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NASCAR is Kicking A** Right Now | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  Well, it feels like winter has moved into the Saint Louis area
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  finally. It has been one of the longest
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  droughts in a long time. We had a big rain come through
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  last night. My grass is going.
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  Thank you. The grass has been dead for
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  months. It's brown.
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  It's all crunchy. We needed the rain.
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  There's no doubt about that. All right, everybody.
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  It was a long weekend for me. Saturday.
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  Saturday I left Saint Louis and went through Chicago, got on
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  another plane and landed in Manchester, NH.
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  I don't like flying to Boston because that tunnel gets shut
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  down coming out of Boston and there's always all types of
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  drama. I talked to Tim Duggar.
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  Tim's a great country western artist, good friend of mine.
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  He was playing his music up at New Hampshire.
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  He said he was staying in Boston, but boy, that tunnel was
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  jacked up again on sun Drop and all type of sugar all over the
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  tunnel. So I stay in Manchester, but
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  when you stay in Manchester, you take a chance at not getting the
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  best flights. So I was very lucky I was able
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  to get up there and get back. Walked in the house last night
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  around midnight. No one O clock 1:00 in the
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  morning. Had a long layover there in
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  Chicago. That Chicago, man, oh man, they
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  got a lot of a lot of construction on the tarmac.
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  Hey, respond right here. Have you all been going through
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  Chicago O'Hare Airport? When you land, it takes about 15
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  minutes. It feels like you're.
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  It feels like when the planes taxiing, sometimes you feel like
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  you're still on the highway. It's like, are we ever going to
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  get to our gate? It's because they got all types
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  of construction. All right.
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  Hey, did I tell you I made it to New Hampshire and back?
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  OK, I was there and man, old man, New Hampshire and all the
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  surrounding states, they showed up and as they say, they showed
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  out second week in a row where I've witnessed, well, I'd say
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  third week in a row. Right, right.
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  You got, you got Saint Louis, that was incredible.
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  You got Bristol, that was incredible.
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  Now for the third week in a row, the fans have showed up and
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  showed out. NASCAR's on a roll.
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  They're on a high. Of course I was there, right?
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  So I saw it all and then all the executives told me the numbers.
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  You could see it on Saturday for the the truck race.
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  Corey Heim, when is the 9th truck race of the year tying
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  Greg Biffle for the most truck wins in one year?
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  And there's about God, 6 or 7 truck races left.
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  So looks to me like Corey Hynes going to break the Biffs record.
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  But that's what records are meant to be.
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  They're meant to to break. And then Oh my God, how about
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  that modified race? That thing was off the charts.
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  RIP, Come on #3 blue car. RIP come on.
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  Is that how you say his name? Respond right here man.
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  He took the lead on the last lap and then at the start finish
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  line he thought he'd move up a little bit and he got tagged in
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  the right ear corner and they wrecked.
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  They towed his modified to Victory Lane.
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  He won the race with the right front knocked off.
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  Kind of reminded me of Terry Labonte getting wrecked by the
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  legend Dale Senior. The man in black #3 Odell senior
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  wrecked Terry Labonte at Bristol for the win.
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  Food City 500 and Terry Labonte drove his wrecked race car to
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  Victory Lane with the nose smashed in and water and steam
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  pouring everywhere. But they said, and I could see
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  it and you know what, Who was it?
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  Chase? Briscoe said since he's been
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  running NASCAR, that was the biggest Saturday crowd he's ever
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  seen in his NASCAR career. Almost say that again.
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  Chase Bristol on Trackside Live said the Saturday race at Loudon
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  was the biggest crowd he has seen in his NASCAR career.
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  21,000 people is what all the executives tell me.
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  So as you know, I work for SMI, work for Loudon, NH, I work for
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  Bristol, I work for Saint Louis. You see the trend here.
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  When you work for these places, you know what's going on.
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  So the Herminator knows what's up.
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  And NASCAR right now is rocking it and I want to know why.
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  Why is NASCAR doing so good right now?
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  Is it the temperatures you would think with football playing that
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  it would drive it it we know it's going to drive the TV
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  ratings down. We we talked about that back in
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  the summer. Actually, NASCAR told me that
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  they'll they'll be a Saturday or Sunday coming up here soon, that
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  the Xfinity Series should get better ratings and cup because
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  some of these cup races might be on a competing, you know, TV
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  Ave. Ave. means you know what Ave.
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  you're on? What highway are you on?
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  And it looks like right now that the Cup steer, the Cup Series is
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  still outdrawn. The Xfinity series by far.
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  I think the Xfinity Series was down around 7-8 hundred thousand
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  the last week. Maybe they've been around
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  1,000,000. But anyway, yeah, how come here
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  lately the Cup crowds are getting bigger?
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  Respond right here. Is it the playoffs?
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  Is it the playoffs? The races are fantastic.
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  Up in New Hampshire, they had a dirt track right there. 5000
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  people packed it. If we had 5000 people, I'm going
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  to repeat this. If we had 5000 people at one of
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  our dirt tracks here, that would be considered unbelievable.
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  They have a little quarter mile dirt tracker, smaller than that,
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  right, right up the road. It's New Hampshire Speedway.
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  They own it. Marcus Smith owns the dirt
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  track. It's on the property.
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  The property is big. They're sold out, 5000 people.
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  And then of course, on Sunday, you saw the crowd.
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  It was unbelievable. And then once again, I was there
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  trackside live off the charts, a sea of people.
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  And I'm going to end you with this.
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  Why is the racing so good lately?
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  Why, you know, we complained about that next.
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  Well, not me. Hey, Wallace, you got you got a
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  you got a you got a mouse in your pocket.
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  I never complained. Of course some people did.
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  But this next Gen. cars showing up.
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  Have they finally got something right?
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  Because how about Josh Berry passing everybody?
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  How about Blaney? Everybody passing everybody
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  Passing was not a problem at one of the hardest race tracks to
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  pass. New Hampshire, one of my best
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  race tracks, somebody that's a hard track to pass.
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  At New Hampshire's, the type of race track, even with the old
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  car, you would spend 10 laps setting up somebody to try to
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  make the pass, and they was passing each other at will.
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  Hell of a crowd. Great racing.
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  And how about that September date?
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  Wasn't that awesome here? Next week we're going to be in
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  October. Was it because the temperature's
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  cool? It wasn't because the weather's
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  so good? Respond right here.
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  Why is NASCAR so good lately? I think it's everything.
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  I think the fans that love NASCAR are showing up.
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  They're at the track. I'll leave you with this,
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  everybody. When I go out in the real world,
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  it's awesome. There's nothing wrong.
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  It's only when I get on social media that everything's bad.
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  But if you get out and breathe, it's awesome.
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  Have a great Monday, everybody.