What will chrissie beavis and Jen Horsey do together for ESPN?”
In another first for X Games, ESPN will put TV commentators inside the cars in the Rally Car Race this summer. The move to eliminate co-drivers from the contest paved the way for this unusual step. Although co-drivers are critical to rally success in the long regular-season races that feature more than 100 miles of competition over multiple days, they were deemed largely unnecessary on the short-course version of the sport seen at X Games, and sport organizer gave them the axe this year. But the empty seat in the cars sparked an idea, and Chrissie Beavis and Jen Horsey—experienced co-drivers who have both participated in previous X Games competitions—were hired to return to X Games in the unusual role of in-car commentators: sort of a co-driver to the audience. “The unique format of the X Games Rally Car Race gives us the opportunity to do something really special for the broadcast,” Rally America Managing Director J.B. Niday said in a news release. “This is as close as the audience ca
