SuperRally debut to bring just what some X Gamers love: ‘carnage,’ ‘bashing’ and ‘a mess.’

New SuperRally promises chaos for X Games drivers

LOS ANGELES — No one knows what the first X Games SuperRally auto race will look like, but everyone agrees there will be chaos before any medals are handed out.

One driver calls it “motocross with roll bars.” Another says “it’s going to be a mess.”

The X Games is doubling down in its attempt to promote European-style rally car racing in the U.S with the new event Saturday inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

It features a dozen teams in heats that pit four small stock cars at a time racing head-to-head over dirt, gravel and huge jumps instead of the two-at-a-time, race-against-the-clock format of most rally car racing.

Ten-time X Games gold medalist Travis Pastrana says the event will bring to rally racing the thing it’s been missing most — the direct competition that makes NASCAR so appealing.