Travis Pastrana

Travis, going huge like always. The official jump distance was 269ft! Garth Milan/Red Bull Photofiles

Well Travis isn’t a stranger to going big – Double Backflip, TP Roll, 10 years of dominance in the FMX scene not to mention a few Motocross chapionships in the mix too! Well Travis has finally done something huge with a Rally car. He flew his Subaru WRX 269ft to safely land a new world record!

Travis hit the take off ramp at roughly ninety miles per hour and flew for a good 5 seconds, probably the slowest 5 seconds of Travis life, but landed relatively safely, if you call slamming into concrete barrier a safe stop. Travis went a little too far on the jump, and didn’t have enough distance or grip to stop saying the landing barge was “Slick as ice” to ESPN announcer Tes Sewell.

Travis sounded like he was scared for just a moment when he hit the brakes and started sliding at over 50 mph, “putting it sideways” – probably to not totally destroy the car. He did however, in usual Pastrana fashion, start celebrating straight after, jumping out and climbing to the top of the barge to address the thousands of fans surrounding the jump from the water’s edge.

One thing was missing though – a backflip, which is when Travis decided to backflip himself off the barge, 4 stories up into the nice and cold water. Not to worry though, the emergency rescue crew consisting of jet skis, boats, divers and lift bags will take it as a success. This also makes it the 3rd successful year of Red Bull’s No Limits events – Robbie Maddison’s Long Jump on a Dirtbike, then in 2008  Robbie’s jump on and off a replica of the Arch de Triumph in Las Vegas with Rhys Milan (almost) backflipping a truck.

Now we will have to wait and see if fellow Subaru team mate and DC Shoes co-founder, Ken Block will step up and reclaim his record which Travis beat by 98 ft!

I think his mother, Debbie Pastrana, is just happy Travis made it out alive. Chris Tedesco/Red Bull Photofiles