Reutimann hunting more than a win this holiday weekend
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
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LEBANON, Tenn. – David Reutimann doesn’t mind racing on a holiday weekend, especially since he’ll get home in time to enjoy his unofficial second career – family egg hider.
Reutimann, driver of the No. 99 Michael Waltrip Racing entry in Saturday’s Pepsi 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race, admits that the schedule can sometimes be difficult on a family. While his Sprint Cup Series team is idle this weekend, the driver is racing at Nashville Superspeedway. He’s one of four drivers who is also competing in all the Nationwide races this season.
Reutimann certainly doesn’t mind the racing part.
“I think it’s harder on your families because you’re going there, trying to do a job, then you’re obviously trying to get home and spend as much time as you can,” he said Friday at Nashville. “If things work out correctly, I’ll still have Sunday with them … It’s part of the job. I don’t know that you’ll always have opportunities to run both series in very competitive cars, so when the opportunities come up and the fact that I just like to drive, I love to drive, even on the bad days, it’s still the best job in the world.”
Still, he’s looking forward to being home Sunday with his family. His daughter, Emilia, is 6 now – which makes Easter Sunday all that much more fun.
“I’m a pretty good egg hider,” Reutimann said. “I actually hide them well enough where I can’t remember where the ones we don’t find are. That’s actually one of the things I enjoy. … Last year, the hardest one to find I hid it in the tailpipe of my truck and she found it, but she stuffed it in there farther and I had to crank it up to get it to pull out, so I don’t know that we’ll do that again.”
Reutimann, who refers to himself as a “big kid,” goes in for the full experience. He doesn’t settle for eggs he can buy, but rather dives right into the process of coloring them.
“We go [with] real eggs and color them and stuff like that,” he said. “Although there [are] some plastic ones we hide with candy. I put the plastic ones in the more high-risk areas. I’m an old-school guy so I like to boil an egg, put it in the dye, and do all that other tuff. It’s a lot of work, but it just feels more like Easter.”
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