Ethanol-Fueled ACP Racing Snares Two X-Games Bronze Medals

We’re kicking around a new motto here at MPGomatic.com, “Burn Rubber, Not Gasoline” … and nothing exemplified it better this week than ACP Racing’s performance in this year’s X Games Rally Car Racing and Super Rally events. Drivers Andrew Comrie-Picard (ACP) and Samuel Hubinette each grabbed a Bronze medal in their Mitsubishi Evolution rally cars, while running on an Ethanol blend.

ACP and Sam Hubinette fly the 70-foot X-Games Rally jump.
Double X-Games Thrill: Andrew Comrie-Picard in a 2006 EVO IX followed over the 70-foot jump by ACP Racing teammate Samuel Hubinette in a 2008 EVO X. (Photo credit: Matt Galantoumini)

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