Team ACP Racing Takes Double Bronze at X Games, on Ethanol

Los Angeles, California (ACP Racing) August 2, 2010 - ACP Racing, the top preparer of Mitsubishi rally team cars in North America, took two Bronze Medals this past weekend at X Games 16 in Los Angeles. The medals were the only ones taken by non-factory-supported cars and drivers at the event.
Andrew Comrie-Picard, five-time X Games competitor and principal of ACP Racing, took the Bronze in Rally Car Racing in his 2006 Evolution IX, and Samuel Hubinette, Comrie-Picard's teammate in professional drifting, took the Bronze in the new discipline of SuperRally in ACP Racing's 2008 Evolution X.
Comrie-Picard also finished sixth in SuperRally after a spin in traffic in the semi-final qualifier saw him miss a place in the final.
"This is a great result for the team" said Comrie-Picard. "Relative to our main rivals we have a very privateer effort, but this X Games shows that we really punch above our weight."
Innovation has been the key to many of ACP Racing's successes. At X Games this year, both competition cars ran almost pure ethanol fuel, which gave more power and also an environmental consciousness to the effort.
Ironically, the spin in the SuperRally semi-final qualifier was the result of contact between the two team cars, after Ken Block slowed with a mechanical problem in front of Comrie-Picard who was immediately in front of Hubinette. Comrie-Picard corrected his line to avoid Block and Hubinette was unable to avoid Comrie-Picard's car, spinning him out and taking over the lead in the semi-final.
"It was a racing incident, pure and simple" said Comrie-Picard. "It's something we have to get used to in SuperRally. There's going to be unavoidable contact."
Both Comrie-Picard and Hubinette are expected to continue competing in the new American sport of SuperRally under both the RallyCar RallyCross banner and the X Games SuperRally discipline in 2011. "It's a mad, bad, racing format and its time has come" said Comrie-Picard. "I could hear the crowd screaming from inside the running car. That tells me the sport has a future." A highlight of the entire X Games was the two ACP Racing team cars going over the 70-foot gap jump in tandem, nose-to-tail. The crowd was on its feet for this never-before-seen spectacle.
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