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Why Has NASCAR Gone Back To Rockingham? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  It's a beautiful day. Hey, happy Tuesday, everybody.
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  Man, we looking good. Everybody's looking good.
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  I'm excited. I really am.
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  Uh, man, look at this grass of mine, huh?
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  Look at this. Look at that, would you?
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  Whoa, look at the legend. Louie.
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  Louie's in the house, Louie. Trying to smell her, Louis
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  trying to smell where his old it's at so he can on it again.
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  All right, I think this Thursday, Loyette landscaping
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  they're going to start cutting grass 'cause we getting close to
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  the middle of April. We getting close to the middle
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  of April. Loyette landscaping.
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  Did you know that Brad Loyette was the really good open wheel
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  Midget Sprint car racer lives, gosh, not a quarter mile from
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  me, Brad Loyette. Remember that the orange 05
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  number 5. Anyway, Brad's dad Joe is one of
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  the largest landscapers, you know, grass cutting people in in
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  Saint Louis. Good friends of mine and boy,
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  they do a good job. So just a shout out to Joe
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  Loyette, Brad Loyette and the whole Loyette landscaping
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  people. They do a good job and everybody
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  comments on what they do here at the Wallace property.
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  All right, got some, a couple, got a couple things.
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  Got to get off my mind that that's kind of funny.
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  You ever notice how verbiage changes throughout the world?
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  Like, like, I'm not, I'm not trying to be a comedian.
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  But you know, what was it 10 years ago?
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  I mean, everybody said, you know, at the end of the day, you
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  remember that there'd go, OK, now, you know, when we water
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  this dirt track, we got to get it packed, right?
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  Because, you know, at the end of the day, we got to race on it,
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  right? Hey, I hope this rain moves up
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  because we really got up, you know, at the end of the day, we
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  got to run this NASCAR race, right?
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  You know, at the end of the day, right?
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  And that's the new one now, right?
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  Everybody every every year it you know, for years it was at
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  the end of the day and now it's right.
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  I hear everybody getting interviewed and they're going.
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  I heard like Chase Elliott, he was getting interviewed and I
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  mean just anybody and everybody. Well, what do you think of the
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  weather? Well, you know when when it's
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  not cold, it gets hot, right? Chase, you had a good run today.
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  You finished third. Well, you know, we got the car
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  handling right. So respond right here.
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  What's the other one you always hear about?
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  So for me, well, it was always the, the businessmen were always
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  using at the end of the day. I, I remember, I think Rodger
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  Penske used it one time at the end of the day.
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  And that at the end of the day is kind of, it's kind of gone
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  and right is the new one now. Right, right, right, right.
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  Your bloody right. You got a bloody right say all
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  right, right. The big story in the garage
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  area, Rockingham. Rockingham is back and we talked
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  about it on Herman Schrader. Charlie Marla brought up a
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  graphic that was pretty shocking.
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  The conversation started like this.
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  I asked Kenny Schrader, said Schrader.
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  Wilkesboro's back and Wilkesboro's back in a good way.
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  Kenny Schrader brought up a good point.
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  He says, you know, I don't think Wilkesboro opens up without Dale
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  Earnhardt junior. And we all agreed that Dale
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  Junior is that powerful. Respond right here.
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  Who do you think was responsible for opening up Wilkesboro?
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  Was it COVID with the millions of dollars they got to open it
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  up? Was it Marcus Smith or was it
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  Dale Junior or was it all above? How did Wilkesboro get open back
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  up Now here we are again. Next week, Kenny Schrader and
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  myself, we're headed down to Rockingham.
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  Rockingham's back. It got it's, it's a newly paved
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  track. Well, you know, a year or so ago
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  they had a great practice there. What about a month ago?
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  Kasey Kahne's running. They're going to be running the
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  truck race on Friday night next week.
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  What is that like April 17th? Something like that.
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  Respond right here. And I listen, the capacity of
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  that place right now is 32,000 Rock Rockingham seats 32,000
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  people. And I'm hearing I'm hearing that
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  the Xfinity race is like almost sold out or sold out.
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  Respond right here. If you know, check, check ticket
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  sales out. But I'm hearing that Xfinity
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  race at Rockingham is looking really good.
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  But Schrader and myself and Charlie Marlow, we're talking.
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  OK, what's going on now? Now Rockingham's back.
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  Hey, don't be a fool. Don't you never know they they
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  might they might bring cut back. Look what's going Never say
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  never. NASCAR, NASCAR has learned some
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  mistakes. They're back at Wilkesboro for
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  the All Star race. And listen, we got a lot of
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  NASCAR Cup tracks that only have one date right now.
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  Look at Pocono, they only run there one time.
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  Circuit of the America, they only run there one time.
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  I mean, you can go on and on. There's a lot of tracks right
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  now they're only getting one date.
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  So for anybody to go, oh, Wilkesboro only, they only raced
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  there one time. Hold on, hold on.
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  They're running the late model stocks there.
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  They're running, you know, a lot of series there.
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  So it's not like you're running one race there.
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  You're you're getting a lot of you're getting a lot out of
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  Wiltsboro now. So what I want to know from all
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  of you is what is the reasoning? What's going on here?
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  Why are all these old tracks coming back?
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  Why is Rockin Hand coming back? Listen, I love it because that
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  was a sign that was my last NASCAR Xfinity series.
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  When I, I dream of Rockingham, I love Rockingham.
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  When I think of Rockingham, I think of I, I, I think of Andre
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  the Giant. Google that Andre the Giant, the
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  great wrestler. Did you know when we would leave
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  Charlotte, NC and we'd go out 206 hundred, we go through all
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  them roads. Andre the Giant, did you know he
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  lives on the he did live. We lost Andre the job.
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  He lives in those back roads. That's where he did live.
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  We also learned something. I'm going to leave you with
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  Charlie, Marlo said. You guys want to know your age
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  demographic for Herman Schrader? I said sure.
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  So he looked it up. Did you know that the people
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  that watch the Herman Schrader show, my demographic for all
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  Kenny Wallace stuff? Drum roll, please.
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  Like 55 to 75 years old. Hey, I'm representing us old
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  goats. We're still alive.
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  We're still alive. And I want to thank all of you
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  old people out there for still loving me and loving our sport.
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  But respond right here. Why has Wilkesboro and why has
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  Rockingham made such a great return?
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  So I saw some pictures of Rockingham.
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  It looks brand new, it really does.
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  So I'll see you all this Sunday at Bristol Trackside live at
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  noon at Bristol for the big one. And then next week, Schrader and
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  I what what will be Thursday night, we'll be downtown
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  Rockingham. Thursday night we'll be down
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  there with the Marshall Tucker Band.
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  And then of course, on Saturday, no Friday, Thursday night,
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  downtown Rockingham, Friday at 2:00, we'll see you all out at
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  the racetrack and we're going to do some autographs, sign and do
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  some Q&A, do some talking. So we'll see you.
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  We'll see you this Sunday at Bristol and then we'll see you
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  next week. It's a free week too.
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  There's no Cup racing. It's all going to be trucks and
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  Xfinity at Rockingham. All right, respond right here.
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  Why did Wilkesboro and Rockingham, why did they make it
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  back? How did they make it back?
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  All right. Have a great Tuesday, everybody.