Travis Pastrana signs with Michael Waltrip Racing
Extreme motorsports athlete Travis Pastrana is coming to NASCAR.
The motocross, X-Games champion, rally winner and stunt driver will make the official announcement Thursday that he will compete in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for Michael Waltrip Racing.
Pastrana briefly leaked out a photo on his Twitter account Wednesday that showed him sitting next to his NASCAR ride, with the rear quarter panel that features a caricature of Pastrana asking, "When do I get to backflip this thing?”
His publicist also confirmed that the announcement would come on Thursday.
Pastrana is best known as a featured performer on MTV’s Nitro Circus a spinoff of the popular Jackass series which features wild stunts.
On January 1, of this year Pastrana established a new world record for a ramp-to-ramp car jump. He jumped his rally car off the Pine Street Pier in Long Beach California onto a floating barge anchored in the harbor a distance of 269 feet, shattering the old mark of 171 feet.
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