Travis Pastrana Just Made Gymkhana Great Again

Here I was thinking that Ken Block’s Gymkhana series had run its course. It was epic when it came out, the videos looking like gameplay scenes lifted straight from the Dirt video game series. The stuff Block was able to make his series of truly antisocial Ford Focuses do was mesmerizing. And then, he got weird with a first-generation Ford Mustang, and things got really entertaining. Then he sent it in a 1970s Ford F-100 pickup while paying homage to Climb Dance.

But after setting the bar stratospherically high, the bloom fell off the rose in some of the more recent videos, culminating in this fall’s Elektrikhana. The multimillion-dollar, one-off electric Audi S1 Hoonitron is undeniably awesome, but the virtually silent tire shredding in Las Vegas just wasn’t as compelling as we had hoped it’d be.

But then came Gymkhana 2022, starring Travis Pastrana in a 1983 Subaru GL wagon modified by Vermont SportsCar into the wild, 865 hp Family Huckster. With this release, Hoonigan, Block, and the Gymkhana series have truly returned to form.

There are so many moments in the video that will leave you stammering that it’s not useful to try and pick a standout. Put it this way: Pastrana jumping over a helicopter hovering between the spans of an open drawbridge isn’t close to the most impressive part of the clip. Seriously. There is so much going on here that a flat-out, 150-odd-mph bridge jump isn’t even a shoo-in for the most impressive stunt. Go watch the clip and you’ll see what we mean.

And if none of that is enough to entice you, there are cameos by the likes of YouTube superstar Cleetus McFarland, and Monster Jam star Ryan Anderson in his truck Son-uva Digger. OK, enough from us. Go watch the clip. Right now. Seriously.

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