Travis Pastrana is a top-notch American racer renowned for his tricks performed with motorbikes as well as cars
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Travis Pastrana is a top-notch American racer renowned for his tricks performed with motorbikes as well as cars
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The video game ‘Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer’, launched in 2002, includes a character based on this famous rally racer.
Pastrana has worked as a voice-over artist in the video game ‘Colin McRae: DiRT’ released in 2007. The video games ‘Colin McRae: DiRT 2’ and ‘MTX Mototrax’ include characters replicating Pastrana.
He authored the book ‘The Big Jump: The Tao of Travis Pastrana’ along with the senior writer of ‘ESPN The Magazine’ Alyssa Roenigk, published in 2007 by ‘ESPN Books’.
The only child of Robert and Debby Pastrana, Travis Pastrana was born on 8th October, 1983 in Annapolis, Maryland.
He was interested in racing from his early childhood and rode BMX bikes performing stunts. At the age of four, he got his first motorcycle and participated in racing events. He even registered many wins ever since he took to racing.
He was a brilliant student as well and earned good grades in school and pursued his higher studies from the ‘University of Maryland’.
He won the ‘World Freestyle Championship’ in the year 1998, when he was only fourteen years old.
In 1999, he participated in the ‘X Games MotoX Freestyle’ event and won a gold medal by scoring 99.00 points, which was the highest score.
He won the ‘AMA 125cc National Championship’ in 2000. In this race he tried a backflip stunt which injured his foot. The same year he won ‘AMA Rookie of the Year’.
He won the ‘125cc East Coast Supercross Championship’ in the year 2001, which was his third gold medal at the ‘X Games’. The same year, he won the ‘Gravity Games Freestyle’ competition. The following year too he won the ‘Gravity Games Freestyle’ and ‘Gravity Games Freestyle Challenge’.
In 2003, he began his rallying career where he represented the ‘Subaru Rally Team USA’ in the ‘X Games’ and won his fourth gold medal at the event. The following year, his performance was marred by injuries and he managed to win a silver medal. He also won a bronze medal in ‘Best Trick’ contest.
This skilled racer has registered many victories in his till date. He won his first gold medal at the ‘X Games’ in the year 1999, and since then he has earned ten gold medals at the event in total till date.
The iconic rally racer has also been four times champion at the ‘American Rally’ event.