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The Teardown

12 Questions with Blake Koch

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports, News, Sports News

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The 12 Questions series of interviews continues this week with Blake Koch of Kaulig Racing. I spoke with Koch at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This interview is available in both written and podcast form. 1. How much of your success is based on natural ability and how much has come from working at it? Oh man. … Continue reading "12 Questions with Blake Koch"

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Welcome back to another edition of the Untitled Jeff Gluck podcast. I'm your host Jeff Gluck today. It's a 12 questions version of the podcast. Very pleased to be joined by Blake Cook, who really is a pure joy to interview and talk to. Guy just has a great

0:40.8

outlook on life, great story, very nice person, and so he makes for a good 12 questions interview

0:48.6

subject, and I think this is the second one I've done with him, perhaps, but always enjoy

0:54.0

whenever I cross paths with Blake.

0:57.0

We did this interview at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Race Day Morning for the Xfinity series

1:02.3

shortly before they went out with that crazy new rules package that turned out to be a pretty good race.

1:08.8

So take a listen to what Blake had to say in the 12

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questions. All right, everybody, I'm here with Blake Cook. And Blake, the first question is,

1:17.5

how much of your success is based on your natural ability and how much has come from working at it?

1:23.1

Oh, man. I would say that it's probably 50-50. You know, you can work as hard as you want to,

1:30.9

but if you don't have that natural ability to drive a car at speed, it's going to be really difficult to make it.

1:37.4

And then again, if you have that natural ability to go fast but don't put in the work, you're not going to make it either.

1:42.1

So I feel like both are equally important.

1:45.1

You know, you have to have that natural talent, that natural ability to drive a race car,

1:49.5

whatever you're doing in life, and then you have to have the ability to work harder than

1:52.4

everybody else at it to become successful. So Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, and now Dale

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Jr., have all either retired or are retiring.

2:03.0

What's your pitch for fans of theirs to become fans of yours? I mean, you know, I welcome all fans.

2:11.3

I think that's the most important part of NASCAR is the fans that come out to watch us.

2:15.4

It wouldn't be as fun racing in front of

2:17.9

nobody, you know, um, so I, I truly appreciate the fans. I like to get to know them. I like to

2:23.8

utilize my social media platform, whether it's Facebook Live or Instagram stories to just show, uh,

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