Each week, The Athletic asks the same 12 questions to a different race car driver. Up next: JTG Daugherty Racing’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who returns to Daytona International Speedway this week as the reigning Daytona 500 champion. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. The full version is available on the 12 Questions podcast.
1. You have to pick one chore or obligation to do every day for a year. But if you make it doing this for the entire year, you never have to do it again for the rest of your life. So what would you like to pick and knock out forever?
Take the trash out. My driveway is really long, so I’ve got to drive it to the end of the driveway. If I wouldn’t have to do that again, that’d be nice.
Sometimes if you get the trash in your car and there are liquids, it could spill. How do you make sure …
… I get it in the truck bed. That’s the…