Travis Pastrana will miss the next round of the Nitrocross season while he recovers from surgery.
Pastrana is having a knee replacement procedure ahead of the series’ trip to Calgary on February 3-4, the series’ only snow and ice round, and only event outside the United States. He is, however, expected to return for the season finale in Las Vegas at the end of March.
“There’s nothing better than ripping a 1000 horsepower machine with huge studs around the ice, but unfortunately my knee finally gave out from a lifetime of fun and I made the decision to get it replaced,” Pastrana told RACER. “I will be back better than ever for Vegas and ready to rock for the 2024-25 Nitrocross season.”
Calgary will be the second round in succession that Pastrana has sat out of the headline Group E class after having stepped aside for Lia Block in the second half of the doubleheader event at Glen Helen Raceway in December. Pastrana was also set to miss one of the two rounds in Utah to give YouTube star and sometime Stadium Super Trucks racer Cleetus McFarland an opportunity to race until series organizers put a stop to the plan owing to McFarland’s inexperience.