Travis Pastrana has signed a deal with Michael Waltrip Racing that could put him in NASCAR’s second-tier Nationwide series as early as next year.
The action sports star has formed a team called Pastrana-Waltrip Racing, with Waltrip and Gary and Blake Bechtel. Pending NASCAR approval, he will run seven Nationwide races next season and 20 in 2012.
“I’ve been following NASCAR closely for years as a fan of the sport with competing in the sport a lifelong dream,†Pastrana said in a statement released Thursday.
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Away from Gaza’s troubled reality and beyond its polluted shore, Shorouq and Sabah Abu Ghanem surf in a world of their own. The two girls, 13 and 12, learnt how to swim at the age of three at the hand of their lifeguard father.
They can swim up to 10 km (6 miles), dive to seven meters (25 feet) and surf on plastic boards that they hope one day to trade in for competition-grade models. “In the sea I find my freedom. I feel free of everything I leave behind on land,” said 13-year-old Shorouq. “Gaza is under blockade. We lack surfboards, we lack diving gear. We lack many things. But out in the sea it doesn’t matter.”  … Details