Travis Pastrana makes record leap into New Year
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Travis Pastrana makes record leap into New Year
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In Long Beach, Calif., New Year's revelers don’t have a ball that drops. But this year they did have action sports icon Travis Pastrana flying his rally car across Rainbow Harbor. Pastrana was the center attraction at this year’s Red Bull New Year No Limits event. He celebrated the arrival of 2010 by successfully shattering the old car-jumping record of 171 feet after launching his tiny Red Bull sedan off the Pine Street Pier going 90 mph. Pastrana officially flew his car 269 feet over the water before landing hard on a floating barge and skidding into a barricade that prevented him from going into the drink. The X-Games legend (9 gold medals) made his name in motocross, but Pastrana’s 450 HP Subaru WRX STI rally car has become his vehicle of choice. He’s also become one of the most renowned daredevils. When he was 18 years old he jumped his motorcycle into the Grand Canyon. A few years later he jumped out of a plane without a parachute. After spending months of trial and error in the desert training for this stunt, Pastrana thrilled the crowd by sticking the landing perfectly.
In Long Beach, Calif., New Year's revelers don’t have a ball that drops. But this year they did have action sports icon Travis Pastrana flying his rally car across Rainbow Harbor. Pastrana was the center attraction at this year’s Red Bull New Year No Limits event. He celebrated the arrival of 2010 by successfully shattering the old car-jumping record of 171 feet after launching his tiny Red Bull sedan off the Pine Street Pier going 90 mph. Pastrana officially flew his car 269 feet over the water before landing hard on a floating barge and skidding into a barricade that prevented him from going into the drink. The X-Games legend (9 gold medals) made his name in motocross, but Pastrana’s 450 HP Subaru WRX STI rally car has become his vehicle of choice. He’s also become one of the most renowned daredevils. When he was 18 years old he jumped his motorcycle into the Grand Canyon. A few years later he jumped out of a plane without a parachute. After spending months of trial and error in the desert training for this stunt, Pastrana thrilled the crowd by sticking the landing perfectly.
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I know its a "friend of a friend" story but...
Was at my best friends for Christmas dinner with his family and they were talking about his cousin Sarah Whitmore - who is good friends with and dated Travis Pastrana when they lived in Michigan. My friend was saying when they would ride at events his friends who didn't know would ask if they wanted to wait for autographs and such and hes like, "why, they'll both be at our house later." It was good to hear that hes real down to earth and likeable.
The jump was pretty badass!
Was at my best friends for Christmas dinner with his family and they were talking about his cousin Sarah Whitmore - who is good friends with and dated Travis Pastrana when they lived in Michigan. My friend was saying when they would ride at events his friends who didn't know would ask if they wanted to wait for autographs and such and hes like, "why, they'll both be at our house later." It was good to hear that hes real down to earth and likeable.
The jump was pretty badass!
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Originally Posted by curiouz_G,Jan 5 2010, 11:20 AM
i watched this instead of watching the ball drop. it was meh.