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The Teardown

How I Got Here with John McMullin Jr.

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports, News, Sports News

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Each week, I ask a member of the racing community to explain how they reached their current position. This week, NASCAR Director of Industry Operations John McMullin Jr. — known to most as “Johnny Mac” — sheds some light on his career path in the sport. Can you first tell us what your role is … Continue reading "How I Got Here with John McMullin Jr."

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0:00.0

All right, everybody.

0:20.4

Welcome back to another edition of the Untitled Jeff Buck podcast.

0:24.2

I'm your host Jeff Buck, and today is how I got here for the podcast with John McMullen of NASCAR.

0:30.9

He is a man of many different talents when it comes to NASCAR because he is tasked with all sorts of things from running victory lane to making

0:39.4

sure the driver's meeting goes smoothly to giving pace car rides to VIPs and escorting them around

0:45.5

the track.

0:46.3

All sorts of things.

0:47.2

He's been in NASCAR employee for a while now.

0:49.5

And he's known as Johnny Mack in the NASCAR garage, quite a popular figure with both

0:54.1

drivers and the

0:55.0

sanctioning body alike.

0:56.7

So that said, let's get into how Johnny Mack got to where he is today.

1:02.9

All right, everybody, I'm here with John McMullen.

1:05.3

Johnny Mack, as most people know him.

1:07.7

I feel like most people know you that way.

1:09.0

Is that accurate?

1:09.9

No, you are very correct. I don't think a lot of people even know. My name's not Johnny.

1:13.9

Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I've actually ever called you John. I just like, hey, Johnny Mac, what's up?

1:19.9

So can you first tell us what your role is now with NASCAR and what that means that you do on a given race weekend?

1:32.3

Yeah, so this is my 13th season with NASCAR and what that means that you do on a given race weekend? Yeah, so this is my 13th season with NASCAR. I'm the now Director Operations for a industry, Director of Industry Operations for NASCAR.

1:39.3

Basically, operations is a very broad title.

1:43.3

I'd say 80% of our workload is at the event, working with our tracks, our broadcast partners,

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