Earnhardt, who has a propensity to take difficult issues and communicate them in a straight-forward, effective manner, did it again, offering a poignant insight to his approach at getting older and closer to the day his career isn't encompassed by driving a race car.
Here was his response:
“Yeah,
I think so especially as I get older and get closer to understanding that
driving race cars won’t last forever. I mean I knew that, but you get closer and
closer to the day when you won’t be in the race car anymore. Not only do I need
things to keep me busy or keep me excited and motivated to get out of bed every
day. You want to love what you do right? Because I’ve had so much fun driving
race cars it is going to be a real challenge to find something that I enjoy as
much," he said.
"That is sort of something I take a little more seriously now as I’m
getting older. I think the dealerships in Tallahassee (Florida) will be a fun
exciting challenge. That was really my career path if I hadn’t been a race car
driver, was as a mechanic and into the service department and maybe eventually
if it all worked out a general manager or something like that at a store. It’s
funny to think about it now, but that was the reality of the situation when I
was younger. I feel comfortable there and feel like I understand that business
better than anything else."
It has become evident the care and concern Earnhardt puts into his outside ventures of late matches that on ensuring he is competitive in the race car each week.
"I’m taking those things very
seriously because that is going to be my source of income one day when driving
race cars is no longer an opportunity. Definitely take it more seriously and
want to make sure that we are doing things right," he said.
"The production company does really good
there are just so many things that we have so much potential with that are
looking really good. Hopefully all that stuff works out. Everybody is looking
for the (George) Foreman grill and hopefully I’ve got a couple of them in the
works.”
