Racing Wrecks

Travis Pastrana spent New Year’s Eve preparing to drive his Red Bull Subaru WRX STI off of a ramp, over 250-or-so feet of water, and onto another ramp floating on a barge. In earlier practices for the jump, at first he didn’t stick the landing, then he skipped the landing part entirely. The New Year’s event would be for keeps, though.

[Source: Autoblog via ESPN via YouTube]

A “Subaru roll” is not to be confused with a cinnamon roll, by the way.

Colin McRae had a tremendous run at the ESPN X Games 12 in Los Angeles. He made massive jumps when entering the arena and in the last run of the inaugural rally events at the X-Games, he rolled his car. And what is even more amazing, his car rolled back on its tires and he was still able to complete the race and seized the silver. He could have easily won the gold if he hadn’t rolled his car.