When is the Ice Cross Downhill World Championship on TV?

Credit: Balazs Gardi/Red Bull Content Pool

Here’s the thing. I’m a woman in her mid-40s. But sometimes I feel like a 12-year-old boy. During those times, I love me some X Games and Crashed Ice. To that end, I want to know things like when is the Ice Cross Downhill World Championship on TV?

Credit: Balazs Gardi/Red Bull Content Pool
Credit: Balazs Gardi/Red Bull Content Pool

Here’s the press release we got with all the details:

Sports fans will be able to watch American and Minnesota native Cameron Naasz beat out defending 2015 champion Scott Croxall of Canada to take home the 2016 Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championship when the race airs Saturday, March 5 at 4:30 pm ET/1:30 pm PT on FOX Sports. In front of tens of thousands of people in Saint Paul, MN, his home state, Naasz secured his third win in four races this season, flying down the 1,200-foot long track featuring a 42-meter vertical drop, to become the first American Red Bull Crashed Ice World Champion. He finished the season with 3,385 points, ahead of Croxall’s second-place 3,150 points.

Naasz and Croxall began the Ice Cross Downhill World Championship holding the top two spots in the standings. Naasz came out strong with season opening wins in Quebec City, Canada and Munich, Germany, but stumbled in Finland, allowing Croxall to jump back in the title hunt of Red Bull Crashed Ice.  Naasz finished second overall to Croxall last season and was third in 2014 in this action-packed sport where athletes hit speeds up to 50 mph while hurtling down ice tracks filled with drops, hairpin turns and gaps.

Here is an event clip from the finale in Saint Paul:

As background, Americans like Naasz were late to join the rough and tumble, high-speed competition of Red Bull Crashed Ice. Canadians, Finns, Austrians, Swiss and Swedes, with no Americans anywhere in sight, had traditionally dominated the action-packed sport.  It took more than a decade after the sport was created in 2001 for it to catch on in the United States, with the first race held in Saint Paul.  Naasz was a student when he first gave it a try and finished his first season a respectable 24th in a field of 154 in his first race. In 2013, he finished third overall and was then second overall in 2014 and 2015.

Ice Cross Downhill is a tactical, physical and high-speed sport with four riders at a time zooming down the obstacle-filled track with a vertical drop – with the two fastest advancing to the next round.

Heading into the finals, FS1 commentator Troy Manering noted, “Saint Paul is notorious for its gnarly tracks, with a huge starting ramp from the steps of the Saint Paul Cathedral, dropping in 10 stories into the valley towards the Mississippi River.”

With commentary by FS1’s Trace Worthington and Troy Manering, and sideline reporting by Julie Alexandria, Red Bull Crashed Ice – The Ice Cross Downhill World Championship is part of a stunning collection of Red Bull global sports series on FS1 that also includes the Cliff Diving World Series, X-Fighters Freestyle Motocross World Tour, and the Air Race World Championship.

Ok, the turns in that video looked insane. It’s why I’ll never actually attend one of these events. Outside of the fact that I’m in my 40s. This is where watching something on TV has to be better – you’ll get the full view of some really insane drops.

So tune in tonight at 4:30 pm ET/1:30 pm PT on FOX Sports!