TALLADEGA, Ala.?Even a commercial shoot for a sponsor can benefit from some levity, as Dale Earnhardt Jr. demonstrated recently during a studio session for Suave, his Nationwide Series sponsor for Saturday?s Aaron?s 312 at Talladega Superspeedway.
Earnhardt took a break from filming to play a prank on some of his JR Motorsports colleagues, among them crew chiefs Tony Eury Jr. and Tony Eury Sr. and driver Aric Almirola.
The ploy? A lifelike snake?looking something like a coiled python?in a cooler. Victims of the joke were directed to get bottled water from the cooler. Their reactions to finding the snake were recorded on a video that has garnered more than 45,000 views on YouTube.
?My property manager Sonny (Lunsford) has been doing that to everybody he can at the Charlotte Auto Fair for the last several years?putting a ?Free Drinks? sign on that cooler and setting it out near where he parks,? Earnhardt told Sporting News after qualifying third in Friday?s Nationwide time trials.
?We were doing a quick shoot with Suave, and we were trying to figure out something fun to do with our employees at JR Motorsports. That was one of the ideas that I came up with. We had a lot of fun, just pretending we were going to interview ?em and bringing them in there and somehow figuring out how to get them into that cooler.?
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