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My Tour of Rockingham | Kenny Wallace Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  All right, everybody, this is one of the biggest things in
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  NASCAR this year. Return to the rock, Rockingham.
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  And behind me is the legendary drag strip.
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  And did you know the drag strip is in really good shape?
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  Little Birdie tells me some good things can go on at the drag
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  strip or drag strip in the future.
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  I see it. And I'm jacked up on Sun Drop.
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  Are you ready? Here we go.
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  Look here. Fresh paint.
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  The promoter, Bob Sargent, Kenny Schrader.
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  Look at this. Oh, my God.
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  Look here, y'all working hard. Got the Kenny Walsh show.
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  Dude. Nick.
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  Nick, look, I know you. Where the hell I know you from?
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  I work for Fox and NBC. That's right.
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  They got you working here, huh, guys?
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  I like that shirt. My retired.
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  I'm retired too, guys. Well, you know, we had a week
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  off, so we figured we'd come on down to Rockingham.
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  Man. Ain't this something?
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  Yeah, something else. Man, I can feel.
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  I can feel myself on this race track.
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  All we need to do to get you in the car, buddy.
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  You know what? It's bigger than I remember.
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  Yeah, I know. It's bigger than I I know, I
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  know. I think it's maybe because the
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  grandstands aren't on the backstretch, right?
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  Yeah. God, it looks brand new.
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  It does. It's nice out here, man.
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  I mean, the concrete. All right.
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  Yeah. Everybody wants to see it.
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  Yeah. Here we go.
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  Thanks, guys. Yeah, man.
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  Everything's brand new. Should go inside.
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  Look at all this. Look.
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  Brand new. Everything.
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  Go inside. Go inside and see the the rock
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  built with all the names. All the names?
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  Where at? OK, We're going to show you the
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  racetrack in a minute. Yeah.
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  Come in here. Look here.
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  Oh, Bob. Sergeant Schrader.
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  They they getting it all right here.
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  We're going to follow. We got a little something to
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  look at. We're here at the Rock, baby.
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  I am excited. Where are we going?
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  Right inside here. Going to memory lane, baby.
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  Oh, look at everything looking new.
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  Oh, how long has this been around?
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  Wasn't that down in the office? Probably Legends of the Rock.
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  Look at Hold on. Who was the last winner?
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  Matt Kendall 2004 2004 Matt the Oh, look at Uncle Russ Damn
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  brother was good here 123 Wow, look at these names, huh?
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  Look at this. Is this awesome?
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  That's the one that got away from me right there yeah, I run
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  second in that one. Oh wow.
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  It's OK. It does it it don't bother me at
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  all. So we set QuickTime in Steve
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  Parks Pennzoil Cup car and I led the whole race and got beat
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  short pit. So Joe Nemechek, he did a a
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  short pit. He pitted before me, got new
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  tires on, but that was the one that got away from me right
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  there. Wow.
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  Look at these names, would you? Whoa.
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  Wow. Curtis Turner.
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  Goldsmith. Freddie Lorenzen.
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  Bobby Allison. Man, I'll tell you what.
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  This is sentimental. I mean, Pierce and Petty.
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  It don't get any bigger than this.
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  Yarbrough, Petty. Yar.
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  Yarbrough and Petty, Baby, look at those names, would you?
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  God. The golden fox.
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  Silver fox. The silver fox.
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  Oh, Kyle Petty right here. Kyle Petty, Mark the kid.
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  Martin Batesville, AR damn, Rusty won't hear a lot.
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  Look here. Let's see with Rusty 12345.
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  Damn. All right, so they wanted to
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  show us that that's legendary. That's going in here.
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  All right, let's go look at the right.
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  By the way, campers everywhere. Camper.
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  I mean, that's like it's a cup race.
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  This is so exciting. They're everywhere.
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  OK, so I told Shrader, we're even coming through the
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  backwoods. Remember where Andre the Giant
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  lived? Remember the great wrestler
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  Andre the Giant lives? I don't know, 5 minutes or he
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  did live, but I told Shredder. Man, it feels like a a time
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  warp. It's salt.
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  Oh, look at this. Here we go.
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  All right. There they are.
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  I already went in there. Where are we going?
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  OK, hold on one minute. Do I need to follow you?
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  Elevator. Elevator.
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  It's big. You should go with it.
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  OK, hold on. I'm going to elevator real
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  quick. You guys going to get mad at me?
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  We're filming. We got an elevator.
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  We don't need the elevator. Look here.
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  How come we got to use an elevator?
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  I already went in there. Kenny, look at those names.
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  I got to go look at a racetrack again.
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  Bob, where's it at? We're going to go there, OK.
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  Oh, damn. You're on camp.
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  How new's the elevator? Brand new.
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  Still got paper, man. Oh, man.
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  Listen, everybody, the rock's back.
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  The upgrades are pretty incredible.
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  Who are we waiting on? Look, gotta get this cleaned up,
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  get that cleaned up. Nice new, nice new elevators.
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  All right, so they're going to clam up because they think I'm
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  goofy. That's the man.
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  Bob Sargent. NASCAR hired Bob.
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  He's the promoter, Sure. I said that the elevator not go
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  very fast. Not fast.
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  He's like, Herman, get that camera out of the way.
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  But NASCAR, white says, Bob, we're promoting the track.
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  Is everyone going out this way? Oh, no, we're going out this
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  way. Not here we go.
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  Oh, oh, look here. Look here.
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  Can't look at the drag strip. Look at these sweets.
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  Whoa, whoa, look at this. Huh?
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  Look at this. Wow.
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  The rock. The rock is back.
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  Look at this. Smells brand new.
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  Bob. Look at this.
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  Huh? Nice.
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  There it is. Wow, man.
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  Oh, man, am I excited, man. There it is.
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  Look at here, everybody. TD Downer getting ready.
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  What's this on Fox Trucks? Fox Xfinity CW?
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  OK, Trucks or FOX Xfinity CW. Well, say goodbye, Kenny.
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  If you're wondered if I got to get 30 more, 30 more seconds,
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  Schrader, hold on. If you're wondering if the Rock
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  is for real or not, here it is. They've rebuilt all the suites,
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  campers are lined up, and if you pay attention to that Charlotte
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  Observer article, Ben Kennedy say possibly 2-3 years from now,
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  Cup could be back. All right, everybody, man, I can
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  feel myself right in there right now.
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  I'm jacked up, OK?