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The Teardown

12 Questions with William Byron

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports, News, Sports News

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The 12 Questions series of interviews continues this week with William Byron of JR Motorsports. Byron, a rookie, is currently third in the Xfinity Series point standings. I spoke to him at Talladega. 1. How much of your success is based on natural ability and how much has come from working at it? I’d say … Continue reading "12 Questions with William Byron"

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0:00.0

All right, everybody. Hello, how are you doing? Welcome to another edition of the Untitled Jeff Gluck podcast.

0:24.2

I'm your host Jeff Gluck.

0:25.5

It's a 12 questions version today of the podcast, and I'm back home in Charlotte, North Carolina, with my wife, Sarah Gluck.

0:34.0

We've made it back from our cross-country trip.

0:37.3

So no more Albuquerque podcasting. For now, it's Charlotte Podcast. We've made it back from our cross-country trip.

0:39.7

So no more Albuquerque podcasting.

0:42.2

For now, it's Charlotte Podcasting.

0:47.7

And today, there's an interview with William Byron, who is from Junior Motorsports.

0:56.8

The Hendrick Development Driver famously didn't start racing until he was 14 years old because he had no racing background,

1:03.5

but learned racing through irasing the video game, and then was able to translate those skills into real cars, had a phenomenal year in the truck series last year, and is now third in the

1:10.0

Xfinity series point standings

1:11.8

going into Charlotte. So yeah, I was looking forward to talking to him and getting his thoughts

1:16.8

on the answers to the 12 questions and I want you to hear for yourself. Okay, I'm here with William

1:23.3

Byron and William, the first question of this year's 12 questions is how much of your success

1:29.4

is based on your natural ability and how much has come from working at it? I'd say it's probably

1:35.7

70% natural and 30% working at it. I think just with I started five five years ago racing, so it's kind of come

1:45.4

fast and it's something that when I started, I just picked it up, and then I've been able to

1:51.0

work at running the different racetracks and learning the different cars. So it's probably

1:55.4

70-30. Okay. So Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, and now Dale Jr. have all retired or announcing

2:02.8

their retirement in the last couple years here. What's your pitch for their fans to become

2:07.4

fans of yours? I mean, my pitch is probably just the fact that a race for junior and I think

2:14.9

running for junior motorsports is a good way to

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