Summary: The 12 Questions series of interviews continues this week with Kyle Larson of Chip Ganassi Racing. These interviews are recorded in podcast form, but are also transcribed below for those who prefer to read them.<br> 1. How often do you have dreams about racing?<br> I would say when I was a kid, I had them almost every night. I would dream of races and racing. Now I might have quick flashes of it, but not like deep dreams. They might happen every so often, maybe once a week or so. I guess probably leading up to the weekend or right after the race.<br> 2. If you get into someone during a race — intentional or not — does it matter if you apologize?<br> Yeah, if I feel like I’ve done something wrong, I feel like I’m good about making sure I at least text them or come up to them right after and apologize. At times too when it’s not my fault, I seem to apologize for something that I may feel like I did to put both of us in that situation or whatever.<br> But yeah, for sure you need to apologize, because there’s some sensitive people in our sport.<br> 3. What is the biggest compliment someone could give you?<br> Now our race cars are fast all the time, but when somebody would say like I’m carrying the race car on a certain weekend or something like that, I think that means a lot to me. When you’re doing more than maybe the potential of (a car), I think that’s always a positive.<br> And I feel like I’m versatile, but when somebody else can see it and thinks that I’m good in any type of race car, that means a lot to me.<br> 4. NASCAR comes to you and says, “Hey, we are bringing a celebrity to the race and we’re wondering if you have time to say hi.” Who is a celebrity you’d be really excited to host?<br><br> <br> I don’t know. I’m not that into celebrities that much.<br> You don’t get starstruck?<br> I don’t get too starstruck. NASCAR will come to me, or to Davis (Schaeffer, his public relations representative), and be like, “Do you want to meet this celebrity?” Davis will ask me, and I’m like, “No, I don’t really care.” I usually turn all those down unless he gives me the politics speech and then I have to do it. So yeah, I don’t really care to host any celebrity.<br> Is that because when they ask you about these people, you’ve never heard of them? Or have you heard of them and you just don’t care?<br> No, I’ve heard of them, I just don’t really care. I don’t know, I feel like they’re not gonna be that excited to meet me, so I don’t really care to meet them. Maybe that’s just jumping to conclusions or judging a book by its cover, but I don’t really get that excited meeting people, so I don’t think they would get that excited meeting me.<br> 5. In an effort to show they are health-conscious, NASCAR offers the No. 1 pit stall selection for an upcoming race to the first driver willing to go vegan for a month. Would you do it?<br> So I really like salads. What foods are vegan?<br> You would not be able to have any cheese, nothing from an animal at all. Nothing with butter. You can do soy stuff or the fake meat stuff.<br> I mean, I feel like I could do it, but I don’t think the No. 1 pit stall is that important to suffer for a month. But I do like salads, I could survive off salads. Like chicken’s not even vegan, huh?<br> No. And no buttermilk ranch dressing.<br> Yeah, I like any type of salad. I could probably do it for sure, but I don’t think I need to do it.<br> 6. It’s time for the Random Race Challenge. I have picked a random race from your career and you have to guess where you finished.<br> NASCAR career?<br> Yes, because that’s all that’s on Racing Reference.<br> There’s like Knoxville Nationals stuff on there.<br> But you would remember those too easily.
