Spaniard Dany Torres is the 2011 Red Bull X Fighters Champion. He capitalized on the injury to Nate Adams entering the final event by finishing 3rd in Sydney which was enough to overtake the two-time defending champ Adams for the overall X Fighters title.

With Adams hurt coming into the event he settled for an 11th place finish, opening the door for Torres needing a top 5 finish to claim the title. The 24-year-old Spaniard played it safe doing just enough to get the finish he needed. Torres 2011 campaign included wins at the season-opener in Dubai and in the bullfighting ring of Madrid.

As for the final X Fighters of the year Australian Josh Sheehan won the event on his home soil on Cockatoo Island in front of a sell-out crowd of 11,000. Sydney will go down in the 11-year-history of X-Fighters as one of the most spectacular.

The winner Sheehan and fellow Australian Cameron Sinclair landed a total of three double backflips, a trick that once seemed impossible but these guys are now making it look routine.

"I was confident I could do it and just went out and did it," said Sheehan, who defeated New Zealand's Levi Sherwood in the final. "It was what won it for me."



Red Bull X-Fighters Sydney, Australia 2011 FINAL RESULT

1. Josh Sheehan (AUS)
2. Levi Sherwood (NZL)
3. Dany Torres (ESP)
4. Mike Mason (USA)
5. Rob Adelberg (AUS)
6. Adam Jones (USA)
7. Maikel Melero (ESP)
8. Todd Potter (USA)
9. Mat Schubring (AUS)
10. Cam Sinclair (AUS)
11. Eigo Sato (JAP)
12. Nate Adams (USA)â¨

Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour 2011 FINAL RESULT

1. Dany Torres 390
2. Nate Adams 370
3. Andrè Villa 270
4. Josh Sheehan 230
5. Blake Williams 215
6. Eigo Sato 190
7. Levi Sherwood 180
8. Adam Jones 160
9. Robbie Maddison 160
10. Maikel Melero 145

On September 17th, Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour will host the 2011 Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour last event. For the first time in the tour's history, an event will go down on Australian soil.

It's the sixth and final stop for the series that will see Aussie Robbie Maddison & eleven other riders, battle it out for the title on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour.

It's about time a major freestyle motocross tour made its way to the land down under as several successful freestyle motocross riders hail from Australia. The sports popularity among the people is massive, just look at the turns out for the various freestyle demos like Crusty Demons and Nitro Circus.

The location of the event is special to Australian history as the Island was recently added to the World Heritage List as part of 11 convict sites. Unique remnants of the island's history scatter its 18 hectares, including solitary prison cells, hand carved grain silos, a military guardhouse and convict workshops. The island was also an industrial school, a reformatory and one of Australia's biggest shipyards.

This time around the island will be taken over by a different form of hooligans.

American Nate Adams is in the driver seat for his third consecutive X Fighters championship as he sits a top the leader board ahead of Spain's Dany Torres and Norway's Andre Villa. Realistically Adams only needs a solid showing in Sydney to win the title, but knowing his style Adams will be going for broke to put on a show for the crowd.

2011 Standings
1. Nate Adams USA 365
2. Dany Torres ESP 325
3. Andre Villa NOR 270
4. Blake Williams AUS 215
5. Eigo Sato JAP 180
6. Robbie Maddison AUS 160
7. Javier Villegas CHI 140
8. Josh Sheehan AUS 130
9. Adam Jones USA 125
10.Maikel Melero ESP 115

Nate Adams seemed in a class of his own Friday night as he dominated the Moto X Freestyle final to claim his second-ever X Games gold medal.

One reason Adams seemed to go unchallenged was that there was a glaring lack of star power, as athletes such as Travis Pastrana, Robby Maddison and Cam Sinclair were not in the competition for various reasons.

But that should not count against Adams, 27, a longtime X Games veteran and a top star on the Red Bull X-Fighters tour, who seems to have rediscovered the art of winning. Among tricks he performed with near-flawless execution were a back-flip with a one-handed takeoff, and inverted 360 and a Lazy Boy, during which he stretched out so fully on the backseat of his motorcycle, while soaring between ramps, that the back of his head touched the fender.

Adams, who last won the event in 2004, was the top qualifier so he was last in the lineup. He posted scores of 45 and 46 on his first two runs, for a combined score of 91. Neither Adam Jones or Dany Torres could muster enough trickery to catch Adams on their third and final runs. They finished with scores of 86 and 83, respectively.

Adams then enjoyed an abbreviated victory lap and saluted the crowd from the middle of the course.

-- Photo of Nate Adams courtesy of Nate Hoppes / GrindTv.com

You know that one time of year when your whole family gets together, your parents, all your brothers, your sisters, the cousins, the aunts and uncles, the in-laws, the whole big family.

Well that was December 7th for the DC Moto team. It's designed to be the one time of year when all their team gets together at the DC Moto Training Facility at Pala Raceway to ride, shoot photos, and talk with the media culminating in a Poker Night benefiting the Road to Recovery Foundation. The non profit organization is founded by action sports agent and former pro motocross/ DC athlete Jimmy Button, dedicated to helping motocross and Supercross athletes who have been injured.

The whole team was out at the Track including hall of fame inductee Jeremy McGrath, Travis Pastrana, Robbie Maddison, newly named rider of the year Nate Adams, Josh Hill, and more. One rider was noticeably late to the party. Maybe DC leading lady Jolene Van Vugt was too busy working out? No actually she was stuck in travel hell. Her flight from Canada was canceled, so she took a 4 hour bus ride in the middle of the night to Detroit, hoped on a plane which had to land due to an emergency on the plane. She eventually made her way to the track to deliver on her responsibilities. So not only is she ridiculously fit, she's extremely determined.

Check back for video from DC Ride day as well as exclusive interviews with Pastrana, McGrath, and Adams on the long lasting effects of injuries in motocross.


Photos courtesy of DC Moto

GrindTV Newswire via Red Bull X Fighters-At the grand finale of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour 2010 in Rome's Stadio Flaminio (ITA) it was Spanish rider Dany Torres who sailed to victory in front of a capacity 20,000 crowd, defeating Adam Jones (USA) in a thrilling final. In the overall standings Nate Adams (USA) managed to secure back-to-back titles in the world's most respected freestyle motocross tour with a strong third place finish in the Eternal City.

"I love Italy!" screamed an ecstatic Torres into the microphone after impressing both judges and crowd a like with his huge bag of tricks in the final round. His opponent, Adam Jones, was forced to admit that the Spaniard had deserved the win in Rome: "Dany didn't make a single mistake. I messed up in the final round. He deserved the victory here tonight."

In a city which has witnessed more than its fair share of legendary gladiatorial battles, the duel for the overall World Tour title could barely have been closer going into the final stop of the season. At the end it was America's Nate Adams who emerged victorious by the smallest of margins - just 5 points - from the head-to-head showdown with Andrè Villa (NOR). The victory means that Adams successfully defend his title, while Villa, who finished on the podium at the first four of the six stops in 2010, was left to rue chances missed in the season.

The Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour 2010 took the 12 best freestyle motocross gladiators on the planet to spectacular locations across three continents, where they were fired on live by a total of 169,000fans. With some of the kickers catapulting the athletes up to 15 metres high and 30 metres through the air, the riders competing in the huge bullfighting arena in Mexico City (MEX), in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza (EGY), on Moscow's (RUS) Red Square, in Madrid's (ESP)bullfighting ring, in front of the Battersea Power Station in London(GBR) and at the season finale in Rome's Stadio Flaminio (ITA) completed an total of 770 jumps - including 524 flips - and flew almost17,000 metres in the process.

Red Bull X-Fighters World Final Rome 2010:

1. Dany Torres (ESP)
2. Adam Jones (USA)
3. Nate Adams (USA)
4. Andre Villa (NOR)
5. Mat Rebeaud (SUI)
6. Remi Bizouard (FRA)
7. Brice Izzo (FRA)
8. Josh Sheehan (AUS)
9. Mike Mason (USA)
10. Massimo Bianconchini (ITA)

Final Standings, Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour 2010:

1. Nate Adams (USA/370 points)
2. Andrè Villa (NOR/365 points)
3. Dany Torres (ESP/310 points)
4. Levi Sherwood (NZL/290 points)
5. Adam Jones (USA/290 points)
6. Robbie Maddison (AUS)
7. Mat Rebeaud (SUI)
8. Eigo Sato (JPN)
9. Mike Mason (USA)
10. Jim McNeil (USA)