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I Got Choked Up After Winning at Volusia · Kenny Wallace Media

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  It's been 12 years. Kenny got another Gator here.
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  Evolution. How cool is this?
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  Oh. It it's everything because you
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  know, as competitors we want to make sure we justify everything.
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  And my feature is by far the toughest one of the night.
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  You know Kyle Strickler, he's a hot rod.
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  He's won so many races here in this new kid, Barry, he's been
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  dominant here and you know to be able to win tonight against
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  those guys makes it right. And you know, any win would be
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  big. But yeah, it it it's crazy.
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  But I'm so happy. That means everything to me.
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  Why are you so choked up? I mean, I I Why?
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  Why is this so important? I think there's a lot of
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  reasons. I think because I never won a
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  Cup race, I run second three times, you know, and and I think
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  I love racing. I asked the dear friend of my
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  Billy Smith one time. I said I'm just not ready to
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  quit. And he said it simple.
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  He goes, Herman, you still love it.
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  And when you love something that much, you know, my wife's all
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  in, my kids are all in. I talked about quitting and my
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  my oldest daughter said, Dad, you can't quit.
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  You got to have a race car in the garage.
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  We just want you to make sure you come to the grandbaby's
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  birthday parties. So got a lot of advice from Don
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  Cradome, Walker Evans, Kenny Schrader.
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  And it's so true when you get old, you know, it's a Clint
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  Eastwood song. Don't let the old man in.
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  And I was so close to letting the old man in and then I
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  realized I don't have to run 75 races.
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  I can run 30. You know now with the trackside
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  lives at the NASCAR tracks. And so my balance is way better
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  and I I'm older and I appreciate it way more and I think that's
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  why so choked up. Well if I if I don't do a video
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  now I'd be foolish. We won.
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  I'm so happy that it's unbelievable.
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  You never know how bad you want something until you accomplish
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  it. So we won in the toughest
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  feature of the night. I had Kyle Strigler and Barry
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  behind me. These are these are hot rod
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  drivers are so good so the the world without low light model
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  races running right now. But I want to thank everybody.
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  Obviously Jags Crow Equipment help up my buddy Gary St.
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  Cyn. Trevor Atwell.
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  Dave Pitts, the college family, my Big Brother Rusty, Southern
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  country custom and Jennifer and Richard Marshall, a priority.
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  So big win. And listen, I see all these
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  guys. I'm going to show you what all
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  these guys do. And now I get to do it.
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  Do you have any idea how hard those are to win 113 cars here?
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  So Justin is in Feature 6. He's right there.
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  Do good, brother. Hey, how about that feature win?
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  That was I love you money. I love you.
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  I love you do good. So I was in Feature 4.
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  So they're running the world of Outlaw Lake Mile or World of
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  Outlaw Sprint Car race right now.
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  And he's in Feature 6. So once again, what makes this
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  one so good is, man, there was some good.
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  You know, it's one of those deals were when you win it, it
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  it it was a big one. What do you think, buddy?
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  Nick's kids. All right, you know.
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  And I said it in picture Lane. Thank you to Nick Hoffman, his
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  dad Darrell, for building the motor and the whole family.
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  Look here. Here's mom.
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  Here's Rhonda. Are you proud of me?
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  Hey, when you when you drive Nick's car, you better win.
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  That's. What do you think, buddy?
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  This is this is Maddox. You're used to going to Victor
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  Lane with your daddy, aren't you?
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  Was you excited to go again? I love you, buddy.
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  Thank you. Awesome.
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  Happy Thursday morning, everybody.
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  Herminator got a pep in his step today, baby.
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  There's the legend. That's Pete Parker, one of the
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  greats from the Wisconsin area. Super late model Racer.
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  You in any Hall of Fame's? Yeah, you're damn right you are.
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  And then the legendary Tom Ward. Look at Tom.
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  Tom's got a successful family detect, but the kids are on it
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  now. D detect DD Tom and kids.
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  All right. So we won last night and it it's
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  exciting. But my favorite thing is I come
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  out of it. So I'm sleeping in.
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  There's nice little bedroom and I come out.
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  What did you say to me when I you first saw me this morning?
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  Were you driving last night? Was that you?
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  Say that again. Was that you?
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  So the great Pete Parker, he's a racer through and through.
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  He says, was that you driving that car last night?
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  I said let me give you a Dick trickle speech, my boy.
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  When you get older like me, the car's got a handle, OK?
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  Because I'm not Mike Harrison. My shit ain't going to be on the
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  cushion. I'm not going to be, I'm not
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  going to be knocking the wall down Pete at 60 years old.
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  Plus, when I go back home, I do all my own work on my car.
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  So we don't knock the wall down on Friday night because we want
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  to race Saturday night, right? And when we open the tailgate
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  door on Saturday morning, we don't want the whole ass into or
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  off of it. So here's what I said.
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  Yes, that was me driving last night because Nick Hoffman gave
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  me a very fast race car. However, Schrader will tell you
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  this. When you're old, Tom and the
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  car's handling, you look young. So, yeah, that was me driving
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  the car last night, Pete. And, boy, I looked young, didn't
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  I? I like it.
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  I didn't heard that word in years.
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  You look like a pup. Years ago.
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  They called you pup. They called a couple.
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  They called two other things pups, too.
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  Comment below on what that means.
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  All right, everybody. Well, we keep it short and
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  sweet. They got me in the corner of the
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  couch. So see, look, see.
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  I'm in the corner right there. So that's that's why I look like
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  I'm laid back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind.
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  That's Snoop Dogg, you know. All right, guys.
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  Well, they say it's supposed to warm up a little.
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  Anybody see the weather? 76 today.
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  Hold on, say that again. What's it going to be 76° today
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  down here? So it'll be tomorrow.
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  All right, everybody. Well, that was coffee with
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  Kenny. And yes, I'm happy as hell.