'The Daily Beast' Spotlights Mick Blue's Move Behind the Wheel

LOS ANGELES—Reigning AVN Male Performer of the Year three-peat Mick Blue is the subject of a feature posted Saturday on The Daily Beast titled “Meet the Legendary Porn Star Turned Racecar Driver.” Written by retired performer Aurora Snow, who was inducted along with Blue into the AVN Hall of Fame this year, the piece details the director/performer's ambition, announced in March, to become a racecar driver. Though he has no intention of leaving the industry—he continues to go strong with the production label BAM Vision that he co-owns with wife Anikka Albrite and veteran lensman Maestro Claudio, as well as his many other ventures—Blue has managed since revealing his racing dreams to become a Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) licensed driver with quite a few races under his belt. “Growing up, Mick recalls racing around the streets of his native Austria as a reckless teenage hobby,” Snow wrote in her Daily Beast piece. “It wasn’t until last year when his porn star wife, Anikka Albrite, bought him racing lessons at a well-known motorsports academy that his interest in it peaked. When he placed among the top ten at the Skip Barber Racing School, a popular racing academy, he began thinking about it seriously. With a renewed passion and maturity that ‘keeps it on the racetrack,’ Mick Blue now says he has ‘two dream jobs any man would love to have: having sex with beautiful women and driving fast cars.’” At the end of this month, Blue will be competing in the World Racing League event at the Highland Plains Racetrack in Deer Trail, Colorado. It is a 24-hour team race that will have 10 teams fighting off each other and sleep deprivation in a race that starts at 10 a.m. Saturday and ends just in time for brunch at 10 a.m. Sunday. The Daily Beast has one of the highest Alexa ratings in the country, coming in at 349 overall during the period Blue’s article went live on the front page of the site. By comparison, CNN.com is 107, MSNBC.com is 534 and Fox.com ranks 2190. Over the weekend, the story was also the top result for a search for both “porn star” and “racecar” on Google News. Read “Meet the Legendary Porn Star Turned Racecar Driver” here.  In other Mick Blue news, he is currently up in the 2017 NightMoves Awards for Male Performer of the Year, and returns with Albrite as the leads in Adam & Eve Pictures' Adventures With the Baumgartners, which is nominated for Best Feature Production Release. To vote on the NightMoves Awards, which take place October 8 at Thee Dollhouse in Tampa, Fla., click here.   Follow Blue’s racing adventures on Instagram and Facebook, and see his message to potential racing sponsors here. To contact Blue directly regarding sponsorship opportunities, email him at [email protected]/* */.