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Chase Elliott Just Saved NASCAR | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning, everybody. I am over here in Rome, Italy.
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  Just got done making myself an Americano.
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  Americano is what they call it on that nice little coffee
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  machine. And Americano is basically a
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  coffee that's not so harsh. Over here, what's most famous is
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  an espresso. Espresso is a little bitty
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  coffee comes in a comes in a coffee mug like this little
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  bitty coffee. But buddy, when they give it to
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  you, when they give you an espresso, it's got a punch.
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  And Americano comes in a little bit bigger cup.
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  So I just stick to my Americano kind of what I'm used to.
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  OK, I've, I've stayed at a lot of hotels in my life.
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  I think you all know that. I've been all over the world.
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  I've been to Japan 2 times, landed in Tokyo, I've raced in
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  Motigi, I've raced in Suzuka circuit, I've raced in Mexico.
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  And of course, you know, now I've been all over Canada and
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  I've been to Greece and Sicily and I guess you get the point.
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  This hotel here, the Waldorf Astoria here in Rome, Italy, it
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  is most likely just the nicest, most amenities.
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  They got it all. They got an incredible spa
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  downstairs. You know, when you open up the
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  closets here, it's just got everything.
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  You know, today we're, we're starting a little bit later.
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  John Scotone and and myself, we said, look, let's calm down a
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  little bit, man. We've been getting up at 7:30
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  every single morning and we've been going really hard.
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  So we're going to take it a little bit easier today.
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  Today we're going to catch the train at 2:00 right out of Rome
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  and we're headed to Florence, headed down to Florence, and
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  I've heard a lot about Florence. Whatever you want to tell me,
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  respond right here, right there. Looks a little lighter.
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  They said these they espresso means they got a little foam on
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  top of them. So OK, it's all about
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  Martinsville, everybody. That was a nice little monologue
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  about what I'm up to and Martinsville.
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  I woke up about 5:00 in the morning here and the race had
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  just got over and I watched everything.
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  I hate to tell you this, but I'm just going to tell you the truth
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  because that's what I'm known for.
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  If you ever miss a NASCAR race, just go to NASCAR on Fox on X
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  and it and it tells you everything you can watch the
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  race and Speedy Gonzalez. So I mean it, they got they got
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  all the highlights, they got everything that's worth talking
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  about and the rest is them just making circles on the racetrack.
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  So I know everything that happened at Martinsville.
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  Here's my headlines. Chase Elliott saves NASCAR.
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  Now let's go from the start of the year.
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  This is all about Chase Elliott saving NASCAR, and here's why.
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  Things were getting ready to blow up in a big fashion.
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  I can feel it coming. Toyota has dominated so bad that
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  if Denny Hamlin wins this race at Martinsville, which Denny
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  deserved to win it, he deserved to win it.
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  But if Denny Hamlin wins Martinsville in that Toyota, I
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  mean, all Hell's going to break loose, no doubt in my mind,
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  because I see it. I see what's up.
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  The Chevrolet fans, the Ford fans, they're about ready to
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  lose their mind. You know, they're it, It's
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  always fun, you know, the the conspiracy theories, you know,
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  you know, Michael Jordan sued NASCAR, Now they're letting
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  Toyota win. I'll tell you what, sometimes
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  it's fun to play along like you're dumb, you know?
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  But you know, I've said this before.
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  They said if you drink more beer, wrestling gets more real.
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  Well, I could go on about that, but some people, I know they're
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  acting, but Chase Elliott saves NASCAR.
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  Now, let me say something about Denny Hamlin.
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  I feel bad a little bit for Denny.
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  This is what, 2 times in about 7 races?
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  You go back to Phoenix last year, the very last race of the
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  year, when he loses the championship, Denny dominates.
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  And when they took those 44 tires last year, the last race
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  at Phoenix, when they took those 4 tires, I was screaming in the
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  TV, no, no. And of course, Kyle Arson takes
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  2 or none and gets track position and wins the race.
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  So that was Denny Hamlin's race to win right there.
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  Then. Now, Denny Hamlin does win Vegas
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  this year. Here he is getting ready to win
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  two in a row and they make, you know, they didn't make a wrong
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  pitch strategy called Alan Gustafson.
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  That's a mouthful. Alan Gustafson Hey, I'm going to
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  Germany. We're going up to Berlin, You
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  know, I'm going to I'm going to run around Nerburger ring up in
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  Nerburg, Germany. Is is Gustafson is that is that
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  German? Gustafson Sounds like it.
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  But but I think Alan Gustafson he makes a bold call.
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  I don't I don't think Danny Hamlin, I don't think his crew
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  chief makes a bad call. I think Al OK, so Alan Gus is in
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  he's short pits. It means he pitted when he
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  shouldn't have. It means he pitted early.
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  I lost my one and only cup race that I thought I was going to
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  win. Well, I've got, I've got 3
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  second place finishes in the Cup series with Talladega, Loudon,
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  NH and Rockingham. And you know, you don't forget
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  it, but Joe Nemechek short pitted on me at Rockingham when
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  I was driving Steve Park's car and I've he came in like 20 laps
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  before me and then I came in later and that's called short
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  pitting. So that that caught Chase Ellie
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  the brake. Now he's starting up front and
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  then he's able to gain there and he gets track position and he
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  wins the race. More importantly, here's why
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  Chase Elliott saves NASCAR because Toyota is winning
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  everything by Tyler Reddick. He won four of the 1st 6.
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  Thank God. Ryan Blaney wins in a four at
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  Phoenix. And then here comes Denny Hamlin
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  again in a Toyota and he wins Vegas.
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  So two things happen here. We we slow Toyota's roll and
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  Chase Elliott wins. NASCAR's most popular driver.
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  Now, when I'm watching the videos from the race, the fans
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  roared. They love, they love Chase
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  Elliott. So two things happened here,
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  right? Toyota doesn't win and Chase
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  Elliott wins. I mean, don't you know NASCAR?
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  They're high fiving each other right now.
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  NASCAR's like, boy, that was close.
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  That was close. Can you imagine if Danny Hamlin
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  would have won that race? Hey, Danny, I know you'd have
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  much rather pissed them all off and won the race, but look at
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  look at it this way, buddy. Rome was burning and you saved
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  it. You saved it, man.
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  So look, you won a race this year, you're going to win more.
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  But if you don't want that race, you knew you said that.
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  What would you say you were going to get to 67 wins?
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  Man, that'd have been 62 really quick.
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  All right, everybody. I think that's what I got.
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  I think that's what I got today. Yep.
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  Got a nice little look out here. I think you want to look.
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  You're wanting to look, right? I want to say this.
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  If you made it this far, open up.
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  Damn it. OK, That don't bother me.
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  That is a sore sight. But that that don't bother me.
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  Rome is right there. And so, yeah, this this Waldorf
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  story is just absolutely beautiful.
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  Look how nice this place is, huh?
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  Look at here. They got shades.
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  They come down. That's really cool.
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  I'm going to show you this real quick, real quick before we
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  leave. Watch here.
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  I think I've done something wrong.
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  I don't know. I got to show you this.
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  Look here. See a button right there?
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  Watch. How about that, huh?
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  I'm opening it back up. Pretty cool.
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  OK, everybody, we're headed to Florence today.
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  I'll be back Sunday. I miss my wife Kim immensely,
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  and I would miss my family. Have a great Monday, remember?
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  Now respond right here.