Deegan, Foust form new rally car team

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) -Brian Deegan, the high-flying freestyle motocross star who founded the Metal Mulisha, is joining Tanner Foust on the new Rockstar etnies rally car racing team.

They will drive Ford Fiesta rally cars in the X Games next week, competing in Rally Car Racing and SuperRally.

Deegan has been racing trucks in the Lucas Oil off-road series and made his debut in X Games rally car racing last year, finishing fourth despite mechanical troubles. He also plans to get into NASCAR.

The 10-time X Games medalist says moving more into four-wheel racing is safer than flipping dirt bikes, although he'll never fully give that up.

Foust is the 2007 X Games Rally Car Racing gold medalist and a movie stunt driver.