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🗓️ 27 September 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Untitled Jeff Gluck podcast. |
0:24.6 | I'm your host, Jeff Gluck. |
0:26.5 | And today, very happy to be joined by seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmy Johnson on a 12 |
0:33.2 | questions version of the podcast. |
0:35.4 | Really appreciative of Jimmy taking the time to do that at new hampshire |
0:39.6 | motor speedway because i believe jimmy is the first driver to do both the social spotlight |
0:44.6 | and the 12 questions this year i've been trying to have drivers pretty much stick to one or the other |
0:50.5 | not to double did too much but as we get late in the season here and, you know, |
0:55.6 | sort of running out of people in some ways, I wanted to double back with Jimmy and see if he |
1:00.2 | do the 12 questions. |
1:01.2 | And he said yes, so very appreciative of that. |
1:04.1 | So let's take a listen to what he had to say. |
1:08.0 | All right, everybody. |
1:08.8 | I'm here with Jimmy Johnson. |
1:10.1 | And Jimmy, the first question is, how much of your success is based on your natural ability and how much has come from working at it? |
1:16.8 | I think the majority of it's come from working at it. When I look at my early years on motorcycles and earlier four wheels and so on, I've been a slow learner to a certain degree and really had to focus |
1:29.9 | and work hard to kind of polish up that last bit to make me a champion. |
1:34.6 | So I'd say I'd put it at 50-50, I guess. |
1:40.1 | So Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, now Dale Jr. have all either retired or are retiring. |
1:46.3 | What's your pitch for fans of theirs to become fans of yours? |
1:49.5 | If I haven't won them over yet, I don't think I'm going to. |
1:53.5 | Just stay in the sport. |
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