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Shaq Designed Jimmie Johnson's Car for the 2025 Daytona 500 | NBA on TNT · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: I smelled Jimmy, Ladies and gentlemen, don't count your chicken
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  Speaker 1: before the hatch.
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  Speaker 2: Are you not entertained?
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy, you miss you died. You're not gonna make it.
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  Speaker 1: Darryl and Hard Jr.
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  Speaker 3: He said, Darryl Jenior, get him out of here. What's
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  Speaker 3: wrong with him?
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  Speaker 4: Depot?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, and just like that, Shaq wins a free
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  Speaker 5: throw contest. Jimmy one of the greatest drivers of all time.
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  Speaker 5: Jimmy Johnson joins us. Now you want to talk trash?
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  Speaker 3: What happened?
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy is a good friend of mine. I will never
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  Speaker 1: talk trash. It was friendly competition. Being that I won
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  Speaker 1: that match, I got to design the car that he
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  Speaker 1: will be driving at the daytone of five hundred. My
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  Speaker 1: first question, jim I know you're a great driver, but
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  Speaker 1: do you ever say to yourself, like, for example, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm driving Evince gets too close, you ever said to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna push them against a wall? Or is that
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  Speaker 1: against the rules?
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  Speaker 3: It turns out it's against the rules, but I have
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  Speaker 3: thought about it quite often. My wife really doesn't like
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  Speaker 3: writing with me because she thinks I'm too close to
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  Speaker 3: people all the time.
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  Speaker 2: On the Street, I would imagine that.
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  Speaker 5: Jimmy, you got the eighty four car. What do you
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  Speaker 5: think of the design that Shaquille O'Neil came up with.
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  Speaker 3: It is so sharp. I am really proud of the car,
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  Speaker 3: and I think it's going to look amazing on track
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  Speaker 3: in the Daytona five hundred. Great people at Carvana asked
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  Speaker 3: how we could do something different and unique. I was
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  Speaker 3: able to get in contact the shack and we put
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  Speaker 3: this program together and the car looks great. We had
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  Speaker 3: it today over at the Orlando Magic practice facility, sitting
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  Speaker 3: out front and took some photos. I was able to
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  Speaker 3: tour the facility and then tomorrow we're on track with
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  Speaker 3: practice and then Daytona five hundred twalvend.
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  Speaker 4: Jimmy Cannis part of here, a huge fan.
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  Speaker 5: Good luck, good luck.
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  Speaker 4: In the race.
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  Speaker 1: Come up.
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  Speaker 4: But I just have a question because as a basketball player,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we have our routine before games. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you get a little pregame map, little pregame meal, salmon,
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  Speaker 4: go get some shots up. What is it like leading
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  Speaker 4: up to the race. What is your pregame ritual? What
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  Speaker 4: is your pregame hype song? What does that look like
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  Speaker 4: on race day?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's quite different, and I think it will resonate
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  Speaker 3: with all of you just how different it is for us.
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  Speaker 3: Two hours before the start of the race is our
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  Speaker 3: chance to interact with fans, interact with our sponsors and partners,
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  Speaker 3: and we're really paraded around and don't have any quiet time.
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  Speaker 3: And so once the national anthem concludes, engines are going
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  Speaker 3: to fire three minutes later, and so anthem's done. Just
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  Speaker 3: my family climb in the window of the cars, start
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  Speaker 3: putting stuff on. And it's wild because you know that
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  Speaker 3: moment you fire the engines and roll down Pitt Lane,
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  Speaker 3: you only have a couple of minutes really to pull
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  Speaker 3: yourself in and focus on the race. I've noticed that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, friends from the stick and ball world when
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  Speaker 3: they come in find it so different. But growing up
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  Speaker 3: in our sport is so common that you just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you have so many reps how that you get.
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  Speaker 1: Used to it.
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy, I'm from Daytona Beach and I was a pace
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  Speaker 2: car driver for the PEPSI four hundred in July I
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  Speaker 2: think two thousand and nine, and the new Kamaro car
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  Speaker 2: was coming out and I'd never driven a stick before,
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  Speaker 2: so the night before I had to learn how to
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  Speaker 2: drive stick. But when I get in the car to
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  Speaker 2: be the pace car driver, the guy in the car
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  Speaker 2: with me says, hey, sometimes Jimmy Johnson likes to play
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  Speaker 2: the joke and bump the pace car the back of
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  Speaker 2: the car the pace car driver. So that was one
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  Speaker 2: of the one moment I was scared to death because
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  Speaker 2: I did not want you to bump the back of
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  Speaker 2: the car. Now, I would say that if you were
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  Speaker 2: to have bumped me that night, the races would have
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  Speaker 2: started early because I was pulling over. But you were
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  Speaker 2: generous and nice and you did not do that. I
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  Speaker 2: don't expect you to remember that. But have you done
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  Speaker 2: that before?
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  Speaker 3: I think I missed the opportunity. Yes, oh that is
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  Speaker 3: so much fun to do. They can see the driver's
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  Speaker 3: hands like, oh my gosh, flailing around in the car.
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  Speaker 3: I hate on the set opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you for not doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 5: There was fear in Vince's eyes retelling that story.
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  Speaker 1: Just now.
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  Speaker 2: Scared to death, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 3: What about the banking in the corners. Isn't that just
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  Speaker 3: wild house seep the turndard?
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  Speaker 2: So they told us I had to keep at least
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  Speaker 2: fifty five miles an hour, and that was the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: I was just worried about not getting below fifty, so
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  Speaker 2: I tip over and looked stupid, and there again the
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  Speaker 2: race would start early.
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  Speaker 1: Again it over.
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  Speaker 2: I made it, yeah, because the banker would make me
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  Speaker 2: so high. And at the daytime racetrack.
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  Speaker 5: Jimmy, I guess my last question is this. I know
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  Speaker 5: NBA players all the time, they get challenged to one
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  Speaker 5: on one. How many people come up to you and
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  Speaker 5: said I would beat you in a race and how
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  Speaker 5: do you handle that?
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  Speaker 3: Depends on how much they've been drinking at the track.
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  Speaker 3: In that instance, It's always really funny to have a
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  Speaker 3: good laugh with him. But I was the dumb guy
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  Speaker 3: that challenged Chat to a free throw contest and loss,
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  Speaker 3: So I'm not the smartest guy.
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  Speaker 1: Very true.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you are a five time Driver of the Year,
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  Speaker 5: seven Cup Championships, and a Hall of Famer, and you
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  Speaker 5: could check him out of the Daytona five hundred rocking
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  Speaker 5: those magic pinstripes with Shaquille O'Neil on the hood. Pretty
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  Speaker 5: darn awesome. Be sure to check out Jimmy and the
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  Speaker 5: rest of NASCAR's best live from Daytona this Sunday, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm rooting for the shock Car.
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  Speaker 5: Might have to sprinkle some money on Jimmy Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't do for you.