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NASCAR Keeps Surprising Us With More Big Changes! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning everybody got a song stuck in my head.
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  I love you more today than yesterday, but not as much as
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  tomorrow. Sound like, sound like a frog
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  this morning. Rabbit, Rabbit, You know what's
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  causing me to know all these songs here lately?
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  Have you noticed that on Instagram, Facebook, you can add
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  songs to everything? I really like it.
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  It really adds a little bit to your your posts, you know,
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  especially if you're putting pictures out there.
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  Got a hurricane coming? Look at that.
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  There it is, Hurricane Aaron. It's going to get close to Nags
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  Head, but it look here, she's going to go right on out to the
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  ocean, right on out. No big deal.
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  Maybe it might get a big wave over there on the East Coast.
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  That's about it. OK, we got more breaking news in
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  the garage area. The NASCAR schedule is really
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  interesting. So yesterday, yesterday when we
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  posted about, you know, North Wilkesboro is a points race and
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  the All Star race is going to Dover.
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  Can you believe the timing was impeccable Just hours later,
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  maybe a couple hours later, maybe around 11 O clock.
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  I remember I did. We did a Kenny conversation
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  yesterday with Austin Dillon and boy, it was good.
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  It was good, mate. It's coming out today on Dale
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  Junior's Dirty MO podcast and podcast form.
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  But I think Charlie's going to think we can only release it.
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  I don't know. He'll release it soon on Kenny
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  Wallace YouTube. But what I really liked about
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  that Austin Dillon, Kenny conversations, we got in depth
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  about his relationship with his brother and of course Grandpa
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  Richard Childerson is Austin and Ty Dillon.
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  Will they take over RCR? Great conversation.
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  And then of course, how important that win was and what
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  it meant to the team. OK, I want to talk about the
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  schedule. So right around the the
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  conversation with Austin Dillon, I'm on my phone as we're doing
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  the the conversation. I'm talking to him about the new
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  schedule come out and Austin goes, did it come out?
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  I said, Oh yeah, it just came out as we're talking.
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  So that was around 11 O clock on Wednesday, something like that,
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  11:30 noon maybe. NASCAR, obviously with Bob
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  Sargent, they're all going back to Rockingham April 8th, April
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  3rd and 4th, April 3rd and 4th, the NASCAR OO O'Reilly Auto
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  Parts, they're going to be back at Rockingham with the NASCAR
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  Craftsman Truck Series April 3rd and 4th.
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  So put that on your calendar. Sold the place out last time
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  Schrader and myself were downtown Rockingham matter.
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  What a vibe. It was Rockingham, downtown
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  Rockingham, the downtown square at a big party.
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  A lot of autograph sessions. The drivers were there.
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  So I do not right now. Right now, I do not see the ARCA
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  series on the Rockingham schedule for April 3rd and 4th
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  next year, but the NASCAR Xfinity Series, O'Reilly Auto
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  Parts, we got to get used to it. The NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts
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  series will be there next year with the NASCAR Craftsman Truck
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  Series. And one thing that they did
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  announce, we're not bringing Cup back quite yet.
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  However, they will have some Cup drivers in the field, so it's
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  going to have a NASCAR Cup feel. And if you remember, they did
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  announce that about what, 2-3 months ago?
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  So I think that's going to be a really good time.
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  I love Rockingham, My very last win was at Rockingham in what,
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  2001? OK, this one caught me off
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  guard. This one caught me off guard.
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  NASCAR going back to Chicagoland.
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  Who the hell saw that coming? When I was doing the Kenny
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  conversation with Austin Dillon yesterday, I said you do know
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  that Carson Hosavar was all over XA month ago in an airplane
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  shooting aerial pictures of Chicagoland and said sure would
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  be nice to come back here. I said did you know about this?
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  No, of course I do remember Carson Hosavar took me out at
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  the Chicago St. Course race.
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  So Austin Dillon said he he sure did like Austin likes the
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  Chicago St. Course, but now we're gone.
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  We're gone from the Chicago St. Course race.
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  But the point was, is Carson Hoswar knew that NASCAR was
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  going back to Chicagoland Speedway before Austin Dillon.
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  And you would figure that Austin Dillon's grandpa, grandpa
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  Richard that he would knew because, you know, I mean, he's
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  Mr. NASCAR course. Then we also talked about
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  Richard saying NASCAR don't like us because we're a blue collar
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  team. Remember that when Richard
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  Childers was a defending Austin Hill wrecking.
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  What was that? That another driver there at
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  Indy. Oh, darn it.
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  Eric Amarolo. Yeah.
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  So when when Austin Hill wrecked Eric Amarolo, you know, all the
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  interview and people said Richard Childress.
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  What do you think? NASCAR parked your driver and
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  Richard goes NASCAR don't like us.
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  We're a blue collar team. It was funny because Richard's
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  the car owner. You want he will defend you.
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  But the moral story is, through all this, Carson Hosabar, he
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  knew months ago that NASCAR was going back to Chicagoland
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  Speedway. So I think my headline is NASCAR
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  keeps surprising us. So NASCAR's going back to
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  Rockingham with O'Reilly Auto Parts, They're going back with
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  Truck Series. They're going to have a lot of
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  Cup drivers there. Respond right here.
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  Do you like that? Of course NASCAR is announcing
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  that they're going to open up. They're going to open up the
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  rules and they're going to allow the Cup drivers to compete more
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  in the Truck Series and Xfinity Series.
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  And I think that's a fantastic idea.
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  How can you, how can you be the best if you can't beat the best?
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  Whoa, the next big one next year, remember this next year,
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  2026 will be the first year NASCAR is moving the
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  championship race around. So this year's a rock at excuse
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  me rock. I got my mind on Rockham this
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  year. We're going to finish it off.
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  We're going to determine the champion out there in Phoenix.
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  But because of you fans next year we're going back to Miami
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  homestead. So Austin Dillon brought up a
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  good point. We need to think about whether
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  so next year, 2026, we're going to determine the champion back
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  at Miami Homestead. Do you like it down there?
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  It's great weather. You can go down to Key West, Key
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  Largo. Austin Dillon said he'd like to
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  see the championship one year, maybe 2027 out in Vegas,
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  thinking about good weather because we're already deep into
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  November when the championship race comes around.
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  Damn, I'm exhausted. That was a lot.
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  All right, let's let's, let's repeat ourselves.
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  NASCAR is going back to Rockingham with O'Reilly Auto
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  Parts and Truck Series. That's a good deal.
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  NASCAR going back to Chicagoland.
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  And then of course, they announced that next year in
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  2026, we'll be back at Miami Homestead to wrap up the
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  championship. NASCAR keeps surprising us.
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  And I think I think that's a good thing.
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  And we're getting closer and closer back to normal.
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  We're back to Rockingham, We're back to Wilkesboro.
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  Who knows what will be next? I don't think it's over.
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  I think NASCAR is going to announce some more things.
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  All right, everybody have a really good Thursday.