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Will Any NASCAR Drivers Run Across The Grass To Fight At Bowman Gray? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning, everybody. Every day I've been to getting
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  up, you know, around 8:30 and today I woke up, I looked over
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  and it was 10/21. I guess I was tired, man.
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  These races have been running much later here this year at
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  Volusia, You know, almost 60 Sprint cars.
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  You know, the 360 cubic inch Sprint cars and then last night
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  76 are modified, so takes a while to get them all done.
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  And I guess since I knew we were not racing on this Sunday, my
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  defense mechanism was down. In other words, you know, when
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  you're relaxed and you just sleep in, right?
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  You just sleep in and boy, that's a that's exactly what I
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  did. I just slept in and boy, it felt
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  really good. All right.
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  Want to give a shout out to my dear friend Craig Rivard.
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  Hey, Craiger. Thank you so much, buddy.
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  We call him Craiger. He's Rusty's.
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  I think Rusty's best friend these days.
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  Craiger's legend is he is been the Miller beer distributor in
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  the Daytona Beach, Ormond Beach, Ormond Beach, Ormond.
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  Yesterday we're we're having lunch and old Craiger says damn
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  it, we're from Ormond Beach. I said OK, so shout out to
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  Ormond Beach and and thank you Craiger for everything you do
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  for me. I appreciate you treat me like
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  $1,000,000 and all you do for brother Rusty.
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  So once again, Craiger, the man, the original and still the
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  Miller beer distributor of the whole whole area down here, He's
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  a he's a legend and we sure do appreciate him.
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  We still talk about those glory days, you know, the Dale
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  Earnhardt senior days and how much beer they used to go
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  through and how Daytona Beach and Ormond Beach was rocking.
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  Love you, love you. Craiger had had to have fun with
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  the Ormond Beach. I know you all are proud of
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  Ormond Beach and it is very beautiful area love Ormond
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  Beach. And by the way, Speaking of
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  Ormond Beach, when we come back in here of in March, in March
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  for bike week, brother Rusty Steven, they will be set up at
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  the broken spoke in Ormond Beach.
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  It's kind of like me in Saint Louis, you know, Arnold, MO
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  Imperial, it's all together. But boy, there must be a it's
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  kind of like down South, the Macon County line.
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  You go past this line and it's Ormond Beach.
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  Craiger, Craiger. You never thought in a million
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  years that I would use this as material.
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  How many repeat, how many of you people live in those towns where
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  it's like it's the Macon, you know, Macon County line.
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  There was a movie years ago and you know, you're down South,
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  Down past Atlanta, And once you cross the Macon County line,
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  that's Macon County, damn it. All right, so I'll never forget
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  how, you know, I'm an Arnold, MO guy, but my address is Imperial.
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  And I said I don't want to hear it.
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  I'm an Arnold guy. That's all there is to it.
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  So so I get it, Gregor. All right, everybody, man, how
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  about how about last night for me, 76 cars.
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  And I want to thank all the fans that have been coming into the
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  pit area to see me and they're so nice to me.
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  And one guy said, you know, you really did straighten me out.
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  I, I kind of forgot how many cars show up at these races, 76
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  race cars and just to make the starting 24.
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  So the old man, you know, justifies things with his way.
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  So in other words, I'm the old man and I justify things my way
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  to keep me motivated. So good run for us last night.
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  Finished 14th out of 76 cars and listen content is not in my
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  vocabulary. Am I happy with 14th?
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  Hell no. That sucks.
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  It's horrible. I don't even know why race Mark
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  Martin used to say you don't Mark would run 8th in his NASCAR
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  days and it's horrible. I don't even know why I raise
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  I'm that's when you're young. But when you get off, I'll never
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  forget Buzzy Ruderman said to me, I run third in a big race
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  about 3 years ago here at Volusia, and I was not too happy
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  with running third. And Buzzy Ruderman said to me,
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  he says, Kenny, can I talk to you?
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  And because we had talked the night before at the Denny's and
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  you know, of course, this struggle with when to quit, when
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  not to quit. And then all the legends came
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  out of the woodworks. Kenny Schrader, Don Perdome,
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  Walker Evans, all these people don't quit, don't quit.
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  Well, oh, Buzzy goes, Kenny, can I talk to you?
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  And boy, he was serious. He says, you know, we don't have
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  to win to have fun. What?
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  Winning's the only thing that's that's all there is.
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  If you run second, you suck. You're the first loser.
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  Stop and think about it. And that is a miserable way to
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  live. I think sometimes we put on a
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  show to make people understand how bad we want it.
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  You better not be happy with second.
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  You better not be happy with 14th.
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  Guess what? This is modified.
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  We don't do this for a living. Oh my God, Herman, quit cussing.
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  Kids are watching this. Is that a bad word?
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  Did you know that? Dale Earnhardt, Junior, what do
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  you get, $25,000 fine after he won Talladega for saying that
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  word? Wow.
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  So it's kind of weird. You wouldn't think that's cuss
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  word, but some people deem it like that.
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  All right, switching subjects, you still got those weirdos out
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  there. What kind of coffee you drink?
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  Is there really coffee in the mug?
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  I'm like, come over here, let me slap you.
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  Sometimes people, sometimes people, they're born from a
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  different, different, I don't know, different mold.
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  They're a little weird. Oh my God, I can't believe I
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  just said that, but I did OK. Bowman Gray.
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  We are switching subjects. Almost, almost messed it up.
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  I'm not going to chew my ass out.
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  I almost messed the word subject up, but I got it out OK.
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  Bowman Gray last night. The reason I think Bowman Gray
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  was so good and just so happy is because they raced there every
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  week with the Wayland NASCAR modifieds.
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  So, so Bowman Gray is at racetrack where it's packed
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  anyway. Bowman Gray They pack them in
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  there anyway every, every, every single weekend during race
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  season. And they wanted it to work.
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  That's the difference. When we went to the LA Coliseum,
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  the fans did not want it to work because it was not in their
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  backyard. And it's, you know, it, they did
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  not want it to work. Joey Logano Last night, Joey
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  Logano said there was way more room to pass at the LA Coliseum.
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  And I thought, Oh my. And Joey would know because he
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  won those LA Coliseum races. Joey ran second last night.
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  Hey, listen, there was 4 heat races.
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  Two were clean and green. There's a the other two were
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  wreck them up, sock them up. How about Ryan Priest?
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  He cleaned, he cleaned out old John Hunter Nemecheck here.
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  Here's the deal about Bowman Gray.
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  If you hit me out of the way and I can get back to you, you're
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  going. So, but we got it's, I think you
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  got to move them. You know, you got to move them.
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  Harry, Harry Gant was good at moving people.
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  I remember one time I was going into turn 3 and I just was up
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  the track and I'm like, why am I up the track?
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  It's because Harry get didn't hit me.
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  He laid his bumper on me and kind of pushed me up the track.
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  So I think you know this, this running in and just smashing
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  into the other driver. You better put him out and that
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  and that's what Ryan Priest did. He hit John Hunter Nemecheck so
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  hard he put him out so John Hunter could hardly come back to
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  him. But I I think we will have some
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  madhouse moments at Bowman Gray. I think you might see Kyle Busch
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  get out of his car. Hey, respond right here.
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  Who will be the first NASCAR driver to run across the green
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  grass and try to kick somebody else's ass?
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  That'd be funny. I wonder if that would fall
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  underneath NASCAR rules. No, it can't.
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  It's it's Bowman Gray. All right, everybody, tonight is
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  the big race. I think it starts at 6:00 or
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  8:00. It's prime time.
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  It prime time baby Larry Macron will be on broadcast.
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  So Bowman Gray is a hit because they race there every week.
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  That's why. And the fans packed the place as
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  it is. So it's going to be sold out.
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  And remember now, remember what I've been teaching you guys sold
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  out is like 5000 people. So when you see this racetrack
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  sold out, you know, like you do your local dirt races, we're
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  sold out as packed. It's a bigger crowd than the
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  NASCAR race. Simmer down, people.
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  It's 5000 people, it's 5000 people.
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  It ain't like it's going to Phoenix and there's 60,000
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  people. But still, it's a good look.
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  It's good optics all right. But you know, while we were
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  racing last night and we had a little downtime, we did get on
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  our cell phones because my dear friend Nick Hoffman, we were
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  paying attention to Ricky Stenhouse.
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  Ricky ran 8th and he'll have to go in the last chance qualifier.
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  And then I think they're going to have a couple of provisionals
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  for the the race at Bowman Gray. But respond right here.
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  I just think Bowman Gray works because the fans want it to
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  work. You know, you can will yourself
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  to liking something. And I think since Bowman Gray
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  got has history and they run there every week, it's going to
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  work and it's and remember this, it's going to be there for two
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  more years because NASCAR has the lease and they run the
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  racetrack. Now.
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  Remember that Ben Kennedy, he signed the lease to run Bowman
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  Gray. So bro, Bowman Gray is NASCAR's
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  sanctioning track now. So it ain't going anywhere.
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  All right, everybody, I'm tired. I'm going to take it easy on
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  this Sunday. Have a great Sunday.