If you're a weirdo looking for Ashley Judd inside her own home, make sure there isn't a Scottish guy sitting at her table in his boxers.And make sure his name isn't Dario Franchitti.
The 2007 Indianapolis 500 winner-turned-NASCAR-driver apparently isn't a fan of random people walking into the home that he and wifey Judd share in Nashville, Tennessee. So much so that he will jump into his car with nothing but those boxers and a white t-shirt on and chase people until the police find them.
That's at least how Dario told the story Monday night to reporters over a dinner after NASCAR testing at Daytona International Speedway. From ESPN's Terry Blount:
"I was just sitting in the kitchen, eating a bowl of cereal in my boxer shorts," Franchitti said. "I looked up and some guy is standing in front of me. He just walked in the house.
"I really don't think I was the one he was looking for, but the guy quickly turned around and ran out of the house. He got in his car and sped off. So what did I do? I got in my car and chased him."
But Franchitti forgot one important thing in his quest to catch the intruder.
That likely goes down as the single-best NASCAR driver story of the off-season. But I can't decide which part is the best -- Dario proving he's like the rest of us during a lazy morning or the fact that the unnamed stalker guy thought he would get away from, oh, just a really good race car driver."The police caught up [to] the guy before I did," Franchitti said. "And apparently some people in the Nashville media also heard on the [police scanner] about it, so they were there, too. They came up to talk to me about the time I realized I was still in my boxer shorts. I had to stay in the car the whole time."
Props to Dario on this one. And welcome to NASCAR. Sorry, No Photos
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
1-15-2008 @ 10:07PM
JCN said...
This man is my king.
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1-16-2008 @ 6:26AM
CrashOsborne said...
Glad he was there at the time. Fans and photogs seem to be getting braver at any cost! Good for Dario. Ashley's hero!
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1-16-2008 @ 6:55AM
Lisa B said...
Yes indeed, this man would be my hero for sure!
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1-16-2008 @ 7:09AM
Zappatista said...
"really good race car driver", yes indeed, I believe WE call him the "Winner of the Indianapolis 500". You know, those of us who love open wheel and despise all that is Napcar.
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1-16-2008 @ 7:49AM
Dawn said...
Wow--I'm not a racing fan, but I am now! Ashley's one lucky girl!
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1-16-2008 @ 8:08AM
jeff jones said...
if all the other racing is so great,then why are all the open wheelers going to the best sport in the world,NASCAR
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1-16-2008 @ 8:10AM
Bea Atwood said...
He is my hero. Should be more like him..
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1-16-2008 @ 8:11AM
bob kay said...
Good going Dario...
and for us that can't drive a race car ,we can certainly own a GUN
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1-16-2008 @ 8:15AM
Christine Dodd said...
Way to go Dario.
I would say it 's about time someone takes credit for chasing off an intruder. The intruder had no business being in Dario and Ashley's house in the first place. Good job Dario.
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1-16-2008 @ 8:26AM
bob kay said...
jeff jones your favorite race series is spelled NAPCAR
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1-16-2008 @ 9:25AM
Terry said...
Good thing he didnt walk into Tony Stewarts house !!!!!
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1-16-2008 @ 9:27AM
elliott said...
I grew up near the indy motor speedway and loved open wheel and didn't give nascar a chance -- then the indy car fight came and I tried to watch nascar for my racing fix -- now love nascar and don't watch open wheel funny how things change
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1-16-2008 @ 9:37AM
sharon said...
I wonder what the police clocked his speed at? lol What a guy! Good for him!
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1-16-2008 @ 9:49AM
guy said...
Why can't Danica Patrick go a around with no pants? Maybe when she wins the 500.
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1-16-2008 @ 9:50AM
T-BO said...
LOL too bad Dario wasn't around when Ashie was bopping a UK basketball star per yr. down in Lexington.
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1-16-2008 @ 9:51AM
john said...
good thing the creep did not come into my home.a bullet is faster than a race car.
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1-16-2008 @ 10:12AM
steve said...
Love to have seen that, and what's in the boxers. He is HOT
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1-16-2008 @ 10:13AM
KP said...
Dale Sr. would of caught him!
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1-16-2008 @ 10:17AM
TNM said...
If he had gone into Tony Stewart's house he never would have been caught. Anyway, why don't they just LOCK THEIR DOORS? Nobody can just walk right in that easily with the deadbolt locked. Sure, some professionals could but this moron obviously wasn't one. Glad he was trying to help catch the guy but that's a good way to get hurt.
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1-16-2008 @ 10:40AM
JT said...
The ACLU will probably try to press charges against him for exposing himself in his boxers to the thug criminal, aka ACLU darling, who entered his home. I would have the MF'er dead in his tracks.
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