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The Teardown

12 Questions with John Hunter Nemechek (2023)

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

News, Sports News, Sports

4.6864 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

What would have happened if John Hunter Nemechek had tried to stay at the Cup Series level and not taken a chance on dipping back down to the Truck Series to reset his career? He answers that question and more in this week's interview.

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 Luck. I'm a writer for The Athletic. And each week, I ask the same 12 questions to a different race car driver.

0:23.9

Up next is John Hunter Nemechek in the Xfinity series for Joe Gibbs Racing.

0:30.0

You know, it wasn't all that long ago that John Hunter Nemechek was a rookie in the Cup

0:33.5

series for front row motorsports and then made the decision to drop down to the truck

0:38.7

series, which was a debate at the time. Should he be doing this? Should you try to stay in Cup?

0:43.6

Is this going to mess up his career? Well, it's turning out pretty well for John Hunter so far.

0:48.8

He's in a great Xfinity Series ride and maybe now has a path to the Cup series in the future.

0:55.6

So things are going pretty well for John Hunter at the moment.

0:59.3

Anyway, we talked about that and a lot more in this week's 12 questions.

1:02.9

So let's take a listen.

1:05.9

All right, everybody.

1:06.7

We're here with John Hunter Nemechek for another 12 questions.

1:09.3

How are you?

1:09.7

I'm good.

1:10.2

How are you, Jeff?

1:10.8

Good. Thanks for doing this. I'm excited.

1:13.2

So the first one is you must pick one chore or obligation that you have to do every single day for a year.

1:19.1

But the catch is if you do it for every day for a year, you never have to do it again the rest of your life.

1:24.6

So which one would you like to pick and knock out of the way forever?

1:28.5

Hmm. Mowing my grass. Oh, okay. I'm not a big fan of that. I mean, it can be relaxing

1:34.8

sometimes, but sometimes, you know, grass grows and you just want to get it cut and you don't want to

1:40.1

have to deal with it. So I'm going to have to go with mow grass. Okay.

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