12 Questions with William Byron
The Teardown
Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM
4.6 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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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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