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The El Toro Marine Base in Irvine, CA has become somewhat of a quasi West Coast testing ground for the automotive industry in the past several years. Currently, it’s perhaps best known for being the site of the Top Gear USA](http://www.autoblog.com/tag/top+gear+usa/) test track, but we’ve attended media events, learned how to drift, and watched a variety of manufacturers test out their wares on the military compound’s abandoned runways.
Most recently, Ford turned the strips of tarmac into a replica of the X Games 17 RallyCross course and brought out two-time WRC champ Marcus Grönholm and Moto-X-legend-turned-rally-driver Brian Deegan for a practice session ahead of this weekend’s main event. Lucky for us, they also asked us to tag along with the enticing offer of a shotgun seat in a 575-horsepower all-wheel drive Fiesta racecar. Count us in.
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