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The Teardown

12 Questions with Dave Alpern, president of Joe Gibbs Racing

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

News, Sports, Sports News

4.6864 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Longtime Joe Gibbs Racing executive Dave Alpern, author of a new book called Taking The Lead, joins the 12 Questions this week to discuss his experiences in racing and why the son of a CIA operative wanted to write a book about his story.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the 12 questions podcast here on the teardown feed.

0:20.5

My name is Jeff Gluck and I do these weekly

0:22.4

interviews with someone from the racing world, ask them 12 questions. Usually it's a race car

0:27.6

driver, but this week it's a race executive. It's Dave Alper and the president of Joe Gibbs

0:33.1

Racing. Just came out with a book called Taking the Lead and thought that would be a good opportunity

0:38.3

to chat with him on the 12 questions.

0:41.4

I was looking at it and, you know, I was like, oh, you know what?

0:44.0

Most of these questions, they're geared toward racing, but they can be answered by a non-driver

0:49.6

as well.

0:50.1

So figured I'd try to twist them a little bit for those purposes.

0:54.4

And we got to chat about his new book and his career as president at JGR.

1:00.1

So let's take a listen to our conversation.

1:02.7

All right, everybody.

1:03.4

I'm here with Dave Alpern.

1:04.7

And Dave, of course, these questions are usually driver-specific.

1:09.4

Most of them this year seem to fit with anybody.

1:12.2

I've had to tweak just a couple for your role.

1:15.4

So bear with me on a couple of these.

1:17.4

Okay, good.

1:18.3

First of all, thanks for being here.

1:20.5

Hey, thanks for having me, Jeff.

1:21.7

I'm looking forward to it.

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