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NASCAR is at a Crucial Turning Point Right Now | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning everybody. It has rained 40 days and 40
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  nights in St. Louis, MO.
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  It will not stop raining. I think I'm going to have to
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  build a boat because remember Noah's Ark?
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  They built the boat because it flooded it.
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  It won't stop. We have had probably 3, three
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  straight weeks, maybe a month and 1/2 tornado warnings at
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  least once a week. And I mean when it rains, it's
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  it's big. I was going to say it's like a
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  cow pissing on a Flat Rock. I said to hell with it.
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  I just say it. We all friends here anyway,
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  That's old country talk. Hey, walls, it raining so hard
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  over there like cow pissing on a Flat Rock.
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  All right, everybody, today's Coffee with Kenny is about
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  NASCAR is at a turning point. Now.
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  I'm sure NASCAR knows everything they're doing.
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  But as you all know, Steve Phelps, our president of NASCAR,
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  he's now over international affairs.
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  So Steve Phelps is now in charge of worldly NASCAR.
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  Where's NASCAR going to go in the world?
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  Are we going to race in Europe? Where at now?
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  My buddy Steve O'Donnell is now the president.
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  I see we are at a turning point in NASCAR for so many reasons.
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  That's going to be my highlight right here.
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  NASCAR is at a turning point. Well, Herman, what is that
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  turning point? Well, I mean, you see what's
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  going on. And on Herman Schrader
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  Wednesday, we're getting ready to tape in here in about 20
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  minutes, but it's going to be about NASCAR went to Joliet and
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  Chicagoland, NASCAR went to Kentucky, NASCAR went to
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  California. Beep, beep, beep.
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  NASCAR back it up. They left all those places.
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  NASCAR has left California Speedway, NASCAR has left
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  Kentucky, NASCAR has left Joliet and Chicagoland, and now they
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  are right back to Bowman, Gray, North Wilkesboro.
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  And of course, the one that was so successful this week was
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  Rockingham. So, Oh, and it's all right and
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  love is good. We going to get right back to
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  where we started from. Love is good.
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  Love could be that song. There's also another one.
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  How's it go? Don't it always seem to go that
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  you don't know what you got till it's gone?
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  They paid Paradise put in a parking lot.
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  Don't it always seem to go You don't know what you got till
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  it's gone? Both those songs.
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  So we are at a turning point. And what that means is NASCAR's
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  got to start looking at, OK, how much money do we need to make?
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  So we know that everything we do is about making money.
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  That's just the way life is. It don't have anything to do
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  with greed. ISC, International Speedway
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  Corporation, you know, everything's about making money.
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  I believe that there is at least three races a year and there's
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  room to make, make, make things right.
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  So I'm saying, you know, what are those three races a year?
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  Well, we know Rockingham. We know that Ben Kennedy.
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  Ben Kennedy who owns NASCAR, along with, you know, Jim
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  France. We know Jim France is the Grand
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  Pooh Pop. Ben Kennedy's Mama is Lesa
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  Kennedy France. So we know that Ben Kennedy told
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  The Charlotte Observer that, you know, yes, we're looking at
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  Rockingham. We could go back there in 2027
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  if everything goes good. Well, it was it was a Grand
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  Slam. So no, NASCAR is going to watch
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  Rockingham next year and see if it's going to be another Grand
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  Slam. Then I feel really good that
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  NASCAR Cup Series will be back at Rockingham in 2027.
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  So turning point this this next Gen. car, it performs well.
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  We've had all these great races, but then all of a sudden you're,
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  you know, we're upset that, you know, I just don't.
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  I mean, I know Denny Hamlin's on the action judgmental and and I
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  know they raced the race cars. So Denny's saying the car can be
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  fixed. Denny Hamlin is saying the car
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  can be fixed. I'd listen, there's, there is
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  close to a billion dollars spent on that car.
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  It it's silly to go get rid of the car guys, it ain't that
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  easy. You got to have a little bit of
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  a common sense approach to this. You don't just get rid of the
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  car and go back to the Xfinity car.
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  If, if Danny is right and the car can be fixed, I, my belief
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  is Goodyear can fix it all. Hey, what's the four things that
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  touch the ground, the tire? I think Goodyear can fix that
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  car as far as getting things more the way you want them at at
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  Bristol. Listen, Bristol's the big
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  disturber in this whole this whole deal, everything was going
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  along just fine and all the same thing last year.
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  You know it. I'm never I'm never going to go
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  Bristol's horrible. OK, all I'm going to say is that
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  if you take Kyle Larson out of the mix, just get rid of him,
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  it's a hell of a race, right? Because you look at 2nd, 3rd and
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  4th, you you saw, you know, Chase Briscoe and you shot saw
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  Ty Gibbs. They were going at it.
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  Imagine if that would have been a fight for the lead.
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  You're all you all would have been saying, Oh my God,
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  Bristol's back. But because you know what,
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  here's the way I look at those races to say if it's a good or
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  bad one. If the leader is gone, that
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  means he's giving you all an ass whipping, but if second, third
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  and 4th are going at it, that means it's a hell of a race.
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  Well, you know, I know late in that race they were battling
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  for, you know, 3rd and 4th. Is it?
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  To me that was fine. Is does Bristol have a problem?
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  I'll say that Goodyear can do a better job with the tires.
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  So right now we're at a turning point and I think we see it
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  happening. We saw Bowman Gray, we saw
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  Wilkesboro. So remember this moment these
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  these years, NASCAR is going to come back to where they left.
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  NASCAR is going to take the Next Gen. car.
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  They going to get it right, right.
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  I just really think we are. All I'm saying is recognize,
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  recognize the situation right now.
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  We are at a turning point. And as far as that rocket
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  embrace, that was insane. I mean, it was insane for all
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  types of reasons. And I'm going to leave you with
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  this. I'm not going to say I told you
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  so, but I did remember what I told you about perception.
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  Do you know what Rockingham was sold out at?
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  Guess who wins Mother? Me.
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  Rockingham. The grandstands 18,500, 20,000
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  or more, All those sweets sold out.
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  Those grandstands were 18,520 thousand, but there was 50,000
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  at Bristol. That, my friends, is deception.
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  See, Rocket am sold out. Yeah, it's sold out.
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  That's what we ought to do to every NASCAR track, put in
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  20,000 grandstands and that way it would force you all to go,
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  oh, look, we're sold out. All right, everybody, I got to
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  hurry up in there and I'm going to brush my teeth real quick
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  before we do. Herman Schrader, have a great
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  Monday respond right here. The question is, this is NASCAR
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  at a turning point. We're trending upwards.
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  One thing's a fact. We're trending upwards and it's
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  a fact. All right, Happy Monday.