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Talladega's Final Lap Was a Nightmare For Hendrick Motorsports | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning, everybody. How about that Talladega race?
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  My Lord. Hey, I thought this one up.
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  Tell you what you think of it. It had more twists and turns
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  than a soap opera. Wow, what a race.
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  I want to go to that last lap. You're going down the back
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  straightaway. And Kyle Larson is in the
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  catbird seat. He's looking good, minding his
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  own business, nobody's doing nothing wrong, and he's tied for
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  the lead with Bubba Wallace and Kyle Larson.
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  Runs out of gas going into Turn 3, coming for the checker, and
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  he falls all the way to 26. If that's not enough, come on
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  around the corner, his teammate William Byron.
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  If you watch the replay, William Byron is looking at the start
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  finish line. Maybe he's he's not a football
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  field away. William Byron's looking good and
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  gets spun out and goes from maybe, maybe not even 10 points
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  out of the championship to 3637 points out in 5th place.
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  So in a in about 1/4 of a lap going into turn 3, basically
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  down the back straightaway going into turn 3, Kyle Larson, let's
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  just say Kyle's the lead in the race.
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  I don't know it, it was a tie, maybe Bubba Wallace had an edge,
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  but you're going halfway down the back straightaway and Kyle
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  Larson and Bubba Wallace are tied for the lead and Kyle
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  Larson runs out of the gas, runs out of gas.
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  Now he's 4th in the points, but just right there right on right
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  on the cut line. You come around the damn corner
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  and you're like man, William Byron is going to be sitting
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  pretty going into Martinsville and I mean can he's looking at
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  the start finish line and get spun right out.
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  I think I think the 17 maybe Busher got into him.
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  Not sure. Respond right here.
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  Was it Busher they started bopping and weaving.
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  It was nobody's fault. They it was Talladega.
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  Let's put it that way. And I mean in a football field,
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  William Byron's goes from looking good going to
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  Martinsville for the for the last race, you know, until we go
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  into the championship and get spun out and now he's 5th in the
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  points. I'm that's that's what Talladega
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  is about. Kenny Schrader said it perfect
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  on Herman Schrader last week. He says you can be looking good
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  one lap and the next week you can be upside down.
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  That's Talladega now, the big one, Chase Elliott.
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  We were riding along inside Chase Elliott's in car camera
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  and you know, I felt bad for him.
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  Just bad luck, wrong place, wrong time.
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  We've all run Talladega enough. I always used to say, OK, guys,
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  do you want me to run up front here, Talladega, and wreck out,
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  or do you want me to finish the race?
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  I promise you that. That's what I used to say all
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  the damn time. And one time a guy said, damn
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  it, we want you to run up front. I said OK, and we wrecked.
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  But what are you going to do? I mean, Eric Jones got in the
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  back of Noah Graxson leading the race.
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  So you're you think, OK, I'm really upfront.
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  I should be good. Nope.
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  That's just Talladega. That's the way it goes.
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  Yeah. It's like I always say, you
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  might as well go to a casino and put your money on a roulette
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  wheel. So Eric Jones gets in the back.
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  Well, you don't get in the back of him.
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  He's pushing him. And it just all goes wrong.
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  And Noah spins out and all hell breaks loose.
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  And now this, this era's most popular driver, Chase Elliott's
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  out. Of course I had to get on social
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  media and I said, OK, everybody breathe.
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  This is not NASCAR's fault. Chase Elliott was in a wreck.
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  And I'm going to tell you what, I hit a nerve.
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  I got I got a huge response because it it's just the way it
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  is in NASCAR. I tell you what, it in a in a
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  serious manner sometimes when Jeff Kluck goes was this a good
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  race or a bad race? Well, Chase LA got so many fans
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  that they'll say it was a bad race and when it really wasn't a
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  bad race. It's just that your driver Chase
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  Elliott had a bad had bad luck. So I felt bad for all the what?
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  What is this new thing y'all are calling?
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  I can't, I can't even say this sounds so crazy.
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  Chase sexuals respond right here.
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  What is chase sexuals? But that's that's what
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  everybody's saying. The chase sexuals will be mad.
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  I'm like, Oh my God. And to end Talladega, Can you
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  believe Joe Gibbs? We said it before, but I just
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  got to say it again, all of us. Now listen, I always thought
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  Chase Briscoe was a good race car driver, but I didn't see Joe
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  Gibbs hiring Chase Briscoe to replace Martin Truex.
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  And I mean, straight up there it is.
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  Chase Briscoe, three wins going for the championship.
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  Boy that that you know, and I, I know I've said it, but it's
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  worth repeating. If you haven't heard, I said it
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  a month ago or so, Joe Gibbs knows how to pick him.
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  Joe Gibbs has just been successful in every damn thing
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  he's done. Super Bowl coach, he's won
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  championships with all these drivers, all these wins.
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  He saw something. That's a lesson.
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  That's a lesson now that that's an awfully big ride to take
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  over. And I said, well, we're going to
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  see how this works out. And boy, congratulations, Chase
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  Briscoe, three wins. And by the way, Joe Gibbs, let's
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  break this down just for a minute right now.
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  Denny Hamlin, OK, we know that four are going to Phoenix for
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  the championship race, right? We got one race left,
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  Martinsville, and we're going to we're going to have our final
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  four. By the way, NASCAR don't like me
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  saying Final four because that's a basketball term.
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  When I did, when I did Fox TV, they would say don't say final
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  four. I'm like, well, that's the Final
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  four. Yeah, but you can't say it.
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  I'm like, well, now I don't work for them so I can say it.
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  So after Martinsville, we're going to fill out two more here.
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  We got we got Danny Hamlin, Chase Briscoe locked in 3rd in
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  the points, and then we got Christopher Bell and 4th is Kyle
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  Larson. Can you imagine what it will
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  look like if it's standings hold?
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  Joe Gibbs would have three cars in the in the championship
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  chase. Three cars.
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  Will it happen? Respond right here everybody.
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  Will coach Joe Gibbs, will he have 3?
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  Will coach Joe Gibbs have 4? Will coach Joe Gibbs go to
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  Phoenix? All his cars in the championship
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  chase respond right here.