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Should NASCAR Let Cup Guys Drive More Xfinity & Truck Races? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy. What is it Thursday morning,
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  everybody from Corning, NY, right outside of Watkins Glen,
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  the famous NASCAR track. And did you know Watkins Glen so
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  legendary. They raced Formula One there
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  that used to race downtown through the city and now it's a
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  NASCAR track. And by the way, hey Kim, they
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  were racing GT cars there yesterday and you even said that
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  I did a race with them. Yeah, now come here honey.
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  By the way, this is a two-part coffee with Kenny.
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  Max is coming in about 04 minutes.
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  Max Pappas is coming in 4 minutes.
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  Hold on everybody. OK.
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  When we were going around the racetrack, how did you know
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  those were that like, you know, Trans am GGT type cars?
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  How'd you know that? Because I didn't wreath for
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  somebody. And he wanted all of these all
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  of these different cars that raced at Rd.
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  America. So remember Kim's wreaths.
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  Wreaths by Kim, when is your big craft sale?
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  November 8th. November 8th.
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  OK, so as we get ready to go here we are leaving Corning.
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  It was a great night and you know, every, every Kyle Petty
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  charity ride, I think about what Kyle Petty said.
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  He said, hey man, I used to think it was about these
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  motorcycles and, and we try to think it is and we compare
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  thoughts about motorcycles, but it really is about the people.
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  We have met so many people that it is amazing.
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  And today we are leaving. Kim and I are headed back to St.
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  Louis, MO on this Thursday morning.
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  The ride ends tomorrow and I want to thank Kyle Petty for
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  calling me. I'll never forget the call,
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  Herman. I need two things.
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  They said, yeah, Kyle, sit on that couch with that goofy ass
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  hair of yours and those and those glasses and sell my book
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  and the other thing he said, I want you to go on this ride.
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  And I said, Kyle, I'm too hyper to go on that damn ride.
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  I'll get the talking inside my helmet and he goes, come on,
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  man, We got it geared towards you old people.
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  Well, I'm going to tell you what, it's still a great time.
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  And we ride about averaging around 220 miles a day.
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  And then we stop and we sign autographs.
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  There's Kay Shrey, we're getting ready in about a minute and 1/2
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  with espresso. All right, Kenny, you're the one
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  not. Don't act shy.
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  I'm serious when I say this. The Wallaces, we grew up, you
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  know, motocrossing a little bit, but I remember the pig roast
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  years ago when race season would be over, Ronnie Sifford, Jerry's
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  brother, he would hold that Is that.
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  Is that when you got interested in motorcycles?
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  I don't. Know, I just always rode Mikes
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  and when I started running a tough car and actually Kyle
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  probably got me riding a little bit.
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  Really. Yeah, but you know, I just
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  played with him. But then it's first real trips I
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  took, not these, but we'd run, we'd leave Texas and go to
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  Phoenix and. Stuff about 50, you said 56,000
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  miles on yours right now. At what time?
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  It's just breaking in. Here we go, Rick.
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  Rick Allen, everybody. Named Ken to sit in here and
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  talk or. No.
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  Can a Max or a Rick? Joint, well, Max is when we get
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  to about 5 minutes, we're going into the Max Pappas espresso
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  with Max, Max, Max. Why don't we just go ahead and
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  start espresso with Max right now by Kenny got to start.
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  You guys, Kenny. Didn't want.
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  Anything to do with espresso with Max.
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  Espresso with Max started Mr. Kenny Schroeder.
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  Abort, abort, abort, abort, abort, abort.
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  And Rick Allen is running away. And what about this marriage
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  here between Kenny and Max? Look at that double screen.
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  I love this here. We go bang here.
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  We go hold on, put yours right back.
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  I'm. Going to do this.
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  OK, double. Screen Hey, so subject of the
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  day. Yep, we are here with Kyle.
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  Kyle Perry Charity ride. We're doing so good for everyone
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  else. We are at Watkins Glen, a place
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  that saw Kyle first win. Right, Kyle.
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  Kyle won here in a hell of a race with the man in black,
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  Earnhardt, I believe a little bit more.
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  Well, that was a big win, you know, because you know, when
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  Kyle drove that mellow yellow car, he was driving for Felix
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  Savatis. And they had, at first they had
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  Gary Nelson, but then they had ended up, you know, Robin, so.
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  Much memory. Same as you do, But Robin
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  Pemberton, Did you hear that story of how Kyle won Kyle Petty
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  yesterday? Actually, yeah, he told us the
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  story right. It was coming in and out in
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  practice in the garages, putting cardboard, making sure that no.
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  You act like you don't. You act like you don't hear him.
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  Yeah, he just left, he told us. We are hugging your ring.
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  So going up through the S is the the nose will fly.
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  Remember when you told me about your Formula One cars?
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  If you get behind somebody and the nose wash off, you go up
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  through those s s. It's real hard to get the
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  camber, the camber game and keep that baby turning up through the
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  S S because you're going up and the air is getting underneath
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  and you're wanting to fly the nose, fly the nose.
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  You know that that means it won't turn.
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  So they made the nose of that Pontiac Grand Prix as.
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  Wide as possible, right? And what did they say?
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  That instead of having the word free, yeah, put.
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  GP yeah. Things look smaller, yeah.
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  Yeah, because the word Grand Prix would be like, there'll be
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  a lot of space left, so they just put GPS so NASCAR wouldn't
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  Jack. With them and he said he was
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  able to go wide open in the s S right.
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  Yes and that my friends is why we have this new next Gen. car.
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  Keep going though, SO. Subject for me, yeah, and for
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  you, yeah, Leaving today. Don't forget your phone, all
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  right? He he started putting his phone
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  down. I can be.
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  Leaving today. Subject of today.
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  Yeah. Where are you going?
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  NASCAR wanna keep the veteran out of the Truck Series and the
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  Xfinity Series. What's your opinion?
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  That was a good test, but it I don't like it, OK, That for me
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  that test is over because here's why we brought so many fans to
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  the grandstands because, oh, Kyle Bush is going to be racing
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  today. It's a fact that when you bring
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  a Cup driver in to the Truck Series, you know, for so many
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  races, and not just that, Max, I'm going to end.
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  I'm going to end like this, number one, it brings people in
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  #2 You can ask my wife right now, she's right there that that
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  Xfinity race, that Xfinity race that we won, we were in Richmond
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  one night. I looked in my mirror and I saw
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  bubble goggles and it was Dale Earnhardt senior.
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  And then the Winn-dixie Ford was behind him when I won that race
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  in Richmond that night with GAIL Earnhardt senior on my ass.
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  Put your name on the. Map put my name on the map
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  because they said Kenny Wallace on that given night.
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  On that night I was I can never compete with those guys.
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  But that night I outran. I was the baddest son of a bitch
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  here because I ran Dale Senior and I out and I and I outran and
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  and I ran kid Martin. So I think that it makes those
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  Xfinity drivers or truck drivers better if they can outrun those.
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  Those veterans, that is my opinion too.
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  You know, why? What did you say?
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  I think that we will, I want to see more Cup guys in the Xfinity
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  in the Truck Series to validate these young guys because
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  otherwise, how a hand rake, a Joe Gibbs will ever be able to
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  see how good these young guys are, you know, and then they
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  show up, you know, to the Cup Series.
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  They get run over, they might not be ready for it while the
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  the Xfinity and the Truck Series they're done so that you can
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  actually learn about it and you are a testimony, Mr. Rutledge of
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  something special today is the marriage as you can see what I
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  have. Behind it's not your is your.
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  What's the deal is your anniversary?
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  No. Is the marriage between coffee
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  with candy and espresso with Max?
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  Oh. This is oh OK, a spin.
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  Off of we are making. Americano.
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  Americano. I'd like to add a quote that
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  Kenny would often say on on race day, which is still true.
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  To be the best, you got to beat the best.
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  Right. Richer we are.
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  Missing. We are missing that one element.
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  It's your point. Imagine these kids get shuffled
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  up, they get a chance in a lifetime and then they're out.
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  But they shouldn't be. They just they don't have the
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  same learning curve. We've also lost that thing of
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  like, you know, I would love to be the greatest driver in
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  trucks. I'd love to be the greatest
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  driver in extend. Yeah.
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  But we also have this weird thing where people are like, oh,
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  if you're any good and you got money, you got to go to the top
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  right now today. You might not want.
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  No, no. I.
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  Agree. With you, I made, I made a damn.
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  I ran well, I ran like 905 races, but I ran 355 girls in
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  the Cup, but 547 in Xfinity. The math is this.
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  I made a living in the Xfinity Series, but you know,
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  everybody's dream is to make it to the Cup Series to show you're
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  the man. You look at Carson Hosabar and
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  you know, Connor Zilich, those guys, those guys like, hey,
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  we're we want to be in Cup and, and Connor sat on the pole at at
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  Texas. That was a big deal.
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  It's huge. But also if he, if he went into
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  Cup tomorrow, as talented as he is, if he's in the wrong
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  equipment, then suddenly people go oh.
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  There is a there is a post spawn guy that has a shot like that.
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  And how many of the other there actually is, really?
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  Good. OK.
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  They don't get it. You can see this is going to
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  keep going everybody. Thanks for being respond right
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  here guys. I'm I'm leaving.
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  I'm. Sorry about that, guys are
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  leaving. On I'm leaving today you know,
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  going to Indianapolis to officiate yeah in the.
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  GP We we got to. Go you, Kenny, where do you go?
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  I'm headed to Brownstown, IL to run dirt Friday night.
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  Come. On and.
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  You, I'll be here. I love you guys.
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  We'll miss you. Thanks for being a part of the
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  Calpetti charity ride again. You guys are the best.
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  Respond right here. I like Max's take on this.
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  Do the Xfinity and truck drivers, do they need to run
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  more races now that we've done that 6-7 year test?
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  Do you miss the Cup drivers at Rick?
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  Do you miss the Cup drivers in? Xfinity and the Truck.
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  Series yes or no? OK, respond right here.
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  Here we go. Have a great day.