“Stone Cold” Steve Austin has shut down rumours that he will be appearing on Raw tonight.
Today is 3:16 Day for many wrestling fans but Austin won’t be celebrating with the WWE. Raw is in San Antonio, Texas, tonight.
On SI’s The Takedown, Austin clarified his status.
“Man, they should tune in because they love WWE and Monday Night Raw but I am out. I will be a few days out from that race. The race I am talking about with my racing career and we are trying to get that car ready. We are working our asses off. So yeah, I will be hunkered down in a garage out here in Nevada, trying to get this buggy ready, a side-by-side utility vehicle, to race this grueling 250-mile race with everybody else I race with. I want to get out there and put my own show on out there in the desert,” he said.
Austin has recently started racing UTVs in off-road, desert endurance races, even winning Rookie of the Year in the VORRA class.
“I’d been driving side-by-sides and four-wheelers way before that but racing and just riding them around, it’s two different things and I’m really late to the sport,” Austin told RDC. “I was nervous as a longtail cat in a room full of rocking chairs for those first couple of races as you would be. Now, there’s not that nervousness. There’s that anticipation. I’m still green. I am green but I started off greener than grass just like I did in my wrestling career.”
Austin explained to SI how racing and wrestling are very similar.
“I am very excited about the racing career I have found. I have teamed-up with some great people to pursue this passion. We need all the help and luck we can get,” Austin said of his team….Getting into racing is like…You learn by repeatition. You need seat time. It is like being in the ring. When I used to work in the USWA it was a weekly territory so you were in the same towns ever single week so that helped get your chops up. It is much the same with racing. Repetition is key,” he said.
