Behind the Scenes of NASCAR Race Hub With Jeff Gordon & Bubba Wallace Jr.

What's up guys? Leslie Robbins here for Young Hollywood at the Fox Studios here in Los Angeles, crashing the set of NASCAR Race Hub Goes West.

Mr. Jeff Gordon, it's so good to see you again.

Nice to see you.

On your fifth career now as a host for NASCAR Race Hub.

Yeah, this is great. Uh I love the show. I love, you know, being a part of Fox, of course on the broadcast, but the weekly show to come in the studio is is very entertaining and you get to dive into some subjects. So it's great.

You've retired so to speak a couple years ago, but you're busier now than you were before.

Yeah. When you're a driver, you have a nice set schedule, you know where you're going to be every week and you know, you're focus solely on driving the race car and everything that that surrounds that. Now, I'm just doing a lot of different things, but I'm having a lot of fun. I'd always hoped that I would be able to step out of the car on my own terms and and retire from driving on the full-time basis and then still be a part of the sport and and do some other things uh that that I've always dreamed of doing, which is, you know, like spending more time with my kids. I mean, the racing schedule is so intense and long, it really takes away from your your family life. I'm busier now, but I'm also I think I have a great balance on everything happening in my life that I'm enjoying.

Speaking of your children, Leo now has his license Yes. to drive.

Being the race car driver, being in control of the car is totally different than not being in control and seeing your kids out there behind the wheel. Racing has been so good for me and safe that you put them in the best situation, best equipment, safest equipment and environment and let them go have fun.

You were just at the Motorsport Hall of Fame with Mario andretti. Yes. What made this night so special?

For me, besides being inducted into Motorsports Hall of Fame of America with some other great uh, you know, legends and and inductees, but sitting next to Mario and talking about what racing was like in the 60s and the 70s and when he was racing Indy car and Formula 1 at the same time, flying on the Concord, uh, you know, negotiating with Ferrari and and different teams. it was it was fast. I could I could have sat there all night and just talked to him about racing.

And now we have the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Well, I'm very honored. Um, you know, I I I've had a long amazing career in NASCAR and when you step out of driving, you know, you you you wonder, okay, well, what's next or what uh, you know, what's ahead and and you don't think about the opportunity of being inducted into the Hall of Fame. So, I'm on the list, I'm honored and and um looking forward to seeing what happens over the next few months.

And speaking of looking ahead, you've hinted, hinted that you might get behind the wheel again.

I've always said for many years, well, one day when I step out or now that I'm out of driving full-time, would I go back and drive maybe a truck at Martinsville. So I threw that out there and it's definitely gotten some momentum. So, I don't know. I might need some fellow uh, retired drivers to come join me. I think that might be uh, a lot of fun.

Mr. Bubba Wallace, you're still rookie, but not so much a rookie anymore, coming in second at the Daytona 500.

For me, being the first race and all the hype we had around myself from all outlets pushing in on me. So to be able to deliver that, it almost felt like, if we would have won that, it would have been like a movie.

You're one of the funny guys out on the track.

Try to be.

Right? How do you maintain that in such a competitive, fierce industry?

I'm just like to cut up and have fun, but at the same time, I know when to be serious.

You cried when your mom came up on the podium.

That was all for TV. Like I've talked about pressure earlier, that was all of that just coming crashing down.

So race car drivers all know each other, love each other, no matter which sport it is, which motorsport. Talk about your working relationship with Lewis Hamilton.

Well, I've always looked up to Lewis for for years now and just seeing what he's been able to do in the F1 world and just become an icon, a legend in the Motorsports family. Uh, so to have him reach out and share his support was was pretty special that day.

So besides Lewis, who'd have you looked up to to get to where you are now?

Jeff has reached out and has given me a lot of support. So obviously he's in that list, but Jimmy Johnson, Kevin Harvick, I mean Kyle Bush, I race for him. I mean all those guys have helped me so much throughout my career.

The starter at Daytona, where you came in second, you actually missed out seeing your favorite actress of all time. Charlize. Charlize Theron, oof. Charlize come out and you can sit on the pit box and cheer on the number 43. Do it.