1. Travis Alan Pastrana was born on October 8,1983 and is an American professional athlete known for his success across multiple disciplines, including freestyle motocross, rally racing, NASCAR, and stunt performance.
67 Facts About Travis Pastrana
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Travis Pastrana rose to prominence in the early 2000s, becoming a multi-time X Games gold medalist and achieving numerous milestones in freestyle motocross, including being the first to land a double backflip in competition in 2006.
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Outside of motorcycles, Travis Pastrana is a four-time Rally America champion and has competed in Global RallyCross.
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Travis Pastrana has made appearances in NASCAR, including stints in the Nationwide Series and the Truck Series.
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In 2003, Travis Pastrana co-founded Nitro Circus, an entertainment brand that produces live shows, television series, and films featuring extreme stunts and action sports performances.
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Separate from Nitro Circus, Travis Pastrana has participated in several high-profile stunts, including successful recreations of stunts made famous by Evel Knievel.
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Travis Pastrana debuted in the AMA Motocross Championship in late 1999.
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Travis Pastrana won the 125cc national title in 2000, making him the youngest to do so at 16 years old.
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Travis Pastrana competed in the AMA Supercross Championship's 250cc class from 2001 to 2005, with his best season in 2002 where he ranked 16th.
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Travis Pastrana won the 125cc Rose Creek Invitational, and raced at the 2000 Motocross des Nations.
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In 2023, Travis Pastrana was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame.
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In 2018, Travis Pastrana returned to the Motocross of Nations as part of Team Puerto Rico with teammates Kevin Windham and Ryan Sipes in an effort to raise money and awareness following Hurricane Maria in 2017.
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At 13 years old, Travis Pastrana was already performing stunts during motocross racing.
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At age 14, Travis Pastrana competed in and won the World Freestyle Motocross Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada, beginning a winning streak that lasted to 2003.
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In 2003, Travis Pastrana opened his rallying career at the Race of Champions, and began driving for the Subaru-backed Vermont SportsCar rally team in 2004.
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That December, Travis Pastrana competed at the 2006 Race of Champions at the Stade de France in Paris.
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Travis Pastrana represented the United States in the Nations' Cup by himself, after injuries forced teammate Jimmie Johnson and his replacement Scott Speed to withdraw.
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In September 2008, Travis Pastrana took part in the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally, a round of the Scottish Rally Championship centred in Perth in Scotland.
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Travis Pastrana was one of a number of celebrity drivers to take part in the event in memory of McRae, who died in 2007.
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In 2011, Travis Pastrana began competing in the Global RallyCross Championship.
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Travis Pastrana ran part-time with a Dodge Dart in 2013, claiming third-place finish at Las Vegas.
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Travis Pastrana entered round 2 of the 2018 Americas Rallycross Championship at Austin, finishing fourth.
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In 2020, Travis Pastrana announced plans to construct Circuit 199, a multi-purpose racing facility, in Sudlersville, Maryland.
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Travis Pastrana won two races, which helped him become the 2021 champion as he claimed the tiebreaker over Scott Speed.
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In 2024, Travis Pastrana bowed out of the Olympus rally to undergo treatment for prior injuries.
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Travis Pastrana finished fifth in the P-WRC class, followed by a tenth place in Rally Argentina and an eleventh in Rally GB.
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Travis Pastrana made his debut in NASCAR competition by driving in the 2011 Toyota All-Star Showdown, finishing sixth.
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Travis Pastrana made one start in the Camping World Truck Series that year for ThorSport Racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, driving their No 98 Toyota to a 15th-place finish despite a spin early in the race.
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In November 2012, Travis Pastrana was revealed to have arranged a full-season ride for 2013 in the Nationwide Series with Roush Fenway Racing.
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Travis Pastrana drove in the team's No 60 Ford during the 2013 season, posting four top-ten finishes with a best finish of ninth at Richmond International Raceway.
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The next race, Travis Pastrana won his first career pole position at Talladega Superspeedway, with a lap speed of 176.500 miles per hour, but was involved in a late crash.
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Travis Pastrana ended 2013 with four top tens, a pole and a 14th-place points finish, 429 points behind champion Austin Dillon.
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On November 11,2013, Travis Pastrana announced via Facebook that he would be leaving NASCAR at the end of the 2013 season, citing a lack of sponsorship, frustration regarding his performance and a desire to spend time with his family as the reasons for his decision; Travis Pastrana wrote:.
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On September 23,2015, Travis Pastrana announced he would make his comeback to NASCAR, signing a one-race deal with NTS Motorsports to race the No 31 Chevrolet in the Truck Series race at Las Vegas on October 3.
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Travis Pastrana returned to the Truck Series in 2017, driving the No 45 Chevrolet for Niece Motorsports at Las Vegas.
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In 2020, Travis Pastrana returned to NASCAR for the first time in three years, competing for Niece Motorsports again.
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Travis Pastrana drove their No 40 truck in the second of two races of the doubleheader at Kansas.
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On September 17,2020, it was announced that Travis Pastrana would run the Las Vegas race again with Niece.
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Travis Pastrana regrouped and came across the line 11th, completing all 212 laps.
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Travis Pastrana said that he would not attempt another NASCAR Cup Series race.
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Travis Pastrana expanded his motorsport career into offshore powerboat racing in 2020, joining the Miss GEICO Racing Team to pilot a 47-foot catamaran alongside British racer Steve Curtis.
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In early 2023, Travis Pastrana announced plans to reduce his offshore racing commitments to focus on family and other racing endeavors, following the deaths of both his team manager and fellow motorsports athlete Ken Block.
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In June 2010, Travis Pastrana entered the Prelude to the Dream charity dirt track race at Eldora Speedway in a No 199 Subaru.
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In September 2010, Travis Pastrana set the world record for fastest ascent of Mount Washington in a car, using his Subaru WRX STi: 6 minutes, 20.47 seconds.
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Travis Pastrana retook the record in July 2017, driving his Subaru WRX STi up the mountain with a time of 5 minutes, 44.72 seconds.
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Travis Pastrana competed in the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona for AF Waltrip, with NASCAR driver Michael Waltrip, Michael Waltrip Racing owner Rob Kauffman, and road racing veteran Rui Aguas as codrivers.
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On October 3,2014, Travis Pastrana competed in the inaugural Red Bull Straight Rhythm competition, riding in the Open Class on a Suzuki RM-Z 450 with a Honda CR500 engine swap.
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However, Travis Pastrana was eliminated early on in the bracket and James Stewart Jr.
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Travis Pastrana was signed as a substitute for Johnson, who was tied up with 2024 Daytona 500 during the weekend, for the first two rounds of the season to partner Gray Leadbetter.
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Travis Pastrana debuted in Monster Jam on October 16,2006, driving the "Travis Pastrana 199" monster truck.
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Travis Pastrana himself competed in the freestyle segment of the event, finishing in a three-way tie for 5th place in a field of 24 trucks.
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On September 26,2007, Travis Pastrana jumped out of an airplane over Arecibo, Puerto Rico, without a parachute in a carefully choreographed stunt.
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Travis Pastrana met up in midair with another jumper, then latched himself into a harness to make a safe tandem landing.
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Travis Pastrana "got in a lot of trouble" due to its illegality.
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On January 1,2010, Travis Pastrana officially set a new world record in a ramp-to-ramp car jump.
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Travis Pastrana jumped his Subaru rally car off the Pine Street Pier onto a floating barge anchored in Long Beach's Rainbow Harbor, breaking the existing mark of 171 feet and establishing a new world distance record of 269 feet.
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On July 8,2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Travis Pastrana safely cleared three record-breaking jumps, which consisted of 52 cars, 16 buses, and a fountain respectively, for a total of 484 feet of jumps in a single night.
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When Travis Pastrana was 14 years old, he was severely injured while competing in a freestyle motocross competition.
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Travis Pastrana added that according to doctors, only three people in the US have ever lived after such an injury.
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However, Travis Pastrana was back in his Subaru Impreza and competing in the Rally Cross final where he overshot the corner, forcing himself into the wall; on-board footage shows his leg in plaster being slammed against the wheel well, much to his discomfort.
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In 2022, Travis Pastrana was seriously injured when he broke his pelvis base jumping in Fort Lauderdale during filming for an internet series.
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The accident prevented Travis Pastrana from racing for the United States in the 2022 Race of Champions.
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Travis Pastrana is of Colombian descent by his grandparents from his father's family.
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On June 11,2003,19-year-old Travis Pastrana was seriously injured when he crashed his Corvette into a tree in Davidsonville, Maryland.
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On October 29,2011, Hawkins and Travis Pastrana were married in front of several family and friends in Southern California, near the home of Hawkins.
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On February 26,2013, Hawkins and Travis Pastrana announced on their personal Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages that they were expecting their first child due in September 2013.
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Travis Pastrana gave birth to a girl on February 9,2015.