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Everybody Wants To Know About Me Driving 158 MPH On The Autobahn | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning. Everybody.
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  Got that song stuck in my head. Style.
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  We never go out of style. We never go out of style.
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  And I got that James Dean Daydream look in your eyes.
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  Come on. All right, Foggy morning here.
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  Very foggy. Let's go take a look.
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  Well, I don't really got to go outside to show you, but let's
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  see here. Let's see.
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  Yeah, very foggy. Very, very foggy here in Daytona
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  Beach, Ormond Beach. As for you, Craiger.
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  All right, today, as Larry Mack say, we going to talk about the
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  Autobahn. While I've been racing out at
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  Volusia, I've had a lot of people stop me and want to talk
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  about my trip to Europe and they all laugh and want to talk about
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  the Autobahn. Autobahn.
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  Autobahn Bahn like you're in school.
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  The H is silent. Just make it, you know, it
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  shouldn't be spelled Autobahn BAWN.
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  But no, they got to do the Bahn thing.
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  OK, So we flew to Frankfurt. We flew N so we could get on the
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  Autobahn and experience it and drive South.
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  We rented a Mercedes. What was that?
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  AMG or something like that? 43 and we did it because we knew
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  it was going to have to run fast.
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  I think it was like 700 and something dollars for basically
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  like two or three days. Very expensive.
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  So the Autobahn is 99.9% of people just like everybody else
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  here in America. It is highly exaggerated.
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  You know, when we went over there, I had this theory that
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  you just get on that damn Autobahn and you just go nuts.
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  Well, that's that's not true. I had to learn it.
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  So got rented us a hot rod and got on that Autobahn and
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  realized quickly that it was very regulated.
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  The first thing my dear friend John Scootoni told me was it's
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  like $5000 over there to get your license.
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  So weeds out a lot of riff raff and when you get your license,
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  besides learning how to drive a car over there in Germany,
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  you're taught what lanes to drive your car in.
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  Now you know over here it's sometimes it's AI wanted to say
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  show, but you know Charlie going to beat me out.
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  Can't do it here on social media, but I'll get beeped out
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  over on YouTube. But over here in America, the
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  highways are show because everybody get a license and you
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  get the people that just are mean and they're having a bad
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  day. So they run down the left lane,
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  which is the fast lane over here in America.
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  They run down the left lane, 5560 mile an hour.
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  Look in the mirror, I'm blocking everybody up.
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  I'm having a bad day. And then the road rage ensues.
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  So now over in Germany, you spent.
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  Now this is per John Scotone. John tells me it's like 5 grand
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  to get your license. And when you get your license,
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  it's like, Oh no, you don't ever get in the left lane unless
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  you're ready to haul ass, you know?
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  And then the tractor trailers are taught they run down the
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  right lane, maybe the middle lane, maybe at times to pass
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  each other. So the first thing I want
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  everybody to know is that that little war that we all have over
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  here, we're we're not going to let you go because, you know, I
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  just don't feel like it because I'm better than you.
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  I'm going to run in the left lane at 65 mile an hour.
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  So the first thing I noticed is that there's all these little
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  round stoplight looking things and they, they do have speed
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  limits over there, 60 kilometers, 8120, like 120
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  kilometers I believe is like almost 7580 mile an hour or
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  something like that. So you get going and then it's
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  it's constantly changing speed limits.
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  I mean, you got your head's got to be on a swivel and then you
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  come up on these round signs that are just pure white with,
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  with a line right through the middle.
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  And that means no speed limit. So you'll, you'll get the,
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  you'll get the haul of mass, you'll run 125.
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  It's easy in that Mercedes because see, all the other cars
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  are just not now somebody said, is there any American cars over
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  there? I say, well, I've seen like 1
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  Ford, one of those Ford station wagons, those Audi station
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  wagons and those Ford station wagons, they kind of look the
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  same. They they're kind of a miniature
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  station wagon, but that's the only American cars I saw over
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  there was the Ford like mini station wagon.
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  They go good, they got good power.
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  So anyway, you're running along there and there's no speed limit
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  and then boom, all of a sudden like 2 football fields it you
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  got to go down to like, you know, there's speed limit.
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  Then all of a sudden there's no speed limit.
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  Then you go another foot, one football field.
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  I mean, this small, it's like, and then all of a sudden you get
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  way out of town. You probably got to get a good
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  30 miles outside out of town. You got to get out and then it's
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  and then you can go and I can run that Mercedes 125 mph
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  nothing, just hauling total asses.
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  And then I'm sitting and running along and I'm like, John, this
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  is all it's got. And he's fooling around with the
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  dashboard and all of a sudden I'm like, and I'm like, what'd
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  you do? Well, so those rental cars, you
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  know, they're, they got these rating on these tires and it's
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  like, oh, you can only go 125 mile an hour with these rain
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  tires or whatever tires and all weather tires.
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  And so he, he took that limiter off and we got to 158 mile an
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  hour. Now, let me tell you something I
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  learned closing rate. I know all about closing rate,
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  but I wasn't ready for this. I'm running 158 mile an hour and
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  I'm looking about a mile ahead of me and I start letting off
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  the gas. Well, you close in on somebody's
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  student 125 and it's toeing elbows and I'm all over the
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  break. And it took my heart away and I
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  said, OK, I looked at John. I said, John, we done.
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  So, you know, we got to Berlin, we turn around, we came back,
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  you know, a couple days later and we learned a lot.
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  So the couple things I want to debull for you is the Autobahn
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  is not a free for all. It's a very regulated.
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  And when you do get in the left lane and you haul ass, it's just
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  to make time. And, and the other thing is this
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  all the cars over there can't do that.
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  The only cars I saw running with me was Mercedes, BMW and those,
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  those Audis. So all right, remember now if
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  you don't want to go stay out of the left lane, But I know you'll
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  stay in it just because you, you had a bad day and you just, you
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  just want to make people pay. Have a great, great Tuesday and
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  I'll see you tonight at Volusia Speedway.