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Why Do Winning Teams Always Say They Lose Money in NASCAR? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  All right, everybody take two, take 2.
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  It's my day. Thursday.
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  Today is my day. Joe.
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  Rudy just called me, says what are you doing, Herman?
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  I said it's my Mother Day. I will shave, I will get my ass
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  off, but I'm tired. I've been working on my race car
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  all week long. I've been helping Kim all week
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  long. So I got a little time to scroll
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  X social media today and I see some of you are not thinking
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  properly. You're obsessed right now with
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  other people's money. Here we go again.
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  You don't have any money, but you just want to know why other
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  people complain about making money.
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  So the question by one of the callers on X was Jeff Gordon
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  says they haven't made money in all these years.
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  How can that be? They're flying around in jets
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  and helicopters, as Larry Phillips would say with that
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  cigarette in his mouth. Listen here, you dumb mother
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  fucker. OK?
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  You know all I did was go one through 12, right?
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  That's all I did. And I can add, right?
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  I can add. Can you add?
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  Can you add? What's wrong with you?
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  Come here. I'll let you down.
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  Come here. Come on.
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  What's going on, guys? There you go.
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  Started whimpering. Lucy started whimpering like she
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  couldn't get off the damn couch. She'll do that every once in a
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  while. OK?
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  Listen, I'm not. Some of you try to insult my
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  intelligence and then they ain't going to fly with me.
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  I own my own race teams. I brought my own money to the
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  NASCAR teams. I know what the I'm talking
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  about and I enjoy doing this every once in a while.
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  I like sparring with you all, but some of you are so dumb you
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  make what? Stop, she said.
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  She said Kenny and I said well, she said stop.
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  Well, Kim, they get aggressive with me.
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  No, that doesn't I, I tell them the truth and then and then they
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  all start arguing back with me. You wrong, Sylvain, to write,
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  Kim, don't like me roughing y'all up.
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  I enjoy it though 'cause you all deserve it 'cause you all should
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  hear some of your stuff. Well, if they're not making any
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  money, how do they? How do they get a helicopter out
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  of the Iowa Speedway? OK, what does Rodger Penske,
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  Jack Roush, just any NASCAR owner?
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  What do they all have in common? They're wealthy before they go
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  NASCAR. OK, Rodger Penske.
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  OK, Jack Roush made all his money through Ford, through
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  being an inventor of inventing things for Ford.
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  I will explain it the way it works.
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  But you got to listen. And you and you cannot be
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  aggressive with me. Ask a serious question.
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  I'll answer you, but don't get aggressive with me like you guys
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  do. Well, then how do they, how do
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  they fly these jets? What are they going to do, drive
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  from Charlotte? You want them to drive from
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  Charlotte to Texas to save some money?
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  If that's the case, you don't need to be racing NASCAR.
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  All right, here's the way it works.
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  You drill an oil well, right? You drill for oil.
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  Oil comes out, and Jed is a millionaire.
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  Right? Rodger Penske.
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  OK, now this is cliche. I'm trying to dumb it down.
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  You strike oil, that means you're automatically wealthy.
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  Rodger Penske. OK, He's got over 100
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  dealerships and do you know how many oil changes they do?
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  Do you money? You know how much you change oil
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  in your car, right? So when you see Shell Oil on
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  Joey Logano's car, that's not money exchange that Shell going
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  will give you all free oil for your car Dealerships and you put
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  the name on the car. Discount auto tire.
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  Discount Auto tire. OK, we'll give you tires for
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  your dealership. You put the name on the car and
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  these people are wealthy already.
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  Now you say, well, then why did they race NASCAR?
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  There's two ways to race in NASCAR.
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  If you race to win, it's going to be very hard to make money
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  because you're going to spend all your money trying to win.
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  Now, if you want to be, I'm not going to name names because I
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  don't want people getting mad at me.
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  If you want to be like some of the lower tier teams and you
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  don't want to race to win, well then I can probably start making
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  some money. And NASCAR looked down on that.
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  That's called start and park. So when you hear Jeff Gordon say
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  we've never made any money racing, it's true.
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  They spend all their money to win.
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  Rick Henrik, Jack Roush, Rodger Penske.
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  These are already wealthy people.
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  They made their money in others. This sport of NASCAR or IndyCar,
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  these are all wealthy people. You know poor people don't own
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  football teams, right? The NFL, the sport that you love
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  so much, those are not poor people that own those teams.
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  What's craft got in common with all of them?
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  Craft that owns the New England Patriots.
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  He's already wealthy. He's already wealthy.
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  That's how he could afford to buy the team.
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  Ah, ah. Now you finally get it, don't
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  you? So it can cost by the time you
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  build a car, by the time you pay for the tires, the hotel rooms,
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  everything it takes to get to the Daytona 500, you know, And
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  Brad Sweet said it. I interviewed Brad Sweet.
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  I said Brad some of these dirt fans get mad at me because I say
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  you cannot make a living running dirt and Brad even told me the
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  fans come up to him. Kenny Wallace Brad Kenny Wallace
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  says you can't make money running dirt and Brad's like go
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  to the Kenny conversation, punch in Kenny Wallace Brad sweet Brad
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  said it perfect. There's only about 3 guys in the
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  World of Outlaws that are making money.
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  Then 456 are surviving and the rest are.
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  They need sugar daddies. Sugar daddies are somebody that
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  are wealthy and they keep the ball rolling here.
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  They give the driver 52 grand a year, maybe percentage.
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  But when I talked to Jonathan Davenport, Jonathan said he
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  wishes drivers had a salary, but they'll run for 34.
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  My hands are dirty because I've been working hard.
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  They'll drive for 30 to 50%. They're hanging on.
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  They're surviving. So when you ask me how do these
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  people in NASCAR not make any money, it's because the car
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  owner's already wealthy. If you race and you took the
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  money that NASCAR gave you, it won't pay the bills.
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  You win the Daytona 500. Let's just for the and grands,
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  let's just say it's let's say it's up now.
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  Let's say it pays 1,000,000 to 2 million to win Indy 500 paid
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  what, 3,000,000? They were at the Brickyard 400.
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  They were. They plunk their asses down in
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  those hotel rooms, those Airbnbs for a month, for a month.
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  So people say like, I'm going to clear it up one more time.
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  When Jeff Gordon says we don't make no money racing, that's
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  right. Don't make no money racing.
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  Rick Hendrick is making Jeff Gordon whole because if you were
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  to take the money, you won the money NASCAR gives you to win,
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  and it ain't enough. So what you do is you start
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  skinning the cat a different way.
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  You call up DuPont. Hey, will you sponsor us?
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  DuPont goes, yeah, we'll sponsor you.
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  So you get money from winning, which is a little bit.
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  Then you get sponsorship money. Then all of a sudden you sell
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  the souvenirs. You get souvenir money.
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  So it, you know, you're well, Danny Hamlin's got this big old
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  house on the lake and a helicopter.
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  Well, he deserves it. You can't tell the guy that wins
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  everything that Dak Pour. He's called a winner.
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  He's wealthy for the most part. I'm going to leave you with
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  this. For the most part, the money,
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  the purse money that NASCAR gives you is not enough.
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  And that's just fact. Now I've done my very best to
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  explain to you. Have a great day.