.TravisPastrana is headed for the 2023 DAYTONA 500!
You race a lot of kinds of motorsport. That was normal in the '60s, but then racing became very segregated by specialty. Recently there’s been more swapover. For example, Tony Stewart going drag racing, Indy drivers looking at F1, stock car drivers at Indy, and so on. Are we going to see more people moving around from one kind of racing to another again?
Well, I was disappointed at the end of my first NASCAR season when we ended up crashing at Daytona. I was almost crying. My dad goes, "I'd give my left arm to have had the opportunity to do one lap around Daytona at 200 miles an hour. And sliding backwards through the infield, making it through that safe? I would've given my other arm, my right arm, to have been able to experience what that felt like." Only he didn’t say "arm.
That's scary. I didn't realize how many great drivers and how many great cars were going to be trying to qualify in this year, but I want to earn my way in. When I raced stock cars before, I struggled with rear-wheel drive, with aerodynamics, understanding the draft, and with pavement. I've had a lot more experience on pavement the last 10 years. I've been really successful in Rallycross. Scott Speed being on my team, with F1 experience, helped me understand how I needed to think differently to be competitive. I'll never have a career in NASCAR, but I believe that I can drive well enough, and I'm with a really solid team.
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