4.8 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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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 |
1:12.2 | 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 |
1:59.8 | 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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