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Did Formula 1 Disrespect The Indy 500 & Motorsports By Scheduling a Race at The Same Time? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning, everybody.
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  I'm looking a little rough. It's time to shave.
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  Speaking of shaving, when I was in, I think it was a senior, I
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  was a senior at Fox Senior High School right here in Arnold, MO.
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  I will never forget this girl telling me in class, she said.
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  Did you know her? Every time you shave, you shave
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  a thin layer of skin off. Is that true?
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  Respond right here. You know it's those things in
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  life that you remember that just stick right here.
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  But I am going to shave today because tonight in Brownstown,
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  IL, exactly an hour and a half from my house, we are racing.
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  It is the Summer Nationals. The Summer Nationals is a lot of
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  fun. It is 34 days of racing, I think
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  in 35 days. The nickname is also called the
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  Hell Tour because appropriately, it's hell.
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  But I don't do it like I used to anymore.
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  I'll run about eight or nine of them.
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  So I'll run tonight in Brownstown, IL, and then I will
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  not follow the tour up north. They go up north and they rattle
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  around around Chicago and you know, Fair Berry and and Peoria
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  and you know, Kankakee and things like that.
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  But when they come back down the hill, I will race this Friday at
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  Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, IL Of course it shows.
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  It's going to rain all weekend long.
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  Right on cue. It's like a conveyor belt of
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  rain. It rains here every weekend.
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  It really does. It really does it.
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  I don't know what's going on, but it's wild.
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  It's wild. I think I ran 9 races down in
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  Florida and I've run 9 here. Only 9.
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  And it's the damn middle of January now.
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  It's like January or no June. I mean it's June 10th today,
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  June 10th and I've and I've run every local race I can run and
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  it's only been 9 but we've run 18 races for the year 9 in
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  Volusia 9 here. OK, as I scroll social media
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  this morning, I've had some people on on social media they
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  say Harman Formula One, they are the enemy because Formula One is
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  not going back to Monaco. Wow, I heard that but I didn't
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  know really what I didn't know is that really going to happen?
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  It is amazing how sports can leave the roots as if nothing
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  ever happened. So Formula One is not going to
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  race Monaco. Now respond right here if you
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  know more than me, but from what I read and what I heard, Formula
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  One is not going back to Monaco on Memorial Day weekend.
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  Now they are going right up the road here at a race track that I
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  raced at a lot, which is in Montreal, Canada.
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  And that would be a circuit Jacques Villeneuve.
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  I love saying that the French, actually Kim, would go to
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  Montreal, Canada. Montreal, QC people would say to
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  me, you're not saying it right. It's not Montreal, Canada.
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  That would be like saying Saint Louis America.
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  Hey, you can teach me. I'm learning.
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  So did you know it's I think it's Montreal QC.
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  I think. Is that what it is?
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  Could Quebec? Is that a Providence?
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  I only went one through 12. I'm not college smart.
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  I'm street smart. In other words, I might not
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  know, but I'll get you done. Yep, I I don't back down.
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  So here I am reaching out to you smart people.
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  It is Montreal, QC. Is that what it is?
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  All right, so Formula One is going to run the Memorial Day
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  race up there at Circa Jacques Avelli new on the same day as
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  the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500.
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  Now, Jeff Gluck said that is an arrogant thing that Formula One
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  has done. Here's my response.
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  My response is not to Jeff Gluck.
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  My response to the situation is this, could Formula One have
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  picked another racetrack anywhere?
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  Is this Formula One's way of getting the Indianapolis 500?
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  Is this, did Formula One sit down and said we're going to the
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  Indianapolis 500, We're going to hold a race close to the
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  Indianapolis Motor Speedway? I don't think so.
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  I think that's far fetched. Here's the way I look at it.
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  Formula One always had a race in Monaco on Memorial, you know,
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  weekend, that Sunday morning. Then it would be the
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  Indianapolis 500 and then we'd run the Coke 600 in Charlotte.
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  I'm like, you know, Formula One runs all around the world.
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  They had a chance to run up the road.
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  I mean, hey, listen, it's not like you get in your car and
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  drive up to Montreal. It's still it's still, it's
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  still like you got it. You got to go up there.
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  It's it's pretty far, OK. It ain't like it's, you know,
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  right down the road you're I don't see a problem with it
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  myself. I don't.
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  I will say this as a race fan. Now you all respond right here
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  with me as a race fan, I'm really disappointed.
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  And, and here's why I'm disappointed because it has been
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  fun in America to wake up to Monaco for breakfast and the
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  Indianapolis 500 for lunch and of course the Coke 600 for
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  dinner. OK, that's another subject.
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  There it go. There it goes.
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  My my, my, my brain. I was about to say fucking
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  brain, but I tried to clean it up for y'all.
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  There's my brain. Dinner or supper?
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  What? I'm really not sure yet.
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  I think dinner is a southern thing.
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  What is southern by the way? It is it truly the Macon County
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  line? Like the movie?
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  You might be young, but when I was a kid, there was a movie
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  called The Macon County Line. It's where if you went into
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  Macon County around Georgia, bad happen.
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  So dinner or supper? I'm thinking dinner is a
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  Southern thing. I'm thinking supper is when you
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  start, you know, getting past Atlanta.
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  When you start you get past Atlanta, I think you start
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  calling it supper. I don't know.
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  I don't know. Respond right here.
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  Dinner or supper? What do they mean?
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  I don't, I don't know. I truly don't know.
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  But anyway, I'm just disappointed.
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  I'm disappointed that we don't have Formula One in the morning.
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  Who knows? Formula One that probably start
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  the damn race on the exact same hour as the Indy 500.
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  Who knows? And here's another thing that's
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  sad about it. It's all open wheel people.
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  So just like a family, there's infighting, there will be
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  infighting. It'd be all open wheel people
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  pissed at all open wheel people. It's a shame.
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  I got to tell you though, I think the Indianapolis 500 is
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  way, way more famous than Formula One in Montreal.
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  That's my final take. All right, everybody have a
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  great Tuesday or I'll see you in Brownstown, IL tonight.