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Does Talent No Longer Matter In Racing? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  It's Sunday, everyone 43° today is going to be the high, but
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  they're talking about a record high on Christmas.
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  Here in Saint Louis. It's going to be 73°.
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  So who's going to be wearing shorts on Christmas Day in St.
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  Louis, MO? I told Kim.
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  I said maybe we should open the swimming pool up.
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  Lucy. Hi.
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  Lucy. What you doing?
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  Huh. What you doing?
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  Oh, Lucy. Lucy, the legend.
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  And they're Louie. I don't know.
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  Louie. Louie.
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  Hi, buddy. What you doing?
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  He's like, Louie's like. Are you giving Lucy more
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  attention than me? All right, everybody, today I'm
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  going to go out on the town, going to take some of my friends
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  around Saint Louis, and they're up here from Arkansas, so we're
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  going to have a good time. Yesterday we went to the Arch
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  Sue Lard Market, Busch Stadium, Hodax went to the Worldwide
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  Technology and saw the Christmas lights.
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  But we put in a full day and we still got a full day ahead of us
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  today. We're going to go out and about
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  again. All right, Today's subject
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  matter is something that I saw on Facebook and it made me
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  think. And here was the headlines.
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  It said talent does not make it in racing anymore.
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  So it made me think so it sounded like somebody was
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  bitter, like something went bad. And I want to address that.
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  Does talent make it in racing anymore?
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  Absolutely. And the great Dick Trickle
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  taught me, he said. My boy, you got to want to and
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  you know God will want to means if you want it, you're going to
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  become a race car driver. It is.
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  Is it easy to make it in racing? Hell no.
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  It's the hardest thing there is and here's why.
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  So you need money first. OK, so you got to go find money.
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  So I did. My mom and dad didn't give me a
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  dime. So my very first race car, I
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  found John Child's child's tire up in O'Fallon, Missouri.
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  John helped me build my first Dillon asphalt car for ASA.
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  Then I needed a motor. Then I went down to Don Kern,
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  Kern Racing Engines. Don said I'll build you motor,
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  but you give me a third of everything, you win.
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  So if you win $100 bill, you got to give me $30.
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  Then for tires I had to pay for them, my truck, my dad Co signed
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  a loan, I went and got a used Globe Democrat newspaper
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  delivery truck, so on and so forth.
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  That's how I got going racing. I had nothing to live in a
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  single bedroom apartment, wasn't even married to Kim in hell she
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  paid for the my Dylan trailer. So I want to address that once
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  again, the subject matter is talent does not make it in
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  racing anymore. I don't believe that.
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  Now I will say this, let's address dirt racing Super late
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  models. When you when you look at dirt
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  super late models, when you get into the Lucas Oil late models
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  of the World of Outlaw late models and you get into the
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  garage area, none of those guys bitch and complain about money
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  because they all got money. They all got car owners, they
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  all got something. Everybody's got a sponsor or
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  sugar daddy. Let's look at Bobby Pierce.
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  That's one of that's a very rare situation.
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  Family run company. Bobby Pierce got a ton of
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  talent, got a great family, got a good sponsor, low voltage
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  solution. Look at Bobby Pierce's car.
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  He's got all those sponsors because they're doing something
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  right and ain't cuz he wins all the time.
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  Now that helps, don't get me wrong, but that's a family run
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  deal and talent was born into the family after the tall cool
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  and Bob Pierce did good. Let's look at Nick Hoffman.
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  Nick's a dear friend of mine. Nick came out of Saint Louis and
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  that family can make chicken salad out of chicken.
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  He literally built and builds dirt modifieds for a living.
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  That's what he does now. Nick Hoffman and the whole
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  Hoffman family, they are the epitome of God.
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  I want them. Nick Hoffman's dirt super late
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  mile that he runs in the World of Outlaws.
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  He got a car owner. But Nick does all the all the
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  work with a crew member here, a crew member there.
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  They're always leaving. All these crew members are
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  always leaving. You always see it out there.
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  Need loyal help. The job pays for what you can
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  do, what you can know. But Nick's got a car owner.
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  And then Nick over delivers and then wins about 5 races a year.
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  You look at somebody like a, a Devin Moran.
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  Devin got a car owner. He does everything.
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  I interviewed Devin Moran on Kenny conversation.
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  So I want to ask it again. I hear that talent will not make
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  it in racing. You got to want to.
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  Now can everybody just go racing?
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  Well, hell no. That that I I find that such a
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  strength. So I feel like everybody says
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  everybody should be able to race.
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  Well, no, they shouldn't, because only the ones that got
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  to want it. How bad do you want it?
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  Do you want to do it? Well, I can't race because I got
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  no money. Hey, listen, it's like The Rock
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  said, If you want to do something bad enough, you'll
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  figure out a way to do it. If you don't want to do
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  something, you'll figure out a way not to do it.
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  So as far as one or two people out there saying, oh, I can't
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  race, this is too much. That's too much.
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  Well, maybe. Maybe you're just wore out.
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  Maybe it's not meant for you. I doubt any of you have worked
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  as hard as I have. My story is unbelievable and my
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  wife can tell you it. How the hell I made it is pure.
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  God will want to, want to, need it.
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  Got to have it. I'm going to be a race car
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  driver. When you first say that to
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  yourself, make it work. Get out, meet people, introduce
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  yourself, take care of your sponsors.
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  I got great sponsors because I run my mouth and I sell product.
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  Sunoco Jags Low Voltage Solution, Pit Stop Motorsports K
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  Now Ready Mix Priority Aviation. Southern Country, Custom Crow,
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  Trevor Atwell, Mobil One Oil. It goes on and on.
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  If you want it bad enough, you'll get it, and if you don't
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  want it bad enough, you'll make excuses.
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  I just gave you a lot of examples.
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  Have a good Sunday, everyone.