Austin Hill on Shania Twain, lack of fear and his unusual nickname: 12 Questions

Each week, The Athletic asks the same 12 questions to a different race car driver. Up next: Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Hill, the Xfinity Series points leader who already has three victories this season. This interview has been slightly condensed, but the full version is available on the 12 Questions podcast.

1. You must pick one chore or obligation to do every day for a year. But if you make it the whole year doing this, you never have to do it again for the rest of your life. So what do you pick?

There’s a lot of chores that have to be done around my house, especially with having three kids at home. And I also have four dogs now.

Oh my gosh. Three kids and four dogs?

Yeah. Two of them are bigger dogs — a lab and a golden retriever — and then I have two little teacup Yorkies. So I’d say having to clean up all the you-know-what from all the dogs. If I could get it over with for the year and I possibly didn’t have to do it again, I’d be all for that.

2. Can you describe how you are as a passenger in a street car?

It depends on who’s driving. If my wife is driving, I have my own imaginary brake pedal and I’m like, “They’re stopping ahead. Might be time to start pressing the ol’ B pedal instead of pressing the throttle still.” I’m normally pretty calm…