While being a Sprint Cup team owner can seem like a full-time job, Michael Waltrip has found many other ways to be occupied in 2011.
Michael Waltrip, like his older brother, the three-time Cup Champion Darrell Waltrip, are known for their great sense of humor. Thus it’s no surprise that he’s become a stand-up comedian.
The Michael Waltrip Comedy Garage tour begins its second season with shows featuring topflight comedic talent like John Reep, Henry Cho, Tim Wilson plus a standup routine by Waltrip. The tour includes even more dates in 2011 including stops in Kansas City, Ontario, Canada and Las Vegas.
But that’s not all, in what his company calls his “first book,” (meaning others are planned). He’s written “In the Blink of an Eye,” a minute-by-minute account of triumph and tragedy 10-years ago when he broke a oh-for 462 winless streak, at the Daytona 500, on the day his boss, Dale Earnhardt Sr., died while helping Waltrip get that win.
In addition Waltrip will continue to comment on a cable network shows about NASCAR and a second season of what he terms “semi-retirement.”
Michael Waltrip says that his first priority remains with his five-year old team which has Martin Truex, Jr and David Reutimann (off a win at Chicagoland) in Cup cars and developmental driver, Ryan Truex – Martin’s younger brother.
Waltrip will also help develop the newly formed Pastrana-Waltrip Racing Nationwide team owned by MWR, action sports star Travis Pastrana and Gary and Blake Bechtel. The team expects to field Toyotas in seven races for Pastrana in 2011 and 20 in 2012. The Truex brothers will likely drive in the non-Pastrana Nationwide races for the team formerly called Diamond-Waltrip Racing.
In his spare time he will race with MWR co-owner Rob Kauffman in a Ferrari sports car in Portugal, Dubai and probably several other tracks across the globe.
And, by the way, he’s entered in the Daytona 500, the new Sprint Cup race at Kentucky and possibly a few more races in 2011.
Michael Waltrip, like his older brother, the three-time Cup Champion Darrell Waltrip, are known for their great sense of humor. Thus it’s no surprise that he’s become a stand-up comedian.
The Michael Waltrip Comedy Garage tour begins its second season with shows featuring topflight comedic talent like John Reep, Henry Cho, Tim Wilson plus a standup routine by Waltrip. The tour includes even more dates in 2011 including stops in Kansas City, Ontario, Canada and Las Vegas.
But that’s not all, in what his company calls his “first book,” (meaning others are planned). He’s written “In the Blink of an Eye,” a minute-by-minute account of triumph and tragedy 10-years ago when he broke a oh-for 462 winless streak, at the Daytona 500, on the day his boss, Dale Earnhardt Sr., died while helping Waltrip get that win.
In addition Waltrip will continue to comment on a cable network shows about NASCAR and a second season of what he terms “semi-retirement.”
Michael Waltrip says that his first priority remains with his five-year old team which has Martin Truex, Jr and David Reutimann (off a win at Chicagoland) in Cup cars and developmental driver, Ryan Truex – Martin’s younger brother.
Waltrip will also help develop the newly formed Pastrana-Waltrip Racing Nationwide team owned by MWR, action sports star Travis Pastrana and Gary and Blake Bechtel. The team expects to field Toyotas in seven races for Pastrana in 2011 and 20 in 2012. The Truex brothers will likely drive in the non-Pastrana Nationwide races for the team formerly called Diamond-Waltrip Racing.
In his spare time he will race with MWR co-owner Rob Kauffman in a Ferrari sports car in Portugal, Dubai and probably several other tracks across the globe.
And, by the way, he’s entered in the Daytona 500, the new Sprint Cup race at Kentucky and possibly a few more races in 2011.