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Will NASCAR Return To Mexico Next Year? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning, everybody. As Herman Munster would say,
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  it's a beautiful day out. I know I say it.
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  I know I say it, but we just say it because it's funny.
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  I don't say it all the time. All right, everybody, Father's
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  Day is over. We tore this swimming pool a new
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  oh, yesterday. We swam our ass off last night
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  around 10:00. I backwashed it.
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  So it's got some pressure this morning.
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  The sand filter is super clean, Water's coming out strong.
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  The swimming pool's looking good.
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  You know what one part that's a little rough about hosting?
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  We hosted 36 people, 36, and that's my race car #36 we had 36
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  people here last night for a shrimp boil.
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  The Cajun cook came up from Arkansas.
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  I just told him goodbye. They spent the night up there at
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  the party home, and him and his wife Angel just headed on back
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  to Arkansas. But the tough part about hosting
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  that many people, there's a lot of cleanup time and the
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  herminator don't like anything dirty.
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  So we got we got it all cleaned up.
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  She looking good now. All right, another another man.
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  I'll tell you what respond right here.
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  How many how many party celebrations are there?
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  I mean, there's like Father's Day, Mother's Day, 4th of July
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  weekend. I mean, there just seems like
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  there's a lot of holidays. How many holidays are there?
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  Respond right here. How many damn holidays are
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  there? How many times do we all get off
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  work? It just seems like a lot to me.
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  Maybe it's because I'm getting older and I just recognize it
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  more. I know when I was working or
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  when I was going to school, I wanted every damn day off I
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  could get. And I get it.
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  I get it, everybody. But now that I'm retired, it's
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  like, damn, there's a lot of holidays and there's a lot of
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  days off. All right, today's subject.
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  Will NASCAR, Will NASCAR go back to Mexico City, Mexico?
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  Will they go back to Hermanos Rodriguez?
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  Last night after the race, Ben Kennedy said, look, we came.
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  We came down here to spread our global footprint.
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  There's like 90 million people down there, you know, Mexico,
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  and 20 million people in that city.
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  I think there's 20 million people in Mexico City, Mexico,
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  one of the largest cities in the world right there.
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  Top five maybe Respond right here.
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  Respond right here. Where does Mexico City, Mexico,
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  Where does it rank as far as one of the largest cities in the
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  world? Ben Kennedy would not, would not
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  say we are going back to Mexico City, Mexico.
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  He would not say that. He said it's about spreading
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  NASCAR's global footprint. Now let's go back through
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  history, everybody. The herminator, the man you're
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  looking at right now has been very lucky.
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  NASCAR raced in Japan three times.
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  The first race over at Suzuka Circuit was won by none other
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  and my Big Brother, the great, the Hall of Famer, Rusty
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  Wallace. Now, the next two times that we
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  went back and we landed in Tokyo, over there in Japan, we
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  raced Suzuka Circuit and then we went to Motigi, the roundtrack.
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  Now, Moti got taken out by an earthquake.
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  It's no longer there, but Suzuka Circuit's still there.
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  Formula One still runs there. So NASCAR, we've been to Japan
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  twice. We've landed in Tokyo and we've
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  raced there three times. Now.
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  I've run a lot of Xfinity, Nationwide, whatever you want to
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  call it, up there at Jill Villeneu, the circuit up there
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  in Montreal, Canada. I've raced up there probably
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  three times too. So the Herminator has been
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  pretty lucky. I've raced every time.
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  NASCAR's kind of gone out of gone out of the country.
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  I've kind of gone with him. So going to Mexico's, nothing
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  new, right? Because we've already done it
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  three times before, but this was the first time I want to
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  clarify, this was the very first time the Cup Series has been out
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  of the country in a long time. A points race.
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  Now, let's be clear. Let's start breaking it down.
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  Let's start getting, we're going to analyze everything.
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  I think it's been, it's been a long time since there was a
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  points Cup race. It's been a long time since
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  there was a points race for the Cup Series and Mexico City is
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  where they just did it. Now, will they go back?
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  I don't know. I don't know.
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  It sounds like they're going to go to another country.
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  Now. Respond right here.
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  Where would you like to see NASCAR go now?
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  You know, if we go to Canada, it's it's a lot.
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  It's, and I mean this with a lot of love, when you go to Canada,
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  it's like you're still in the United States.
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  Well, for me, like when I go to Cabo, when I go to Mexico, it's
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  it's kind of like that too. But boy, when you go to Canada,
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  it's just like a you go across the border, you they go, what
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  are you doing? You say, well, I'm going to
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  Niagara Falls, OK. And that's all there's to it,
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  you know what I mean? So I think they just kind of
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  look to see what's up with you. You know, I'd like to see NASCAR
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  go over them. I'd like to see him go to
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  Europe. I'd like to see him go to the
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  United Kingdom because I tell you why you get over there in
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  Europe. And that's where that's where
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  Ferraris from, that's where Lamborghini's from.
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  That's where, you know, Mercedes, McLaren, I think is
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  McLaren from over there. All I can tell you, that's where
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  there's a, there's a lot of hot rods over in Europe.
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  Europe's a man. That's, that's a racing damn
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  country, man. That's a racing country over
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  there in Europe. So Europe is, for a lot of you
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  that don't know, Europe is really different.
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  Nothing's real big over there now.
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  Now Russia might be big. Russia might be a huge country.
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  But like when you say let's go to Switzerland and then when you
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  leave Switzerland, you say let's go to Italy.
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  That's like if you leave Switzerland, that's like leaving
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  Missouri and going over to Illinois.
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  Every one of those countries are really small, real small.
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  So it's, it's not like you got to go far.
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  So I, I would like to see NASCAR now listen, went to Japan three
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  times. So you got to ask yourself, how
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  the hell did they go to Japan? Well, it's pretty simple.
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  You, you plan ahead of time, You have one of those big ocean,
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  those crates, you have one of those crates, you have it
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  delivered to your shop. You load it all up a couple,
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  three months ahead of time. You load all your stuff in that
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  crate and they put it on one of those ocean liners and he gets
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  over there and they, they, they unload all those ocean liner,
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  they all those crates, they unload them at the racetrack at
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  your garage area because you got it numbered.
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  They tell you what to do. The whole team gets there and
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  then there's a special lock. There's a couple locks on these
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  containers and then you unlock them and there you are, your
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  whole team. It's like unloading your race
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  car out of your truck and trailer.
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  So that's just a little information for you.
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  That's how we ran Japan three times.
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  You go to the racetrack, your your crate is lined up.
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  It's right there behind your garage area.
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  You unlock it and you start unloading your race car.
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  And it's just that simple. Now, I don't know, I haven't
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  heard. Let's talk about how Mexico
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  City, Mexico went. The only person that I saw that
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  said anything negative was Tab Boyd.
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  Tab's a spotter. I like Tab.
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  He's a good guy, and what he said was Get Me Out of this damn
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  place. Every time I come out,
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  somebody's wanting to sell me something.
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  That's what Tab said. Tab's a real nice guy, so I
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  think he had a bad day. That's not like him.
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  I think it's one of those deals like being in New York City
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  where you come out of your hotel and some bums trying to sell you
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  something. And I think Tab had enough of
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  it. Now, Tab, if you if you see this
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  or somebody tells you, hey, Kenny Wallace was talking about
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  you today. Tab respond right here, buddy.
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  Hey, listen, coffee with Kenny's on all social media platforms.
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  But most of all, it's on YouTube.
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  So I mean, I haven't heard anything bad.
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  The only thing bad I've heard about Mexico City is the people
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  sitting on their couch in America.
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  You big dummies you're sitting on, you're sitting on your couch
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  in America going. I don't know why they didn't go
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  to Richmond so I could have watched it on my TV.
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  All right, everybody sounds to me like they recognized that
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  Mexico City could have been a one and done and they're wanting
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  to go to another country next. That's what Ben Kennedy said
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  after the race. Now he said hopefully we'll be
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  back. But I'm sure Ben and the NASCAR
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  teams, they want to get out of Mexico City first, then say
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  we're not coming back. But it looked good.
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  It was it was a great weekend. And I'll leave you with this
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  SVG. He stunk to show up.
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  Have a great Monday, everybody.