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Daytona 500 Rain Delay Emergency Press Conference | Kenny Wallace Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hello everybody, and welcome to this rain Delay weather special
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  for the Daytona 500. We are brought to you by Jags,
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  to fix your hot rod up. All right, it is raining in
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  Daytona. The highlights so far.
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  President Trump came in Air Force One and boy, it looked
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  good. Had his granddaughter with him.
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  Really good optics. Shout out to the great Jamie
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  Little, man. I mean, that's a nervous
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  situation. You're interviewing the
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  president of United States, Jamie Little.
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  She kicked it out of the ballpark.
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  She's a badass. Great job, Jamie Little.
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  So hey, listen, we got lucky. We got lucky because they've
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  been calling for this rain and they move the starting line up,
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  you know, starting of the race an hour early, hoping to beat
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  all of it. There was no beating the weather
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  in Daytona. But we get 6 laps in and I got
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  to tell you, Chase Briscoe leads 2 laps.
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  I know that team wanted to check that off.
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  You don't want to sit, you don't want to set QuickTime at the
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  Daytona 500 and not leave the first lap.
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  So congratulations to Chase Briscoe.
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  Then Chase moves up and opens that lower line for William
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  Byron and William Byron leads some laps.
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  And then how about Ty Dillon? I'm very impressed.
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  I was thinking that's your, that's your dark horse, Ty
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  Dillon. Here's your dark horse.
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  He you know, he ran good in, in, in the duels.
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  So Ty Dillon and that black #10 and I think that's about it.
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  But I feel like NASCAR got very lucky.
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  I mean, it could have been a washout, right?
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  You know, maybe if they started when they were going to, they
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  were going to start. If they would have started an
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  hour later, it would have been bad.
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  It would have been, you know, Pitbull wouldn't have been able
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  to perform his concert president landing.
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  That would have looked bad, You know, So I feel like we got good
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  optics, you know, to start the Daytona 500.
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  All right, we're going to have a little fun here.
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  The Herminator. Look at this.
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  OK, Tell me your rain delay stories.
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  I know I got about 6 minutes worth and all.
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  I want all of you to respond right here.
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  So NASCAR has to get lucky to have a great year, right?
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  We know how lucky we got for the Bowman Gray race.
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  You know, when NASCAR said we're going to hold the All Star race
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  or not the All Star race, but you know, the the Bud shoot out
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  sort of speak at the start of the year, we're going to hold it
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  out in California. Well, that made sense, right,
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  Because you figured the weather would be out.
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  You'll be much better out in California.
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  So, you know, it rained. OK, so they say, all right,
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  let's move it to Bowman Gray. What?
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  You never know. Weather's crazy.
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  So we get the race in at Bowman Gray where you're not supposed
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  to get it in clear, but yet 40°, but it looked good.
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  All right, here we are at Daytona.
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  It's doing what it does. It rains.
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  But I must say this, you got to get lucky.
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  I was in Daytona for 11 straight days and everybody knows I just
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  got home. It was 86°.
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  It did not rain for 11 days in Daytona.
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  So I came home what, on Sunday and here we are seven days later
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  and there it is rain, rain, rain.
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  All right, so listen to this. We're we're going to go through
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  some of weather memories in NASCAR.
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  All right, 1993. I'm a rookie in NASCAR and we're
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  going to Atlanta Motor Speedway. It was snow Snowmageddon, you
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  know, instead of Armageddon Snowmageddon, it's like we're in
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  Atlanta, GA 1993. Respond right here.
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  Do you all remember it? Oh my gosh, It's like, oh, it's
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  maybe just going to be a little dusting.
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  No, it was like a Blizzard 1993, my rookie year, Daytona, and it
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  just didn't snow us out. We came back like a week later.
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  So Oh my God, we need to do ATV special on weather delays and
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  weather phenomenons. How about even Darryl Walter
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  believing if you keep the cars on the track, what what did he
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  call that vortex? The vortex theory Keep the race
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  cars going and it will the air will blow the wind away will
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  blow the weather away. So just crazy. 1993 Atlanta were
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  you there? Respond right here OK, Bristol
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  2006 I'm in the Xfinity race, OK, And I believe I'm in the
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  Stacker 2 car. We're running along and all of a
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  sudden I'm seeing stuff hitting my window.
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  You know, of course, Bristol, there's no jacking around.
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  We're going hard caution, then red.
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  It snows. You know when you go and get
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  this, the ice cream, what's the little white Pebble ice cream,
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  right? It was like a sleet snow.
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  It must have snowed at Bristol on that Saturday for the Xfinity
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  race, 1/2 inch. And here was the crazy part.
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  Everybody gets out of the cars. Everybody's.
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  I mean, there was enough snow where people were making
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  snowballs Literally an hour later.
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  I mean, the sun come out and we're green flag.
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  That was a weather phenomenon. And when you get up to Bristol,
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  you get in those mountains, you never know what you're going to
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  get. Sometimes it can be foggy up
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  there at Bristol and it will not, the fog will not lift until
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  noon and and there'll be no rain.
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  But you never know what you're going to get at Bristol because
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  of those mountains. So, so far we've talked about
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  that crazy snow, 1993 Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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  We talked about the crazy phenomenon.
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  Was it 2006 Bristol Motor Speedway on that Saturday for
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  the Xfinity race? It's snowing.
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  It's got 1/2 inch in like an hour.
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  Not even maybe two hours later, we're green flag to sunshine.
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  And it's like what just happened?
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  OK. And then and then the one that
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  was pretty wild and it was it was more like Groundhog Day.
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  Does anybody remember Michigan about, I don't know, let's say
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  let's say 2002 thousand, What about 7-8 years ago?
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  It rained on Sunday, it rained on Monday and I don't think we
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  raced until Tuesday or Wednesday.
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  Respond right here. Be part of the conversation.
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  Tell me, do you remember that weather phenomenon in Michigan?
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  We thought, OK, we'll rain down on Sunday and it rained.
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  It would not quit raining and rained us out on Monday and I
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  think we raced on that that Tuesday or Wednesday.
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  So, all right, listen, this is tongue in cheek.
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  You know, the story is, is that people have bitched and moan
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  about weather and they always blame it on NASCAR.
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  I can't believe NASCAR make it rain.
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  They should have started at 8 O clock this morning.
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  All right, everybody, we got lucky.
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  The optics look good. NASCAR are still off to a good
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  start. It would be nice to get this
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  race in tonight. However, I can remember some
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  weather phenomenons. I remember us getting rain
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  delayed at Daytona and on Fox Sports and we left Daytona,
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  drove home and on Monday night they finished the race at
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  Daytona, the Daytona 500. And we went live from the
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  studios in in Charlotte because it rained the Daytona 500 out on
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  that Sunday night and then it rained all Monday and we finally
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  got that Daytona 500 in on Sunday night.
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  Listen up everybody. This, this is part of life.
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  I had fun with a pole. I said, who do we blame this
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  race on? Is it NASCAR's fault or Gods?
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  I think we all know it's Mother Nature and we can't control it.
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  And it is true. NASCAR has got to get lucky.
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  It's an you know it, it's an outside sport and and I want to
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  end like this. Look how much good NASCAR has
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  done. They've come out with the rain
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  tire. They've gone green flag.
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  I got Richmond last year. They've been racing in the rain.
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  They're doing their best. They've made a lot of
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  improvements. They spent millions and millions
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  of dollars. They've got the, the, the we
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  didn't have jet dryers. We didn't have jet dryers back
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  in the day. We didn't, we did not have rain
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  tires back in the day. So I guess it could appear that
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  I'm kissing NASCAR's ass, but you know, I'm not.
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  I'm just reminding you all of the weather stories we all have.
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  And look at the effort that NASCAR is putting in with the,
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  with the invention of the jet dryers.
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  It dries the track out so much faster with the rain tires.
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  And listen, we went, we went green flag at Richmond last year
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  2 hours early. Instead of waiting for Richmond,
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  the racetrack to dry out, they just dropped the green flag and
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  it was wet and you can see the the water going and guys were
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  pitting and they were putting on normal tires.
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  So we are making gains in the weather, but damn it this we
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  can't control God and what and Mother Nature.
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  All right, I hope you all enjoyed this rain delay special
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  and respond here with your weather stories.