Famed NASCAR, motorcross star returning to Daytona weekend with higher purpose for veterans, first-responders

For the archetypal clip successful 3 years, Travis Pastrana volition beryllium taking connected the famed Daytona International Speedway.

The excitement is existent — the archetypal clip Pastrana raced successful the Daytona 500. His mean bosom rate? Over 180 beats per minute.

"At times, I was moving implicit 180 bosom rate. For idiosyncratic that's, you know, was astir 40 years aged astatine the time, to beryllium moving that high, it was conscionable benignant of a bosom onslaught the full race," Pastrana said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital.

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Driver Travis Pastrana of the #199 Subaru WRX ARA25L looks connected aft the podium ceremonial of the 2025 ARA Ojibwe Forests Rally connected August 23, 2025, successful Bemidji, Minnesota.  (Steven Garcia/Getty Images)

Pastrana won't beryllium successful the large contention this year, but connected Friday, helium volition beryllium taking portion successful the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series play opener astatine Daytona.

To marque the lawsuit adjacent that overmuch much special, Pastrana, on with part-time Truck Series operator and YouTuber Cleetus McFarland, has partnered with Black Rifle Coffee and BRUNT Workwear, who unneurotic are donating $100,000 to the Boot Campaign, which supports life-changing programs for veterans and subject families, peculiarly successful intelligence health, housing, and fiscal wellness.

Black Rifle Coffee Company is simply a veteran-founded, mission-driven marque with a long-standing committedness to veterans, archetypal responders, and those who serve. BRUNT Workwear builds tough, reliable cogwheel for hardworking Americans, and this sponsorship marks a large measurement for the marque connected the nationalist motorsports stage.

For Pastrana, being a portion of the Black Rifle Coffee squad hits home, arsenic his begetter was a Marine, his gramps was successful the Navy and his father-in-law besides served.

Driver Travis Pastrana of the #199 Subaru WRX ARA25L looks connected earlier Special Stage 1 astatine Soo Pass Ranch connected Aug. 21, 2025, successful Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. (Steven Garcia/Getty Images)

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"My dada loves to get veterans together, archer stories, and conscionable beryllium appreciative for being capable to unrecorded the American Dream. We similar to enactment the American Dream," Pastrana said. "But really, we're trying to enactment veterans, first-responders, and amusement them a bully time. It was each astir bringing radical successful for this astonishing acquisition astatine Daytona.

"BRUNT Boots was like, 'Hey, we each privation to spell down (to Daytona). Like, each the employees, each those benignant of blue-collar unit they have. We privation to spell beryllium a portion of Daytona. Do you privation to race?' I was like, 'Hell yeah, I privation to race. Like that would beryllium perfectly awesome.' Like, I cognize I'm not the champion astatine rear-wheel thrust oregon pavement, but this is going to beryllium fun."

"It's the astir aggravated racing you tin bash due to the fact that it lasts for hours," added McFarland. "You're afloat throttle for hours, and I deliberation BRUNT Boots and Black Rifle Coffee, they're conscionable specified chill brands and they conscionable wholly spell on with the taxable of Daytona Speedway, brother, you know? It's an grant for maine to beryllium a portion of that."

These partnerships, Pastrana said, rejuvenate the emotion for racing.

"Sometimes you get into this rut wherever you're like, you conscionable privation to win. I get truthful caught up successful something. And past you spell and you contention the Freedom 500 and the stands are packed and you consciousness that, like, wherefore you started racing successful the archetypal place?" helium said.

"And I deliberation that's wherefore Black Rifle and BRUNT Boots person benignant of partnered up with america because, look, win, lose, and draw, we're gonna person a clump of radical that are coming in, we're going to person immoderate veterans, we're gonna amusement everyone that we're having a bully clip and that these brands are supporting the radical that are supporting the world."

Honorary gait car driver, Travis Pastrana, poses for a photograph connected the grid anterior to the NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out 400 astatine Richmond Raceway connected August 11, 2024 successful Richmond, Virginia.  (Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

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"I mean, it matters if we win, obviously," McFarland noted. "But I deliberation Black Rifle and BRUNT some know, like, if Trav and I bash thing cool, it's each success."

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