Very lame if you ask me. Not a lot of balls to do it. Sure it was a little risky, but he has people that calculate all it takes for that car to make it, down to the inch and MPH. So basically he hits it at the right speed and is good to go. However, they made him jump on to a barge to make it seem risky. Fact is, pretty much anyone could have done it.

Not knocking him. He has major balls and is a badass, this stunt, just didn't do it for me.

The one last NYE was much more badass, but nothing is as badass as him doing this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXQ1qEh9ar8

1/1/2010 2:56:42 AM

I said the same thing.

1/1/2010 3:00:05 AM

yeah man it was so lame... i see teens hanging outside the mall doing it all the time!!!

1/1/2010 9:48:11 AM

did he really pop a red bull before jumping? lol

1/1/2010 10:17:07 AM

How could you see the previews of this and think it would be anything other than lame?

1/1/2010 10:18:03 AM

if he had broken his pelvis, it would have been a lot less lame

1/1/2010 10:20:35 AM

anybody that can drive a stick shift could have done that. the distance wasnt even close to a world record car jump too

1/1/2010 10:25:01 AM

mmm...pastrami

1/1/2010 10:30:20 AM

you know what's really lame???


all of that David Blaine shit. monumental letdown every time

1/1/2010 10:31:39 AM

yeah lame stunt.

we didnt have any audio on it at the bar...did he puss out on the first attempt or was it a staged move to amp the crowd?

either way, it was lame and my boner went insta-soft

1/1/2010 10:34:23 AM

it wasn't great, but it wasn't just speed he had to control, it was making sure he was going exactly straight too

1/1/2010 10:38:52 AM

were you in town last night, Jessie? i thought i heard through the grapevine that you were...

1/1/2010 10:44:22 AM

nope i was home.

1/1/2010 10:45:35 AM

what did he do?

is he the same guy that jumped up onto and subsequently off of the arch over Champs-Élysées?

1/1/2010 11:13:52 AM

yea

jumped his car from a pier onto a barge, in-air length ended up being 269'

1/1/2010 11:14:36 AM

comparatively speaking, that is sort of meh. But then again, i don't see myself getting behind the wheel of a car and sailing it through the air 269'.

1/1/2010 11:20:06 AM

Quote :

"we didnt have any audio on it at the bar...did he puss out on the first attempt or was it a staged move to amp the crowd?"

they said before it started that he would do a test run or two before he jumped

1/1/2010 11:21:18 AM

the only thing that keeps me from calling it completely lame was that he had to hit it straight on because the landing area was pretty narrow, but last year's was def. better of course with the vegas motorbike thing

1/1/2010 11:21:28 AM

im not hungover

1/1/2010 11:22:24 AM

i thought it was pretty awesome.

and that arch was in vegas

1/1/2010 11:25:10 AM

Here is a 301 feet jump by another dude a few days ago in a 2WD truck... a world record!

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/29/video-johnny-greaves-jumps-stadium-truck-over-300-to-set-world/

1/1/2010 11:58:06 AM

Here is a video of his practice jump which went all wrong

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/15/video-pastrana-practice-for-record-new-years-eve-jump-goes-awr/

1/2/2010 3:04:27 PM

I thought it was pretty lame that he had the catch net at the end

1/2/2010 3:16:24 PM

^^ That's fake. No way those guys on the hill reacted that way or the car sounded that way if it landed like that.

1/2/2010 3:42:23 PM

^haha wut

1/2/2010 3:49:40 PM

didn't see the stunt or know what exactly you're talking about, but pretty much any time you take a car off a ramp into the air, you're opening yourself up to all kinds of potential deadly situations. There's a lot more involved than just "calculating MPH"

1/2/2010 3:57:26 PM

either way, real jumps are way better just because of conditions

1/2/2010 4:22:17 PM

Quote :

"How could you see the previews of this and think it would be anything other than lame?"

1/2/2010 4:32:29 PM

We didn't have any local channels or MTV, so for the first time in my life I didn't watch the ball drop...I watched Travis Pastrana jump a car over some water. It was not that awesome.

1/2/2010 8:31:51 PM