Tanner Foust

Tanner Foust (born 13 June 1973) is an American race car driver. He participates in drift events, rallies, ice racing and RallyCross competitions and has gain many podiums and several championships. He is also (co - ) moderator in some American TV shows, including the Top Gear USA Motorsport TV series.

Career

At the University of Colorado, he earned a degree in biology. For the American edition of Top Gear, he was assigned as co-host, the show has not been published by NBC. The station took the History Channel, in the meantime modified, broadcast in 2010 finally into the program on. Tanner Foust was the only rider to the program co - moderated.

Foust was in films such as The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift rare, Iron Man 2, and The Dukes is seen solely as a stunt double and stunt driver. He is also a participant in the Formula Drift, where he won the championships in 2007 and 2008. Thus he is the first driver in Formula Drift history to win the championship twice in a row. Foust is also a rally driver; Since 2007 he takes part in the X-Games, and won the 2007 Gold, 2008 Silver, 2009 Bronze and 2010 double gold at the so-called Rally events. As the first American driver in 2010 he took sporadically participated in the FIA European Rallycross. In 2011, he played with a Ford Fiesta Mk7 4 × 4 of the Swedish OMSE teams all ten races of this series and closed it at the end as Vice-European Champion Sverre Isachsen behind Norwegian and before the Tatarstan - Russian Timur Timerzyanov from.

Achievements

  • 2013 X Games - Gold medal winner at Gymkhana GRID, silver medal winner at the Rallycross
  • 2011 World record for the farthest jump with a car (101 meters)
  • 2010 Gymkhana GRID - Gold Medalist ( Rockstar - Etnies Ford Fiesta )
  • 2010 Race of Champions - Participants
  • 2010 X Games Rally - Gold Medalist ( Rockstar - Etnies Ford Fiesta )
  • 2010 X Games Super Rally - Gold Medalist ( Rockstar - Etnies Ford Fiesta )
  • 2010 Formula Drift - Silver Medalist ( Rockstar - Scion Scion TC)
  • 2009 Race of Champions - Participants
  • 2009 Formula Drift - sixth place ( Rockstar - Scion Scion TC)
  • 2008 Formula Drift Pro Drift Champion ( Rockstar AEM 350z )
  • 2008 Race of Champions - Participants
  • 2008 X Games Rally - silver medalist ( Rockstar Subaru STI)
  • 2007 X Games Rally - Gold Medalist ( Rockstar Subaru STI)
  • 2007 Formula Drift Pro Drift Champion ( Rockstar AEM 350z )
  • 2007 Rally America - fourth place
  • 2006 Formula Drift Championship - Third Place ( McKinney Nissan Silvia )
  • 2006 Rally America PGT Class Championship - Second Place
  • 2005 Rally America PGT - Winner
  • 2006 Summer X Games Rally - third fastest time in the stadium special

Movies

  • Since 2010 Top Gear USA ( series)
  • 2010 Iron Man 2 (stunt double )
  • 2009 Fast & Furious (stunt double )
  • 2007 Numb3rs (TV series ) ( stunt driver - 1 episode )
  • 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum (stunt performer, U.S.)
  • 2007 Dirt ( TV series) (stunt double - 1 episode )
  • 2006 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (stunt double driver and: DK, stunt driver: drift racing )
  • 2006 CSI: Miami (TV series ) ( stunt driver - 1 episode )
  • 2005 The Dukes of Hazzard (stunts)
June 13 Drifting (motorsport) Top Gear (U.S. TV series) The Dukes of Hazzard (film) Dirt (TV series)
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