At Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway, David Reutimann’s #00 Aaron’s Toyota carries a special paint scheme honoring the Aaron’s Freedom Ride 2011. About 25 Atlanta firefighters plan to ride bicycles 1,035 miles from Atlanta to New York City and through 13 cities along the way to commemorate the lives of the firefighters and first responders who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 attack. But it’s more than just a paint scheme to Jack Weiss. Weiss has been Reutimann’s motorhome driver since 2004, but on 9/11 he was driving a tractor trailer at a construction site in Yonkers, N.Y. about 10 miles from Ground Zero across the Hudson River. The 27-year veteran of the Yonkers Police Department watched as the buildings fell and spent countless hours in the months after the tragedy restoring the area.(Michael Waltrip Racing)(8-24-2011)
