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The Knoxville Nationals Were Crazy & Connor Zilisch Survives A Big Scare | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning everybody. Breaking news in the garage
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  area, Saturday, August 23rd starting at 8:00 AM.
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  Big garage sale right here at my race shop.
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  Now we'll be racing peebly that night, so I'll be getting the
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  car ready on that day. But big garage sale.
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  I told my wife and her mom. I said, listen, we're clean
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  people. And then Dee said to me, but
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  it's getting cluttered around here, isn't it?
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  I said yes. And I said, I've been giving you
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  guys years, but you just won't get rid of your stuff.
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  They go to that damn casino and they win a fake knife or, you
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  know, liquor or they need to sell some of that liquor up
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  there. My God, we got so much liquor.
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  That's what happens. They they goat rope you and they
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  come into that casino. Hey, come on, man.
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  Here, spend $1000. We'll give you an electric
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  knife. But we, we just got stuff.
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  Puzzles and Kim's been collecting clothes forever.
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  My God, she's cleaned out her closet is a massive amount of
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  stuff. I'm, I'm selling some stuff too.
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  I don't know what I'm selling, but I got stuff.
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  So come on out. August 23rd is my birthday.
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  It's going to be my birthday. We're racing peebly that night
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  and it's a garage sale. August 23rd, 8:00 AM.
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  Come on up here, we'll have a good time.
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  OK, Sip of coffee last night. Highland IL Highland
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  Superspeedway 29 cars first tee. I started 5th and I won.
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  That was the most passing points so that put me on the pole for
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  the feature. I let about half this feature
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  and this kid come blown by me like John Force.
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  He was ripping the lip, dirt was flying and I didn't have nothing
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  for him. Then all of a sudden I started
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  catching him and come down the back straightaway to the
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  checkered flag tied come off at turn 4 and I didn't see him but
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  I knew he was going to come back and the timing monitor says I
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  lost by 0.10, a 10th I guess, or a foot.
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  So I run second last night in Highland, IL Really, really good
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  run. I still think of Earnhardt as
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  soon as I go, darn it, I think of Earnhardt.
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  I was what was it, 1991, that Cox tree lumber car?
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  I was bitching. You know when you run good, you
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  go, I run second. You know when you run good, you
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  start acting stupid. You're like, I run second.
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  Taylor and our seniors straighten me out.
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  He looked me right in face. He says, boy, you're racing
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  really good. You take those seconds.
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  It's not called winning. I'm just I'm not that good.
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  So we run good last night. I think I think I earned hard a
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  lot, you know, because he taught me a lot of a lot of things, a
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  lot of ways to justify. So however, I think that's about
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  my 7th, it is my 7th 2nd place finish.
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  So OK, man, oh man, we got a lot of news in the garage area.
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  First of all, the Knoxville Nationals.
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  Knoxville, IA Knoxville, IA, The Knoxville Nationals, the
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  granddaddy of them all, the biggest basically World of
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  Outlaws Sprint car race there is in the world.
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  Not the United States, but the world.
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  And this baby pays like 190,000 to win.
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  Probably the greatest payoff in Motorsports history I've ever
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  seen, $15,000 to start. To start, Ryan Timms, 18 years
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  old, youngest driver since 1964. Now this Knoxville Nationals,
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  it's always been historical, but now I see the verbiage they're
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  using is like Indy 500 verbiage they're using, they're using
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  like, you know, you know how when something's real legendary
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  and they start, you know, the, the 64th running, you know, like
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  Churchill Downs. So I noticed that they're
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  starting to do that at Knoxville.
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  They're starting to use everything in the legendary
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  voice terms. So the Knoxville Nationals is
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  their granddaddy. And this 18 year old kid that we
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  all know but never saw it coming.
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  I know his dad a little bit. I've never met his dad, but his
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  dad called me 6-7 years ago. His dad called me wanting to
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  sponsor me, but I knew they was sponsoring Joe Duvall.
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  So I called Duvall up and I didn't want Duvall to be mad at
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  me. But anyway, it never it never
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  went down. But his dad owns, what is it,
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  WFX trucking company, Randy Timms.
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  But I'm really happy for him. Everybody's sharing their
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  stories right now because the owner, the owner of Ryan Timms
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  car, they were starting on the pole.
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  Well, listen to this. The last three Knoxville
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  Nationals winner have come from the pole.
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  Now, if I was to be a Dick, I'd say it was the most boring race
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  I've ever watched in my life. But because we all love World of
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  Outlaw and Sprint car racing, he won by straightaway.
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  It was no race whatsoever, but it's a historical race so I'm
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  gonna let y'all get away with it.
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  He put an ass weapon on him and for that you got to appreciate.
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  And I do gravel and this is really good.
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  So gravel comes from like 21st to 3rd Rico Abreu runs second.
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  What? You want to know how I know?
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  All this while I was up till 2:00 in the morning scrolling
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  Facebook. So anyway, congratulations to
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  Ryan Timms on the big win, Rico Abreu on 2nd.
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  And I'll tell you one thing that's going good right now with
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  World of Outlaw is the fans. It it, it's a snowball effect
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  there. He's another Bush brother.
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  David Gravel. He didn't see it coming.
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  David Gravel did not see it coming.
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  This whole deal started with him and Kyle Larson going at it
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  about a month ago with Eldora. And all of a sudden the fans
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  said, oh, you're whining, You're crying because those guys are,
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  you know, not Sprint cars, but more so midgets.
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  They throw dirty sliders on each other.
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  They just go the at it, boy. There you go.
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  You did the whole damn coffee with Kenny without cussing and
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  you had to say it, didn't you? OK, respond right here with
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  everything you feel about the Knoxville Nationals.
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  I think it's a wonderful event. And by the way, Ryan, Tim's car
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  owner was questioned before the race.
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  He goes, what? You're starting on the pole.
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  The last two Knoxville race has been won from the pole.
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  And the owner looked at the guy and said, we're going to shock
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  the nation. Ryan's going to win this race.
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  We're going to do it. And they did it.
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  They did it. So like Babe Ruth, the owner.
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  Congratulations to them. I don't know any of those guys,
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  but I've never met Ryan Timms. But David Gravel.
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  Keep it up, buddy. World of Outlaw needs to pay you
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  show up money because now they're coming to see you.
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  Hey, how about Slam and Sammy? How about Slam and Sammy and now
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  Slam and Sammy? Swindell adds to David Gravel's
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  legendary status. Now Sammy gets by earlier in the
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  week, you know, on the bottom or wherever, and Sammy swing, there
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  goes. If I was in his car, I'd kick
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  his ass. Hey, it's good to see the old
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  man feisty. I never saw that coming.
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  I I never saw Slammy's slamming. Sammy still racing.
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  You know, Kinser quit at 60 years old and Sammy, just Sammy
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  reminds me of Billy Moyer, the dad Billy Morty just shows up
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  every once in a while. And you know, those guys are so
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  Great Hall of Farmers. They just they'll show up every
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  once in a while and we just when you think they're down and out
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  and they'll have a flash of their legendary status.
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  So Sprint car racing got a lot of lot going on right now.
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  A lot, a lot of entertainment. So all right, Connor Zilich.
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  Damn. We're switching subjects.
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  The Xfinity race at Watkins Glen counters.
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  Zilich wins, wins 4 out of five of the last five races.
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  Kids A phenomenon. Crowds on feet.
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  He goes to Victory Lane. By the way, he wrecked his.
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  He wrecked his teammate SVG guy. He was fast, Connor Zilich.
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  Every time he looked up he had a 5-6 second lead.
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  So Connor wins the race and goes to Victory Lane, goes to stand
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  on top his door, not the roof but the side of his door and
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  loses his footing, falls down and his foot gets stuck inside
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  the car. One of his foot legs get stuck
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  inside the car. He falls down and like a sludge
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  hammer, his head smashes into the ground, knocks him out or
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  whatever. So it was a, it was a tough look
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  and seen. I, I, I, my heart hurt for
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  Connor, my heart hurt for Connor Zilich.
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  But they take him off an ambulance or as Dale Senior
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  would say, or some of you down South say they took him off in
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  the ambulance. If you get a really good country
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  person down South, they don't use EU, you know, ambulance.
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  There's AU in that, but I guess you could say, uh, unbelievable.
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  Yeah, if, if you spell the word unbelievable, it starts with AU,
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  unbelievable ambulance. So I guess you could say
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  ambulance Earnhardt say I don't need to get in that ambulance.
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  Get out of here. So the ambulance takes Connor's
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  village to the hospital and he's got a broken collarbone.
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  I'm gonna leave you like this. Something that I really liked.
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  He's starting 25th. He qualified 25th for the Cup
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  race today. Connor did, but they just
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  withdrew from the race. It was very fresh to go.
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  Oh, we got to put somebody in it because we got a sponsor.
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  So track house, race team said no, we're just going to
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  withdraw. So instead of 40 cars starting
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  the Cup race day, they'll be 39. So that's really nice.
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  That's very rare. Very refreshing to see and shows
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  a little bit of respect to Connor too.
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  So all right, everybody respond right here.
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  We talked about it all. Remember August 23rd, 8 AM, 8:00
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  AM. Slow down Herman, slow down.
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  August 23rd, 8:00 AM. Here to shop.
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  Big garage sale. It's my birthday and I'm racing
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  that night. It's going to be like a big
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  fair. We have everything going on.
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  I'll let you come in my race shop.
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  How's that? And we'll sign autographs.
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  Whatever we got to do. Have a great Sunday.