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Topic: Who's next...Johnny Knoxville???
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November 11, 2010 at
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I have mad respect for Travis' talents with anything that has 2 or 4 wheels, but the 800Lb gorilla even got to him now?? :-/
http://www.nitrocircus.com/news/view/Travis_Pastrana_Heads_Over_To_NASCAR-90.html
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November 11, 2010 at
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I would figure Nascar would be boring compared to competing in Rally events. Oh well more power to him and I hope he does well. I'm curious as to why Red Bull isn't supplying him with a ride and he has to hook up with Waltrip.
Ask Frank
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November 11, 2010 at
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Posted By: ColtanW on November 11 2010 at 07:56:32 PM
I would figure Nascar would be boring compared to competing in Rally events. Oh well more power to him and I hope he does well. I'm curious as to why Red Bull isn't supplying him with a ride and he has to hook up with Waltrip.
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Red Bull has always operated their own teams in Nascar, AMA, and maybe even in the Rally World, they have their up and comer in Cole Whitt who most likely will move up to ARCA and Nationwide. There for Red Bull wants to keep there team and money in house.
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November 11, 2010 at
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Travis has been running rally cars for Red Bull for a couple/three years now.
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November 12, 2010 at
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Travis's deal in rally was direct sponsorship from Subaru USA...not Red Bull. Red Bull has been one of his personal sponsors for about ten years now. The funding of the team was via Subaru and cars were built and run by Vermont Sportscar as Subaru Rally USA.
If any of you have followed his career he has a history now of short term commitments to racing endeavors. He was brought into the rally scene over five years ago from his friend and sponsor Ken Block of DC shoes. He in turn brought Dave Mirra into rally. Going as far back as his emergence in freestyle coinciding with his AMA racing....he focused for a few years then moved on. It would seem to me that NASCAR requires at least a few years of adjustment from even the highest level of racers just to be competitive. Some of the greatest racers of the last 15 years have tried NASCAR and failed. My guess is he is out after no more than 5 years.
The dood is one of the most adrenaline driven human beings to ever walk the planet. Even his dad talks about how his one one day going to kill himself doing all this crazy stuff...and that he'll miss the SOB. Travis rolled a rally car 9 TIMES down a hill up here in Colorado a few years back. When the car stopped rolling and he had asked his co-driver if he was OK...he hooped and hollered so loud that he could be heard a couple hundred yards away. The co-driver thought he was so dangerous to his health that he quit the sport...and the guy was a former WRC champ several times over. I just hope he doesn't kill anybody or himself in NASCAR.
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November 12, 2010 at
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LOL...I thought this was a post about Jon Agan.
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November 12, 2010 at
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Posted By: Sprint*Scribe on November 12 2010 at 07:55:38 AM
LOL...I thought this was a post about Jon Agan.
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He has enough talent, by far, but it's that addrenalin fix thing that gets in his way at times. If he does his crazy stuff then focuses on racing he will be fine.
44H
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November 12, 2010 at
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Posted By: goinrcn44h on November 12 2010 at 09:21:12 AM
He has enough talent, by far, but it's that addrenalin fix thing that gets in his way at times. If he does his crazy stuff then focuses on racing he will be fine.
44H
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Yeah...I think they originally meant Johnny Knoxville from Jackass...not JA. =)
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November 12, 2010 at
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Yea, the aforementioned Jackass Johnny Knoxville, nothing to do with Knoxville racing. :-/ I only used him as a name drop for the post because of his and Pastrana's similarities when it comes to doing ridiculous, over the top stunts. Both of which I love seeing, by the way. 
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November 12, 2010 at
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November 12, 2010 at
08:32:30 PM by BIGFISH
Travis is all that Michael said, and then some! Now check this out..Andy Bell, one of his friends and competitors on his show Nitro Circus made a pretty hairy jump on a hot wheel thing (not this ramp) that I thought might be hard to top..I was wrong, oh was I wrong. He missed twice before he made it, and after the second miss he said, "I can't see anything, is that bad?" Sorry but the embeded has been removed, but this will do. Oh, his dad's nut's too!..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UaE_LWDDWk
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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