- Gymkhana returns with stunts across iconic Australian sites.
- Pastrana’s Subaru Brat jumps a road train in the desert opener.
- 670 hp ute drag races a Camaro on Mount Panorama’s straight.
The Gymkhana series launched rally legend Ken Block to international stardom back in 2008, blending razor-sharp driving with cinematic flair. Seventeen years on, the series returns with a new installment, this time starring Travis Pastrana, some incredible Australian scenery, and a modified Subaru Brat unlike any other. Welcome to Aussie Shred.
Hoonigan partnered with Subaru Motorsports USA to make the film come together. It’s filled with all the heart-pumping driving thrills you’d expect and starts in the most incredible way possible.
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Pastrana, behind the wheel of his 670 hp Subaru Brat jumps over one of Australia’s famous road trains in the heart of the desert, before heading to a characteristic small local town.
Here, there’s a throwback to previous Gymkhana films, including the very first, where the expert rally driver does donuts around someone riding a Segway. The difference this time? The rider is wearing a kangaroo suit. Of course.
From there, Pastrana tears through the town with a string of perfectly timed drifts, then makes his way to one of Australia’s most iconic racetracks: Mount Panorama, home of the annual Bathurst 1000 endurance race.
What follows is arguably the film’s standout moment. Just as the full grid of Australian Supercars races across the circuit’s most famous section, Pastrana powerslides onto the circuit, racing alongside these V8-powered beasts.
He continues to drift through some of the track’s trickiest bends, before lining up alongside one of the Chevrolet Camaro-based race cars for an epic rolling drag race down the circuit’s long straight.
After the Bathurst action, Pastrana and the Hoonigan team headed to Sydney, powersliding through the streets and then heading to a wharf to really unleash the Brat, letting the custom-built 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder sing unlike any other car used in a Gymkhana film.
“Australia had long been at the top of the list of potential Gymkhana film locations,” said Brian Scotto, co-founder of Hoonigan and director of the series. “Ken Block and I attempted to shoot Gymkhana Nine there, but were met with a resounding no, because of the climate of anti-hoon laws at the time.”
Scotto continued, “A decade later, when we reproached the Australian government, we were met with open arms. This combination of the unfinished business we had down under and this being Pastrana’s last film in the series not only makes it very special to me, but also puts the pressure on to push the limits of what we could do both in the car and behind the camera.”
