Bucky Lasek

Bucky Lasek
Personal information
Full name Charles Michael Lasek
Born (1972-12-03) December 3, 1972
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight 155 lb (70 kg)
Global RallyCross Championship career
Debut season 2012
Current team Subaru Rally Team USA
Car no. 81
Starts 30
Championships 0
Wins 0
Poles 0
Best finish 6th in 2013
Finished last season 8th (2014)
Sport
Country  United States
Sport Skateboarding, Rallying
Medal record
Summer X Games
Representing  United States
1999 San Francisco Vert
2000 San Francisco Vert
2003 Los Angeles Vert
2003 Los Angeles Vert Doubles
2004 Los Angeles Vert
2006 Los Angeles Vert Best Trick
2013 Foz do Iguaçu Vert
2013 Barcelona Vert
2013 Munich Vert
2013 Los Angeles Vert
1998 San Diego Vert Doubles
1999 San Francisco Vert Doubles
2001 Philadelphia Vert
2002 Philadelphia Vert Doubles
2008 Los Angeles Vert
2009 Los Angeles Vert
2012 Los Angeles Vert
2014 Austin RallyCross
2006 Los Angeles Vert
2011 Los Angeles Vert

Charles "Bucky" Lasek[1] (/ˈleɪsᵻk/ LAY-sək; born December 3, 1972) is a professional skateboarder and rallycross driver.

Professional skateboarding

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., Lasek started skateboarding at the age of twelve, shortly after his bike was stolen.[1] After entering amateur contests, he was quickly noticed by Powell Peralta talent scouts in 1987. Powell sponsored Lasek, and he made his video debut in the fourth Bones Brigade video, Public Domain (1988).

Lasek attained professional status with Powell in 1990; but, by this time, skateboarding, and vert skateboarding (Lasek's discipline) in particular, began to lose popularity and Lasek's career waned. After vert skateboarding was included as part of the X Games by ESPN in the mid-1990s, Lasek's career was revived. A move from Baltimore to San Diego in the summer of 1998, with his family, helped Lasek's career further.

As of May 2009, Lasek owns a backyard concrete skateboarding bowl named "Lasekland".[2]

Professional racing

In May 2012, Lasek was one of three drivers selected by Subaru Rally Team USA to compete in the 2012 Global RallyCross Championship. Lasek was again selected for the 2013 race.[3]

Video game appearances

Lasek was a playable character in the first five games in the Tony Hawk series: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater through Tony Hawk's Underground.

Film and television

Lasek made a cameo in the low-budget 2003 movie Haggard, in which he hands a skateboard to Bam Margera while he runs from the villain Hellboy. He also appeared in MTV's Viva La Bam and the music video for P!nk's single "Raise Your Glass".[4]

Personal life

As of June 2015, Lasek resides in Encinitas, California, in the United States with his wife Jennifer(m.1996-current) and their three daughters, DeVin, Paris and Tenzin.[5]

Contest results

As of 2006, Lasek has won ten medals at the X Games, including seven gold medals, and is one of only two vert skateboarders to have won three X Games gold medals consecutively—the other is Pierre-Luc Gagnon.[6] Lasek is also one of only three athletes to compete at every X Games since the series' inception in 1995.[7]

Racing record

Complete Global RallyCross Championship results

Supercar

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 GRC Points
2012 Subaru Puma Rallycross Team USA Subaru Impreza GR WRX STI CHA
11		 TEX
14		 LA
13		 LOU
11		 LV
8		 LVC
7		 13th 35
2013 Subaru Puma Rallycross Team USA Subaru Impreza GR WRX STI BRA
 MUN1
14		 MUN2
11		 LOU
8		 BRI
12		 IRW
11		 ATL
12		 CHA
16		 LV
14		 11th 49
2014 Subaru Rally Team USA Subaru Impreza GR WRX STI BAR
13		 AUS
2		 DC
11		 NY
12		 CHA
6		 DAY
3		 LA1
11		 LA2
5		 SEA
14		 LV
3		 8th 215
2015 Subaru Rally Team USA Subaru Impreza GJ FTA
10		 DAY1
DNS		 DAY2
12		 MCAS
7		 DET1
11		 DET2
8		 DC
 LA1
DNS		 LA2
DNS		 BAR1
 BAR2
 LV
8		 12th 88

References

  1. 1 2 "Bio". Bucky Lasek. Bucky Lasek. 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "BUCKY LASEK PRO-TEC" (Video upload). Pro-Tec on Vimeo. Vimeo LLC. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "Busky Lasek | GRC". Global Rallycross. Global Rallycross. 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Bucky & Pink". Skate and Annoy. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "Lasek family, Dina Perouty-Leone's family". The Baltimore Sun. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  6. ↑ Colin Bane; David L'Heureux (27 June 2013). "Bucky Lasek Wins Again". ESPN X Games. ESPN Internet Ventures. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  7. ↑ "A Retrospective of Bob Burnquist’s 25 X Games Medals Part 1". Backgrinder. Backgrinder. 5 July 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  8. ↑ TWS (12 May 2013). "2013 VANS POOL PARTY RESULTS". Transworld Skateboarding. Bonnier Corporation. Retrieved 16 May 2013.

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