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My Take: Did Denny Hamlin Jump The Final Restart? · Kenny Wallace Media

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  I talked to you all last week about William Byron.
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  I said I love William Byron. He's a bad ass, but all he does
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  is win. That's all he does is win.
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  Herman, where are you going with this?
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  When Denny Hamlin wins, it's like bombs blowing up.
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  Danny Hamlin never wins normally.
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  My God, this guy has done it all except the championship.
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  Danny Hamlin is one of our greatest NASCAR race car drivers
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  of all time. He's one and everything.
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  He's even one on the short tracks, whether it's South
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  Boston or Orange County, he can drive anything.
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  He's done some stuff at Eldora on dirt.
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  Danny Hamlin is the real deal. So this is what I was talking
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  about. OK?
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  Love William Byron. Think he's awesome.
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  Friend of mine. I see him.
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  We're buddies, but all William does is win when Danny wins.
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  Man, old man, you ought to see. You ought to see your yourself
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  on social media right now. All of you.
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  When when William wins, what'd you think?
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  Did you think your camera froze for a minute?
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  I love William Byron, but you just saw the difference.
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  I I didn't have to do any work. I didn't have to do any work.
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  I just said William Byron win Denny Hamlin win Denny Hamlin.
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  Win William Byron. Well, I just like a winner that
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  wins and I go home and go to bed.
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  Well, OK, But it is exciting when Denny Hamlin wins.
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  All right, as the Herminator says, let's D bullshit this
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  Richmond race, all right? And I've been using this here
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  lately. Let's get to the good part.
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  So they make circles, right? But before they make circles, we
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  did something that we've never done before, and you got to give
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  it to NASCAR. Now, listen, I know a lot of you
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  want me to talk bad about NASCAR, Herman, you're not the
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  same. You don't bash NASCAR.
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  I want you to bash NASCAR, OK, So they come out with a rain
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  tire and they said they're tired of sending you fans home.
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  So at Richmond, they start the race at least two hours early,
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  right? They start the race at least two
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  hours early. It quits raining.
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  They don't even, they they drive the track just like 30 minutes
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  and they go boom, go green flag. OK, that was big When they were
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  racing, when they dropped the green flag with the rain tires
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  on the new rain tires, there was, there was mist, there was
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  water going. It was crazy.
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  But this is what NASCAR was talking about.
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  They said we're going to race a little bit in wet conditions
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  because it would usually take two more hours to drive the
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  track. So instead of this, right, let,
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  let's just use the number, Let's just say 6:00 at night.
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  They probably would have started at 8:00.
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  That might have been too late, you know, for on a Sunday night.
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  Maybe they would have started 10/11 and they would have said,
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  listen, we, we can't do it. So we're just going to move this
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  thing to Monday. No.
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  So those rain tires did their job.
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  Now I wanted to break that down because I don't think a lot of
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  you understand the situation with the rain tires.
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  They were able to drop the green flag at least two hours early.
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  The track did not have to be perfectly dry.
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  That was a big win for NASCAR. Now, those tires and, you know,
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  no windshield wipers, no blinkers, no lights, you
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  couldn't race in the pouring down rain.
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  But by God, they went green flag two hours earlier than they
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  would have normally went. So I wanted to put that in the
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  bed because a lot of you are. What's the big deal?
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  Well, first of all, they're racing on a wet track and that
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  was big. So that was big for everybody
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  because they got the race in. All right.
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  Big. Controversy 3 for Earnhardt 3.
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  Controversies, #1. All right, let's go to the end
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  of this race and let's, let's keep the Kenny Wallace Short
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  show short. Let's keep the Kenny Wallace
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  Show short. Boy, Sally sold the seashells
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  down by the seashore. Say that three times.
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  All right, we're coming to the end of the race, and now the
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  black helicopters are flying above the racetrack.
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  This all of you black. All you conspiracy theorists see
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  black helicopter means woo. So Kyle Larson comes up off a
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  turn for Kyle Larson after the race says I was loose and I got
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  finished off. So after the race Kyle Larson in
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  this. So I'm going to make the sound.
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  Kyle Larson, woo, woo woo and Bubba Wallace expecting Kyle to
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  come up off the corner. Kyle goes woo and and Bubba hits
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  him. Spins him out.
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  Caution. Now this is where the black
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  helicopter comes in. Bubba spun Kyle Larson out on
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  purpose so Denny could beat Martin Truex out of the pits and
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  win the race. Oh God, sometimes I wish I won't
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  go there, OK? No, that's not what happened
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  after the race, Kyle Larson said.
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  I come off the corner. I was loose.
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  I got loose. I had to let out of the gas.
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  Bubba just hit him, spun him out, and that's just it.
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  So you got to throw the caution flag, cause cows down in the
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  grass running through the water. He's got to come back out on the
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  racetrack. Legit caution, caution flag on
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  the racetrack. So I I'm sorry that I got to
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  spoil your fun, but no, that's not what happened.
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  Because for that to happen, OK, Bubba in his car.
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  First of all, Bubba's running fourth.
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  OK, Bubba, Bubba's running fourth.
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  He doesn't want to caution. There's only two or three laps
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  to go, remember? So Bubba spins him out and and
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  you know you're sitting there. Denny's running what, second or
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  third and he's running third, I think.
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  So Denny's going to, so Bubba's going to have to know.
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  I'll spin him out. That way Denny can beat them all
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  out of the pits and win the race.
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  So cut that off. That's dumb.
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  I won't say you're stupid. I'll just say you're dumb.
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  Hey, Herman, don't make fun of me.
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  I just did. Sorry.
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  I never meant to make your daughter cry.
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  I apologize a trillions time. Hey, remember, it's the Kenny
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  Wall show. All right.
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  Controversy #2. The restart.
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  The restart. Denny Hammond jumped.
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  The restart. They should not let him win the
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  race. People, where where do I go with
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  all of you? First of all the people that
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  didn't like it, it's because your driver didn't win.
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  I don't believe in perfectism. That's a herminator word.
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  I don't believe in perfectism. But rules are rules.
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  And he jumped to start because Martin Truek said so.
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  Well, hey, Martin Truex, why did you run into everybody after the
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  race? He should have said because I
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  was pissed. But he didn't say it.
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  The show. The show was Martin Truex after
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  the race. Because here's Martin.
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  Listen, I felt bad for Martin Truex.
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  Look, I just said it. I felt bad for Martin Truex
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  because here's a guy that's going to going to win the race,
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  right? So his team lets him down
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  because Denny Hamlin outruns his team.
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  So Denny Hamlin comes out the leader.
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  Now that puts Denny Hamlin. He's going to control the
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  restart. That puts, that puts Martin
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  Trooks in a bad position. Now he's front, right side.
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  And by the way, I want to make this a big deal right here.
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  I don't believe in that. If you are the leader of the
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  race, you should be out front by yourself because you earned that
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  spot. You shouldn't come out of the
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  pits in first and have have have the 2nd place guy start right
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  next to you. Don't even make sense.
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  That's wrong. I there I just bashed NASCAR.
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  Did you like that? Kenny Wallace doesn't agree with
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  NASCAR on restarts. I don't 'cause I'm a dirt racer.
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  If you're leaving the race that mean you earned you earned
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  first. It doesn't mean it doesn't mean
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  you're 1st and now you let the 2nd place guy line up right next
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  to you. How dumb is that?
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  That's dumb. Capital DU MB.
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  But they do it to make you all happy.
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  So. So Martin Truex's team loses the
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  race off Pit Rd. OK, because Bubba Wallace and
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  Kyle Larson get together. You're connecting all the dots
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  now, right? So, Danny Hamlin, listen, I'm a
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  race car driver, right? I'm right there.
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  All of a sudden, Danny Hamlin's getting ready to go.
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  He looks in the rearview mirror. He sees Joey Logano holding
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  back. They getting ready to attack
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  Denny. The Joey Logano and Martin
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  Trooks go. They're going to attack Denny.
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  They going to get him. Uh, huh, Danny Hamlin says.
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  You're not going to get me. No, This is what all of you
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  have. Forgot what I'm telling you
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  right now, you're not going to let.
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  Look, Danny Hamlin's in his car. He's looking his mirror, right?
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  If if anything, NASCAR should have penalized Joey for holding
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  back. Going to get that run and
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  they're going to go to the inside, just like the Carl
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  Edwards deal at Miami, right? I'm going to come back on and
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  get a run on him, go to the inside and then we can bang and
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  I'm going to win the race. That's what Joey Lagano was
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  thinking. Joey Lagano was thinking about
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  winning the race more than Martin Truex was.
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  And then you see Martin, you see Martin.
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  Martin was doing the old hang back thing.
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  This is why I like what Denny Hamlin did, he said.
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  Ain't none of you going to jump my ass.
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  He took off and it was this far. So I like to call.
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  Listen to me, I'm going to say it very clearly.
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  I don't care. I'm a smart ass right now.
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  I don't care, Denny Hamlin defended himself on that restart
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  the end. Now listen, you're going to go
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  well. Rules are rules.
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  Listen, there's some rules that need to be D bullshitted.
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  All good. They all were at the start.
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  Finish line side by side. Because even though Denny took
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  off 510 foot early, go look at a replay.
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  Martin Surex and Joey Lagado. They were right where they
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  needed to be at the start. Finish line.
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  I'm the type of guy. Look, no harm, no foul, OK?
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  That's it. Denny Hamlin, the winner Now.
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  I just gave you my opinion. You respond right here.
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  By the way. While you're responding, hit the
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  subscribe button. So I just D bullshit.
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  I just broke it down and I told you my truth.
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  That's why. Denny Hamlin started the way he
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  started. And I'm going to have Charlie
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  Mall to cut that clip right out there.
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  And I guarantee you, Charlie that didn't take.
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  But Earnhardt 3 minutes to explain.
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  Denny Hammond defended himself from everybody attacking him.
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  Good job, Denny. You won the race.
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  You gave us controversy. I absolutely love what you did.
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  Second win, you win. You win Bristol, you win here.
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  You won so many races. You're getting it done.
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  Congratulations, Danny, because I just told you, why Don't make
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  me repeat myself a third time. Actually, Charlie, that should
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  be our headlines. Denny Hamlin defends himself.
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  All right, The other controversy I I'm, I'm giving Martin Trex a
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  break because I felt his pain. I felt his pain.
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  If you're Martin Trex and you're not highly frustrated after this
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  race, you're not human. So we going to turn one right?
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  And as you watch the replay really close, they all going to
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  turn one as hard as they can go. On the green light checkered,
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  you see Denny Hamlin's car due to death Wiggle.
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  It's like Denny took his car to the maximum peak.
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  He goes down there and it just wiggles.
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  When it wiggles, that means the ass is getting ready to come
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  around. He chases it up a couple feet
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  and then that's where you heard Kyle Larson say he used him up.
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  Come on, I've had my ass used up.
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  I've been stuck in the wall. It's a green light checker for a
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  NASCAR Cup win I'd cut. I'd cut that bad pinky off for
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  for One Cup win. I never won a Cup race there.
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  I just kicked my own ass to make you happy.
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  Hey, Wallace, you never won a Cup race.
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  That's right. That's why I'd wreck anybody.
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  To win one run 2nd 3 * 1 to Earnhardt at Talladega.
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  The other second place was Rockingham, where Nemechek got
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  me. And then I run second to Burton
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  at at Loudon. That don't bother me at all.
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  Three second place finishes. So I'm the type of guy, where
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  you going to do what you got to do to win?
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  All right? And I already heard it all.
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  What Danny Hamlin went, went high at Pocono and and used up
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  Kyle Larson. People.
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  What do you want everybody to hold their lane then?
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  It's boring. They don't do nothing.
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  You ever watch the V8 series? You ever watch SVG?
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  You ever watch Shane van Gisbergen in the V8 series over
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  there? Their door banging?
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  They're beating the hell out of each other.
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  Danny Hamlin gave Martin Truex room.
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  Not much. Not much so.
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  And and you got to remember, Martin's laying on his door,
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  right? Martin Truex is laying on
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  Denny's door. So if if, if Danny just comes up
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  a little bit, it's like he used me up.
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  Hold on, he didn't use you up. You was on his door.
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  You didn't give him a foot. So it's one of those deals where
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  they come up off at turn 2 and you can see Denny, he's in a
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  wide open and he holds it down. He he know he does his best.
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  SO Martin Truex had every right to be pissed.
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  He's going to win the race and he falls the 4th and at the end
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  of the race he's like, screw it, I'm just going to wreck
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  everybody. So, so and what was great, what
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  was great was Kyle Larson knew it.
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  So Kyle's like, damn, I guess he's mad bam.
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  So he's stuck in the outside lane.
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  That's not the lane to be in. And then after the race, you
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  know, Martin just knocks the hell out of his own teammate,
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  which is Danny Hamlin. And then of course, you know
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  Martin Truex and Kyle go at it again, You know, after the race
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  is over because you know they're, you know, first way,
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  you got to remember who started this pissing match.
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  Martin Truex started the pissing match going down to back
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  straight away by going bam on Kyle Larson.
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  So Kyle Larson says what? So then Kyle Larson comes off
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  off the corner for the finish and uses his ass up and then and
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  then Martin don't like it. So Martin bangs into him and
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  Kyle goes no, no, we'll both go to the jig.
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  The jig's where he fixed wrecked race cars.
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  So the race is over and Kyle's like, OK, race is over and then
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  and then Martin goes, I get it. OK, so I told you I feel bad for
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  Martin Trucks. He got used up.
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  He got abused. Here's the bottom line.
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  It was a hell of a show. All right, everybody, this is in
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  podcast form. Remember, you can listen to this
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  on your way to work on on Spotify or iTunes, and you can
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  listen to this on your way back home.
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  But this was a really quick one. Respond right here.
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  Argue with me, Herman. I don't like you.
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  Most of you are pissed nowadays. We've all, we've all caught on
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  to your game. Everybody.
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  You're only mad when your driver don't win there.
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  I just. I just talked a lot of crap.
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  I had a bunch of people jumping on me that I wasn't being mean
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  enough lately. There.
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  All right, everybody until the next Kenny Wallace show.