Latest / Kenny Wallace Media / The Xfinity Series Has a New Sponsor & Dale Earnhardt Jr. is Staying Cool | Coffee With Kenny

Transcript

The Xfinity Series Has a New Sponsor & Dale Earnhardt Jr. is Staying Cool | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

• 0:02
  Happy Monday morning, everybody. I finally got that face of mine
• 0:07
  all shaved up. It was a wild week and weekend.
• 0:14
  OK, man, we got breaking news in the garage area.
• 0:19
  And as the mayor of the NASCAR Xfinity Series, I'm happy to
• 0:25
  announce this. As you all know, I have the most
• 0:30
  starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at 547 starts.
• 0:37
  Now let me get my butt off of the couch here and show you what
• 0:43
  NASCAR gave me to document that. Now we're getting ready to do
• 0:48
  Herman Schrader. Let's go into the the office.
• 0:52
  Yes, Siri. So this is what NASCAR gave me.
• 0:57
  There it is, 547 NASCAR Xfinity Series.
• 1:04
  Now, as you all know, it was the NASCAR Bush series, right?
• 1:11
  You all argue with me, Herman. It, it was the Bush Series.
• 1:15
  I said hold on, you forgot about the NASCAR Nationwide Series and
• 1:22
  right now it's the NASCAR Xfinity Series, but we're
• 1:27
  getting ready to go to 1/4 sponsor.
• 1:31
  It will no longer next year, 2026, it will no longer be
• 1:37
  called the NASCAR Xfinity Series.
• 1:41
  Drum roll, please, from the mayor.
• 1:45
  I am the mayor of the NASCAR Xfinity Series because as I just
• 1:48
  showed you, I have the most starts at 547.
• 1:54
  Ladies and gentlemen, starting next year, the new name will be
• 1:58
  called NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series.
• 2:05
  You know what I hear, don't you? O'Reilly Auto Parts.
• 2:15
  Oh God, they got the best Jingle.
• 2:19
  They got the best Jingle. I think people are going to go
• 2:22
  around NASCAR happier because you're going to hear everybody
• 2:26
  going O'Reilly auto parts. Well, it's good to see.
• 2:37
  It's good to see the sponsor continue to get, you know,
• 2:43
  people that want them that that's the way I look at it.
• 2:47
  I look at it as, hey, the Bush series was great.
• 2:51
  Bush beer Bush head for the mountains of Bush.
• 2:58
  Then of course we had Nationwide.
• 3:01
  Nationwide is on your side. And then of course the third one
• 3:07
  made sense. Xfinity, you know the wires, the
• 3:11
  cell phones and now the auto parts.
• 3:15
  I must say that the NASCAR Xfinity Series as we know it
• 3:20
  right now has had a pretty good run with well known sponsors.
• 3:23
  So I'm a Missouri boy, I'm from St.
• 3:27
  Louis, MO, I was raised, I was raised in Rolla, MO, which is
• 3:31
  close to Springfield. And I don't know why, but I
• 3:35
  always, I always think O'Reilly Auto Parts is like a
• 3:38
  Springfield, MO thing. I don't know where they're from.
• 3:41
  Respond right here. Where is O'Reilly Auto Parts
• 3:44
  from? So congratulations from the
• 3:48
  mayor to all the executives down there in Daytona.
• 3:54
  O'Reilly Auto Parts I can see my timeline right now.
• 4:01
  Damn it, Wallace, you got that in my head.
• 4:04
  That's what it's going to be like.
• 4:06
  But there'll be people walking around the pits next year.
• 4:08
  O'Reilly Auto Parts All right, well, congratulations to NASCAR.
• 4:17
  OK, one more drink. This one's going to be about
• 4:20
  Dale Earnhardt Junior and it's a good one.
• 4:27
  So Dale Earnhardt Junior ran Anderson SC in the CARS Tour
• 4:34
  series and I'm going to tell you everything he said on his
• 4:39
  interview and I really liked it. It's a good interview.
• 4:42
  Schrader and I will talk about it today on Herman Schrader.
• 4:45
  But basically Dale Junior said, look, I really love this series.
• 4:51
  It means everything to me and I only want to run about four
• 4:57
  races a year. It's a big deal, He says.
• 5:00
  I just this series means so much to me.
• 5:02
  He said it's very emotional for him.
• 5:06
  I know what he's talking about. You know, a couple of years ago,
• 5:10
  Brother Rusty went with me to Volusia and I started getting
• 5:13
  all choked up because the year before I didn't go to Volusia.
• 5:18
  But I know there's a time where it's all got to stop, right?
• 5:23
  I know that there'll be a day where it's there's an end.
• 5:27
  So I could really relate with a very emotional Dale Junior after
• 5:32
  the Anderson Cars Tour race. He says, you know, for example,
• 5:36
  he says Amy Earnhardt's wife and children, they're down in Texas
• 5:41
  with their grandpa. Big birthday party.
• 5:44
  He just turned 90 years old. You know, he's Dale Junior.
• 5:48
  Spent his whole life racing. Dale Junior's a family man.
• 5:51
  He loves his children. Now there are some race car
• 5:55
  drivers that think it's all about them and they don't drop
• 5:59
  everything they're doing for their children.
• 6:02
  One thing I admire about Dale and our junior is he's a lot
• 6:05
  like me. We drop everything we're doing
• 6:08
  for our kids. I promised my family that I
• 6:12
  would never leave or I would never miss a grandbaby's
• 6:15
  birthday party again. I got those birthday parties for
• 6:19
  them grandbabies marked all over every calendar I got.
• 6:23
  So Dale Junior, I tell you what, he almost choked up.
• 6:28
  He says, You know, I do want to run four of these Cars Tour
• 6:32
  races a year, but I really do feel bad missing Amy's grandpa's
• 6:37
  90th birthday party. And with that, he said, and this
• 6:42
  is the key right here, he says when I do choose my Cars Tour
• 6:51
  races next time, he says 4 would be at 4A year.
• 6:57
  He said it's going to have to be during the cool time of the
• 7:01
  season. He said that he can't handle
• 7:05
  this heat no more. You know, Junior's 50 years old
• 7:09
  and you know me, I'm running that old dirt car and I don't
• 7:12
  got no windshields. The wind's coming in and I never
• 7:17
  really looked at it that way. But how lucky I am as an old man
• 7:20
  to be running that dirt car and have all that wind coming in.
• 7:24
  Two years ago, Dale Junior asked me to run a Cars Tour race at
• 7:28
  South Boston, and I did. And listen, I ran as good as I
• 7:32
  could and I looked good and I ran good, but I was so hot.
• 7:37
  I was like a drained wet noodle. So I'm here to confirm what Dale
• 7:42
  Junior is is telling you all. When you get older, I don't care
• 7:46
  what type of shape you're in, God made you this way.
• 7:49
  It gets in hot in those late model stock cars.
• 7:54
  The headers run under the cars out the door or wherever they're
• 7:56
  going to run. Dale Junior said there was a
• 7:59
  caution with 25 laps to go. He said, I don't think I'm going
• 8:03
  to make it. I think I'm going to have to
• 8:04
  pull in because when you sit there or you go slow, there's
• 8:09
  less wind coming in the car. So Dale Junior, I'm with you
• 8:13
  buddy. If you're going to if you're
• 8:15
  going to go cars to a race, and I agree with you, great
• 8:18
  decision. Pick some races early in the
• 8:20
  year, you know, April, March, April, May and then for sure
• 8:29
  towards the end of the year. I know when you asked me to run
• 8:32
  those races, I think I, I think I ran at the end of the year,
• 8:36
  Coach 600. But buddy, I was still hotter
• 8:39
  than some bitch. I think I did OK though.
• 8:42
  I think I ran a race up there at New River Valley.
• 8:47
  I forgot, but man, I was hot. So I get it.
• 8:51
  Keep it up, Dale Junior, no matter how you run, buddy.
• 8:57
  I, I know, I know what I'm going to say ain't going to make you
• 8:59
  feel any better, but those fans just love you.
• 9:04
  You've already done everything it takes.
• 9:07
  Listen, we're not going to get better the older we get.
• 9:11
  Except for me, I'm the greatest of all time.
• 9:17
  I had to do that. I had to do that.
• 9:23
  Dale Junior, we love you. And if you, if you want to show
• 9:26
  up 4 * a year at any cars to our race, then fans don't care how
• 9:30
  you run. They love you and you're an
• 9:33
  ambassador to that series. You're keeping it going.
• 9:37
  That series would be dead without you, no doubt in my
• 9:41
  mind. And I know Jeff Burton and I
• 9:43
  know you know Kevin Harvick and Justin Marks, I know they're all
• 9:47
  involved. But buddy, you've kept it alive
• 9:50
  down there and you deserve to stay cool and cold 'cause we're
• 9:55
  getting older. We need to we need, we need a
• 9:58
  little air blowing on us. All right, everybody.
• 10:02
  Well, congratulations to O'Reilly Auto Parts and Dale
• 10:09
  Junior. You stay cool, buddy.
• 10:12
  Have a great Monday everyone.