Pastrana sets new record for longest rally-car jump
Subaru stunt demon shatters world mark with a pinpoint-perfect New Year's Eve leapThe Carsales Network is an unashamed fan of Subaru stuntman and DC Shoe co-founder Ken Block, and now here's a new vid featuring his good buddy Travis Pastrana that's a match for anything the Blockster has gifted us in the past.
The Puerto Rican-American motorcrosser-cum-stuntman had set himself the goal of ringing in the New Year by setting a new world record for a ramp-to-ramp jump in a rally car.
So, the plan was to launch his Red Bull Subaru WRX STI rally car off of a boat-mounted ramp, over about 75m of water, and then nail the landing onto another ramp floating on a barge.
The practice attempts apparently didn't go swimmingly, as Pastrana struggled to stick the ultra-short landing strip, but the real deal on New Year's Eve was perfect.
The 26-year-old adrenaline junkie gets the Subie beautifully airborne off the Pine Street Pier onto a floating barge anchored in Long Beach's Rainbow Harbor (in southern California), shattering the existing mark of 52.1m and establishing a new world distance record at 82.0m.
However, the best part of the vid is arguably Pastrana's celebratory backflip into the freezing water after setting the new mark.
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