If you thought the Gymkhana series had already hit peak insanity, Travis Pastrana and Hoonigan just moved the bar again with Gymkhana: Aussie Shred. The new 11 minute film drops the action into Australia and wastes no time setting the tone, opening with the angry shriek of a turbocharged flat four echoing off the landscape before you even see the car. It is Pastrana’s third time behind the wheel for a Gymkhana installment, and the vibe fits him perfectly: big personality, big country, bigger stunts, all wrapped in slick production that feels more like a high budget action sequence than a typical YouTube car video.

What makes Aussie Shred click is how it uses Australia as a playground rather than just a backdrop. Pastrana sends the car down Mount Panorama while drag racing an Aussie supercar, threading the needle on roads that most people only see in Bathurst highlight reels. The film builds to what Hoonigan is calling the biggest jump in Gymkhana history, the kind of flight that makes you instinctively hold your breath even from your couch. In between, there are all the little moments fans love: laser precise frame slides, clouds of tire smoke, donuts around a kangaroo on a Segway and at least one bumper tap that looks a lot more “happy accident” than storyboarded stunt. The camera work and drone choreography stitch it all together into 11 minutes that never really give you a chance to look away.

Of course, none of this works without the star car, and the “Brataroo” is easily one of the wildest Gymkhana builds to date. It starts life as a humble 1978 Subaru BRAT, then gets shipped to Vermont SportsCar and returns as a full blown, space frame Gymkhana weapon wearing vintage bodywork. Under the skin sits a 2.0 liter turbo flat four cranked up to a claimed 670 horsepower and 680 pound feet of torque, spinning past 9500 rpm through a motorsport spec sequential gearbox and all wheel drive hardware. To keep it glued and controllable, the Brataroo also runs the most advanced active aero package the series has seen so far, constantly trimming and shifting downforce as Pastrana pitches it into slides or sends it skyward. It is not just a throwback oddball with a lift kit, it is a serious engineering project wearing a retro party outfit.

There is also a sense of full circle here for Pastrana. His last Gymkhana outing in 2022 featured the infamous BASE jump opener in Miami that left him with brutal injuries and a long road back, which makes the calculated chaos of Aussie Shred feel like both a victory lap and a bit of unfinished business. This new film trades that kind of life risking stunt for smarter, more focused car control and better storytelling, and it might be the last time we see Pastrana headlining a Gymkhana episode if some reports prove true. Whether or not that is the case, Aussie Shred is the kind of video you send to friends who do not “get” car culture and say, “Watch this.” It is a love letter to rally hardware, to Subaru diehards, and to the idea that there is always one more wild road left to attack.