Timmy Hill managed to pull off a feel-good win on Sunday, winning the iRacing All-Star event “at” Texas Motor Speedway. What followed was a week full of attention and plaudits the likes of which the Port Tobacco, Maryland native had never seen. Here’s a look at how the longtime independent racer spent the past week:
SUNDAY NIGHT: Celebratory dinner at his house. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak nobody besides his wife was able to attend, but plenty of drivers let him know via text message that if it wasn’t for the pandemic, they’d TOTALLY be there.
MONDAY MORNING: Interview with Sirius/XM Radio. Strangely, this wasn’t with the Nascar station, but with “50’s on 5” and they only wanted to know his thoughts on the early work of Carl Perkins.
MONDAY AFTERNOON: Weekly team meeting with MBM management team. Forced to meet over Zoom, the group is still able to spend the hour the way they always do—asking crew chief Steven Idol if he’s related to Billy in any way.
TUESDAY MORNING: Drive up to hometown of Port Tobacco, Maryland. In order to be able to cross state lines, he transports essential goods in his car—namely his own giant eyebrows.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON: Parade through downtown Port Tobacco, Maryland in his honor. With the town only having a population of thirteen people, its easy to adhere to “social distancing” regulations. Also the parade is only three “floats” long—a lead car, Timmy in a convertible, and a guy who once met Art Donovan sitting in the bed of a pickup truck.
TUESDAY NIGHT: Drive back to North Carolina. Eyebrows are tested for possible contamination upon crossing state lines.
WEDNESDAY MORNING: Virtual sponsor meet-and-greet with Manscaped. People checking in keep asking him what podcast he hosts.
WEDNESDAY EVENING/NIGHT: Text message debate with William Byron. Timmy correctly points out how easy it is to get real-life retribution when you’re constantly being lapped.
THURSDAY (all day): Day off. Timmy spends his downtime like most of us during the Coronavirus outbreak—disinfecting the whole house, rearranging the whole house, then disinfecting the whole house again, followed by three hours of trying to figure out what to have for dinner before deciding on frozen pizza for the fifth night in a row.
FRIDAY MORNING: Brother Tyler Hill comes over to help calibrate his iRacing setup, but Timmy makes him wait six hours in the garage to “quarantine”. Tyler is there for five and a half hours before he realizes its a joke.
FRIDAY EVENING: Puts together a title sponsorship for this weekend’s race. Its a last-minute deal, but its quite a feather in your cap having FOR SALE: 2014 HONDA CIVIC 4-DR 80k MILES RUNS GOOD on your hood.