Subaru Motorsports USA

Brandon Semenuk

Rally Driver
Subaru Motorsports USA
WRX #180

Brandon is internationally recognized and acclaimed as one of the best freeride mountain bikers in the world, and has exhibited his talents through film, competition, and on various media outlets. Although he is known to millions of fans as a groundbreaking talent on a bike, Brandon has more recently become a rising star in North American rally. 

A native of British Columbia, Semenuk has been putting his mark on rally in the U.S. and Canada since 2010. Rapidly progressing from a WRX to a WRX STI and then to a Subaru Canada-supported Crosstrek rally car, Semenuk has secured five Canadian Rally Championship (CRC) event wins and a pair of North American Rally Cup (NARC) titles. 

In 2020, Brandon joined Subaru Motorsports USA with an impressive debut podium finish at the Southern Ohio Rally. His success continued in 2020 where he finished on the podium at the remaining five ARA rounds including netting his first ARA win at the Show-Me Rally in Missouri. In 2021, Semenuk finished third overall in the ARA Driver’s Championship with a win at the last round of the season, the Oregon Trail Rally. Semenuk earned his first ARA Driver’s Championship in 2022 after a hard fought season against his rivals, earning four wins and securing the title on the final round of the season. He then defended his crown in 2023 with a ‘perfect season,” winning all eight rounds of the ARA series and dominating the competition. Most recently he won his 3rd straight ARA Driver’s title in 2024 after a hard-fought season-long battle against rival and teammate Travis Pastrana.

Semenuk’s developing rally career hasn’t meant slowing down on two wheels. Brandon remains a top-level freeride MTB athlete and secured his fifth Red Bull Rampage victory in 2024. His lifetime accolades also include three FBM World Tour overall championships and five total Red Bull Joyride wins, making him one of the most decorated freeride MTB athletes in history.

Outside of rally and MTB, Brandon enjoys photography and features much of his work on his social media pages. He also stars in the multi-million-view Raw100 video series produced by Red Bull and his production house Revel Co., combining his interests to break new ground in both MTB stunts and videography.

Travis Pastrana

Gymkhana & Rally Driver
Subaru Motorsports USA
WRX #199

Travis Pastrana candidly refers to rallying as “motocross with a rollcage!” and has driven a Subaru rally car from day one of his career in the sport. He dominated rallying in the U.S. from 2006-2009, winning four consecutive championships with Subaru Rally Team USA after switching his focus from Freestyle Motocross (FMX). After a hiatus which included a stint in NASCAR, Pastrana rejoined Subaru in 2014 to compete in partial seasons as his busy schedule allowed.

In 2017 Pastrana returned to compete full-time in the inaugural American Rally Association (ARA) championship. He traded wins with teammate David Higgins over the six-round series and they battled closely through the last event at the Ojibwe Forest Rally. In the end, Pastrana edged out his longtime mentor and was crowned the 2017 ARA champion, sealing his fifth national rally title. 

In 2021, Pastrana partnered with Rhianon Gelsomino, a talented co-driver from Australia with extensive experience. Together the duo earned four event wins and two second place finishes. They mathematically sealed the championship at Ojibwe Forests Rally in Minnesota before the season ended at Oregon Trail Rally and were crowned 2021 ARA National Champions.

Fast, fearless and able to memorize complex sequences of corners, Pastrana also has excelled in hill climb competition. In 2017 he conquered New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington Hillclimb, setting a stunning new record in the process. The Mt. Washington Auto Road is one of the most challenging race venues in the country—steep, narrow, uneven and with precipitous drops—and offers a contrast to the wider, smoother roadway up Colorado’s Pikes Peak. Driving a 600-horsepower Vermont SportsCar-prepared WRX STI, Pastrana blitzed the 7.6-mile climb in 5 minutes 44 seconds and broke the previous record - held by his mentor David Higgins - by more than 20 seconds. For context - it takes an average driver approximately 30 minutes to drive the road. 

In 2021, he smashed his own record by 18 seconds with a time of 5 minutes 26 seconds in the fully bespoke, 862-horsepower Vermont SportsCar prepared Subaru WRX “Airslayer STI” that was originally built for the Gymkhana Video released in 2020. After his accomplishment in New Hampshire, Pastrana and the Airslayer were honorably invited to the Goodwood Festival of Speed and finished second place at the well-known Hillclimb at the estate in England.  

Before his successful career in stage rally, Travis Pastrana was already a legend in motocross. His two-wheeled career began at the age of four with a one-speed 50cc dirt bike, and before long Travis was hammering his way through a string of National Amateur Motocross titles culminating with the World Freestyle Championship at the age of 14, cementing his place as an icon in the world of motocross. Although Pastrana cut his teeth with motocross and supercross, he became legendary in the world of Freestyle Motocross (FMX). In addition to winning nine X Games gold medals in FMX, he is also credited with developing many of the sport’s most demanding tricks and continues to elevate the bar for the sport. 

Pastrana gained additional worldwide fame when he landed the first ever double-backflip at X Games 12 in 2006 – the day before he won the Games’ inaugural Rally Car gold medal. He has also performed multiple record-breaking stunts, including jumping a Subaru rally car 269 feet over water on New Year’s Eve 2009, and in 2018 replicating three of Evel Knievel’s most famous motorcycle jumps in Las Vegas. 

Travis is well known for his positive and unpretentious attitude, which has made him a media favorite and earned him millions of fans around the world. He is in constant demand from both corporate and endemic media and draws huge crowds wherever he goes. No matter the situation, Travis always makes time for his fans, and has been known to spend hours signing autographs in the hot sun, taking pictures with every last fan. 

Beyond his prowess as an athlete, Pastrana is the co-creator and superstar of the Nitro Circus action sports franchise which includes sold-out world tours, a successful MTV TV series, feature films and the Nitro World Games, including the burgeoning Nitrocross property. Pastrana spends his time traveling the world with his wife, professional skateboarder Lyn-z Adams Hawkins and their two young daughters. 

Scott Speed

Rallycross Driver
Subaru Motorsports USA
WRX #41

You couldn’t ask for a better name for a racecar driver than Scott Speed. (Yes, the name is real).  A member of Subaru Motorsports USA since 2019, he has competed in America's Rallycross Championship (ARX) and Nitrocross (NX) and now supports the program as a top-tier driver for content development, testing and other motorsports initiatives.

Since winning the first Rallycross he entered back in 2013, Speed has cemented himself as the undisputed king of American Rallycross. He dominated the sport for years, winning three straight Red Bull GRC titles (2015-2017) and then taking the top podium spot in 2018's inaugural ARX Championship. The biggest news at the end of the 2018 ARX season was that Speed was joining Subaru for 2019 and he had his sights on earning yet another Rallycross championship.

Speed has an impressive history in racing. It started with karting at 10 years old, with his father as his coach. Speed won multiple titles during his young racing days. He eventually moved up to open-wheel racing in 2001 and won the Formula Russell title in his first try. The following year, Speed raced in the Formula Dodge National Championship and Star Mazda series and finished third and eighth, respectively.

In 2003, Speed won the Red Bull Driver Search which is similar to America’s Got Talent, but for racecar drivers. The opportunity took him outside the US for the first time and he found himself in the UK to drive in British Formula Three in order to prepare for his Formula One campaign. He was still 19. The following year he won Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup and Formula Renault 2000 Germany. By then he was comfortable in European race circuits and he moved up to GP2 series. He collected five podiums and twelve top-five finishes there. 

In 2006, Speed became the first American driver to participate in a Formula One event since Michael Andretti in 1993. Speed raced for Red Bull’s Toro Rosso Formula 1 team, and spent two years in F1 before shifting his career to NASCAR. 

Speed earned three poles and four wins in ARCA races in 2008. That same year, Speed ventured into the NASCAR Truck Series and won in his sixth race ever and captured the pole at Bristol Motor Speedway in his ninth start. 

Speed also raced a few times in the NASCAR Nationwide Series capturing the pole in his first ever NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He also finished in the top-10 in eight of his 13 races run in 2009. Speed soon, however, focused on the top series in NASCAR, the Sprint Cup Series. Speed sat outside the pole four times, had one top-five and three top-ten finishes in the Sprint Cup series. 

In 2013 Speed began racing in the Global Rallycross Championship where he took two wins in his debut season. In 2014 he won three GRC races as well as another X Games Gold, finishing the year third in the GRC Championship points battle. 

Then from 2015 to 2017 he dominated the GRC series, winning the title each year. In 2018, he continued his winning ways by winning the inaugural ARX Driver’s Championship. Speed is known as a surgeon on the track. He is very calm at the wheel of a 600-hp Rallycross beast and he rarely makes mistakes when racing. He is also a great communicator with his race machine and he can setup his car to his liking very quickly.

Speed resides in Mooresville, NC with his wife Amanda, his two daughters Juliet and Ava and his stepson, Rex. His favorite hobby is cycling. 

Keaton Williams

Rally Co-Driver
Subaru Motorsports USA
WRX #180

Hailing from Shropshire, UK, Keaton Williams has been following his passion for motorsports from a very young age. He began navigating grassroots events in the UK, working his way up through the ranks. At the ripe old age of 27, he had already been rallying for 10 years.

Keaton has now competed in almost 100 events across Europe and America: with Hyundai Motorsport's Junior Driver program, the Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team, and now with Subaru Motorsports USA.

Coincidentally, Keaton’s co-driver career reached a pivotal point early on when he co-drove for mountain biker and Red Bull athlete Gee Williams, making his pairing with Brandon Semenuk a return to familiar territory. Co-driving with mountain bikers seems to be a winning formula for him, as Williams navigated with Semenuk to clinch the 2022, 2023, and 2024 ARA National Championships.

Rhianon Gelsomino

Rally Co-Driver
Subaru Motorsports USA
WRX #199

Born in Australia to a motorsports family, racing is in Rhianon’s blood. From racing go-carts, autocross and stage rally to co-driving, she has come up the ranks and has competed in nearly 200 rallies in 15 countries with over 30 drivers. She joined the Subaru Motorsports USA team in 2020 and in 2021 guided Travis pastrana to victory in the ARA National Championship. Rhianon supports the development of drivers and co-drivers through her rally training business OzRallyPro. 

Subaru Tecnica International

STI® stands for "Subaru Tecnica International", the performance and motorsport subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. STI® was founded in April 1988 with the aim of using the motorsport arena to promote Subaru products in markets around the world. STI® works directly with Subaru Motorsports USA on engineering, parts development and driver development.

Motul

Motul is a world-class French company specialized in the formulation, production and distribution of high-tech engine lubricantsPresent in more than 120 countries, Motul USA was established in 1989 as a subsidiary of Motul France and is based in Southern California. Motul is recognized as the global specialist in synthetic lubricants. In addition to supporting Subaru Motorsports USA, Motul 300V can be found in the Subaru S209 and the Motul brand has partnerships globally with the SUBARU/STI MOTORSPORT team in Super GT, Subaru Tecnica International Inc. (STI), and Subaru UK.

Yokohama

Celebrating its 50th year in the U.S., Yokohama Tire Corporation is the North American manufacturing and marketing arm of Tokyo, Japan-based the Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., a global manufacturing and sales company of premium tires since 1917. Servicing an extensive sales network throughout the United States, Yokohama Tire Corporation is a leader in technology and innovation. The company’s complete product line includes tires for high-performance, light truck, passenger car, commercial truck and bus, and off-the-road mining and construction applications. Yokohama supplies Subaru Motorsports USA with competition gravel rally tires for use in team's American Rally Association program, as well as tires for Subaru’s Gymkhana programs.

Vermont SportsCar

Vermont SportsCar was founded by rally car builder and co-driver Lance Smith in 1988. Smith’s reputation for high quality craftsmanship and attention to detail – born from his early days of sports car restoration- became the hallmarks of Vermont SportsCar’s rally-car construction. The business has grown from a small four person shop to a state of the art facility with over 50 full-time employees.

Today, Vermont SportsCar is a hub for world-class performance, delivering the thrill of motorsports to rally enthusiasts, exposure to team sponsors and results to our partners.VSC prepares and maintains the team cars for Subaru Motorsports USA and manages all rally/rallycross team operations from their facility in Milton, Vermont.

DirtFish

DirtFish Rally School, located 30 minutes east of Seattle, Washington, provides programs for the ultimate rally experience and confidence behind the wheel. Whether it’s for fun, to improve your driving skills, learn advanced rally techniques, or for a corporate event, get ready to rock the dirt and slide sideways!

From beginner to seasoned veteran, our students are encouraged to maximize their capabilities.

R53 Suspension

R53 suspension is a division of R53 engineering, strategically located at the heart of the UK Motorsport Valley in Warwick, UK. R53 suspensions’ main roots are founded on the WRC- World Rally Championship, where key employees have had great success working for the Mitsubishi WRC Ralliart Team and Tommi Makinen as well as developing the suspensions. R53 suspension is a tier 1 UK sport car OEM, exclusive supplier for homologated racing programs, GT3, GT4 and Formula E as well as other road car and high profile motorsport programs. Our customers include McLaren (Automotive and Motorsport), Bentley, Gordon Murray Design, Renault Sport, Formula E, QEV, ST engineering, and others for bespoke applications. R53 thrive for perfection and understanding of new technologies. We work with best in class suppliers and partners which are an integral part of our business.

SPARCO

Since 1977 Sparco S.p.A. develops and produces equipment for the racing environment and counts, to this day, more than 300 partner teams in various world motorsport competitions (F1, Indy, WRC, Nascar, Dakar and many others) and worldwide clients adopting its products.The Sparco Group, since 2000, diversified its activities to strongly enter the carbon fiber automotive components’ industry for the most important super sports car and luxury car’ manufacturers, while in the last years has expanded its business to the gaming-simulation racing industry and to the safety clothing industry (safety footwear and workwear). The group headquarter is in Volpiano (TO), Italy, and has more than 1000 employees that operate in eight production plants (four in Italy, three in Tunisia and one in the USA). The commercial presence is global.

Triple R

Developed around the uncompromising requirements of the professional motorsport market, the Triple-R range of lights sets the standard in auxiliary driving lights.Triple-R products display an unrivaled quality both in their lighting performance and reliability which is a result of exceptional design, an uncompromising approach to component selection, and superior build quality borne out of in-house UK manufacturing. Using the latest and most sophisticated technology, the lighting product range boasts world-class motorsports lighting solutions along with a comprehensive range of road and off-road LED driving lights.