After months of controversy and a lightning delay, Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 formally became the first professional sports event held at the White House. Under sunnier skies the day prior, Travis Pastrana and his band of motocross greats did a demo on the South Lawn.

Pastrana was joined by Ricky Carmichael, Brian Deegan, Jeremy McGrath, Keith Sayers and Jeremy “Twitch” Stenberg. The stunt consisted of three ramps—two smaller quarter pipes to launch off and one large slope at the end—on the sidewalk with a pair of parked Humvees in between. Marines stood on the grass between the pavement and the fountain.

The sextet are among the greatest riders in motocross and supercross history. Carmichael has 15 titles across both series and the most combined wins, McGrath leads all riders with 72 AMA Supercross race wins, Stenberg has five FMX gold medals at the X Games, and Sayers is a stunt rider and longtime Nitro Circus partner. The crew has also enjoyed success on four wheels with Pastrana and Carmichael having tried out NASCAR, Deegan being an accomplished rallycross and short course driver, McGrath a King of the Hammers UTV class winner, and Stenberg a LOORRS Super Lite champ.

Nitro Circus, a brand started by Pastrana and currently owned by Thrill One (who has UFC leader Dana White as an investor), oversaw the setup. The ramps were brought over from Pastranaland outside Annapolis and set up so that the bikes landed right in front of where Dwight D. Eisenhower set up a putting green in 1954. The green was eventually removed by Richard Nixon and reinstalled by George H.W. Bush before Bill Clinton relocated it to its current location further north by the Rose Garden.

Each rider went over the jumps three times, doing their signature moves. Pastrana wrapped it up with an nac-nac underflip.

“You look one way and you have the White House, and you look the other way you have the Washington Monument, which is pretty cool,” Pastrana told the Capital Gazette.

Doing the Saturday demo meant Pastrana had to miss the Southern Ohio Forest Rally. Seth Quintero, fresh off his maiden World Rally-Raid Championship overall win, scored his first career victory in the American Rally Association ahead of Lia Block.

Pastrana was the points leader entering the rally, but falls to fourth due to his absence with 38 points. Block leads with 53 points followed by Quintero (47) and Alastair Scully (42). While he has some work to do to make up the lost ground, it is still only halfway through the season. Pastrana had acknowledged that he’d lose the championship lead because of the demo, but accepted the risk because this was a once-in-a-lifetime chance.

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