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Daniel Suarez Goes From Last To First In Mexico! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Father's Day, everybody. It's Sunday, but we're getting
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  ready to have a boatload of fun here at the swimming pool.
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  We got about 35 people or more coming down.
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  We got my friend Audrey Diesel. You'll know Audrey from
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  Instagram. He's better well known as the
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  Cajun Cook. Audrey came in yesterday, we
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  went over to Worldwide Technology Raceway, we watched
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  Indycars qualify, we watched EU Sax Silver Crown race.
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  My good friend Kyle Stephens ran a great race, he ran 6 battled
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  with Cody Swanson and all the big boys Justin Grant.
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  So today it all going to go down right here.
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  The whole fam damn, we going to be here, going to start getting
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  those tents up, going to reach 90° today.
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  You see how I said that? I didn't I didn't put the S in.
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  I could say 90° and I said 90°. Happy Father's Day to all you
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  great men out there that take care of your family.
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  There's a lot of good men out there that sacrifice.
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  They sacrifice, you know, being a father's a a tough deal
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  because that means sometimes you got to give up what you want to
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  do and take care of that family. My my family sat me down as I've
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  told you before, and they said, Dad, we don't want you to quit
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  racing. We just want you to all your
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  grandbabies events. You talk about putting me in my
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  place. Sometimes as a man, we all can
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  think wrong and there's definitely times that I've
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  thought wrong. So I also want to thank my
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  daughters and my wife. I want to thank my wife Kim.
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  I want to thank Brooke, Brandy, Brittany and all them
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  grandbabies, Charlotte, Mila, Jed, Jade, Lila and now we got a
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  new one coming. So it is, it's a feel good time
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  today for me to see my wonderful daughters come down here with
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  them grandbabies and my wonderful son in Let's take a
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  deep drink of this Sunoco high octane feel.
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  OK, everybody, today's subject, Danielle Suarez, Danny Boy,
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  Daniel Suarez won the Xfinity race yesterday down in Mexico
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  City, Mexico at Hermanos Rodriguez.
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  What he did is one for the ages. It's one of the rarest feats
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  pulled off in modern sports day history, and here's why.
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  So whether you're Ricky Craven up in Oxford, Maine, whether
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  you're Ricky Craven at Loudon, NH, doesn't matter who you are,
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  whether you're me right here at the Worldwide Technology Raceway
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  or you're me right here 15 minutes from Pevely Speedway.
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  Whenever you run one of the biggest races of your lifetime
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  in front of your wife, your children, your high school
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  friends, your family, and to win in front of them is very rare.
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  It happens though, and when it happens, you you recognize the
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  situation. So Daniel Suarez, think about
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  his journey. He's living in Mexico.
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  He's a race car driver and he's like, my dream is to race in the
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  highest form of Motorsports in this part of the world, which is
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  NASCAR. So Daniel Suarez, he recognized
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  NASCAR, not Formula One. Daniel Suarez recognized NASCAR.
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  That's what he said. He said, I want, I want to be
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  NASCAR to meet. That's the Mack daddy.
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  So he comes across here and listen, I've talked to Daniel a
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  lot. He calls me Maya, Maya Amigo,
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  because when he came here, we were teammates.
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  I think we were teammates at PPC, maybe Greg Pollock's team,
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  Sherry Pollock's dad. I drove for PPC, had some
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  wonderful events, my amigo, you know, and, and I don't.
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  I wish I knew how to speak a little Spanish because we're
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  always in Cabo. We have a good time in Mexico.
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  But this kid is full of full of heart and full of love.
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  If you meet Danielle, man, it's like he's the nicest kid.
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  Oh my God, he's awesome. So out of nowhere, the NASCAR
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  Cup Series and NASCAR they so we're going to go back, we're
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  going to go back to Mexico City, Mexico.
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  Remember I told you yesterday, I've already raced at this
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  racetrack, Hermanos Rodriguez. I've already raced there three
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  times. So Danielle, he's already, he's
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  already won some Cup races. You know, remember he won that
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  Atlanta 3 wide race yesterday, last year, seems like yesterday.
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  So Danielle's already solidified his self in a sport by winning a
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  big Cup race. Didn't run a lot of Xfinity,
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  didn't run a lot, but has. So they say, OK, we're going to
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  Daniel Suarez hometown. Well, my God, you know, he goes
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  there. I mean, there's hundreds of
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  thousands of people. I don't even know how you could
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  focus. I really don't.
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  I mean, they're they're banging drums or barren horns.
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  Respond right here. What's the thing with the met?
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  With the met, that wrestling mask, What do they call it?
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  Luchado or something like that? What does that mean?
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  What is that deal when down there in Mexico, they put on the
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  the wrestling mask? You know, all the wrestlers wear
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  masks. They create characters.
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  Well, I know it's known for that down there, but what is behind
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  that story? Respond right here.
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  I need to know. But anyway, you know, when
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  Danielle came here, he learned English.
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  I said, how'd you learn English? He said a lot of his crew
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  members helped him. So anyway, he's the nicest guy
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  he gets, but he gets down there to his hometown and this guy
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  ain't got time to breathe. I just, I know what it's like.
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  And he what's he do? He he he loves everybody.
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  He does everything that's asked of him.
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  Then he gets in one of Dale Junior's Xfinity cars, and
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  what's he do? He wrecks.
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  That son of a bitch he wrecked so bad that they had to go to a
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  backup car. And I thought, yeah, that's what
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  Daniel's doing right there. That's about right.
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  I'd probably wreck, too, if I had that much pressure on me to
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  win in front of millions of people because it's on TV.
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  It's funny. I'm down in Mexico and I said,
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  oh, how do you know about me? And this, this Mexican says,
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  Kenny, we get DIRECTV too. So, you know, you think, oh, I'm
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  in Mexico. It's a world away now.
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  It's just right over the border. And that was years ago.
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  But I said, how do you know about me?
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  We watch you on DIRECTV too. So anyway, they bring that
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  backup car out and what's Danielle Suarez do?
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  He focuses. Now, listen, I know a lot of you
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  are like, oh, it was rigged, you know, because you're acting
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  silly. You know better.
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  Here's the impressive part. He comes from dead last because
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  he starts in the backup car, comes from dead last, takes the
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  lead. And you're right, I'm with you.
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  If anybody would have spun him out or punted him out of the
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  lead, I would not want to have been that driver.
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  So forget about him winning the race.
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  Here's what I want. You ought to remember he came
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  from dead last to the lead. That's what you got to remember.
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  Now, as far as your boy not wanting to rough Daniel up,
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  think about it. Would you want to spend a world,
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  a world class here? Oh, everyone, a deer right down
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  there is a is a dope man. You hardly ever see any bucks
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  'cause they're they're the ones right there.
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  They Mac and bucks they're Mac Betty.
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  So anyway, congratulations, my amigo, Daniel Suarez, what you
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  did, He said, I'll leave you with this.
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  He said I took that. Daniel Suarez told the Mid East.
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  I took the lead. He said I could hear, I could
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  hear the fans like they were sitting right next to me.
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  He said I got goosebumps. And in that broken English, he
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  said I had to focus in and remember what I'm doing.
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  So all I'm asking for all of you to remember is this.
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  He came from dead last to the lead.
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  And once again, I'm gonna repeat as far as you saying, well, they
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  didn't spin him out. Hey, dummy, my wife said I'm not
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  allowed to call you all dummies anymore.
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  But remember that, that that's Fred Sanford.
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  That's a joke. Remember he, he called Lamont
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  his boy, you big dummy. So congratulations, Daniel
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  Suarez. What you pulled off is hard to
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  do. Ask any driver.
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  Have a great Father's Day, everybody.