Jamie McMurray won the 2010 Daytona 500, in a banner year when he also won the Brickyard 400 for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.
But did you know the now-Chip Ganassi Racing driver actually is something else beyond a driver?
McMurray was one of several drivers featured in Monday night’s “NASCAR Superlatives” segment on “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.”
Here was Fallon’s take on McMurray:
We might have been onto something with that @JamieMcMurray Superlative… http://t.co/LMppdXcOVr pic.twitter.com/60gl7L2gVP
— Fallon Tonight (@FallonTonight) February 25, 2014
Cannily, here was McMurray’s response:
How did you know @jimmyfallon?@TheTonightShow @CGRTeams #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/zEcOERmiRN
— Jamie McMurray (@jamiemcmurray) February 25, 2014
Well played, Jamie. Well played.
The Fallon Tumblr page, linked here, also has a recap of the two tweets.
McMurray finished 14th in this year’s Daytona 500 after being caught up in the last lap accident after contact with Kevin Harvick.