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Dirt Racing Will Never Be as Big as NASCAR & Here's Why | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning, everybody. It's a really nice day out.
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  I'm going to head up to Quincy, IL on this Sunday and I'm going
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  to race. But remember today is really
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  Saturday because Monday everybody is off.
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  I usually go to Quincy all by myself because everybody that
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  helps me, they always say, oh, I got to get up in the morning.
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  I usually get back from Quincy about 1:00 in the morning.
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  Roy is going with me today. Roy Clark, I appreciate you
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  going with me to Quincy today on this Sunday, Roy.
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  All right, subject matter of today, realizing that NASCAR is
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  number one. That's basically that's that is
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  it. NASCAR is #1 nobody is even
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  close to #2 And let me explain. You know how much I love dirt
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  racing, right? I love it.
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  But there's a place for dirt racing.
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  You know, Richard Petty kind of pissed me off a little bit when
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  they put dirt on Bristol. When they put dirt on Bristol,
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  you know, it happened and everybody was like, rah, rah.
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  And then did you notice what happened at Bristol?
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  The first year everybody's like, yeah, yeah, dirt, dirt's the
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  greatest. Then the second year was like,
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  this ain't no good. They need to put real dirt cars
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  on Bristol. What they already did, they
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  already ran super late models at Bristol.
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  It didn't work. The cars are too dainty, they're
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  too light. The wheels are aluminum.
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  The wheels were folding under the cars were breaking apart.
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  Bristol is extremely fast, much, much faster than all those
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  Tennessee red clay. You know, some of those red clay
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  dirt tracks in Tennessee, you know, Bulls Gap and all that.
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  You're like, oh, they're high bank.
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  And you don't know what? You don't know what high bank is
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  until you go to Bristol. TV does not do Bristol justice.
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  So they've already ran dirt super late models at Bristol.
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  It just don't work. It's too fast.
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  So the NASCAR race car on dirt, Bristol, was a good show and it
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  was the right thing to do. And they did it.
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  All the dirt fans come out. And then by the third year, Kyle
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  Larson said we need to quit doing this.
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  You know, then everybody in dirt racing destroyed it, just ruined
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  it. See isn't isn't it crazy?
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  NASCAR tried to make you all happy and give you serve you up
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  dirt racing on a silver platter. They wanted to recognize dirt
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  racing. It was a celebration of dirt
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  racing and you all ruined it because you talked so much about
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  it. You know I dirt race and the
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  dirt racing community is as bad as the NASCAR racing community.
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  Dirt racing fans, they can bitch and moan 24/7.
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  They are the biggest wine bags and I know I'm roughing y'all up
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  right now but y'all deserve it. Hear me out I'm going to give
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  you a lot more examples. So then all of a sudden dirt
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  racing people, they get on their couch and they're like NASCAR
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  sucks. Dirt racing is where it's at.
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  Why go back to what Richard Petty said?
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  He says NASCAR grew up on dirt. Do you hear what I just said?
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  NASCAR grew up on dirt and they realized to to take NASCAR
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  further, they had to get rid of dirt racing because it's very
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  dirty. It makes the people all dirty.
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  When you know, some people just want to go watch entertainment.
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  They don't want to they don't want to get all dirty and they
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  don't they don't want to go to the bathroom in a porta potty.
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  Hey, we got the porta potty company here.
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  The porta potties are really nice.
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  You open the door to the porta potty and you just accidentally
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  you look down so you can turn around, see where you're gonna
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  sit and there's some old man's big ass turd right right there.
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  How how gross just junk. So a lot of these dirt tracks,
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  just the dynamics around the racetrack, the dirt's in your
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  face. The bathrooms are just horrible.
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  I know all the dirt trucks I go at, they don't have they don't,
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  they don't have bathrooms here. Let's go through it peevely.
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  The one I race at, they don't have bathrooms in the pit area.
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  No bathrooms in a pit area. Granite no bathrooms in a pit
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  area. Brownstown no bathrooms in the
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  pit area. Quincy, IL no bathrooms in the
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  pit area. You're forced to go to a Porta
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  Potti and I think about Richard Petty.
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  All these people say you need to hold a NASCAR race at a real
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  dirt track. Well, they're all you know.
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  I mean, now Eldora's nice, Knoxville is nice, but for the
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  more most part, 9 out of 10 dirt tracks or just that.
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  And here I am three years later realizing Richard Petty was
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  right. Now I'm going to say something
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  going to hurt your feelings. Dirt racing will never, ever be
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  as big as NASCAR. You're going to sit there and
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  you're going to defend it, but you got 5-6 hundred people in
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  the grandstands. It's a fun sport.
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  It's a good sport. I love dirt racing, but as far
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  as jumping on your high horse, going dirt racing's where it's
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  at. Maybe for your redneck ass, but
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  let me tell you something. The majority of the people,
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  they're not like us. My brother Rusty, my family,
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  they make fun of me all the time.
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  They go Herman. What do you run that old dirt
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  car for? You know that that was the
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  biggest thing. You know, people all around
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  NASCAR, they go, Herman, what do you run that old dirt car for?
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  They know Rusty and my family, they kind of make fun of me.
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  Herman, what are you doing while you run that old dirt car?
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  I love dirt racing, but guys, there's a limit to your to your,
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  your ego. Dirt racing is not where it's
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  at. It's dirty.
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  It's it's, it's for us rednecks. So the next time you get on
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  social media, you start telling me NASCAR sucks.
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  Dirt racing is where it's asked. Just ask yourself, if dirt
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  racing is where it's at, then why aren't they any bigger than
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  what they are? And what does dirt racing have
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  to do to be better? It'll never be any better.
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  This is where it's at because it's dirt and it's dirty.
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  Now, this was a little bit of an Ash tune for you people that
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  clog up my timeline. Some of you dirt racers.
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  Dirt racers weren't sad. No, it ain't.
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  Richard Petty was right all along.
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  Until we treat ourselves like a bunch of rednecks and put those
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  porta potties in there. Where's the lady?
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  You know? Yeah, you got some redneck
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  ladies they like. You know, I'm my husband's crew
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  chief. You know, that's fine.
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  But I mean, the ladies deserve somewhere to go to the bathroom,
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  don't they? Oh, but my tracks got bathrooms.
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  No, you don't. 99 percentage dirt tracks in the pit area I'm
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  talking to pit area is total junk.
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  Now, I love dirt race. And I'm just telling you all why
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  dirt race is never gonna be any better than what it is.
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  It just won't. There's not enough money.
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  Every dirt track I know of, they're poor, they're broke.
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  And you know why dirt tracks keep going.
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  And I'm like this. If you made it this far, the
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  only reason dirt tracks keep going is because there's that
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  one sucker that thinks the other promoter did a job and by God
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  he's going to fix it. And they find out not long into
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  the job just how hard dirt racing is.
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  All right, respond right here. Without great dirt racing is.
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  But dirt racing will never even be half.
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  Don't know. They won't even be 1/4 of what
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  NASCAR is. NASCAR is the teachers.
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  You love to hate them, but they are the show.
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  Have a great Sunday. I'll see you in Quincy.
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  I'm a get home. I'm a take my motorcycle this
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  time because the porta potties about a half a mile away at
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  Quincy, the porta potty in the pit area.
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  Now I'm not going up into the grandstands 'cause then you got
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  to go up into the grandstands. No, I'm, I'm going to go to the
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  porta potty all the way half a mile from my pit area.
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  Have a great Sunday, everybody.