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The Daytona 500 & The Elephant In The Room | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning everybody. The day after the Daytona 500.
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  Let's get going right away because there is so much to talk
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  about like the Daytona 24 hour race where they announced so
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  many people were there. They announced last night that
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  the Daytona 500 had 150,000 people at the race sold out with
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  100,000 people in the grandstands and then another
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  50,000 people that paid to get in the infield, like 450,000
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  people during the weekend, you know, like Friday, Saturday,
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  Sunday. So we can pick everything apart
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  or we can talk about the good things.
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  Now, my Mama made me a shirt years ago when I was just a kid
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  and I love that shirt. And it said, Kenny, you have so
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  many wonderful qualities, it's easy to overlook your few
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  disgusting habits. So do we zone in on the fuel
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  mileage or do we recognize all the other great stuff at
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  Daytona? So that is basically my
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  monologue. Let's get it started.
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  Let's go with the bad right away.
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  Mark Martin yesterday on X said this is not a good look 400,000
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  likes. So that's why I'm addressing it
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  right away at the top of the show.
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  So I believe when you constantly complain about something, tell
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  me how you would fix it. So I'm going to address the fuel
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  mileage for the Daytona 500 right away.
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  I've heard it all. The Toyotas ran three wide up
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  front. They blocked the whole field.
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  Hey, that's competition. That's competition that's best
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  whether we like it or not. Now I'm not going to make any
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  excuse. I'm going to tell you what
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  happened and what I would do to fix it.
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  So the teams are to blame for this, not NASCAR.
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  The teams said hey, run around slow so when that stage break
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  comes, you come down pit Rd. and we don't have to fill the carp
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  as much and the pit stop is faster.
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  So that is on the teams NASCAR did not start that.
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  What we are looking for is for NASCAR to fix it.
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  It's not NASCAR's fault the team started it.
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  So to fix this, to fix the fuel mileage would cost millions of
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  dollars. Let's go with Denny Hamlin last
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  night after the Daytona 500, Denny Hamlin says, I have an
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  idea how to fix it. And so, so do some of us,
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  others. But we want to do it next year.
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  We want the Clash to be brought back to Daytona and we want to
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  test. And what we want to do is we
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  want to get rid of spoiler. We want to do all this.
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  So we have to let off the gas. So in other words, right now at
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  Daytona, we're running wide open.
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  OK, I'm I'm going to have fun with it.
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  Let's have fun with it. So at Daytona right now, the gas
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  pedal is wide open because we have so much downforce.
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  So right now at Daytona, we're going the whole race.
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  What Danny wants to do is like we used to do back in the old
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  days, where we'd go and we would let off in the old days because
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  our cars would not handle and there'd be usually two to four
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  cars by themselves gone. And the reason that would happen
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  is because those guys up front could run almost wide open.
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  The guys, 7th, 8th, 9th, they're like, because they're getting
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  ready to spin out or they're pushing bad.
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  OK, now I broke it all down for you about fuel modge.
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  I told you how it started. I told you whose fault it is and
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  I told you, Denny Hamlin, what he says.
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  Let's fix it. Let's go with the Clash next
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  year. Let's leave Bowman great.
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  And let's move the Clash to Daytona next year and do a test.
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  Make the Clash a test. Get rid of spoiler, make the
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  cars loose, make it to where you got a lift or you load.
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  If you lift, you know you'll wreck.
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  So it would, it's going to be difficult.
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  Now my idea, I'm going to tell you how I will fix it.
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  I will fix it immediately right now, tomorrow and I do a quick
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  little redneck fix. My fix is not the perfect fix.
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  However, it won't cost anybody any money.
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  What you do is you go to Talladega and with 25 laps to
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  go, you bring everybody down Pit Rd., a non competition pit stop.
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  Now you can do this the whole race too.
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  Now this is a quick fix. This is a quick fix.
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  This is what we got to. To fix this might cost millions
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  of dollars because you have to change the car and things of
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  that nature and maybe it won't cost millions of dollars.
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  Maybe they just fix it and we don't realize that that's what
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  we do. But I'm going to add a little
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  nugget in here. I'm going to add a little Larry
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  Mcnugget in here if TV doesn't talk about it.
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  You just think they're three wide racing like they've always
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  done. But because TV draws attention
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  to it, then you know it. When Mark Martin said this is
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  not a good look, The only reason he knew that they were running
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  fuel miles race because T VS telling you they're looking at
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  all the data. You know, sometimes all this
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  data, you know, Google, some all this, sometimes all this stuff
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  is it ruins it, it ruins the show.
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  So to me, if I don't hear the announcers talk about it, if I
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  don't see the data, it looks like 10 years ago we've been
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  running three wide 11 rows deep forever.
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  So my fix would simply go, OK boys, when we go to Talladega,
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  pick out a pick out something and just bring the cars down Pit
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  Rd. and fill them up and go look, there goes your fuel
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  mileage. You don't got to do it no more
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  and be a non competitive pit stop.
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  And I'm going to I'm going to leave you, I'm going to end this
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  subject like this. By the way, it's going to be a
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  long 1 today. So what I would do for Talladega
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  right away is I would make it to where you just bring them down
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  Pit Rd. and bring them down at a time non competitive, OK?
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  If you come down pit Rd. everybody comes down, you fill
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  them up with gas and you let them leave.
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  Something of that nature. Now I know you can sit here
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  right now and you can go what about this and what about that?
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  But what if you need tires and watch?
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  I mean this in a nice way. First.
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  First things first, let's get rid of the fuel mileage deal.
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  All right, I told you everything just now.
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  I need you to respond right here.
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  OK, I dressed the elephant in the room.
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  Now let's go with happy, happy joy.
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  Joy Daytona 500 sold out 150,000 people, 450,000 people at the
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  racetrack and a hell of a race. Now some of you are going to go,
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  oh, they just run around. They didn't just run around the
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  racetrack. There was times they ran around
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  the racetrack. OK, There were times they ran
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  around the racetrack, and they've been doing that forever.
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  But once again, because they gave you the data, you know it.
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  What about the days when Dale Junior won?
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  He was, he was leading the Daytona 500 all by himself.
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  I remember like yesterday, Dale Junior's run around racetrack.
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  Well, actually Tony Stewart was leading that race if you
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  remember, and he's running around all by himself and Dale
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  Junior running, running down and passing and that was that.
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  So we will get it fixed. But I took this is important,
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  this is important. Last week I took a poll.
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  I said, are you going to allow the start of the NASCAR season
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  to be positive since we have a positive vibe or by Sunday
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  night, are you going to complain?
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  I, I took that poll last week, 75% of the people said we're
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  going to stay positive and I'll be damn, I knew you couldn't do
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  it. I knew it.
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  See, it's human nature. We're going to be stuck with
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  this the rest of our lives. Now switching subjects.
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  NASCAR did a hell of a job. They brought Kid Rock in, they
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  had Miranda Lambert, they had John Daly.
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  They had all these superstars there and everybody got on
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  social media after the race and they talked about how NASCAR is
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  the most awesome thing. Everybody bragged on the Daytona
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  500. It was awesome.
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  It was there's all these people go, man, I've never seen
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  anything like this. So I'll land like this.
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  There's so much to talk about it, but we're going to do that
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  on Herman Schrader here in a little bit.
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  I want to leave you with this years ago.
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  Do you all remember when Dom Capers was the head coach for
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  the Carolina Panthers? So I was doing a I'm in the
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  race. It's to Coke 600 at Charlotte
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  and the Dom Capers comes to the my squirty hospitality with me.
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  And at that time, Dom Capers was a big time head coach.
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  You know, the Carolina Panthers were rocking and I'm giving a
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  speech before the coach 600. Well, we leave that hospitality
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  and Dom Capers, the head coach of the Carolina Panthers, he
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  looks at me, goes, I would never allow any of my football players
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  to talk to any human being before a game.
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  So before the Daytona 500, some of these superstars, some of
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  these actors and musical people, they got on social media and
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  they said, I can't believe this. Did you see Tony Stewart in the
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  truck race? He had his helmet on.
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  He's getting in the car and people are still, fans are
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  coming right up to him and talking.
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  And I told Dom Capers, I said, Oh yeah, Dom, NASCAR is all
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  about the fans, has always been about the fans.
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  But over the past 10-15 years, sometimes the fans tend to do
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  things like NASCAR don't care about us.
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  They put too many commercials on TV.
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  I'm like it just it never stops. But NASCAR and US drivers, Hell,
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  there were times I was in my race car with my helmet on.
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  I mean, I'm ready to go. Mic check testing, 1-2, three.
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  You hear me? Yeah.
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  Herman, I hear you. OK.
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  And a fan would stick his head right in the car and I'd have my
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  gloves on. I'd sign the autograph through
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  the window net. We're at 12 minutes, everybody.
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  Hell of a rice. I got so much more to say, but I
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  don't want to go too long. I took the biggest topic and I
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  went after it. And I really will leave you if
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  you've made it this far. The greatest thing that's
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  happened all week long was this. All three races ended under the
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  green flag, come into the checkered flag and that's what
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  you asked for. That was most important.
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  Have a great Monday, everybody.