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NASCAR Has Started 2026 WINNING | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  So easy to do coffee with Kenny because there's so much stuff
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  going on all the time. The world never stops.
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  All right, everybody remember I-55, Federated Auto Parts
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  Raceway Park, 10 minutes from my house right here in Peabody,
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  Missouri. They got a big race coming up
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  March 19th, 2020. First, it's called Mods Gone
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  Wild. A Mods B Mods $5000 to win.
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  All right, as my old buddy down in Arkansas would say, what we
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  talk about today, well, that's easy.
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  Did you know that NASCAR owns MSA or IMSA?
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  The Daytona 24, the Rolex 24 that just ended?
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  NASCAR owns MSO, and boy, they do a good job with that and
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  they're getting ready to have a have a hell of a year this year.
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  NASCAR seems to be started off on the right foot.
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  We've been documenting it and I need a little help from all of
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  you. We looked at the pictures, so
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  this is not hearsay. Why was there a record crowd at
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  the Daytona 24? Respond right here.
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  They showed the pictures. Even race car driver Connor Daly
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  said never seen a crowd this big at Daytona for the Rolex 24.
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  Why? You know, it's kind of funny.
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  We learn, we learn and then we then we try to do it again or we
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  learn and we don't do it again. I was really impressed.
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  Brother Rusty and Southern Country Custom group, my brother
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  Rusty, nephew Steven, they build the the hot rod motorcycles.
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  They went down there, they went down there.
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  Rusty parked his motor coach on the back straight away.
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  They they made videos. I loved it.
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  I enjoyed it. They spent time with Mike
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  Hilton, the old NASCAR president.
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  But I still consider Mike a bad ass.
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  I sure do like Mike Hilton. Always been tough but fair to
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  me. So the Daytona 24 goes off
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  without hits. Well you know they did have a
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  record caution. They had so much fog, you cannot
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  see your hand in front of your face so early in the Sunday
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  morning. They had to run over six hours,
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  like 6 1/2 hours under caution. But bringing home the winner in
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  the Daytona Prototype was the great Rodger Penske 3 Daytona 24
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  hour wins in a row. Now you're going to hear a lot
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  about Rodger this year as 2026 kicks off because it's Rodger
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  Penske's 60th year racing. So you're going to see Rodger
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  make a big deal out of it. Rodger looks good, but he's of
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  age. Now.
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  Rodger Penske is of age. Got to be bumping 90.
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  Look at him go. It just tells you that if you
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  stay digging, your body stays going.
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  So Rodger Penske, they're all of Penske starting at 60th year and
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  racing and they celebrate it right away with winning the
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  Daytona 24 Hour. I always say, what, what the
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  hell is the name of it? Is it the Rolex 2424 Hours, a
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  Daytona? I guess it could be everything.
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  Two takeaways. Well, three record caution flag,
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  but that really doesn't matter to me.
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  I'd say that's down on the lower list.
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  Rodger wins his 3rd Rolex 24 in a row.
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  But why so many people? When this gets on YouTube, I'm
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  going to tell Charlie, I said, Charlie, drop this picture in
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  right here. Let's see if Charlie's
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  listening. Charlie, drop this picture in
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  right here. And I'll even send you the text
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  that Connor Daly, the ex social media post, Connor Dale, the
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  race car driver. No, it was a Scott McLaughlin.
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  I'll figure it out. OK, switching subjects.
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  I know people like drama. I just try to give you the
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  truth. So the drama is this, this right
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  now as I'm speaking you on this Monday morning here in Daytona
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  or no, I'm not in Daytona yet. I'll be down in Daytona on
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  Wednesday. I'll be in Daytona on Wednesday.
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  I'll be racing Volusia Thursday, Friday and then 10,000 a win
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  Saturday night at Volusia Speedway.
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  Come see me this this Saturday, 10,000 a win for our modifieds.
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  However, all the talk right now is how cold it is across
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  America. We are dealing with a wreck.
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  I'm looking at the TV right now, it's 0°, it's zero.
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  I think the high today could get to be 5 maybe.
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  So the Bud Shootout, they're calling the the Cookout Clash.
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  So Cookout is a restaurant. They're sponsoring the clash
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  this weekend. Racing is here, everybody.
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  Oh yeah. Racing has started.
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  The Chili Bowl down in Tulsa, the the Wild West Shootout now
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  out in Arizona, the 24 hours that just got over just now.
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  And now here we go. It's it's the the cookout clash
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  at Bowman Gray this Sunday. Everything starts Friday,
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  Saturday and Sunday. Now, everybody likes drama.
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  So here's the drama. Will they cancel?
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  It's too cold. Well, talk to brother Mike and
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  my mom last night. They live down in Concord, NC.
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  They said just was it was not a big deal.
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  The storm was overhyped. It went N they did get a little
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  bit of something. But Mike said last night at
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  10:00 it was 31°. There was nothing.
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  So the people down around North Carolina, they're depressed that
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  they didn't get drama. Now everybody's off school.
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  Some things are cancer just because you go with it, right?
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  It's so much this like, let's just, let's just cancel school
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  just because, you know, because they had everybody just
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  complete. It's going to be devastation.
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  And it wasn't. So will NASCAR cancel the
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  Cookout clash? I don't think they can.
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  I'll take a page from Kenny Schrader.
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  Hell, it was 30° last year. Now I'm telling you, I see the
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  weather. Thursday's going to be like high
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  28, low of 17. Then Saturday kind of same
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  thing. But on Sunday, the day of the
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  race, we're going to have 30° and low in the 20s.
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  It was it was cold last year. So I'm sure they'll run the jet
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  dryers around the racetrack. They'll put a little heat in
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  there and the boys and put some, you know, NASCAR probably going
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  to allow some tire warmers. They're going to heat that track
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  up. They're going to heat them tires
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  up, probably give them a couple laps, will warm their tires up.
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  They drop the green flag, give them a couple 3 laps, get some
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  heat in their tires, go green flag.
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  But is that right as of right now?
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  Everybody breathe. Just breathe right now.
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  It's all good. She's going to be cold, but it
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  should warm up on Sunday. Warm up.
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  What's warm up well is the middle of the winter high 38 at
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  Winston Salem. All right, everybody have a
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  great week.