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" The grid is a mishmash of YouTube generation athletes. Ken Block is there, of course, and Tanner Foust as well. Foust is looking for his second gold medal of the weekend after winning Saturday&amp;#039;s Gymkhana Grid event. Young Thomas Heikkinen, who spectacularly packed up his car at last year&amp;#039;s X Games, is there too. He&amp;#039;s fresh off three straight wins at Bristol, and his dominant performance in the qualifier showed that he&amp;#039;s the man to beat in Los Angeles. Maybe it&amp;#039;s the chaos that makes Rallycross appealing to the rest of the field. Packs of X Games athletes have crossed over to Rallycross, from full-time drivers like Travis Pastrana to BMX rider Dave Mirra and skateboarder Bucky Lasek. Lasek took home a gold in Skateboard Vert the night before he mixed it up in the heat races. Ultimately, Pastrana was the only one of the three to make the main event. It&amp;#039;s no shock to see very able drivers in very good cars miss out on the final. Rallycross is hard driving. Ford, Subaru, Hyundai, and Mini all field teams in specially prepared all-wheel-drive cars that produce a hair under 600 hp. The course is tight, and visibility is bad. Within seconds of the start, the polycarbonate windscreens of everyone behind the front row have been pocked and destroyed. Washers and wipers make mud then smear it around, and that&amp;#039;s the best it gets. Roost is everywhere. Qualifying sessions throw so much dirt into the air that a long, formerly dirt section of the track was soon bald and polished to a shine. That dirt will settle on the rest of the county sometime next week, so look forward to an uptick in California Car Duster sales from Santa Barbara to San Diego.  Ultimately, the Rallycross vets came out ahead. Heikkinen handily cinched his fourth in a row. After a little battle at the start of the race, the Finn would eventually open up a 4.0-second lead on Tanner Foust. Subaru&amp;#039;s Sverre Isachsen jumped the start and was penalized with a drive-through, a significant damper on a blistering pace that could have easily kept him running with Heikkinen and Foust. Block dropped back in the pack nursing a tire. After the tire finally threw in the towel, Block put his foot down and finished in grand style, obliterating the back end of his car in the process much to the joy of the crowd. Pastrana was in there, too, racing and shoving and fighting like hell. The middle of the pack didn&amp;#039;t look much slower than the front, just dirtier. Rallycross is a helluva thing. The future of motorsports, maybe. It&amp;#039;s perfect for a TV audience: One can build a track anywhere, cover an entire event with a handful of cameras, and it&amp;#039;s suitably violent. We have the photos to prove it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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