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The Teardown

12 Questions with Alex Palou (2023)

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

News, Sports News, Sports

4.6864 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The IndyCar points leader and recent Detroit Grand Prix winner makes his second appearance on the 12 Questions podcast to discuss what he's learned as a newlywed, how he navigated the sticky contract drama last year and the mentality that allows him to get through bad days.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, everybody.

0:12.5

Welcome back to another edition of the 12 questions podcast.

0:16.0

My name is Jeff Buck.

0:17.4

I'm a motorsports writer for the athletic.

0:19.4

And each week, I ask the same 12 questions to a different race car driver.

0:24.4

Up next is IndyCar series points leader Alex Palo, who recently just won the Detroit race,

0:32.7

which was a few days ago as of the recording of this podcast.

0:36.4

And he was the Indy 500

0:38.0

poll sitter as well, obviously a former IndyCar champion also who was in quite the pickle

0:45.3

last year when both Chip Ganassi racing and McLaren thought they had rights to him for this year.

0:53.1

That was a contract dispute that was eventually sorted out,

0:56.1

and he has returned to Ganassi for this season for now.

1:00.0

We talked a little about that as well as a variety of other things, so take a listen.

1:05.1

All right, everybody, I'm here with Alex Palo for 12 questions.

1:08.1

How are you doing?

1:08.8

I'm great.

1:10.0

Thank you so much for doing this. Okay, so these questions, you know, they're

1:13.4

sort of like random all over the place, not just for you specifically. Some are, but some are not.

1:19.3

Okay. So the first one is you have to pick one chore or obligation to do every single day for an

1:25.1

entire year. But if you do it every day, you never have to do it for

1:28.4

the rest of your life. So what would you like to knock out forever? Oh, knock out forever. Oh, my God,

1:34.1

that's tough. I don't know. Maybe cooking. I would say cooking or washing my clothes or something like that.

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