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Mike & Kenny Wallace Break Down The Greatest Finish in NASCAR History · Kenny Wallace Media

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  I've got winners. I've got losers, chain smokers.
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  And what's the rest of the song, man?
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  I think it's something about boozers, maybe chain smokers and
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  boozers. I love this bar.
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  All right, everybody. I don't have any coffee.
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  Brother Mike in the bedroom. Getting it on, getting ready to
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  come on out. You like your bedroom?
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  You got a nice brew Rider. It's.
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  It's Floridian. It's Floridian.
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  We got that teal color. We had a great time.
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  We're having a great time. Are we actually live with your
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  show. I'm Kenny with.
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  You're looking live. Oh.
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  OK, let's show them Here, let me.
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  Give you the. Tour we're going to break the
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  race down, break the race down. There's a door, can't open it.
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  Can't open the door door. All right, so here we are.
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  Beautiful Pensacola, FL Home with the big one.
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  Cradle on feet. Look at the people on their feet
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  right there. So very nice, very nice.
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  You know, as they say, you know what they say, brother, They say
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  must be, must MUSS not must, must be nice.
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  All right, we are going to break down.
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  We are going to break down this race, I believe.
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  I believe that this was one of the greatest NASCAR races in
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  history for all these reasons. Now comment right here.
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  You want to go at it with me? You want to argue with me?
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  I like that because it does like that.
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  Yes, you'll you'll Start learning me.
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  I like confrontation because then it gives me more content,
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  gives me ideas. So I I don't like NASCAR.
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  Ain't nothing. So anyway, the reason we're
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  going to tell you multiple reasons why this was the
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  greatest race in NASCAR history, Bill Elliott once said to me,
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  Herman, it's all about time and circumstances.
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  What better time to have a race, You know, when those cars were
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  coming off a Turn 4? Brother, you know, we're all
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  watching it on TVI just landed in Pensacola.
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  Mike was here. Where were you at when you
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  watched it? I was sitting right where I'm
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  sitting now looking at that television right there and we
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  were waiting to come get you at the airport and we knew we were
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  going to be 5 minutes late, but we thought, well, you can wait 5
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  minutes because we want to see the last few laps.
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  OK, so Mike is leading up to for the reason this was the greatest
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  race in NASCAR history. Why didn't you leave right away
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  and come pick me up? Because it was intense and they
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  had red flagged the race previous to that, you know, just
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  with a few laps to go and they were running three wide 5 rows
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  deep. Why were they able to run 3 wide
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  there? I mean, Daytona, they can only
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  do it for a while, but it seemed like they stayed three wide in
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  Atlanta. They did.
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  They I think just the track, you know, you know, the tracks
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  newer, it's got more grip, the cars are different and everybody
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  wanted to win. I mean it was it's a wide open
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  racetrack anymore. Everybody says what's different
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  of Atlanta. Well, they made it and they've
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  taken so much horsepower away from the cars that they can run
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  wide open. I know that's why I think a lot
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  of people hear that wide open. It's like, wow, why can't you
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  run Atlanta wide open now? On my timeline on Twitter, I
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  post a video and I write wide open.
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  I mean if you doubt wide open, I mean they they were due to Matt.
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  So you know, the question that begs is the art of negativity.
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  Negativity. You know that it's like you
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  could have everything perfect, but there's still the shit
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  disturbers out there. They want to say something.
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  I mute those. You'll learn my technique on X.
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  What I do is it's it's mute. Mute is my friend.
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  Mute makes you think that I'm still allowing you to follow me
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  and you are, but I don't see a thing you're saying because I
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  know you're stirring up crap. But anyway, this race and all
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  the wrecking. See, I see the wrecking.
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  As you know, Dick Trickle's got this old saying God'll want to.
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  I see the wrecking as they want to.
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  They want it. They want it so bad.
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  But there's another side to what Dick Trickle always said you
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  must first finish to finish first.
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  But I feel like you said, you know, the red flag out, like,
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  you know, so many laps ago, those were drivers, you know,
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  doing everything they needed to do.
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  What those cars are doing, they listening to Kevin Harwick
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  talking during the commentary. Cars are not the easiest to
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  drive. They're not the big downforce
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  cars used to drive and you just mat it and go on.
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  They're kind of up on top of the racetrack, so you can tell
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  everybody who's driving to win the race.
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  Chris Buscher spends out all by himself.
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  Respond right here. Are you that good?
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  Are you better than all the drivers do?
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  Do you think you could get in these drivers and out drive
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  them? Respond right here.
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  Only if you had money or had a chance.
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  If I had a chance, I could outrun those boys.
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  So we know that's what they all say.
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  But I mean, we did see everybody just lose their cars.
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  You looked at Pit Rd. proved to be one of the most difficult pit
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  roads in Motorsports history. Oh, they come to Pit Rd. under
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  Green and crashed straight away, you know.
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  Yeah, we saw that take out Chase Elliott and of course with
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  Michael McDowell down into Turn 3, one of the craziest pit
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  roads. I don't know what they're going
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  to do to fix that. But I also another thing I've
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  never in my racing life witnessed.
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  I don't know if you caught on to it, but they had enormous amount
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  of penalties. The penalties were off, off the
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  charts, just penalty. Don't.
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  We will get into the Joey Logano glove thing later this week.
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  I'll make a whole another show about that, but did you were you
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  aware? Well, go ahead, go ahead and and
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  tell them. No, I don't need a Yuki.
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  I don't want to know. Just.
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  The way you said that, so it just kind of caught on at
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  Daytona. They learned in the wind tunnel
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  you're driving down. OK, I got to use my left hand,
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  trouble turn on, trouble turn one.
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  So the driver is driving with his right hand, takes his left
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  hand and and puts it like this. So there's air turbulence coming
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  in the window a little bit because they cannot mess with
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  the body of the car. They cannot put any deflector on
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  the A post. Back in the day, you can play
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  with the body. You're not allowed to touch
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  these cars. So he wore a glove that was not
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  a real glove. It had web on it like a like
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  spider man. He had a glove that had webbing
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  in it, like, see the fingers. The fingers were together like
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  this. And when he was qualified, he
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  put his hand up and that would make the air stay outside of the
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  car. So, and it was not, it was not
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  what they call approved by safety regulations S something.
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  SF. ISFI It was not an SFI approved.
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  Glove. But wouldn't that glove with the
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  webbing categorize Joey Logano as Superman then?
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  Is that Superman? Superman.
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  Find the walls. Oh, yeah.
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  OK, Spider Man. OK, Spice Spider Man. 2 old
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  dummies here. So anyway, it just goes back to
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  why we said this was the best race ever.
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  Super. Like a lot of penalties and all
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  the penalties pissed me off. I'm like, my God anymore.
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  How many more penalties? And I was getting mad and then
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  all of a sudden I realized this is a really good race.
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  I'm entertained. I'm talking to the TV now.
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  And then, Mike, you were the one that reminded me when in your
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  mind, we're not. Listen, I told you guys 100
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  times, I'm not a journalist, that you can make fun of me all
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  you want. That Walls don't know the name
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  of the team he's supposed to know.
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  No, I'm not. I'm not supposed to know none of
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  that stuff. You are.
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  And you're supposed to tell me everything right here.
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  So, Mike, you told me what you thought was the last three wide
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  finish in NASCAR history. When was it?
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  Well, I'm not a historical person, but it had to be in the
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  late 50s, early 60s at Daytona International Speedway was a
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  famous pitcher, those three cars.
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  Come across the. Line just like that.
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  It took till Monday sometime to determine exactly who won the
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  race because they had to go through all the still
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  photography and that was last night was by far the greatest
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  finish because the finish started way back off of turn. 2
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  And so anybody's talked about in America right now, It's on every
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  channel. It's everywhere.
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  You know you come off a turn 2. I even told him that as we're
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  watching, with Blaney driving into turn one.
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  I said by all rights he should win this thing, but we'll have
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  to see what happens. They come off A2, Blaney
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  stretched out a little bit. Come to find out, Blaney tells
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  everybody afterwards. He backed up throttle a little
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  bit, trying to close the gap up and they had the momentum on
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  him. I'll tell you something.
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  You hear that all the time. You're playing the piano that
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  that, that backing up. That's like, I'm so great.
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  I'm going to drag the brake and I'm going to back up.
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  No, you're allowing them to catch you.
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  And that's an Art Earnhardt did that, Gordon did it.
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  And all the drivers like I'm going to back on up, Well back
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  up, be careful back in the truck.
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  Say what? He was trying to back up.
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  You're good at it. He was trying to back up, but he
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  left the lane in between him open.
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  Yeah, Remember Super Speedway superstar here?
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  He's won at Daytona. How many times?
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  Click. Click right here.
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  Yes, three. Mike wanted Daytona three times.
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  Did you ever did? You want to talk about Teledea
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  three times? Yes, but you know, I know this,
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  but did you ever back on up? When we were push drafting.
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  When we could push drafting. The You drag the brake a little
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  bit, you. Drag the brake and catch the guy
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  behind you because you want him to engage with you.
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  Catch the guy behind you. Allow him to get to you.
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  I will say back in those days that we were allowed to talk to
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  other drivers, Wow, You know, we had radio frequencies.
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  We had as many as 16 drivers we could talk to you talking about.
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  Confusion. You got this thing on your
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  dashboard, tells you channel 16 is the five car da da da da, you
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  know all the way around. So Ron Hornaday and I were
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  driving for. And you won Talladega.
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  Oh, we killed them. We killed.
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  I mean, we did such a great job. This is breaking news in the
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  garage here. You're you mean to tell me you
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  were able to talk to your competitor that was helping you
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  win? Oh.
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  Yeah. Then we did that for a while.
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  NASCAR allowed that for two years.
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  Then they just outlawed all the radios and everything else.
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  So you literally would take your radios to the radio guys and
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  you'd program in everybody's team, anybody you thought that
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  was good enough to help you. You program them in and they
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  made you an index card that you take to the dashboard.
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  Now think about you're trying to read the index card on the
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  dashboard while racing, then reach it down there.
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  We raise the radio races. We could see the numbers and you
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  could literally, in my case, most of it was, hey Hornaday,
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  OK, I'm backing up to you. Come on, come on, Hit.
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  Help me win. I'm coming, he said.
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  OK, here we are And we engaged, literally engaged and we run,
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  you know, 3-4 mile an hour a lot faster than everybody else.
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  And that's what's happening still today.
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  You know, it's funny. They outlawed that for a while
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  all the way through all three series.
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  Then they come back and said, OK, the Cup guys are intelligent
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  enough and good enough to do that, but we can't let the
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  Xfinity. Car because they're dumb.
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  They're dumb. They.
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  Can't do it without wrecking. Well, they all prove that they
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  all can wreck. So hey, that is, that is another
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  good point. Sometimes people and you and I
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  were cup drivers forever, so that is a false narrative.
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  Now the experience level might be there, but to think cup
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  drivers are smarter than say Austin Hill or you know some of
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  those, I mean Jesse, not experience.
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  I get it. But everybody wrecks and the Cup
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  guys prove it all the time. Yeah, but.
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  They prove it all the time but last night we proved how talent
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  they were. I mean through three and four
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  and coming to the checkered flag last night 3 wide not just at
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  the front of the pack. We wide rewatched that if you
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  remember and the 2nd and 3rd row back meaning running for. 4:00
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  to 6:00. Seven through.
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  Eight. Look at the replay coming off in
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  turn four. They were three wide for the
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  win. Three wide.
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  Right behind them that bubble Wallace.
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  That is 2 top fives in a row. Respond right here.
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  Why? Mike and I are wrong.
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  That was not the greatest race of all time.
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  You're trying to make NASCAR look good.
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  We want you to make them look bad.
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  No, that was the greatest race ever.
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  Think about. Think about, yeah, think about
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  some of you how you just are. Another reason it was such a
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  good race is because there's people that love negativity and
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  now they're pissed off because that was a great race.
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  It has now brought NASCAR. You know, NASCAR has been on its
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  way back for quite a while and now this just brings it up
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  quickly. Maybe five steps, you know.
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  You brought up to me last night. There was a cool part about that
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  race, too, is there's so many fans in the grandstand.
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  How about the crowd? How about the crowd?
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  It was not a crowd like it used to be.
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  They got less stands. We don't care.
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  It was crowded. How about that crowd?
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  Yeah, it was great. You know, I think I was told
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  that most of those people showed up, or that trackside show
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  you're doing that, You and John Roberts.
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  Did James Rogers and Luder booter?
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  Had just an enormous walk up crowd to come watch.
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  You that that Trackside Live is back and the reason it's doing
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  so good is because the drivers like it.
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  For example, Christopher Bell showed up and he he was full of
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  pride. I can see he was looking at the
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  crowd. We could drop some videos in and
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  I don't know if Charlie's going to show you anything but there
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  had to be, you know there was thousands of people there, Mike,
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  all the fans, they want to get their cars parked.
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  They want something to do. You know they're there at 10 in
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  the morning. The race doesn't start till
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  3:00. So that you know behind the
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  grand says you have all these shows and but the drivers, they
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  they like coming. You know we had Christopher
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  Bell, William Byron the the Daytona 500 champion.
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  So yeah, you're right. I think NASCAR is doing the
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  things to, you know, they they messed up.
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  They're bringing it back. You know, you're old like I am.
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  So you ever heard the story? History repeats itself.
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  Oh yeah, my teachers taught me. That so history is repeating
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  itself. They're utilizing you because
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  you guys had a very successful, successful show, a trackside
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  show back in the day. The fans.
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  They all. Got rid of it thinking they
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  didn't need it. Then they realized, Oh no, we
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  need it. So who did they bring back as
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  you? Because you were the anchor of
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  it and you brought Johnny Roberts back.
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  To Joel, Robert. And so they. 3 or 15 minutes, we
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  better stop. So anyway, that was the greatest
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  race in NASCAR history. Here's why my reason when they
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  were coming off of Turn 4 through the TVI can hear the the
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  vibration sound, the verbration. Like, you know, like you turn
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  the bass up on on music, you could hear them rumbling off the
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  corner and it's like, it's like they had the cars, had another
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  gear and they were just coming off the corner and everybody was
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  like, nobody could believe here we're going to end it like this.
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  Remember what I told you about Jack Buck when Ozzie Smith hit a
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  home run for us to win a major playoff game with the Cardinals?
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  He said. I don't believe what I just saw
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  and that's that's what everybody was doing after the Cup race at
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  Atlanta. I'm still speechless since they
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  Mike, you bring up a good point. Why did they not touch each
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  other? Why did they not wreck each
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  other coming to the to start finish line for the win?
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  The real reason is, is they are supposed to be the most talented
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  race car drivers in America and they just proved it.
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  Sometimes in the race they don't prove it, but they did.
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  And it wasn't just the front row, it was the next.
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  Nobody wrecked. They wrecked.
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  The whole race. They wrecked the whole race.
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  But when it came down to Showtime, money, time, they all
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  ran like perfect, hard, aggressive laps.
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  And when you said you heard them motors change time, you did
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  because they were all stuck in a draft and they were picking
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  their run as fast as those cars are.
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  Possible. Probably the best draft of the
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  day. Yeah, so yeah.
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  And if you don't know when you're drafting cars, it picks
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  up mile per hour. Picks up RPM.
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  It's different. Yeah.
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  All right. Remember everybody, we are in
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  podcast form. I did not do an intro to the
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  show because because I thought it would be a little weird, but
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  we are in podcast form everybody, said Herman, Why why
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  don't you put that in podcast form?
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  I said we are Kenny Wallace Podcast, The Kenny Wallace Show.
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  We're on iTunes and Spotify. Respond right here.
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  Was it the greatest NASCAR race you've ever seen?
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  And that is the subject at hand. We are in Pensacola, FL.
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  I'm racing down here all week. I asked my brother Mike and my
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  nephew Matt to come on down. We're going to go.
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  I got no coffee. I'm shaking.
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  I got no coffee. And we're dirt racing at a
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  racetrack that is like Field of Dreams.
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  It's literally located out in the middle of somewhere and
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  nowhere. The Field of Dreams, you build
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  it. They will come Northwest Florida
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  Speedway. Yeah.
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  All right. Goodbye, everybody.
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  Say goodbye, Mike. Bye everybody.