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The Teardown

12 Questions with Jimmie Johnson (2018)

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports, News, Sports News

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The series of 12 Questions interviews continues this week with seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson. The interview was recorded as a podcast, but is also transcribed for those who prefer to read. 1. How often do you have dreams about racing? I don’t dream all that often, but I do remember one when … Continue reading "12 Questions with Jimmie Johnson (2018)"

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0:00.0

All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Untitled Jeff Gluck podcast.

0:25.0

I'm your host Jeff Fluck, and today it is a 12 questions version of the podcast with Jimmy Johnson, the seven-time NASCAR champion.

0:34.8

And guess what?

0:35.8

This is his eighth 12-quest questions interview. So he's done more

0:39.5

12 questions interviews than actually won championships, which is pretty hard to achieve,

0:44.2

considering the 12 questions have only been around for nine years. And Jimmy Johnson is tied

0:51.0

for the most championships ever. So thank you so much to him for always being willing to do these interviews.

0:56.4

Really appreciate that.

0:57.4

I recorded this interview with Jimmy at Richmond outside his motorhome on race day.

1:03.5

So double appreciation for him working it in just a few hours before the race started.

1:08.8

But let's get it right into it and see how he answered this year's 12 questions.

1:14.1

All right, everybody, I'm here with Jimmy Johnson.

1:16.3

And Jimmy, the first question is, how often do you have dreams about racing?

1:20.4

I don't dream all that often, but I do remember one when I was getting ready to race for the Herzogs and I guess 96 and my very

1:29.1

first off-road truck race for them and had a dream that this brand new beautiful truck we built

1:33.7

would only do wheelies and I couldn't compete couldn't make a turn couldn't stay with the pack because

1:37.8

every time I touched the gas it just did a wheelie and I couldn't turn. Was this a dream to have more than

1:42.0

once? No it's uh it was just that one dream and it it was, I couldn't get out of my head, and it's

1:47.9

probably the only one I really remembered through all the years of, you know, having different

1:51.6

dreams.

1:52.1

Wow.

1:53.0

If you get into someone during a race, whether it's intentional or not, does it matter if you

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