Rally driver Travis Pastrana simply had an unlucky assembly with a stack of hay bales at this yr’s 2024 Goodwood Pageant of Pace, ending his probabilities of a first-place end for Sunday’s timed shootout occasion.
Pastrana, driving the wheels off of his Subaru “Household Huckster” racing wagon, misplaced management and understeered into the limitations whereas trying to barter Goodwood’s 1.1-mile hillclimb course. He went off at Molecomb nook, a difficult left-hander that routinely catches even the perfect drivers.
The extremely modified Subaru wagon smashed its proper and entrance sides, leaving it unable to proceed up the hill, regardless of Pastrana’s greatest efforts to get it shifting once more. The 40-year outdated Subaru manufacturing facility driver appeared unhurt within the moments after the crash.
The incident will be seen at 15:03 within the dwell stream under.
This is not the primary time Pastrana has crashed a Subaru at Goodwood. In 2022 he rolled a WRX STI rally automotive on the occasion’s rally stage, the place he additionally walked away unhurt.
This off is the most recent in a string of incidents at this yr’s Pageant of Pace. Earlier on this shootout occasion a Glickenhaus race automotive misplaced management and crashed at flip two. Earlier than that, a Ferrari 512 BB LM crashed into the hay bales subsequent to the long-lasting Flint Wall chicane. Earlier within the day, an Audi Le Mans automotive misplaced management and smacked into the limitations at Molecomb, not in contrast to Pastrana. And on Thursday, a one-off Lotus Evija observe automotive crashed proper initially line.
Pastrana’s incident is proof even the perfect drivers could make errors at Goodwood. It is an unforgiving course with exactly zero runoff, in any case. We’re glad he is okay, and hope the Household Huckster returns subsequent yr to take a win.