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My Daytona 500 Highlights | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning, everybody. It is the day after the Daytona
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  500, so I don't know what your takeaways are, but I can tell
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  you mine right away. All right, let's hold my feet to
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  the fire. I said that Joey Logano would
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  win the Daytona 500. Hold, hold on, let me pat my
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  back. Not too bad, not too bad.
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  Joey Logano was the show, no doubt about it.
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  So Joey dominates. I was very impressed that he was
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  able to just never give up the lead and and mop the racetrack
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  up from the top to the bottom, carrying three lanes behind him.
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  They were three wide behind him and he would pull this guy up,
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  then he'd dump him, then he'd pull this guy up.
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  So Joey Logano dominates early and what a freak deal he had,
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  huh? Like a shop tower piece of
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  plastic. That's what it was.
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  A piece of plastic goes through his the front end of his car,
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  the grill area and get stuck in his throttle body, which that's
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  basically the carburetor. They come down Pit Rd. and what
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  a great job by their team. They get it fixed.
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  He goes back out. Of course, he went down a lap.
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  He came back, made the lap up and gets up there and you know,
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  let let's break that wreck down real quick.
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  So I saw Joey and Stenhouse, you know, just like you did.
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  But it depends, depends who you like the most is how you're
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  going to defend it. You're going to say Ricky
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  Stenhouse. Well, Ricky is is a a winner.
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  Ricky Stenhouse is a good race car driver.
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  He's guilty of going for it. That's all he's guilty for.
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  Ricky don't usually wreck on his own.
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  He usually gets in a wreck because he's going at it with
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  somebody. So let's be clear about that.
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  All right? I'm a racer can can Ricky
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  sometimes not get into too many, you know, push and pulls?
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  Well, maybe, but so I'm neutral in this.
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  I'm going to tell you why I see it.
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  Joey Logano makes the move to pass Ricky Stenhouse and Ricky
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  makes the move a little too late, turns left.
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  You clearly hear from the in car camera.
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  You see the exhaust pipes. Joey Logano is clearly out of
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  the gas. He does not want to run into
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  him. Now you have Noah Graxson behind
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  Joey Logano trying to layoff of him and then you know, there's
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  really nowhere for it to go in like 1/2 a football field later.
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  Noah is here's key. Listen to this.
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  Noah Graxson is now pushing Joey Logano into what will be the
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  wreck. That's my take away.
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  It's like going 185 mile an hour and everybody saying, let off
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  the gas, stop, it ain't going to happen.
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  You're going to run into each other.
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  So Joey shoehorns himself in there accidentally at the very
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  end, and you're going, you know, you're trying to win the Daytona
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  500 with 15 laps to go. So that's the way I saw that
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  one. I saw, I saw Ricky coming down
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  as Joey's going in. And I, I hear, and you saw it
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  too, Joey Lagana letting off the gas.
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  You heard it. You saw it.
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  And then not a little bit later, you see Noah getting into the
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  back of Joey and all hell breaks loose.
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  All right, So I chose Joey Logano to win.
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  Not a bad choice. Oh, let me let me guess.
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  You knew William Byron was going to win, huh?
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  You so smart. Oh, yeah, I knew William Byron.
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  Hell, I just watched an interview with Jeff Gordon.
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  He said we were definitely surprised by this win.
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  But that's when you're living, right?
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  So congratulations to William Byron.
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  Great job. Back-to-back Daytona 500 winner.
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  All right, I was 5050. I did say they will wreck on the
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  last lap. Coming off at Turn 4.
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  I missed it by half a corner, so I'll give myself credit on my
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  call. Joey Logano was the fastest car
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  and they did wreck on the last corner.
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  Not exactly, but I still thought I did pretty good.
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  I wasn't way off. All right, That was a little bit
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  of fun. Everybody, let's take a drink of
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  coffee. I I still think, I will tell you
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  when I think NASCAR is not off to the best start in 20 years,
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  they are still off to a great start.
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  The complete optics of the Daytona 500 were incredible from
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  you know, the concerts getting underway.
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  Pitbull on the front straightaway.
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  Great pre race by Fox. Absolutely loved seeing the
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  President of the United States land.
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  Great job by Fox TV. Fox TV followed President Trump
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  the whole way all the way through Trump with his grandbaby
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  on pit Rd. It don't get any better than
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  that. Real family values right there.
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  So that looked good. Then they they dropped the green
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  flag and on lap 6 it starts raining.
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  They go round and round under caution.
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  They finally red flag it on lap 11.
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  Then we have a four hour rain delayed.
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  We were lucky it turned out awesome and let me tell you why
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  they started pre race. You know it basically we're
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  starting the Daytona 500 an hour early.
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  Great move. If they would have started the
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  Daytona 500 when they said they were going to start it, you
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  wouldn't had no pre race. It have been washed out that
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  that wind and that rain, it came and when it came it was hard.
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  It was big so you got all the pre race activities in because
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  NASCAR moved it up. So that's a big win.
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  Big win and they get the Daytona 500 started.
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  Now they come back four hours later and they drop the green
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  flag at 5:30 Saint Louis time or 630, you know, New York,
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  Charlotte, NC time. Now the Daytona 500 is in
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  primetime TV, so the rain out worked.
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  NASCAR got lucky and it's still one of their better starts in 20
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  years. OK, let's look at some of the
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  highlights. Dale Junior, he's jacked up on
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  Sun Drop right now. This morning, I'm ready for more
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  Cup races, he said. I loved it.
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  Junior was giddy. He was so happy.
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  Justin Agar finishes 9th. That's a top ten in the Daytona
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  500. Let's move on.
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  How about Jimmy Johnson? Great job.
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  Jimmy was more competitive this race.
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  He finishes third in the Daytona 500.
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  And to me, if you're not if you're not a seven time
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  champion, that's a hell of a run.
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  But because he's a seven time champion, he's used to winning
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  everything. But from what Jimmy's been
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  through, that that's a new Jimmy.
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  He's got to be jacked up on Sun Drop.
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  Jimmy's probably Jimmy Johnson probably looking forward to the
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  next race. There's so much more to talk
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  about. But I think I told you my
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  highlights, right? Great start to the year.
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  We're off and running. I will be at Atlanta this week.
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  Everybody trackside live, straight up noon, straight up
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  noon Atlanta. We've got some great driver
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  interviews. NASCAR's rolling.
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  Sounds like an Aerosmith song. Train get to rolling all night
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  long. The NASCAR train is rolling.
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  We off to a good start. Jump on and I'll end like this.
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  You want to know the big controversy?
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  I'll give you the little bitty controversy.
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  You're saying why didn't they not drop the yellow flag at the
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  end of the race? Let me leave you with this.
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  If they would have throw the caution flag, your top five
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  would have still been your top five.
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  I studied the tape. If they would have throw the
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  caution flag, Alex Bowman was still going to be your winner,
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  Todd Relic was still going to be second, Jimmy Johnson was still
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  going to be third, so on and so forth.
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  So let that sleeping dog lie. I will go with you.
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  I say that is that is inconsistent.
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  That is inconsistent. I agree with you.
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  But what I'm saying is you're going to sit here and say they
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  should have throw the yellow flag.
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  Hold on. It would not have made a hill of
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  beans. OK, so if you want to fight
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  about that, go ahead and fight with yourself in the mirror.
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  Just fight, Look in the mirror and fight yourself.
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  The finish would not have changed at all.
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  However, I do agree with you that they are inconsistent, but
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  I did like the call. There's no reason to throw the
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  caution at that point. The wreck happened and they they
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  were not going to come back around.
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  The race was over. They were not going to come back
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  and run into it. And remember what I told you
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  about the twin. I did.
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  I didn't like that caution flag in the twin either.
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  Paul, I'm saying to you is give it a break.
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  Give it a break because this outcome, thank God, this outcome
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  would not have mattered. All right, I addressed it.
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  That's all. And I agree with you, NASCAR is
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  inconsistent. However, I liked the call.
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  No caution. The Daytona 500 did not end
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  under caution. The winner was the winner.
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  We got a legit winner. Nobody had anything to do with
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  it except them wreck it. And by the way, that very last
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  wreck, go look at it. Cole Custer made a right to pass
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  Denny Hamlin. It was Chase Briscoe that nailed
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  the Denny Hamlin so hard and sent Denny into Austin.
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  So listen, this is Daytona. You ain't going to blame nobody
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  on the hell. Oh, he shouldn't have.
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  Hey, easy for us to say. Sitting her ass on the couch.
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  Oh, I'm sitting on the couch. Joey Logano should have not done
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  that. Get your ass off the couch,
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  spend 20 million and get yourself your own NASCAR Cup
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  card. See you all in Atlanta 12 noon
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  Sunday for Trackside Live. Have a great Monday, everybody.