X Games: Tanner Foust wins super rally

Mechanical issues and vehicle failure.

Super rally, making its X Games debut, could have been a super dud. That’s the way it was going at the Coliseum on Saturday night in the qualification rounds.

Finally, though, the machine did not fail the man.

Tanner Foust put his name into X Games history, winning the first super rally event here, and capped off a golden night: two golds in two races.

Brian Deegan finished second to Foust in the super rally and the earlier rally car event in which he took a wrong turn on the new course, resulting in the red flag.

About the only thing Foust missed out on was his earlier prediction that the there would be “a lot of carnage” in the super rally, which is modeled on European-style rally car racing.

Travis Pastrana was not able to race and was not allowed, under event rules, to use his teammate’s car when his own vehicle was unable to function.

Rosen Update

Motocross rider Paris Rosen suffered a Grade 2 concussion, a bruised right lung and a mild liver laceration as well as injuries to his rib cartilage and left hip.

This was the word from an X Games official Saturday afternoon, one day after the 29-year-old rider from Apple Valley, Minn., was injured in an accident during the best trick competition at Staples Center.

Rosen hit the ground, landing hard on his back after attempting a front flip in the event.

He was motionless for close to 10 minutes on the course and needed to be taken off on a stretcher, quieting the stunned crowd.

My generation

The gap at the X Games can sometimes be as wide as the Grand Canyon.

Dennis Enarson was preparing for a night out Friday when he got late word that Rob Darden had pulled out of Saturday’s BMX freestyle park final because of an injury, meaning that Enarson got in and went on to win silver. Enarson said he decided to go to bed early, saying: “It’s a good thing I didn’t go out.”

Early is an elastic concept.

“It was pretty early, actually, for me. It was before midnight,” he said. “I got up at, like, 8 o’clock today. I felt like a responsible adult.”

The winner was Daniel Dhers of Venezuela, who said he wants to go back to a more classic park course, where the newest tricks are more important than the newest obstacles. But his peers want the layouts to stay fresh.

“You’ve got to step your game up,” third-place finisher Gary Young told Dhers after the BMX freestyle park finals. “Well, I guess you won.”

Enarson had finished 11th in the elimination round and spoke about Darden’s withdrawal, saying: “Someone’s misfortune, someone’s fortune, you know. I’d rather he not get hurt than me get silver.”

Life of Ryan

Former reality TV show star Ryan Sheckler made it official.

Comeback complete.

Sheckler, who missed last year’s X Games because of a long-term ankle injury, said he exceeded his expectations in winning “a crazy contest” in the skateboard street men’s final.

It was his third X Games gold medal and capped off a riveting jam session against teen prodigy Nyjah Huston. Huston, 15, won his second silver medal in two X Games.

Ryan Decenzo took the bronze medal with a first run score of 90 in his first X Games on the podium and Chaz Ortiz challenged for the lead as well but couldn’t get past his falls.

He was tripped up on an incline between tricks three times.

Sheckler spoke about the seven months away, sitting on the couch and “wondering what those guys are doing.” So he found out and knew he had to raise his game.

“I wanted to throw down a different run from what I already did,” he said. “The course is interesting. You had to get out there and just start throwing down.”

Other events

In his first run of the BMX big air finals, Chad Kagy performed a back flip-tail whip across a 50-foot gap, then followed that with another tail whip, spinning his bicycle underneath him while in the air.

The trick became the one to beat in the competition, but Kagy’s 91.66 score held up through three more runs.

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Times staff writers Laura Myers and DeAntae Prince contributed to this report.