Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 10:44pm
I am not a thrill seeker, and nobody would ever describe me as one. I drive slower than anyone I know who cares about cars. On the other end of the spectrum is Travis Pastrana. He’s the foremost authority on risk-taking, and he’s here, at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed’s Forest Rally grounds, conducting stage runs with lucky passengers in the Subaru WRX ARA25 rally car. This is the same machine that competes in the American Rally Championship’s Open Class, and it’s one of the fastest vehicles that will tackle the 2.1-mile course over the weekend.
Goodwood is and isn’t a serious competition. Outwardly, it’s an all-ages celebration of cars, motorsport, and the cultures that surround them. But the hillclimb has a leaderboard, as does the rally stage. The second that those times are posted on a massive screen for the public to see, it gets serious, even for the factory-backed teams that theoretically have nothing to prove.
