It’s the 2006 X Games in Los Angeles, California. The Staples Center is abuzz, ready to watch competitors face off in a festival favorite event: the Moto X Best Trick. X-Games favorite 23 year-old Travis Pastrana gets himself ready to run his first trick… the “superflip” – a backflip with a Superman (for good measure). How did Travis Pastrana become the modern day Evel Knievel? What did he do to revolutionize freestyle motocross? How did this motorcycle prodigy become an action sports legend? Today, on Past Gas’s 199th episode, the story of #199 – Travis Pastrana.
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Past Gas #201: Spoon + Mugen: The Kings of Honda Tuning
Past Gas #200: 200th EPISODE SPECIAL: Fun Stories, 20lb Dogs, & Fan-Fiction
Past Gas #198: Miracle at the Nurburgring: The Story of the 1969 Argentinian Torinos
Past Gas # 197: The Eerie Parallel Deaths of Ferrari’s Father-Son Superstars
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Past Gas #195: Jochen Rindt: The Driver Who Won an F1 Championship Posthumously
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Past Gas #193: Six Small Stories About BIG Automotive Heroes
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Past Gas #191: JGTC: Every Car You Like Came from This Japanese Racing Series
Past Gas #190: The Unsers: How ONE Family Kept Winning the Indy 500
Past Gas #189: Shelby Daytona Coupe: How Three Guys Beat Ferrari...Again
Past Gas #188: Willy T. Ribbs: The First Black Driver to Test a F1 Car
Past Gas #187: The Ferrari Curse Was Broken by an American
Past Gas #186: The Only American-Born F1 Champion
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Past Gas #184: The Rise & Fall of Mitsubishi
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