Travis Pastrana has never been shy about changing the scenery around his adrenaline habit. For years, he carved his name across the offshore-racing world, throttling massive catamarans across unpredictable oceans as if they were extensions of his own heartbeat. But lately, the man best known for making the impossible look routine has taken a sharp turn away from salt spray and toward tire smoke—trading his raceboat weekends for time behind the wheel of one of the wildest Subarus ever created.
The result? A full-throttle evolution from offshore racer to stunt-driving superstar, punctuated by the release of Gymkhana: Aussie Shred—Pastrana’s latest (and reportedly final) Gymkhana film, and arguably his most explosive yet.
From Boat Racer to Subaru Showstopper
Pastrana’s love for the water never vanished, but the magnetic pull of four-wheel chaos proved irresistible. After spending years mastering 100-mph wave jumps and carving dramatic lines through offshore racecourses, he found a new canvas for his brand of fearless creativity: the pavement.
But this wasn’t a simple switch from ocean currents to asphalt grip. It was the next logical chapter in Pastrana’s career-long pursuit of pushing machine and human to their shared limits.
Where raceboats offered raw thrust and towering roostertails, Subaru and Hoonigan offered something else entirely—a playground where physics could be bent, reinterpreted, and sometimes downright ignored.
Meet the Brataroo: Pastrana’s 670-HP Land-Based Rocket
At the center of this new era is the outrageously engineered Subaru Brataroo 9500 Turbo, built by Vermont SportsCar and starring in Aussie Shred.
According to the duPont Registry report, it packs:
- 670 horsepower
- 680 lb-ft of torque
- A screaming 9,500 RPM redline
- A turbocharged 2.0-liter boxer engine
- A chassis tuned for sliding, jumping, skimming, and general misbehavior
If you squint hard enough, it’s basically a raceboat with wheels: purpose-built to be sideways, airborne, or fully committed at all times.
“Aussie Shred”: Pastrana’s Final Gymkhana Is His Most Unhinged Yet
Shot across some of Australia’s most iconic landscapes, Aussie Shred plays like a highlight reel of every trick Pastrana once wished he could pull in a powerboat—only now he’s got AWD, a sequential gearbox, and a turbo big enough to inhale a coastline.
The Brataroo blasts through desert dust, drifts around landmarks, skims over water, and launches into jumps that feel more like boat-race blowovers—but on purpose this time.
It’s the perfect marriage of Pastrana’s offshore instincts and his rally-stunt bravado:
- The same high-speed commitment
- The same willingness to attack unfamiliar terrain
- The same comfort with being one heartbeat from airborne
- Just… way fewer life jackets
What offshore racing gave him in sheer speed and big-water unpredictability, stunt driving gives back in technical creativity and cinematic flair.
Why the Transition Makes Perfect Sense
Pastrana didn’t reinvent himself—he simply shifted mediums. His trademark has always been this:
Take a machine, find its limit, and then do something spectacular right on the edge of that limit.
Whether that machine is a 47-foot offshore raceboat or a 670-hp Subaru Brat is just a detail.
On water, he danced with waves.
On asphalt, he paints with tire smoke.
In the air—his favorite place—nothing has changed at all.
A Racer, a Showman, and a Natural Evolution
If anything, Pastrana’s pivot shows how seamlessly his disciplines overlap. Offshore boats and Gymkhana cars both require precision, fearlessness, and a love for speed that borders on art.
He didn’t abandon one passion for another—he expanded the canvas.
Today, the same guy who once tore across offshore waters is thrilling millions with his Subaru stunt work, proving something fans have always known:
Travis Pastrana isn’t defined by the vehicle he pilots. He’s defined by what he dares to do with it.
And whether he’s throwing a raceboat across chop or sending the Brataroo through the Australian Outback, the energy is the same—happy, wild, exhilarating, and unmistakably Pastrana.