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The Teardown

12 Questions with Todd Gilliland (2023)

The Teardown

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4.6864 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

From Gilliland's favorite Kardashian to his love of paper towels, you might learn a thing or two about the second-year Cup Series driver in this week's 12 Questions 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.

0:22.5

And each week I ask the same 12 questions to a different race car driver.

0:26.6

Up next is Todd Gilland of Front Row Motorsports, who is in his second year driving in the NASCAR Cup series and has been doing quite well lately.

0:34.9

He had a run of top 15s going and then at Martinsville recently.

0:38.9

He was in the top 10, top five even, until he had an engine problem. So certainly outperforming

0:46.3

the preseason expectations for Gilliland at Front Row Motorsports. Also, it's always fun for me to

0:52.4

interview Todd Gillen because I first met him when I think he was six years old.

0:57.0

I was covering his dad, David Gillland, for the local newspaper in Southern California.

1:02.8

He was like our local driver, and he had two little kids at the time who are now grown up.

1:08.4

And that's really weird for me.

1:10.2

It makes me feel pretty old especially that

1:11.9

Todd is racing in the cup series now but always good to catch up with him so here is our conversation

1:17.9

all right everybody I'm here with Todd Gillen for another 12 questions Todd how are you doing

1:22.7

I'm doing really good how are you good I'm excited to have you on. You've been on a roll lately.

1:28.7

And now we've got Talladega coming up. And who knows, you can always make some noise.

1:34.3

Well, you've been making noise everywhere lately, but maybe there as well. So listen, the first question here could be a tough one.

1:41.3

You have to pick one chore or obligation to do every single day for a year.

1:45.7

But if you make it doing this the entire year, you never have to do it again for the rest of your life.

1:50.7

So which would you like to pick?

1:54.0

I think this is an easy answer. I got to go with laundry.

1:57.6

I really don't mind it when you do it every day because then you don't let it get

2:01.5

piled up and then you only have like a few things to put away. But, oh, they'd be so nice

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