Brian Deegan (rider)
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Deegan in 2011 after winning the Pro Light class at the 2011 Off-Road racing World Championships
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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 9, 1975 Omaha, Nebraska |
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| Debut season | 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current team | Chip Ganassi Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Car no. | 38 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former teams | Olsbergs MSE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Starts | 42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best finish | 2nd in 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finished last season | 10th | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brian Deegan (born May 9, 1975) is an American professional rider and a founding member of the Metal Mulisha. Deegan was the first ever to do a 360 in competition; he named the trick the "Mulisha Twist". He is the most decorated Freestyle Motocross rider in X Games history. With 10 total medals (3 Golds and 7 Bronzes), he is the only rider to compete in at least 1 event in every X Games. He became a born again Christian after a near fatal crash in 2005.
Deegan was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He became a pro supercross rider with Team Moto XXX at age 17. In 1997 at the LA Coliseum, Brian Deegan won the 125cc main and in true rebel fashion, ghost rode his bike across the finish line. This was the beginning of what we know today as Freestyle Motocross.
In 2004, at the Winter X Games, Deegan crashed while attempting a 360 over a 100 ft snow double, breaking his femur and both wrists. He came back 6 months later to place fourth at the Summer X Games. Deegan was also the first rider ever to land a 360 (Mulisha Twist) in competition.
Switching to four wheels in 2009, Deegan ventured into short course off-road racing in the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series' Unlimited Lites division, winning the championship over experienced drivers.
At the 2010 X Games, Deegan competed in the Rally Car Racing event at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Deegan finished second behind Tanner Foust due to a wrong turn he made during the race. Brian also competed in Rally Car Super Rally where he also finished second behind Tanner Foust.
At X Games XVII, Deegan won gold in RallyCross.
In 2011, he won the World Championship race at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway in the Traxxas TORC Series. He also competed at the Race of Champions
In 2012, he debuted the Metal Mulisha Monster truck. Todd LeDuc officially debuted it at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas in January 2012. Deegan himself drove the truck in Phoenix, Arizona at Chase Field. He was scheduled to drive the truck at the Monster Jam World Finals 13, but injured himself in driving practice. Todd LeDuc replaced him.
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