Video: Travis Pastrana Takeover - Ultimate Hometown Shred in an 862hp Subaru STI

 A shi**y excuse to drive fast

 Sing it with me now....'The boss makes a dollar and I make a dime.......thats why I shit on company time!''

 @thedirtyburritto: to tired to work, to broke to quit, I sit here now faking a $h*t. - anonymous

 For real. When Pastrana looks genuinely scared it’s scary.

 @dirtnapped @Mattysville - That was the first thing I thought. You could see the "oh sh!t" moment on his face jumping over the water. Holy crap, and that jump on the 2-lane at 150mph made me pucker.

 @n7slc: that road jump...damn

 @n7slc: the hard left on the landing of the water jump was ridiculous. and the high speed jump was crazy, i think i saw he posted that it was over 300 ft of air time!!!!

 MY HOMETOWN!:

 @Mattysville: And it looked like he may have landed a bit short as well!

 His face must have been incredibly sore after that day of driving.

 @n7slc: YES! Cant help but think he could have backsided the downhill on the landing if he'd have gone maybeeeee 155 instead of 151 lol. Too rad.

 @Mojo348: given that Pastrana beat both of your countrymen Armin Schwarz and Bernd Schneider as well as Scotland’s David Coulthard and Colin McRae in the 2006 race of champions nations cup not to mention the multiple rally titles in the USA, he can hold his own

 @Mojo348: With my limited knowledge about motor(assisted) sports, I'd say it is a comparison between making a (scripted and practiced) freeride video and racing. Both can be impressive in their own right. Yet we've seen more than a few racers in freeride videos and some athletes known as freeriders have still done well at races.

I honestly wasn't aware Pastrana rode with this many wheels. I'd say he's doing well.

 These ebikes keep getting more and more capable

 LMAO, If that doesn’t win comment gold, then life is unfair! @iantmcg:

 Maybe on car stunt forums the Red Bull MTB videos sometimes slip through their MTB filter too?

 Rallys are just like enduros...but with cars.

 I find bike guys and car guys often overlap. I think we all just like going fast.

 there are bikes at the end when his freakin' 9 year old does a double back flip on his BMX.

 @4thflowkage: for me is about playing in the dirt, all of my fun cats have been off road capable, but yes overlap.

 @DeepInTheForest: To be honest the BMX bit was what I enjoyed most. Also simply because I know what it takes to land a jump and can't even do rotations (let alone a double backflip). But I don't know about everyone else but I've never jumped with a car. I understand you can adjust pitch with throttle and brake when in the air but that's it. To me these big jumps on cars are like they do the math of what speed they should be going at run in and then just go for it. I just don't have the faintest idea of what skill it takes to pull it off. Of course I get that the cornering etc does take some precision so I can kinda relate to how difficult that must have been. But these jumps are like watching a powerboat race. Yes it looks quick but I don't have the faintest idea of what it takes and what's involved.

So as for the car bit, for me it is merely "yes, looks quick". Doesn't even remotely get me excited to go out and drive my own car (three cylinder 0.9l Renault Clio Estate, even has a turbo which does sound fancy by default). Bike videos do get me excited to ride my bike even though mine doesn't have rear suspension.

 @vinay: I've jumped cars a fair bit, but never that big. Mine were always go fast and hope for the best.

 TRUTH. My wife used to complain about my driving until we were coming back from a 5 hour trip in separate vehicles. She had our kids, who promptly afterward told me how SHE drove. lol

 cool, but only into an airbag

 Rotation of the tires, he hit the brakes to stop the front end from dipping.

 @KonaTrevor: yeah, I know that’s what they do in the moto world (not sure about rally), but it still struck me as funny. Looked like the car was nosing down before then, regardless.

 @KonaTrevor: opposite. You hit the gas to go nose up ("panic rev"), tap the brake to nose down. Conservation of angular momentum - the wheels were spinning forward, if they stop, the whole car spins forward to compensate.

However, that car also has a maaaaaassive movable wing and way less of its mass/inertia is in the wheels than it is on a MX bike. I'm curious if the brake/throttle is even a consideration...

 @ryetoast: he doesn’t even need to do all that. He’s got active aero. If the nose dips then he holds a button and the wing on the back flaps up to bring it back. You can see them use it somewhere in the video for a split second.

 @KonaTrevor: Doesn't the front dip when you do hit the brakes? If you don't want that, instead you spin up the wheel (so spin up the engine, then suddenly release the clutch). That said, I admit I know little about motorsports. Not even motor assisted sports.

 @ninjatarian: i think he may have just been hovering the brake pedal prepping for the landing. you don't see any of the wheels actually stop so i don't think he was doing it to pitch the nose down. and like you said, he was already nosing down. i think he was just getting ready to slam on them after the landing.

 pretty sure they're all like that

 I call bs...

 That car is easily a quarter million dollars.

 That body of water is called "ego alley." Annapolis does a boat parade every Christmas, so big enough for a couple of yachts side by side.

 Pit Viper is a brand of eyewear. If you don't know, you don't know.

 This isn't really a rally car. Looks to me like recycling of their ARX rallycross cars. It probably started like this...So now that ARX is defunct, what shoudl we do of these 650BHP cars lying around. Just crank the boost outside of the FIA limit, add active aero and do a video. The irony is that single video will have been more popular than the races these cars were initially build for which is a bit of a shame.

 @opignonlibre: that's why i said rally car in quotations

 Wouldn't that timestamp be 3:03?

 On the country road speed scene, I know they closed the road down... but I kept thinking "what if a dog or deer wanders onto the road?"

 Left: Sequential gear lever, Right: Hydraulic handbrake

 Two is better then one

 Yea, but pretty sure no matter how good the bike rack, he would have lost the bike(s) on one of the jumps...