X Games announces rally invitations

Updated: June 15, 2012, 11:28 AM ET

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Gronholm On Top

Marcus Gronholm takes his second GRC win at the second stop in the series in Dallas, Texas.Tags: RallyCross, Rally, GRC, Texas Motor Speedway, Marcus Gronholm, Travis Pastrana

Global RallyCross overall leader Marcus Grönholm and 2011 GRC champion Tanner Foust head a list of 15 drivers who have been invited to compete in RallyCross on July 1 at 2012 X Games Los Angeles.

Brian Deegan will go for his second consecutive X Games gold medal in RallyCross against fellow multisport athletes Travis Pastrana, Dave Mirra, Bucky Lasek and Stephan Verdier.

Rounding out the RallyCross invitation list is Ken Block, David Binks, Toomas Heikkenen, Patrick Moro, Rhys Millen, Sverre Isachsen, Andy Scott and Samuel Hubinette.

Grönholm [43 points] won his second consecutive GRC final Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway to stretch his lead to six points over second-place Foust [37], and 17 points over third-place Verdier. After the X Games GRC has two more stops, July 14 in New Hampshire and Sept. 29 in Las Vegas. Below are the GRC's current overall standings.

Global RallyCross 2012 overall standings through round two

Rank	Name	Points
1	Marcus Gronholm	43
2	Tanner Foust	37
3	Stephan Verdier	26
4	Samuel Hubinette	24
5	Rhys Millen	24
6	David Binks	22
7	Andy Scott	21
8	Brian Deegan	18
9	Dave Mirra	13
10	Travis Pastrana	12
11	Sverre Isachsen	12
12	Ken Block	11
13	Bucky Lasek	10
14	Toomas Heikkinen	8
15	Patrick Moro	6
16	Liam Doran	6
17	Tim Rooney	4
18	Filipe Albuquerque	1
19	Richard Burton	0
20	Jimmy Keeney	0