![]() Speed earned three poles and four wins in ARCA races in 2008. Speed spent two years in F1 before shifting his career to NASCAR. In 2006 Speed became the first American to race in Formula One since Michael Andretti in 2003, with a full-time seat for Red Bull's newly formed Toro Rosso team. After winning a pair of titles in 2004 in Formula Renault, he was promoted to Formula 1 as a test driver. national-level karting before shifting to formula cars in the early 2000's, and earning a seat with Red Bull's development program to race in Europe. His teenage years were spent moving up in U.S. Speed has an impressive history in racing. He won three straight Red Bull GRC titles (2015-2017) and followed it up with the inaugural ARX Championship in 2018 before moving to Subaru to help the brand win its first rallycross championship. Since winning the first Rallycross race he entered back in 2013, Scott Speed has cemented himself as the king of American Rallycross. Pastrana spends his time traveling the world with his wife, professional skateboarder Lyn-z Adams Hawkins and their two young daughters. Despite drawing huge crowds wherever he goes, Travis makes sure never to forget his fans, and has been known to spend hours signing autographs and taking pictures with every last fan!īeyond his prowess as an athlete, Pastrana is the co-creator and superstar of the Nitro Circus action sports franchise which includes sold-out world tours, a successful MTV TV series, feature films and the Nitro Rallycross series, which features Pastrana as the public face of the series and the consultant on track design. He is in constant demand from both the corporate and endemic media, not to mention his millions of fans. Travis is well known for his positive and unpretentious attitude, which has made him a media favorite and earned him worldwide exposure. He has also performed several other record-breaking stunts, including jumping a Subaru rally car 269 feet over water on New Year’s Eve 2009, replicating three of Evel Knievel’s most famous motorcycle jumps in Las Vegas, and garnering millions of views as the latest star of the Gymkhana video franchise at the wheel of custom-built Subaru vehicles. Pastrana gained additional worldwide fame when he landed the first ever double-backflip at Summer X Games 12 in 2006 – the day before he won the Games’ inaugural Rally Car gold medal. Besides winning nine X Games Gold Medals in FMX, he is also credited with developing many of the sport’s most demanding tricks and continues to elevate the bar for the sport. After winning championships as a teenager in motocross and supercross, he has become a standout and innovator in Freestyle Motocross (FMX). Driving the Airslayer STI - his 862-horsepower carbon-bodied WRX STI from Gymkhana 2020 - Pastrana blitzed the 7.6-mile road in an almost unbelievable time of 5:28.67, more than fifteen seconds faster than his own record from 2017 and nearly 40 seconds clear of the event's second place finisher.īefore his successful career in stage rally, Travis Pastrana was already a legend in motocross. Washington Auto Road is one most challenging race venues in the country-steep, narrow, uneven and with precipitous drops-and offers a contrast to the wider, smoother roadway up Colorado’s Pikes Peak. In 2021 he conquered New Hampshire’s Mount Washington Hillclimb, setting a stunning new record in the process. national titles in both rally and rallycross, the first driver ever to do so.įast, fearless and able to memorize complex sequences of corners, Pastrana also excels in hillclimb competition. ![]() A dominant 2021 season saw him make history by winning U.S. After rallying part-time in 2018-19, Pastrana returned to Subaru full-time in 2020 to compete in both rally and rallycross. In the end, Pastrana edged out his longtime mentor and was crowned the inaugural ARA champion, sealing his fifth national rally title. He and teammate David Higgins traded wins over the six-round ARA championship and battled closely through the last event at the Ojibwe Forest Rally. In 2017 Pastrana returned to Subaru to compete full-time in the inaugural American Rally Association (ARA) championship. ![]() ![]() ![]() After a few years’ hiatus which included a stint in NASCAR, Pastrana rejoined Subaru in 2014 to compete in partial seasons as his busy schedule allowed. from 2006-2009, winning four consecutive championships with Subaru Rally Team USA after switching his focus away from Freestyle Motocross (FMX). Travis Pastrana candidly refers to rallying as “motocross with a rollcage!” and has driven a Subaru rally car from the very start of his career in the sport. ![]()
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