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The Teardown

12 Questions with Jamie McMurray

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports, News, Sports News

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The 12 Questions series of interviews continues this week with Jamie McMurray of Chip Ganassi Racing, who is currently fifth in the NASCAR Cup Series standings. I spoke with McMurray at Charlotte Motor Speedway. 1. How much of your success is based on natural ability and how much has come from working at it? I … Continue reading "12 Questions with Jamie McMurray"

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0:00.0

Yes, that's right, everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Untitled Jeff Buck podcast. I am your host, Jeff Gluck, and it's a 12 questions Wednesday. So Jamie McMurray is sneaky, funny, and he usually makes for good 12 questions, and so I asked him to do it again this year, and I hope you'll enjoy it. He is having quite a good year for

0:39.5

Chip Canassie racing. Obviously, Kyle Larson gets most of the attention on that team, but McMurray

0:44.7

is plugging along and doing quite well. So let's hear what he had to say in this week's 12 questions.

0:51.6

All right, I'm here with Jamie McMurray, and Jamie, the first question is, how much of your

0:56.4

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

1:02.1

I think everyone is a little bit different.

1:03.9

I feel like I work at it more than most.

1:08.2

That microphone is really close, Jeff.

1:12.7

I'm not, I don't have very good mic technique because I'm used to it. So do other interviewers, like the professional

1:17.5

ones, hold it farther from your mouth usually?

1:20.2

Like this? I think the angle is off, Jeff. And also, oh, the angle's a big deal.

1:26.3

There you go. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, that's, I feel like you were feeding it to me at that point.

1:30.1

Oh, so I need to hold it more like straight up and down.

1:32.1

I think so.

1:32.8

I was holding it like horizontally.

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And you're saying I need to hold it vertically.

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Oh, okay, that makes sense.

1:38.2

Yeah, I think I like this, this angle better. I don't feel like you're feeding it to me at this point. So yeah, like seriously,

1:45.3

I feel like my whole career that, uh, that I, I worked a little bit harder than, than most.

1:51.4

That's not to take anything away from some people, but we all know that there's some drivers

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that we say just very naturally talented. And if they cared more, what could they do? I don't feel like I'm that guy. I feel like

2:01.9

I've worked really hard to get where I am and that I still feel like I study harder and work

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