INDYCAR – Pastrana Answers the $5M Question…

So earlier this week we had the Vegas announcement talking about a five million dollar prize to a non INDYCAR driver. So what type of drivers would that bring out? Openpaddock.net’s Doug Patterson caught up with the rally champion at a special one off rally this weekend as part of the RallyCar series. The 100 Acre Wood rally in Salem Missouri is one of the bigger events on the Rally America schedule and Pastrana left straight from a NASCAR race on Thursday to compete. This is what he had to…

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Rally – Pastrana and New Year’s Eve

It has been recently announced that Travis Pastrana will be the talent on hand for this year’s Red Bull No Limit event that will take place on New Year’s eve in Los Angeles, California. Travis will try and break the record for the longest jump in a rally car. The current record is held by Pastrana’s rally teammate Ken Block at a huge 171 ft. Not only will Pastrana try and break the record, he will be looking to shatter it and land at least 100 ft. further. This jump…

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Rally – Ojibwe Forests

After a long break from the X Games, the Rally America series was back to tearing up the back roads of the US. This time we went to the northern extreme in Minnesota for the Oijbwe Forests Rally and there was a chance that the national champion would be crowned. Heading into the weekends event Travis Pastrana had a very healthy lead in the championship. Ken Block would have to answer and answer big if he was to stay in contention. Pastrana had already won five events this season and…

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