Michael Avenatti Says His Love of Racing Could Derail His Presidential Bid

Avenatti’s track career includes racing at Le Mans, Twelve Hours of Sebring, and 24 Hours of Daytona, among other races, which is respectable for an amateur. He’s become famous for his off-the-track activities, though, including representing Stormy Daniels in various legal disputes with President Trump and tweeting a lot. Avenatti has recently been seen going after Tucker Carlson; shadily raising money for Beto O’Rourke, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas; and representing an accuser of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Avenatti also reportedly owes the IRS millions.

He’s got a lot going on! But it’s his threat to run for president that seemingly keeps him in the news, even if that now appears to be possibly derailed by his love of racin’. Avenatti told Autoweek that he got the bug as a kid.

“We lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and my father took me to the Pikes Peak Hill Climb — that’s the first memory I have of going to a race. I remember standing alongside the gravel road — it wasn’t paved back then — and watching the action, which was an unbelievable experience when you are 9 or 10 years old.”