wonder if he hooked up Nads with free kicks…hmm..