My name is Travis Pastrana
This is my wife [ MY WIFE ]
This is where I'm going
[ MY TEAM ]
And this is my story
[On Pace with Pastrana, Season 2]
Last year we didn't really know what to expect,
and I was pretty excited
I started out, we were 20th to 25th place
Out there it's mid pack in the nationwide series
[cheers]
-Where did we end up? -[unintelligible]
But as it started progressing
I found that I would do my best
when I had back-to-back races,
and then we'd have an off season
I'd go do the trucks, or do the GRC
- You gotta be kidding me!
And I'd come back, and
I felt like I was starting at square one,
I just didn't have the experience
that the other guys did, and I
didn't retain a lot of the stuff that I wanted to,
just because it was a couple weeks off, when
they had more time to test, more time to practice
And the fact that I didn't have a teammate
For me, someone that doesn't know how to set up the car
When we talk wedge and he talks wedge
he's jumping over something with a wedge, and
we're talking about just trying to get our racecars to turn
I would tell you, Harry,
but I don't know anything about cars
I had Matt Crafton as a driver coach
jump in my car, and take up my practice time, when
I didn't really know a lot about how to drive these courses
[ laughter ]
Do you ever feel it, when you're getting in the corner, kind of...
[ thud, thud, thud ]
...doing one of those? -Yeah
-Did you feel that? -Yeah
- Tell him that
But it was so crucial for me
to have that person to go out there
and kind of set the car up
Now, I'm on Roush Fenway Racing.
[ ROUSH FENWAY ]
What's really awesome coming into this year is
I know we're going to have a strong car
Let's go with Roush Fenway,
let's go with a solid team
I've got Trevor Bain, I've got Carl Edwards,
Greg Biffle and Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
as teammates, as mentors
These guys have been doing it their whole lives, you know
I want to win. I want to do better.
I want to learn
and so to have this many guys around me,
and to have the camraderie and all this information,
is going to be such a huge advantage
NASCAR's all about just being really smooth
GRC is all about agression,
just wide open, slamming on the brakes,
throwing the wheel, oversteer, all-wheel drive
It's very different to approach these races
What's fun this year is the
GRC is going global, with Global X Games
So when we go down to Brazil, we go over to Spain,
we're actually going to have some dirt
and we're going to continue this
deal with Bryce Menzies,
with Dodge starting and being a team owner is just...
it's exciting
Being on a NASCAR team isn't like
being on a freestyle or motocross, or even GRC
There are 200 employees at Raush Fenway that
are affected if I get hurt, if I can't make it to the race
And this is a really tough thing to deal with,
because I enjoy to have a lot of fun
I like to, just kind of, on a wing and a prayer,
Let's go do this
- I married an idiot!
Leg gets surgery tomorrow, so I figure how hurt can you get, right?
And it's taken me back a little bit
but you can't ever stop what makes you who you are,
or I feel like you're going to slow down and you're not
going to be as good at the other things you do, so,
for me, my life is about trying to do the best that I can,
and if the best that I can
is by having fun,
by doing a few things that are
a little reckless, a little crazy,
then we're going to keep doing that
And after all this, the GRC, the NASCAR,
the motorcycles, the craziness,
Lyndsey's pregnant
It's really hard to think now
on how the baby's going to change
how I'm going to be
Watching some of my friends that had kids, and
some of the guys that were even so tough, and they thought,
"Oh, I wanted a boy," or this and that, and then they
had a little girl, and they just completely melted, even if
they had a boy, and I still want to be the person that I am
but I'm going to want to spend more time at home
You know, our lives were so hectic and crazy before, and
we were pretty lucky that we always got to travel, together, a lot
and so I definitely had to put my career on hold
There was a lot coming up
with the expansion of X games, and things like that, and so
it's a little bit boring being pregnant,
not being able to do all the fun activities, but
as soon as she gets here, and I get back in shape,
I'll be back on my board, and
I don't think things will be too different
I just couldn't imagine
living this kind of life without Travis with me, it's just
I don't know what I did before him
I want to spend as much time as possible
with my wife, and when this little girl comes out
I want to spend as much time as I can with her
And that's going to be really tough
with the demands of the job, but
we're going to make it happen
I definitely have focusses going in a lot of different directions,
but I figure this is like a "perfect storm" for me
To do all that, have a happy life, and
hopefully win some doggone races in NASCAR and GRC
On the next episode of "On Pace with Pastrana"
we're about to head over to Barcelona,
hang out with all my friends,
and race some GRC