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Let's Stop Comparing NASCAR To Formula 1 | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy. What is it, Kim?
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  Tuesday, Tuesday. It's Tuesday.
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  And my beautiful wife has always said to me, she says, Kenny, I
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  have a dream. I have a dream.
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  And I said, honey, what? What is that dream?
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  What is your dream? It was to go to Niagara Falls
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  someday. So the first time you came here,
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  I was at home raising babies. I was running ASA 198687 well.
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  You ran Nazareth in the Bush series.
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  You came, you have a memory like an elephant.
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  How do you remember all that stuff?
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  I remember everything. OK so we are in Niagara Falls,
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  NY. We're not very good at
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  geography. Had no idea that Buffalo, NY was
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  like 20 miles away. Are you having a good time on a
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  motorcycle? Wonderful time.
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  You're a good rider, You love riding.
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  Why do you like motorcycles so much?
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  I don't really like motorcycles so much, but I am solid on the
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  ground on this. We have a trike.
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  It's it's all about the charity ride.
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  Yeah, what's your trike called? The Kimberly Marie?
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  Yes, you named it that. Yes, I did.
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  OK. We are at Niagara Falls, NY
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  We're going to talk about Adam Stern.
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  All right. I love you.
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  I'm going to talk about racing. Go right ahead.
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  OK, so here's her helmet real quick, the solid rain gear.
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  But there's Kim's helmet. Pretty cool.
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  Yeah. All right, So, Adam, I'm on.
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  Well, let's do. Let's do Niagara Falls first.
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  We're not. We're right.
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  We're close. So right there it starts.
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  As you can see, we got a beautiful view, beautiful park
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  right there. Yeah.
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  OK. So what is a good, good light
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  right here? All right, Adam Stern, who is a
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  good journalist and all the NASCAR people, everybody takes
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  Adam Stern very serious. So a lady on X just on my
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  timeline shares this article with me and it is a it is a
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  beautiful article. It's from it's not from Adam
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  Stern. Basically it's in the Sun
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  Sentinel and it's this 54 year old NASCAR fan, he's been to at
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  least 100 NASCAR races and he said he went to the what, the
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  Formula One, Miami, Grand Prairie, something like that.
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  And he said you don't have to be wealthy.
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  So number one, a 54 year old NASCAR fan who's been to 100
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  NASCAR races, went to the Miami Grand Prix, doesn't have any
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  money. And it was the, the, the
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  experience was way better than a NASCAR race, just just way
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  better. So I'm going to respond to this.
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  I'm not at war with anybody and I love everything.
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  Obviously I race a dirt car. I won the Prelude.
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  Listen, I won the Prelude to the Dream at Eldora back in 2005 and
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  it got me addicted to dirt cars. I want it in a super late model.
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  I fell in love with super late models.
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  Then I said, these son of a bitches are too expensive.
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  I'm not going to run a super late model.
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  I might, I might as well go back and run the Xfinity Series if
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  I'm going to run a super late model.
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  So I went to the Modifieds. OK, I have, I have, you know,
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  tested, you know, World of Outlaw wing Sprint car.
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  I've raced at the Chili Bowl. I have done a whole shot in the
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  Jags Pro Stock drag car. I think you get the point,
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  right? I've raced a lot of different
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  race cars and a lot of my experiences on asphalt.
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  I'm an asphalt racer. I've been running dirt for quite
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  a bit now. So it's very safe to say that I
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  am a chameleon. I can fit in anywhere, OK?
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  I can fit in anywhere. I love.
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  I love everybody and I love everything.
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  Now let's de bull all this, OK? It seems like it, and I've
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  talked about it. There is this societal shift.
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  There's a societal shift. We all know NASCAR, We know
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  this. This is fact.
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  NASCAR is the Grand Pooh Pah. There's nothing bigger than
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  NASCAR. We just got done racing at
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  Texas, where Texas Motor Speedway and the media, Jeff
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  Gluck said. This is the biggest crowd I've
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  ever seen at Texas in 20 years. You name it, all the media, all
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  the fans, and they said it was a great race.
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  It was a really good race. So Texas Motor Speedway was one
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  of the biggest crowds we've seen in 20 years.
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  All the TV ratings for everything in NASCAR are up now.
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  Did we have a couple races that you all didn't like?
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  A couple you didn't like Talladega and you didn't like
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  Bristol? But for the most part, Talladega
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  and Bristol were good races. They just weren't the ones you
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  liked because, you know, for one reason or another, I am not
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  going to pit 2 racing series against each other.
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  And here's why because we're all in this together.
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  Formula One is a complete different beast and it and one
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  thing I'm going to say right now that's not controversial, but it
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  can be deemed controversial is if you're going to tell me that
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  Formula One racing is better than NASCAR racing, well, that's
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  false. It's it's not even true Formula
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  One racing. The way they race, it doesn't
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  even come close to how exciting NASCAR is.
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  So if you're going to go to a Formula One race, because they
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  got a lot of fanfare, they got drinking and vans and you know,
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  things going on. Oh, I agree with you and I, and
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  I've already did videos about this.
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  We've already done coffee with Kenny about this.
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  We all know that Formula One is about the experience.
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  So a lot of people talk out of both sides of their mouth.
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  They go, the racing's no good. And you're, I'm an intelligent
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  race fan. I know about racing.
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  You can't fool me. This racing is no good.
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  So I'm going to go over here to Formula One and where we know
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  the racing's no good, but we're going to have a good time
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  because they got some good bands playing, they got good food and
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  drinking, and you like the sophistication of the car.
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  It's two different things, everybody.
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  You're going to go to a Formula One race because you enjoy the
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  experience. You're going to go to a NASCAR
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  race because it's a great experience too.
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  But the racing's better. NASCAR racing is better.
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  It's not even a damn La La La La la.
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  So Adam Stern shares this article from the Sun Sentinel.
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  You know, whatever. All I'm saying is whatever,
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  respond right here. Basically, the key takeaways out
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  of this whole Kenny conversation is this Formula One racing is
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  not better than NASCAR. I would say that Liberty, who
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  bought Formula One, they have figured it out.
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  They listen. We wouldn't be talking about
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  Formula One if it weren't for Liberty Media because they got
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  the Drive to survive on Netflix. They have made Formula One cool.
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  Now I'll go with you. NASCAR needs to have a media
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  company. Make NASCAR cool again for some
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  of you. But TV ratings are going up, the
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  crowds, the NASCAR tracks are going up, We are trending
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  upwards. And as far as comparing Formula
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  One to NASCAR, two complete different deals.
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  I love, I just love Formula One. I love those cars.
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  Remember, I was over in Modena, Italy, and I was at Ferrari and
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  Lewis HAMP. I'll say one thing about the
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  fans. Those fans are rabid, rabid,
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  rabid. Like I guess like rabbit,
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  Rabbit, I got a disease. I'm rabid.
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  I don't know if I said it right, but I, Max Pappas explains it
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  best to me. The reason the fans in Europe
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  are so excited about Formula One is because Ferrari is the only
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  automaker in the whole damn country.
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  You got all of Italy, all of Italy and it's Ferrari and
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  that's it over here. We got Ford, Chevy.
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  You know, you got, you got lots of automakers over here.
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  So respond right here. You're not going to hurt my
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  feelings. We've already talked about this.
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  You're never going to get me and I win.
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  I win at everything in my mind, I win.
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  I'm not going to argue with you. I'm just going to say that it's
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  a nice article, but whatever. Have a great, great Tuesday,
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  everybody.