How I Got Here with John McMullin Jr.

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🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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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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