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Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s Car is in The Daytona 500 | Kenny Wallace Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  All right, everybody, Thursday night, the twin one 50s, man,
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  it's been awesome. Dale Junior, Justin Algar,
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  they're a highlight. And then just now for the second
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  duel, what an incredible finish. The wrecking.
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  They throw the caution and they go OK at the caution.
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  Austin Sandrick was leading the race.
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  Eric Jones had already went to Victory Lane.
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  Eric Jones was already on the front straightaway.
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  I'm the winner. Yay.
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  Nope. Hold the dough.
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  I'm just like all you. I'm like, man, oh, man, you
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  know, this is like a Rubik's Cube.
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  You know, for one action, there's another reaction, right?
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  All this started 100 years ago. For all of you fans that have
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  been around a long time, all of this caution flag, where are you
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  at? It all started when Dale Jarrett
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  at Loudon, New Hampshire spun out off of turn 4.
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  And back then we used to race back to the start finish line
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  and they said no more of that. So I I hear you all.
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  You're like, this is stupid. But I just told you when all
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  this started years ago, they said we can no longer have Dale
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  Jarrett spun out in the racetrack and everybody racing
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  around him. What we're going to do now is
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  we're going to put lines everywhere.
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  We're going to put cameras that way when the caution comes out,
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  everybody let's off the gas. So I just reminded you of why
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  this has happened. I know you're upset that Eric
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  Jones here we go. There it is.
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  Yeah. So right.
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  There's when they threw the caution and the two of Austin
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  Sendrick is in the lead, right. But when you go to the when you
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  go to the. Here we are.
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  OK, so the cautions out right there.
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  Watch cautions out. Cautions out right there.
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  Cautions out. It's clear as day.
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  Cautions out. Austin Sendrick is leading the
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  race. They go 1/2 a football field
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  down and you know, Eric Jones, you know, crosses the line
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  first. So anyway, as old Larry Max
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  said, I think we beat that with a dead horse like a dead horse.
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  All right, congratulations. Congratulations to Corey Lajoie.
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  I don't like the show the TV screen too much because Charlie
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  get mad at me. Charlie said, Herman, we get in
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  trouble. I said, Charlie, we not get in
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  trouble. NASCAR is the only one that
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  would get mad at me if I did that.
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  And they're all my friends. So we can get away with showing
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  it every once in a while. It's OK, Charlie, you can post
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  this. Corey Lejoy finished 6th.
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  He's locked in the Daytona 500. Before I get to the biggest
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  story, which is Dale Junior, Justin Agar, let me just say
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  this. What an incredible.
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  What an incredible night it was. I said back at Bowman Gray that
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  this was the best start for NASCAR ever, and I still think
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  they follow up with the best start to their NASCAR season
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  ever. I mean, we basically had two
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  photo finishes, both dual, one 50s were awesome.
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  OK, I know a lot of you wanted Eric Jones to win because a #43
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  has not won a twin since 1977, Richard Petty.
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  But just forget about that for a minute.
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  Both races were incredible, All right.
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  And Dale Junior. Dale Junior was giddy happy.
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  I've never I've never seen Dale Junior as happy as he was when
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  Justin Oggart and his car made its way into the starting field
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  for the Daytona 500. Now respond right here.
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  Didn't that make you happy? Let's see where this right can.
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  Well, I'm not going to show all of the 22.
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  Moved up a little bit. There we go.
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  The 80. Who was that?
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  Maybe Shane van Gisbergen. Somebody got to turn, all right?
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  Anyway, all hell broke loose at that second duel and a lot of
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  unnecessary wrecking, which was a bummer, but that's just kind
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  of the way it goes. They get to block it and
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  everything. Here we go.
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  Charlie ain't going to get that There It was that 88.
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  That 88 got turned. So all right, let's break it
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  down. The highlight of the night, no
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  doubt in my mind. Dale Earnhardt junior being so
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  happy. Just euphoria and Dale Junior
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  says, I love NASCAR. This is this is awesome.
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  And and then they go to the Media Center, right?
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  They go to the Media Center and and this is kind of hard for me
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  to say everybody, but I'm just going to say what they said.
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  Eric Jones, I feel bad for Eric Jones.
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  He crossed the start finish line first but didn't get to win.
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  They're interviewing him now. Eric's, Eric's awesome.
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  OK, so they get to the Media Center with Dale Junior and they
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  said, Junior, this racetrack took your father's life.
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  Dale Junior said. It wasn't the racetrack that
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  took my dad's life. And I'm sure my dad would still
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  like Daytona. And I've I'm at peace with
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  Daytona. Boy, that's heavy.
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  That's very heavy. I really believe that this, this
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  whole combination of everything going good at Bowman Gray, we
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  get to Daytona. I mean, look at these finishes.
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  I mean, what, what, what can we complain about?
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  They're they're two and three wide finishes.
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  These are two and three wide finishes.
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  You got Jimmy Johnson in the race seven time champ.
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  You got Dale Junior talking about how happy, how exciting it
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  is Martin Truex is in the race. All's well that ends well.
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  So let's play devil's advocate here.
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  Join me, why don't you? What did we not like?
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  What did we not like? I mean, it would only have to be
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  that they went by the rules, right?
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  So the only thing you can be mad about the whole night is when
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  the caution flag fell, Syndrick was in the lead that that's all
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  you can be mad about. But but they showed you, they
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  showed it to you. So for all that collectively,
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  everybody respond right here. Now listen, we're going to do
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  coffee with Kenny tomorrow. Coffee with Kenny tomorrow is
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  going to be about Dale Junior. All about Dale Junior.
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  I got a lot to say about that. So, all right, that's my
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  breakdown for the twin one 50s respond right here.
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  I don't. I think my headline here is
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  NASCAR is still off to its best start in 30 years.
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  OK, somebody said no, 2006 was awesome.
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  But I'm just going to say, look, I'm going to say when Dale
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  Senior passed away, that was the last of the good days.
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  However, the height of NASCAR was 2006.
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  That's when the biggest crowds were.
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  That's a fact. That's a little known deal right
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  there. The height of NASCAR was 2006.
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  All right, everybody, I still think NASCAR is off to its best
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  start in a long time. Respond right here.
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  What a there's Kim again. She walking all around the
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  house. She talking, all walking all
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  around the house. All right, well, I think that's
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  it. Daytona 500 starting field is
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  set. The Daytona 500 will be this
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  Sunday. Until then, we got the truck
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  race tomorrow night. Friday night, we got the Xfinity
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  race. Saturday.
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  NASCAR has started and NASCAR has not failed to deliver the
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  goods. It's been exciting.
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  It's been exciting. All right, everybody, respond
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  right here. Goodnight everyone.