Hi, my name is David Richert and I am here to share with you a little bit about what I am up to in my life as a professional race car driver.
Seeing as this is my first blog it may be a good idea to take the time and introduce myself to you. I am 26 years old and reside just outside of Winnipeg, Manitoba where I have lived my entire life. I grew up on a family farm just outside the town of Niverville and did all of my schooling in the community. Our farm consisted of chicken eggs, pigs, and about 1600 acres of land for growing crops. My daily job was to gather the eggs in our 9,000 hen chicken barn, needless to say it was a fairly long and tedious job at first. But with time, I was able to gather all 9,000 eggs in about an hour and half…and I’m proud to say that my personal record is 1hr 10 mins, yes I am almost as quick in the barn as on the race track.
Growing up… my passion, like many other young Canadians, was to be a hockey player. My life revolved around the sport of hockey and it is all I would think or talk about. Stories are recounted to me of how my teachers in elementary school actually banned me from referring to hockey in any of my assignments as I somehow had a knack for turning everything into a hockey analogy. The peas on my dinner plate would break out into a hockey game or my grandma would have to wait while holding the car door open to let all of the imaginary hockey players into the car with me. Hockey was life. Continue Reading…
