The Practice Run
He brought the noise.
Travis Pastrana rolled into the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend riding inside the Subaru Brataroo. It’s a carbon-fiber, 670-hp beast built to look like a classic Brat but driven like a track weapon. He didn’t go gentle. Even during his unofficial practice laps, Pastrana slammed through corners sideways, using that horsepower to drift up the 1.1-mile hill.
That’s the point, obviously.
This isn’t his first time trying to own this hill. Since 2021 he has been a regular.
Pastrana treats the Goodwood hill climb less like a race and more like a personal exhibition.
He holds the record from that first year, too. A custom 862-hp Airslayer STI took 46.2 seconds to reach the top. Then in 2023 he drove a wagon. The Family Huckster. It had 862 horsepower as well, posting a 49.3 second run. He got faster the following year in the same wagon. 47.5 seconds in 2024.
Now he wants the Brataroo to beat them all.
Can it match the 46 second run?
Sunday’s timed shootout is when the real clock starts ticking. Until then, we have to settle for watching him slide the thing sideways in slow motion. It works, mostly. The combination is almost unfair. Pastrana, a modified Subaru, and a hill that demands both.
