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The Martinsville Xfinity Series Race Was Disgraceful | Espresso With Max Papis · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Good morning and welcome with Espresso with Max.
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  Theme of the day is wrecking or racing.
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  And based on what I saw in Martinsville this week, what I
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  saw on Saturday, that's exactly what the NASCAR guys hates.
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  Because one thing is bumping, moving, rubbing when you
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  actually have a real shot about winning.
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  Another thing is intentionally wrecking someone.
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  Sammy Smith on Saturday just decided that that he was going
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  to wreck the other guy and that that's really doesn't go down
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  very well, especially with the senior people in NASCAR.
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  Because when I showed up there, they told me very clearly that
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  anyone could punt you off every day, every lap of every race.
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  But that's not the way that they do it.
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  And I can see why there is a huge outrage from the senior
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  driver because they don't want to be seen like a bunch of
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  hillbillies. You know, they go out there and
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  wreck each other and and I think that it's very well respected,
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  you know, and again, let me take a step back on this.
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  And I know Sammy Jones, he's sorry.
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  I know Sammy Smith, he's a really good kid.
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  You know, he's and I'm sure, you know, even listening from when
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  he was after the post race interview, he was not very proud
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  of what he did. You know, I'm sure that that
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  him, you know, being at home now thinking about it, he might be
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  yeah, I overdid it. And so let's start with talking
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  that these guys are still kids. They're still learning.
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  So, you know, let's not crucify them because they have a career
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  ahead of them. They will learn from this, you
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  know, and the sport will handle itself.
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  It's not about part the guy, give him a punishment.
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  It's not about that. I'm sure that now the fellow
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  racer, they will know how to race him.
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  And you know, as I know like how NASCAR works, there will be a
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  bunch of guys that from time to time they will move him around
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  and they will remind him that what he did on Saturday, that's
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  not the way to do it. So I will say the NASCAR, stay
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  away from it because otherwise you set the precedent that is
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  going to be very, very subjective.
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  You know where, so where do you draw the line?
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  You know how far you need to be to hit someone.
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  Is this, you know, how do you intervene in a way that you can
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  be repeatable? You can, you know, if you, if
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  you, if you're going to punish or give a penalty to Samuel
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  Smith for this, Are you going to do the exact same things for the
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  Daytona 500? Are you going to do the exact
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  same things for other situations?
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  So, you know, I, I, if I would be the sanctioning body, I would
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  stay away from this, you know, and I will let the, the racing
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  community taking care of it step by step.
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  Again, not a very good episode, not as not what NASCAR wanted
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  to. I mean, not what I think the
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  soccer is, but there are some justification at the end of the
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  day, you know, their kids, they're learning.
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  The part I didn't really like at all is that if it was enough for
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  someone just to flip you off under under yellow to piss you
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  off that much, maybe need to think about it, need to think
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  how you can control your emotion.
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  How can you be better? Because I mean, if you have to
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  wreck someone that hard only because he flipped you off or
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  there's a bit of a hard feeling through the through the season,
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  I don't know, you know, I don't know.
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  I think that's the way too much. So I understand the range of the
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  senior driver and but at the same time, to all of you guys
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  out there, don't judge so much. I mean, you know, you don't know
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  what it takes to be sitting in the car to win a race.
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  So sometimes we all make mistakes.
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  And I'm sure Sammy is is going to regret, you know, what he did
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  and he was not a good character. Judgement and time will time
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  will time will say. You know, the part that really
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  sucks is that I understand why the senior guys get upset
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  because most of us came up from working really hard, working on
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  the cars and some of these younger generation, you know, I
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  don't know much about, you know, Yeah, I if the level of respect
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  towards their equipment, the level of respect towards other
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  people and wrecking hundreds of thousands of dollars doesn't
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  show much respect. And I think because the fact
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  that the respect towards what it takes to get there.
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  And unfortunately, there's another chapter that I want to
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  touch base in the future of the suffering that it takes to get
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  there versus the money that it takes to get there.
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  And what creator, the difference that creator inside as a
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  character, as a person. So Saturday, yeah, was a
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  disgrace, was really bad. Was that's not what I consider
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  NASCAR racing. The justification were not good.
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  At least I would have liked to see some people, you know,
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  NASCAR style in pit lane beating each other up a little bit, a
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  little bit of a bit of a show, but was not even that.
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  So none of the none of the above were good personally, but at the
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  same time let the sport handle itself and to the next.
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  You guys have a great day. Espresso with Max and to the
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  next.