SRT Motorsports Weekend Preview - Aug. 1

July 31, 2013 , AUBURN Hills, Mich. -  SRT Motorsports will be well represented at the Summer X Games 2013 Los Angeles this weekend as both Pastrana Racing and RCH Racing will compete for gold medals at the final X Games event this season.

Action sports athletes from around the world will converge on the City of Angels for what many consider the most prominent stop on the tour. Dodge will have three entries in two separate categories – Men’s Moto X (Staples Center) and Rally (Irwindale Event Center).

Pastrana Racing will field two Dodge Darts in Sunday’s Global Rallycross event (Round 6) at Irwindale Speedway. Travis Pastrana (No. 199 Red Bull / Discount Tire Dodge Dart) will be seeking his third gold medal and fifth overall in Rally. He’ll be joined by teammate Bryce Menzies.

“LA is the U.S. (United States) X Games,” said Pastrana, an overall winner of 17-time X Games medals. “It’s the one that everyone really looks towards.”

Pastrana hopes the move to Irwindale Speedway (previous Rallys were held in downtown Los Angeles) will change his racing luck from a year ago when his Dodge Dart failed to advance to the Main Event. His Dart was punted in Turn 1 by an over-aggressive Andy Scott, causing significant damage to the No. 199 Dodge and forcing Pastrana to retire. The four-time X Games Rally medalists (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze) and GRC event winner (Loudon – 2012) is anxious to make restitution this weekend.

“We’re going to have a lot of our partners out there supporting us, cheering us on,” added Pastrana. “We need to make sure that we’re on our A-game for X Games. We need to have a really solid performance.”

Menzies will race the No. 99 Red Bull / Discount Tire Dodge Dart entry. The Mesa, Ariz., native is competing in his second Summer X Games Los Angeles event. He came up short in his bid to make the Main Event last year.

“Irwindale is a great facility and I think we’re going to have some great racing,” Menzies said. “We have a lot better track that can showcase what these Rally cars can do. I think it’s going to be a lot better racing and I’m really looking forward to it.”

RCH Racing’s Josh Hill returns to action in the Dodge colors on Sunday competing in Men’s Moto X inside the Staples Center. The indoor Moto X competition is a scaled down version of a Supercross event consisting of multiple jumps, obstacles, and technical corner sections. Hill competed in 12 Monster Energy Supercross Series events this season, scoring three top-10 finishes.

ESPN and ABC will combine to offer 19 hours of live coverage of Summer X Games 2013 Los Angeles.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
The Race:  Summer X Games 2013 Los Angeles
The Place: Staples Center and Irwindale Speedway
The Date:   Aug. 1 – 4
TV:              Men’s Moto X – Saturday, Aug. 3 at 10:30 p.m. ET on ESPN (LIVE) Rallycross – Sunday, Aug. 4 at 5:00 p.m. ET                       on ESPN (LIVE)

The American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship are idle this weekend. The ALMS season resumes next weekend at Road America (Elkhart Lake, Wis.) while the MX series heads to Unadilla (New Berlin, N.Y.) next weekend.