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The Teardown

12 Questions with Denny Hamlin (2022)

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

News, Sports News, Sports

4.6864 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The NASCAR driver/owner talks about his struggles with time management and sleep, why he prefers email to text, can't bring himself to embrace streaming services and what he's told his daughter about wanting to race.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the 12 questions podcast. My name is Jeff Buck. I'm a writer for the athletic, and each week I ask the same

0:22.2

12 questions to a different race car driver. Up next is Denny Hamlin. Yes, Denny Hamlin, who's been in the

0:30.9

news recently for crossing the finish line first at Pocono, but not actually winning the race

0:35.8

when he was disqualified afterward.

0:39.7

Chase Elliott, of course, won that race instead.

0:42.9

And you're probably thinking, oh, wow, this is an interesting timing.

0:46.0

Is this going to come up on the podcast?

0:47.7

No, it's not going to come up on the podcast because we did this interview at Atlanta,

0:52.6

which was like three weeks before the Pocono

0:54.3

race.

0:54.7

So didn't get a chance to ask about that.

0:58.0

So if you're like waiting or wondering for that as the interview is going on, just

1:01.8

want to give you a heads up.

1:02.8

Not going to be part of this interview.

1:04.8

But Denny did have some very interesting things to say during the 12 questions.

1:09.2

So let's go ahead and give it a listen.

1:12.2

All right, everybody. I'm here with Denny Hamlin for another 12 questions. Denny, how are you doing?

1:15.9

Doing well. Thanks for doing this. So this one, you know, I know you have your own jet. I don't know this is really going to apply to you.

1:22.1

See, why do you got to advertise that? I think you advertise it more than I do. I've seen this on social media.

1:29.0

Maybe you don't remember this life, but how do you feel about people reclining their seats on airplanes?

1:34.3

Yeah.

1:37.0

I think on commercial air flights, you've got to take all the luxuries you can possibly get.

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