The rumors are true: Motorsports sensation Travis Pastrana tested a 410 winged Sprint Car on Friday afternoon at The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway ahead of the High Limit Racing opener at the Sin City half-mile.

Ridge & Sons Racing, the Knoxville, Iowa-based team owned by Brian Ridge and his wife Lisa that fields High Limit full-timer Aaron Reutzel in the No. 87, has teased the No. 199 on their social media pages all week, the very number that’s synonymous across Pastrana’s decorated career that features 11 gold medals in the X Games and six rally cross national titles.

The test run where he had Reutzel and three-time Knoxville Nationals champ Kyle Larson mentoring him is more about introducing him to the open-wheel discipline, one of the few race cars the Annapolis, Md., native has never driven before.

“We thought it would be cool to get Travis in a Sprint Car so he can learn how to drive it. Travis was all about getting in it and getting to learn,” Ridge & Sons Racing co-owner Brian Ridge told FloRacing earlier this week. “We worked with him and his folks, and then worked with Kyle Larson’s folks. … We’re going to teach (Travis), and then as he progresses, hopefully have him in a car racing.”

According to Ridge, Garrett Mitchell, popularly known as YouTube star Cleetus McFarland, was interested in also testing alongside Pastrana, a good friend of his, but the logistics didn’t work out.

“Cleetus was really wanting to do this also, but he’s so tall (at roughly 6-foot-6), we’ve come to the conclusion we have to have a tall-cage car,” Ridge continued. “We did all the measuring. (Wednesday) we figured out that there’s no way that’s going to be safe (in a stock Sprint Car chassis).”

Should Mitchell still be interested in a Sprint Car test, Ridge said he’d gladly have a specially-built chassis for the motorsports extraordinaire who has 4.2-million subscribers on YouTube. Pastrana, who also has his own YouTube channel, Channel 199, will have his content team and film crew on hand during the test session for future video content.

The ultimate purpose of Pastrana — a global superstar who has his own ESPN film 199 Lives: The Travis Pastrana Story and whose Facebook page has 6.6 million followers, among a long-winded list of accolades — getting in a Sprint Car is because Ridge believes extreme sports fans can also become fans of the open-wheel discipline that boasts power-to-weight ratios greater than contemporary Formula 1 cars.

“It’s more about teaching (him) and that also brings huge exposure to High Limit and our sport,” Ridge said. “That was what we wanted, to bring attention to our sport. We want motocross and rally cross, and all the different followers they have, to see Sprint Cars. That’s why we’re doing this.”