Travis Pastrana

Travis Pastrana piloted a modified Subaru WRX STI in Gymkhana 2020. Now you can learn the backstory on the car and the run.

Ken Block's former rally racing teammate, Travis Pastrana, pilots a modified Subaru WRX STI in Gymkhana 2020.

Nitro Rallycross is set to launch a dedicated championship complete with a category for electric cars.

Travis Patrana paid homage to Evel Knievel in the best way possible on Sunday night. The 34-year-old motocross icon, race car driver, and all-around daredevil performed three jumps in Las Vegas. Each one was modeled after a jump Knievel completed or attempted, and Pastrana went just a bit bigger on...

Everybody's favorite real-life action hero (and genuinely nice guy) Travis Pastrana today admitted defeat in the competitive, expensive world of NASCAR. Pastrana announced he hasn't had the success necessary to secure sponsors for next season, and will be moving on to other pursuits. Pastrana gave...

Pro drivers, despite living the dream, don't always get that much track time on a given race weekend. So what do they do to get an edge--or even just to get familiar with a trak they haven't raced on before? They use simulators--and some of them use familiar, retail sims that us regular folks can...

Rally, NASCAR, and X Games just aren't enough four-wheeled competition for Travis Pastrana, so he's going off-road racing in a truck later this month at the Chicagoland Speedway's Route 66 Raceway in the TORC Series. Pastrana's ride will be a TORC Series Pro 2WD truck from Menzies Racing Red...

You've already seen Travis Pastrana at the wheel of his new Dodge Dart rally/rallycross car. Now you can see the car in wheel-to-wheel action against the best in the business as they take to the track--and the jumps--at Texas Motor Speedway. The Global RallyCross Championship, if you're not...

Travis Pastrana's career as an X Games superstar, daredevil, and rally driver is already one for the history books, but now he's setting out on a (somewhat) safer course: NASCAR. This first episode of what promises to be an interesting series tells the story of how Pastrana got into NASCAR--by way...

For anyone unfamiliar with RallyCross, it’s essentially a form of sprint style rally racing held on a closed track usually covered in gravel or dirt and featuring Motocross-style jumps. The cars that compete in RallyCross are typically based on regular production models, though they’re...

The nicest, craziest guy in motorsports stunts is about to get behind the wheel of a monster truck. This can only be a good thing.

Grannies + cars = views, right, Ken? Looks like Travis may have the formula slightly wrong, but the results are hilarious.

NASCAR ain't easy. Just ask Travis Pastrana. After largely dominating North American rally for the past several years, he's finding it hard to make it to the front of the pack in the roundy-round crowd. His latest race at Richmond in the Nationwide Series saw him finish 33rd after contact with the...

"HELLS YES!" That's Travis' answer to the question "you sure you wanna do this?" as he sits behind the wheel and under a tarp in the newly-formed Pastrana-Waltrip racing NASCAR Nationwide team car. That's our answer too. For those of you who may not appreciate the subtleties and refinement of the...

Earlier today we brought you news that Travis Pastrana had ended his partnership with long-time rally partner Subaru. At the time, we speculated that he may well already have another deal lined up. Some sleuthing by our expert social media team turned up something interesting: a Twitter account...

If you aren't already aware, Travis Pastrana, while being one of the nicest guys in motorsports, is also one of the craziest. Case in point: he set the world record for jumping a Subaru WRX STI onto a barge in Long Beach Harbor. That car, along with Tommi Makinen's Nurbugring lap car and a handful...

It's one thing to see a rally car and its occupants flying through a stage at breakneck speed. It's wholly another to see how they prepare for the feat, running the recce, making pace notes, figuring out their own language for each element. This video covers it all. If you missed the announcement...

One of the nicest and craziest guys in motorsports just laid down a record-setting run on his first attempt up the Mt. Washington Climb in Vermont. Pastrana got to the top of the 6,288-foot mountain in just 6:20.47, almost 22 seconds quicker than the previous record, set in 1998 by Frank Sprongl...

These two videos stretch the limits of car performance and human comprehension.