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00:00My name is Travis Pastrana.
00:04This is my wife.
00:13This is where I came from.
00:22This is where I'm going.
00:30And this is my story.
00:36About seven years ago, I had an awesome opportunity.
00:38I got a call from a guy named Iris Saunders, who's really good friends with Tony Stewart.
00:42And I said, hey, our guy just crashed in a, you know, basically a circle track race,
00:47silver crown car, and he broke his back last weekend.
00:50We've got a spare car, you know, and no driver to drive it.
00:53You want to jump in.
00:54And I was like, oh, cool.
00:54Tony Stewart's going to be racing.
00:55So I wore a shirt to the track that said boring in NASCAR font.
00:58And I was like, oh, dude, this is going to be so fun.
01:00Whatever.
01:01It's going to be turning left.
01:02This is going to be lame.
01:02Whatever.
01:03We had so much fun.
01:04I ended up staying on the lead lap.
01:05I got all the way up to, I think I was like 15th or 16th.
01:09And I had an ear to ear grin.
01:10And I thought, this is cool.
01:12And ever since that moment, I threw away my shirt that said boring.
01:15I said, you know what?
01:16We've got to get a team that will allow me to do the stuff that I want to do.
01:20And, you know, let's try this.
01:22This looks like a lot of fun.
01:24Everything that I've always done my entire life has been about competition.
01:26Even Nitro Circus are like, oh, it's crazy.
01:28I'm like, well, no, I'm just trying to outdo my friends.
01:31And I have an opportunity to be in the most competitive sport in the world.
01:34And no matter what you say or what you tell me or what you tell other people,
01:38if you had an opportunity to drive in the most competitive sport in the world at 200-plus miles an
01:42hour,
01:43like it or hate it, it's worth a shot.
01:45And I want to test myself.
01:47And that's why we're switching.
01:49I think for me the biggest misconception is that I'm completely crazy.
01:53Oh, you've got to be crazy to do extreme sports.
01:55You've got to be crazy to backflip.
01:56I believe that I can do a backflip.
01:58I believe that I can do, you know, a 720.
02:02It hasn't happened.
02:03Yeah, maybe I'm an idiot for trying over and over again, but you work hard.
02:09If you're crazy, you're never going to get good enough in anything.
02:12This latest injury was, I grant you, very bad physically.
02:17His doctor told me in years past he would amputate a foot that was that badly damaged.
02:22It was broken between ankle and mid-foot, there were over 40 fractures.
02:27You can give him the medical synopsis of here's what's going to happen and here's what you need to do.
02:33And he pretty much doesn't listen to that.
02:35I don't settle for championships.
02:37I settle for, you know, I want to win this race because this is now.
02:40And I live a little too much in the now maybe, but that's kind of how I've made a career.
02:46It's how I've been able to find myself as an individual, just going out there and pushing yourself,
02:51never settling for second, never settling for third.
02:54When first is an option and, you know, sometimes we overestimate ability level,
02:59but all in all, you know, we're competitive and that's where I want to be in NASCAR.
03:05And that's what I think people haven't realized that we have been in the past.
03:09So hopefully it'll pan out and we'll start winning some stuff.
03:12So in the year before I met Travis or started dating Travis, I was world champion.
03:21High SF world champion.
03:22I won X Games for the third time.
03:25I, you know, did a 540 and then I met Travis and he became a pretty big priority in my
03:32life.
03:32And that's what life's about.
03:35It's sometimes hard to love your job.
03:37So it's nice to have something else to love.
03:41I decided that Lindsay Adams Hawkins was the girl that I wanted to marry.
03:46And about an hour before the Las Vegas Nitro Circus live show, got one of my friends,
03:51Malcolm McCassie, and said, hey, we need to go buy a ring.
03:54Started at the Cracker Jack store and they had no rings in there.
03:57So we actually went and with like 10 minutes, found the store with the ring, bought it, came back,
04:02told Tommy, who had had a few drinks, said, Tommy, because he wasn't doing anything in the show.
04:07I said, focus, man, you got to grab Lindsay.
04:09I just dropped in for my first run over the Gigantoramp.
04:11I bailed and I fell and I was like so disappointed in myself for not landing.
04:16And I was going to run back up the stairs because he got to go pretty quickly in the show.
04:21And Tom P., Street Pack Tommy, scoops me up over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
04:26I'm like, hey, Tommy, what are you doing?
04:27I'm like, come on, I got to go.
04:28And then he like plopped me on the bottom of the ramp.
04:32And I turned around and Travis was there on his knee.
04:35Hello, everybody.
04:36Thank you so much for being part of this moment.
04:38It was supposed to come later in the show, but I was too nervous.
04:41This was a stunt that's going to last the rest of my life.
04:44So, Lindsay, I love you.
04:48All right, back to you guys up top.
04:52I think for me the biggest difference in my life now is everything.
04:56I mean, you know, I had an amazing girlfriend that's now my wife.
05:00And even though a lot hasn't changed, there's no responsibility there.
05:04You know, there's two people that are definitely making decisions.
05:06There's certain sacrifices that you make and it's been fun, man.
05:10It's been a really, really great experience.
05:14Travis, what the hell are you doing?
05:16Um, well, helping Lindsay out with her gym.
05:20She wanted a pull-up bar.
05:22Lindsay told me to install the perfect pull-up, but it was too low in the door.
05:28Oh, that's going to break.
05:29Perfect pull-up was not so perfect.
05:32Well, here you go.
05:33So, I know you sent me to the store to get the perfect pull-up, but it was too low.
05:37So, what we did, what I did, I'm going to blame Todd.
05:41What we did, um, this is your new pull-up.
05:48Ta-da!
05:49You are an idiot.
05:50Hey, whoa!
05:51Why are you trying to make it fail?
05:53Well, why is it together like that?
05:55Because I'm not sure if it will hold if it's further apart.
05:58I don't trust anything that you do, especially with duct tape and crutches.
06:03Well, there's actually no duct tape now, it's just crutches.
06:04You built a career on it.
06:07Does it not work?
06:09We just bought a TV.
06:10And I'm like, hey, I want to buy a TV.
06:12She's like, great.
06:13So, I go to Best Buy.
06:14Whatever.
06:15I'm like, hey, I need a TV.
06:16They're like, how about this one?
06:17I'm like, perfect.
06:18Stereo system, that one, perfect.
06:20Walked out, didn't think about it.
06:21She's like, Lindsay's like shaking.
06:23She goes, you just bought like the most expensive stuff and nothing goes together.
06:27I don't know what to do.
06:29And now she's trying to put it together because she's like, electronic savvy person.
06:34I've been working on this for hours.
06:37I love you too.
06:39Lindsay is my Ritalin.
06:41For me, I always, I'm everywhere.
06:44I'm off the map.
06:45I always am going and going and going.
06:47With Lindsay, she's been great at organizing stuff.
06:50And she will, you know, she says no.
06:53She's like, look, you can't go from here to here.
06:56And, you know, just honestly being able to have that time has made me so much healthier.
07:01I think of anything that I really needed, it was someone to kind of harness all this energy
07:06and just slow it down.
07:27So basically what's going on here is that we're supposed to have this nice, quiet two weeks of relaxation together.
07:33And no, Andy Bell has to call up and go, hey, come race Baja.
07:37It's only like an hour away.
07:38No, no, you're looking at it all wrong.
07:39You get to race Baja as a couple.
07:41It's going to be awesome.
07:42So anyway, I need stuff to race in.
07:45Ergo, A-star is awesome.
07:47They're here.
07:48Travis called them like two minutes ago and he drove down.
07:51And so here we go.
07:52Literally two minutes.
07:52Well, not 20 minutes.
07:5420, 20.
07:55But yeah, Mexico's not too far away.
07:57So I think you guys have some time to spare.
07:59Yeah, no problem.
08:00We don't have to leave until another hour or so.
08:02That's perfect.
08:03That's plenty of time.
08:03Plenty.
08:04So we got shoes, driving shoes.
08:06So there's two different sizes or?
08:08Yeah.
08:09Two different sizes.
08:10Oh, I got gloves.
08:12Fireproof underwear.
08:14Everything.
08:16When being sponsored by an underwear company, you have sporty underwear that you can just drop your pants anywhere.
08:24It's your company.
08:28Thanks for representing the company.
08:30This is good because I think Lindsey's doing a...
08:32I'm not a quedgey.
08:34I'm not a quedgey.
08:34I'm a crotch quedgey.
08:37Doing a driving experience here in about two weeks.
08:40So we'll get her on the simulator a little bit.
08:42But it'll be good getting her decked out in some A-stars.
08:44First time off-roading?
08:46First, yeah.
08:47I mean...
08:48She's awesome on go-karts, but...
08:50First time off-road on purpose.
08:52She's the most competitive individual that I've ever met that's also a girl.
08:56So the cool part, her main focus for this year's NASCAR season is to win the better half dash.
09:01Gotcha.
09:03So, uh...
09:03Yeah, this one is way better.
09:05Should be pretty interesting.
09:07If we crash out there, it could be like days before people could find us.
09:11Because of?
09:11Yeah, so, you know, be comfortable.
09:27Down here in Baja, Mexico.
09:28San Felipe 250.
09:30And, uh, basically had an opportunity to come down with some of our friends, uh, Andy Bell.
09:34And they were gonna do a little pre-running.
09:36Called Travis Clark literally a day before we went, who's my agent, who also is coming down to race this
09:41event.
09:42And he said, you know what?
09:43Uh, we can definitely get you guys a pre-run a car.
09:48What's up, Dirty Deerbuckers?
09:50How's it going, Mr. Steele?
09:51What's up, Travis?
09:51How are you, brother?
09:52Good to see you, man.
09:53So I'm in a 1600 buggy with my wife, but am I gonna have a divorce by the end as
09:56her co-driver?
09:57I'm predicting divorce by mile 23, probably.
10:01Awesome.
10:02I mean, she's pretty solid.
10:03She's seen a lot of miles, but we prep her really well.
10:05And she just had a full prep from the frame up, so.
10:11I'm not worried at all.
10:11I mean, we're gonna have fun.
10:12I think we'll have a better chance of finishing if she drives the whole race.
10:15So do you want to start the race?
10:18Sure, I just think that I want to wait and see how I even fit in the other car, because...
10:23You'll fit better right there, yeah.
10:30It doesn't matter, we will make you fit in the other car.
10:33Yeah, yeah.
10:33Did that help?
10:34Did the jacket, the booster seat help?
10:36Yeah.
10:37Well, and we'll have time tomorrow.
10:38Sometimes I forget, like, as gnarly and as badass as she is all the time, you know,
10:43and she skates, and she does moto, and she backflips, and she's, that sometimes I forget
10:48that, you know, she's a girl, and certain things that I'm excited to do aren't really
10:53exciting for girls.
10:55Lindsay, do you want to drive with Annie instead of me, because I'm a big dumb idiot?
10:58Yeah, I think that would be beneficial.
10:59All right, cool, she's gonna drive with you next.
11:01This was so easy!
11:03All right, man, I just gotta...
11:04Wow, this is like marriage counseling 101.
11:06We're learning communication involved.
11:07Get to the point!
11:08All right.
11:09Well, remember, you can't get the clutch all the way in.
11:11It probably means you can't get the brake all the way in.
11:13I can do the brake and the gas all the way.
11:15Let's see.
11:16Let's go.
11:16This, this, this, and go.
11:19Wow!
11:42So, how's the instruction?
11:45Is Andy good?
11:45Andy's better than you.
11:47What?
11:47Positive reinforcement?
11:49Oh, what a thought!
11:50Yeah.
11:51I, you know, you just...
11:53She did a couple things.
11:54They're like, oh, you gotta let out the clutch smoothly.
11:57Yeah.
11:58When you downshift.
11:59And she's like, oh, okay.
12:00You know, I forgot a couple times, but it's just like anything.
12:03Gotta remember.
12:03I think for us, it would be good if you just, if I need to shift up, go like this.
12:07If I need to shift down, go like that.
12:08Cool.
12:09Yeah.
12:37Let's go!
12:39You PGNANっちゃh!
12:39This line. This line. You
12:55I'm really sorry about that, Cameron.
12:56I totally messed that one up.
12:58Can you guys roll us over or should we get the hell out of here?
13:02I'm fine.
13:07I married an idiot.
13:23I've never actually finished any single event down in Baja.
13:27I had so much fun and said hey can we get a race vehicle and I guess it's going to
13:32show
13:39up tonight.
13:40We've got a car guys, day and a half notice, thank you.
13:44Really really appreciate it.
13:45This car is sick man.
13:46I got too old fat to ride a bike anymore than I am.
13:51It's not fair, you can climb in however you want.
13:55So Lindsey is going to take off, drive the first quarter of the race.
13:59I'll drive the middle half and barring any incidents and we're still going, Lindsey will finish
14:05out the rest of the race.
14:24I'm scared.
14:30This is awesome.
14:32I'm a little nervous.
14:33This is the first time I've really set passenger in any racing vehicle and this is my wife.
14:40I love you so.
14:41Good luck Lindsey.
14:43Good luck Lindsey.
15:16We had a really good dogfight with another girl driver, it was pretty cool, we were
15:19going back and forth.
15:21She was kind of cruising, and then the girl would go by her, she'd be like, ah!
15:25It's good, always get the competitive nature going.
16:02Long, grueling day, roughest course I've ever seen.
16:04This is the first time I've actually ever finished a race in Baja.
16:08These guys right here, without them, we'd have still been stuck.
16:11There's a whole group of people that were stuck on a hill, so we tried to go right,
16:15and then we got completely buried, buried this thing all the way to the bottom.
16:18They had like a half a tire.
16:19Yeah, completely done.
16:21We were shot, and we were like a half mile off course, no one was going to find us.
16:25These guys came out of nowhere, had freaking four wheel drive trucks.
16:29Thank you!
16:31The race was definitely not something that I ever thought I would do.
16:35I was so nervous, you know, that was my second day driving a car with a clutch.
16:40You know, once we got started it was good, it was just the roughest, most violent ride
16:45of my life.
16:46It was so awesome, we finished the race, and Travis didn't crash us, and I think now that
16:50he's actually been behind the wheel of a vehicle, he can focus on NASCAR, so we're going
16:55to head home to Maryland.
17:03All right, well we got to Pastranas at one in the morning last night.
17:07He said meet me at seven in the hot tub.
17:10It's now like 725 and no sign of him, so let's get him up.
17:16Okay, my ankle really hurts from flying all day, so can we hot tub?
17:19Yes, definitely.
17:20Yeah, well my whole body hurts from going over six foot.
17:23Well, you wouldn't know because you didn't even fit in a damn truck.
17:27Hot tub.
17:29Hot tub.
17:30Hot tub.
17:30Workout gym.
17:31Finally today.
17:31Yeah.
17:32I know, dude.
17:32That's the hardest part of the normal road, man.
17:35Just frickin' bad food.
17:38Bad food.
17:39Never working out.
17:41No workout.
17:43Let's see.
17:43Maybe I got a pair of boy shirts next.
17:46I got shoes for the day.
17:48And tomorrow.
17:50And the day after.
17:53Let's see.
17:55Dude, you can't even get in your office.
17:57Well, I don't really do a lot of work.
18:02I don't know if you've noticed.
18:05Board trips.
18:06Board trips.
18:06Board trips.
18:07Board trips.
18:07Board trips.
18:09Gee, I love my sponsors.
18:13I love your closet.
18:16Thanks, Lindsey.
18:22Yeah, Lindsey's gonna redo the house.
18:25I figured the skate park had to come first, though.
18:27Whatever.
18:28The BMX park.
18:30That was built for you.
18:32Not for me.
18:33I was all excited.
18:34Like, sick.
18:3418-foot quarter pipe.
18:36Rezzy.
18:37Gonna be epic.
18:38Gonna learn so much stuff.
18:39I can't even get to the damn quarter pipe because I can't get to the jump to get to the
18:43landing
18:43to get to the cartons.
18:45You have to be better.
18:46I'm trying to...
18:46I'm challenging you.
18:50All right.
18:50Well, NASCAR training, I guess, starts today.
18:52We got, uh...
18:53I think Lindsey's already got the sauna warmed up.
18:56Oh, do we have to?
18:58What's the car get to?
18:59Like, 1.30?
19:001.30.
19:00It was, it was over, like, it was over 1.30 when I was testing, uh, last year right before
19:05Indianapolis.
19:06For how long?
19:07They made me, because I talk so much crap on the guys, they made me actually sit in the
19:10car and they wouldn't let me out all day.
19:12I've never been so claustrophobic except for in a foam pit.
19:14In a foam pit, you don't have to sit there for that long.
19:16Dude, that's so gnarly.
19:17It's actually, it's something I didn't actually know either.
19:20You just think, yeah, they're turning left.
19:22Just like people used to say when I was riding motorcycles, no, you just sit there and
19:25turn the throttle.
19:26Like, how can it be so tiring?
19:32Like, 30 minutes to 1.40.
19:34Seriously, I don't know how he's going to do that for three hours, even if it's only
19:371.30 or so.
19:40One really awesome part of having my wife be a professional athlete is that she's in
19:46really good shape and me with a hurt ankle took me a long time to get in good enough
19:51shape to actually be able to ride next to her.
19:55So, this is a...
19:55Well, here we go.
20:22We'll be racing this next weekend.
20:24Trying to get a feel for how to go around it.
20:28It's so close to exactly the same feel.
20:31About the actual race car.
20:33I got a little bit too much push, so I'm actually going to give a call to my crew chief
20:39right
20:39now and see how we can make this car in the video game closer to the car that we're racing.
20:44Oh, and that's what I was afraid of.
20:51I got corner weight, ride height, shock deflection, spring deflection, spring perch offset, spring
20:56rate, bump stiffness, rebound stiffness, camber caster.
21:00That's all you got.
21:01Uh huh.
21:02You can either go up on the right rear or off on the left rear.
21:06Take some cross weight out of it.
21:08So, wait.
21:09I just...
21:09Actually, I just went too high.
21:10I went up on the right rear, or on the spring right, and now we're too high.
21:14Yeah.
21:15We'll be ready for you for the ball morning.
21:16Alright, man.
21:17Thanks for all the work.
21:18We'll be there around 7.38.
21:22Alright.
21:23See ya.
21:23Talk to you in a bit.
21:26Alright, I'm not sure that that was actually helpful.
21:28Everything that we...
21:29Everything that I had done to set the car up to make it work for me.
21:33Um, he's basically saying I'm an idiot.
21:35So, let's see if this works any better.
21:42Oh, look!
21:43We actually made a dent in the red bulb.
21:59Um, you know, my dad's such a big fan of American-made stuff.
22:03Like, he only buys American-made.
22:05But, thank you, Lindsey.
22:07Every time I'm on this Harley...
22:09I got it.
22:09It breaks down.
22:11Something falls off.
22:13It rattles.
22:15And so, you're now gonna fix your faulty kickstand with board short.
22:20Do you understand what has to be done?
22:21Yeah, I do.
22:22Alright, we'll put it in the hole.
22:23What do you mean?
22:24Do you...
22:25Do you want me to lay down and...
22:26Hey, could you...
22:28Uh, Lindsey, you can hold the motorcycle and...
22:30I'll scout this part.
22:31Try it again.
22:33Go.
22:34Go to your hole.
22:35It's in.
22:37Ah!
22:37It's in.
22:38Yeah.
22:39Good job.
22:40Look at that.
22:41That was simple.
22:43Alright.
22:44High five.
22:44Good job, buddy.
22:46Alright, you guys can continue on your leisurely ride.
22:49Woohoo!
22:52The NASCAR world is definitely really different from any kind of world that Travis and I have
22:58lived in before.
22:59You know, it's not action sports.
23:01You know, the drivers are pretty clean cut.
23:05I feel like Travis and I are a little more loose than the rest of the crowd.
23:09And I definitely think that as far as NASCAR wives go, I'm gonna shake things up.
23:28And you know, he's a little more...
23:28All right, and there's no new movie.
23:34You're a cool guy.
23:34You're a cool guy.
23:34Oh, yeah.
23:35You're a cool guy, man.
23:36I'm really not sure, man.
23:36Oh, yeah.
23:44Alright, Ian.
23:44I'm out of here.
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