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Here's Why NASCAR Will Race in Europe | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning everybody.
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  Hot. Boy, it's so hot.
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  It's a steamer out here today. 41° in St.
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  Louis, MO 41° going to be in the 50s today.
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  Snows melting. It is a very exciting day in
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  Saint Louis. It's low to end day.
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  You know it. It's it's a big race downtown
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  Saint Louis dirt, dirt racing inside the Dome where the Saint
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  Louis Rams football used to play.
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  This will be the 8th year, 8th year of this.
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  And there's my Black Widow Dodge Ram.
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  The the trailer is in that door. I'm going to load up around
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  noon. They asked me to load in last.
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  I said I will load in last and they said if you load in last
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  tonight, Herman, you will be the first to leave Saturday night.
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  And I said that's awesome because I got to be up at 3:00
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  in the morning Saturday. Well Sunday morning because Kim
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  and I are headed on a cruise headed down there.
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  All them islands run together with me.
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  This would be about my 40th something cruise.
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  Cruises are fine. I don't get excited about them
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  anymore because I've I've seen those islands so many time.
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  Saint Martin's, Saint Thomas, Coco Cuckoo Island.
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  What? I've seen them all.
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  I've seen them all. So all right, it's a big day.
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  I see all of you watching me right now.
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  All of you parked down there in your trucks at the Dome.
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  All right, so it's it's the big weekend.
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  You can watch everything on flow TV racing starts Thursday, then
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  Friday, then Saturday night is the big event.
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  It is late models and modifieds. So all right everybody, we'll
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  listen coffee with Kenny. It's a good one today.
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  So, you know, for years everybody's like NASCAR keeps
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  teasing us and people say NASCAR needs to go across a pond over
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  to Europe and race. Well, just a reminder, we
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  already raced three straight years in Japan and it worked out
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  really well. You know, just because you don't
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  like something here in the United States doesn't mean
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  somebody's going to like it 15 hours away.
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  You know, we got in those airplanes.
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  I think we went over on Japanese airlines called JAL and we flew
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  over to Japan. And my first time over there, I
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  ran Suzuka Circuit and I ran 7th.
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  And if you go back, hey, respond right here, put the picture
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  there. I ran the EA Sports car.
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  EA Sports, it's in the game. Remember that?
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  Oh man, I'll tell you what, I'm getting a little sad right now.
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  We lost the great text, pal. We lost text about a year or two
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  ago. But that's who I drove for.
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  When I went to Japan, I ran Suzuka Circuit.
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  I drove for a text. I ran 2, but I ran two years in
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  a row. They they ran the deal three
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  years in a row. Rusty won the first one.
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  Then they ran Suzuka Circuit the second year.
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  Then the third year we went to Moti.
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  Now I must say, you're probably thinking yourself, why, why does
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  it benefit to, to, to take NASCAR, you know, over into
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  Europe? Well, it's, it's kind of like
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  saying, why does Rico Abro and, and why did Jeff Gordon and why
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  does Kyle Larson, why do all the dirt racers, why do all these
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  open wheel guys, why do they grab their seats, their race car
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  seats? They take their race car seats
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  and they and they fly over to Australia or somewhere right
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  after the Chili Bowl, you'll see them they all grab their their
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  seats and bolt their seats. They take them with them to the
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  airport with their luggage. They check their their race car
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  seat that they unbolted out of their open wheel Midget or
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  Sprint car and they check it. And then why do they go over?
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  Why do they go over to Australia to race?
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  Why do these dirt racers do that?
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  I'll tell you why. Because all the people in
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  Australia and all the people in Europe, they think NASCAR and
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  they think America racing is badass.
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  Oh yes, they do. They think we're awesome.
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  It's only the people that live here don't like what they got.
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  It's kind of like me going to, I'm going to Italy in January
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  because I just think it's awesome.
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  I'm I'm going to go see the Coliseum.
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  I want to go see the Vatican. I want to go see everything
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  Europe has to offer. You'll find out that we got
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  musical acts over here that we think are nothing, and they're
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  damn superstars over there in Europe.
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  Yes, they are. Tell you what I got in that JAL,
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  Japanese airlines and all, you know, Earnhardt and Rusty and
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  Richard Cheetos, they was up in first class.
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  I was in business class and business class was right.
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  My ass is going first class when I go to Italy.
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  I'm not sitting in the back. Ain't no damn way, not no 11
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  hours. I'm going to leave here and I'm
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  going to go up to Chicago and me and my buddy John Skatoni, we're
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  going to fly first class and I'm buying $7500 a ticket.
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  But I'm doing it. Maybe it's maybe it's the last
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  time of my life. This is a lifetime trip trip.
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  My ass is not going to sit in a normal seat 11 straight hours.
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  I'm 61 years old. I work too damn hard to sit in
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  one spot for 11 hours. I'm going to spend $7500 and I
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  told John Scotone because he was going to sit in the back.
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  I said you cheap ass, John's watching this right now.
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  So I'm going to spend $15,000 on two first class plane tickets
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  and our ass is going to Italy. January 17th through the 27th.
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  We're going to go to, we're going to go to Ferrari.
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  Yep. We're going to go right into
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  Ferrari and we're going to get a tour.
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  I'm going to, I'm going to rent one of their cars and we're
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  going to race it around their their Rd. course.
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  Ferrari's got their own little Rd. course.
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  Then we're going to get on a plane, I think, or Autobahn.
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  We're going to go to Germany. We're going to go to Nurnberg.
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  You know, they don't run there anymore.
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  So the question begs this, Why does NASCAR need to be going to
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  Europe? Because over there they think
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  we're awesome. Don't you want to go where
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  you're invited? So, yeah, I think NASCAR getting
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  ready, you know, to look over there and hey, I hear people all
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  the time right here on X or social media.
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  You can't believe the amount of people over in Australia or or
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  Europe that watch NASCAR, no different than us watching
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  Formula One. We're we're over here.
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  You know, it's kind of funny because people said why do they
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  start that Vegas race so late? What's probably because only a
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  million of you watch the Vegas race here, put over in Europe
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  millions and millions and millions of people.
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  So over in Europe, they like their fast cars.
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  That's why they got no speed limit on the Autobahn over
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  there. In Germany.
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  You can get in the car. They don't even got a speed
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  limit over there in Germany. Mercedes-Benz, I mean, stop and
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  think about it. Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, BMW,
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  their hot rods over there, everybody.
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  We, we think we're some bad asses over here and we are
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  America is the greatest land of all.
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  But buddy, when you get over to Europe, those are some racers
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  though. Those are some racers over
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  there. So I think it's right that
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  NASCAR does this because they love us over there.
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  Let's expand. You go over there, you do a
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  NASCAR race and all of a sudden they're going to tune in more.
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  They're going to, boy, I'm going to watch that NASCAR.
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  They beat and bang the hell out of each other.
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  Just remember this, everybody, nothing wrong with checking out
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  the rest of the world. That's why we all traveled and
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  see what's up. Hey, what's up over there?
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  I'm going to go check that out. All right, respond right here.
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  Are you excited to see NASCAR go over to Europe?
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  Because it looks like it's going to happen.