Travis Pastrana rev up the crowds at Red Bull X-Fighters in Ireland

Slane Castle, Ireland was the spectacular setting for the second leg of the ‘Red Bull X-Fighters’ World Tour, on 26 May 2007. 35,000 spectators, watched as American Travis Pastrana won ahead of Swiss Mat Rebeaud and Spaniard Dany Torres.

Slane Castle, which has hosted big rock bands such as REM, U2 and The Rolling Stones, provided the perfect venue for the world’s best freestyle motocross riders to display their talents, performing stunts with names such as ‘Cliffhanger’, ‘Superman’ and ‘Tsunami’ and jumps reaching 12 metres high and 30 metres long. This was the biggest course ever to be used for an FMX event. 800 truck loads with 17,000 tons of dirt was used to build the obstacle park featuring hills up to five metres-high and it was the premiere for the first ever quarter pipe to be used in an FMX contest. Jeremy Lusk (USA) finished fourth ahead of Eigo Sato (JPN).

Travis Pastrana. © alexschelbert.de/Red Bull Photofiles.

Ireland is the second stop of the Red Bull X-Fighters World tour following Mexico City on 23 March. The contest heads to Moscow on 30 June followed by Madrid on 27 July.

Travis Pastrana. © Christian Pondella/Red Bull Photofiles.

The results: 1. Travis Pastrana (USA, Suzuki), 2. Mat Rebeaud (SUI, KTM), 3. Dany Torres (ESP, KTM), 4. Jeremy Lusk (USA, Yamaha), 5. Eigo Sato (JPN, Yamaha), 6. Romain Izzo (FRA, Yamaha), 7. Charles Pagès (FRA, Suzuki), 8. Ronnie Renner (USA, KTM), 9. Busty Wolter (GER, Suzuki), 10. Alvaro Dal Farra (ITA, KTM).