All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of the 12 questions podcast here on the

Teardown Feed.

My name is Jeff Gluck.

I'm a writer at The Athletic,

and I do these podcasts each week

with a different race car driver

where we ask the same 12 questions.

And up next is Matt De Benedetto

of Wood Brothers Racing.

Maddie D. of course,

won the All-Star race fan vote earlier this year,

popular guy among the NASascar fan base but

yet finds himself with an uncertain future yet again seems like an annual occurrence for him so i

wanted to ask about that as well as the regular questions so here we go all right everybody i'm here

with matt de benedetto and matt the first question is when you meet someone who doesn't know who you are, do you ever lie about what you do for a living?

I have done that before. Yeah, I'm trying to think of, we've done the thing where we say we're in town for a bowling tournament or stuff like that a bowling turn out that's

pretty good okay that's creative i like that uh which current driver have you known for the longest

i've known alex bowman for a long time um yeah so we were teammates back at x team racing Racing and the K&N are now the Arkhamenard

Series East back in 2011 or so.

So I've, um, I'd have to think I'd be, I've done him for quite a while.

Oh, okay.

What was he like as a teammate?

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