Rockstar Energy Drink Backs Rally Champion Tanner Foust at 2006 X Games Rally

For immediate release

 

July 25, 2006

 

Rockstar Energy Drink Backs Rally Champion Tanner Foust at

2006 X Games Rally Competition

 

Las Vegas, Nevada - July 25, 2006 --Rockstar Energy Drink enters the world's
most exciting motorsport with their sponsorship of champion U.S. rally
driver, Tanner Foust, at the historic debut of rally as the first
four-wheeled motorsport at the 2006 Summer X Games. 

 

This unprecedented event will be the focus of the 2006 Summer X Games, the
world's most watched action sports competition.  The X Games features top
athletes competing in numerous extreme sport disciplines including
skateboarding, BMX, Supermoto and Freestyle Motocross. 

 

Tanner Foust is the 2005 Rally America PGT National Champion, a leading
drift racer in the U.S. Formula D series, and a top stunt driver with recent
roles in Fast and Furious:Tokyo Drift and The Dukes of Hazzard.

 
Foust and his co-driver, Scott Crouch, are title sponsored by Rockstar
Energy Drink. Foust will be competing in the invite-only special format
rally at the 2006 Summer X Games from August 2-5. Wednesday, August 2, the
drivers will compete on rally stages in the mountains outside of Los
Angeles. Saturday, August 5, they will compete on a "Super Special" stage at
The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., in front of a live crowd. The
competition, including the previously filmed mountain stage, will be aired
nationally on ABC Sports on Saturday August 5.  Between stages, teams will
be practicing and conducting VIP media rides at The Home Depot Center on
August 3-4.

The Rockstar Energy Drink race car is a Subaru of America-backed Impreza WRX
STi prepared by Vermont SportsCar. Foust will pit alongside Subaru Rally
Team USA entries of Travis Pastrana, Ken Block, and WRC rally legend Colin
McRae. 

 

Tanner's Rockstar Energy Drink X Games Rally entry is sponsored by Subaru of
America, BFGoodrich Tires, Flatiron Tuning, and Vermont SportsCar.

 

Rockstar Energy Drink also sponsors a Formula D Drift Team, Suzuki
Supercross Team. And will have several other sponsored athletes at the
Summer X Games in various disciplines including skate legend Bucky Lasek.

 

For more information contact:    Victor Carrillo

         The ID Agency

         310.593.3100

         victor@theidagency.com

 

About Rockstar Energy Drink

 

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