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My Take On The Latest Racing Controversy · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Emergency press conference. All right, everybody.
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  By now you have heard the breaking news in the dirt racing
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  world. The World of Outlaws has
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  determined that Bobby Pierce, Cal Bronson, Devon Moran had
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  some tire samples come back from Volusia that were not favorable.
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  I'm not going to get into details because that gets a
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  little confusing. So I have an opinion about, I
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  guess you could call it tire doping, tire treating.
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  So it's like, hey Wallace, give us your opinion.
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  So somebody that is, I would say, very influential, said
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  Herman. We need you to talk about this.
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  I said, really? I said, all right, well, I'll
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  give it a shot. So I admire this person.
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  So I'm going to give it a shot. OK.
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  Number one, you, you don't actually soften the tire, OK?
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  If you are around racing, as long as we've been around
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  racing, what you're doing is you're taking this agent and
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  you're tricking the tire. You're making the tire think
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  it's warm. It's ready to go.
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  I mean, there are people that can take a hard tire and soak it
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  and you know, they become chemists.
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  They are brilliant, they're smart and what they do is what
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  they know to do. However, the majority of the
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  people don't know what the hell they're doing and they try.
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  And when they do it wrong, the rubber rips off or it only lasts
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  for 12 laps and then the car backs up and goes slow.
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  So tire doping, tire treating, can make a tire think it's ready
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  to go. And you usually do this when you
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  put a hard tire on. So you put a tire on this hard
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  and then everybody goes, oh look, he sucks for the first
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  three laps, his tire just fired. So the way you overcome this is
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  you take a chemical and you put it in the tire and it it takes a
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  while. It's it's artwork and that tire
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  thinks it's warm all the time and that hard tire is ready to
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  go. So I want to be clear about tire
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  doping tire treatment and I can. I'll be honest with you, I don't
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  know what the I'm talking about, but I I hear it and I've been
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  taught some of these things. Now for me, I don't have time to
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  do any of that stuff. I race too much.
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  It is a massive amount of work. You have to have a lot of
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  employees. You have to have a lot of time.
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  And we know all the stories and we know that people do it.
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  And I'm like, fine, you do it because it's just me.
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  I'm 60 years old right now. I'm, I'm, I'm grooving.
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  I'm siping, I'm grinding. That's all I can do.
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  Hey, Herman, where's all your people?
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  You're looking at them. It's just me, so I don't have
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  time to do any tired treatment stuff.
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  I grind, I groove, and hell, I don't even Sipe anymore.
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  All I do is grind and groove. Now to my opinion on this
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  situation, get your shit together, all right.
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  To everybody that's listening, Lucas Oil and World of Outlaws,
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  I read Angie Pierce's comment. She says, hey, we are not
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  guilty. We did not do this.
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  We want a second opinion. I love Angie Pierce and I love
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  the Pierces, but I'm. I'm about up to here with tire
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  softener shit. It's just constant.
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  It's like, Jesus, I mean put the tires on, prepare them and let's
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  go racing. I find it really hard for
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  anybody to run 7080 races a year and dope their tires all the
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  time. Now however, I think you can
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  choose moments and and do it but still one tire from what I
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  understand takes a long time. But when I say get your shit
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  together what I mean is this is going on too long now, right?
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  So what's my opinion? My opinion is to be done with
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  this type of talk. The World of Outlaws, Lucas Oil
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  and anybody. There needs to be a firm stance.
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  Now Little birdie told me something very accurate.
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  Brian Carter, who runs the World of Outlaws at Volusia, stood up
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  in front of everybody and said, all right, guys, just want to
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  let you all know that if we find anybody treating tires, it's
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  going to be dealt with serious consequences, OK?
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  Brian Carter is wonderful for the sport.
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  I'm not going to bash anybody. I'm not bashing Brian Carter.
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  I'm not bashing Sam Drigger. I'm not bashing anybody.
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  However, for Brian Carter, and Brian's watching this right now.
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  Somebody had to tell him, right? You just don't dream that shit
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  up. Hey, Herman, quit your cussing.
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  I got kids watching this, OK? I'm sorry, because I said it
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  three times. I was just passionate.
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  Please accept my apology. So for Brian Carter to stand up
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  in in the drivers meeting at Volusia and say, hey, we want to
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  let you know we're not going to put up with any tire tampering.
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  Well, OK, what? Why?
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  I'm going to tell you why competitors rat their own
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  competitors out. That's the way it goes.
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  All it takes is 1 competitor knows something, calls up
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  somebody and says hey, this is what's going on.
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  So more than likely somebody's ratting somebody out and you
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  have some drivers that are like, hey, we didn't even do anything
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  and we're found illegal. So I don't have a comment on
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  whether Bobby Pierce, Kyle Bronson and Moran, whether they
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  were truly treating their tires or not.
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  I'm not going to comment on that all.
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  I'm going to comment on this. Get your together because this
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  has gone on far too long and I'm going to give you racing terms
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  right now. Well, he was using simple green.
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  I wash my shit all the time. Oh my God, I said it a fourth
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  time. Whatever.
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  Right. Well, he used too much.
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  Simple green. Calm down.
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  OK? End it once and for all.
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  OK. Do you like Millbridge?
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  Do you like Millbridge? All right, everybody puts in the
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  Kitty. You don't get to keep your
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  wheels. Your wheels.
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  OK, I'm going to suggest it. I'm going to put my balls up
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  here on the dashboard. I'm going to tell Lucas Oil.
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  I'm going to tell World Outlaws what they need to do.
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  And I don't know anything. I'm just taking the chance here.
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  You all are much smarter than me.
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  So there I I made myself look bad to make you feel better.
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  Do what Millbridge does, guys. And I'm talking Lucas Oil.
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  I'm talking World Outlaws, just do like NASCAR too.
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  Now that I'm doing all this, your wheels go with the
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  travelling touring series, everybody's got to pay the Kitty
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  and you have A2 tractor trailers that carry everybody's wheels
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  and you watch them get mounted and and all of you guys prepare
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  your tires at the track anyway because I see it.
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  You put the baby powder on there and everybody's digging.
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  You're not allowed to get them ready at at the shop no more.
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  That's the only way to get rid of it.
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  That's what Millbridge does. Millbridge is a little go Kart
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  track. You know Jeremy Burnett and
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  Ashley Burnett. You know Nick Hoffman's family.
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  I watch it. They got little sinks and
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  everything. You get done racing your little
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  go Kart and you come off, You take your little tires off.
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  Reminds me of that guy that was commenting on the video.
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  Look, these fake little drivers, the fake little flag, man,
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  Remember when the viruses come along?
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  That guy did that video. But anyway, at Millbridge,
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  hundreds of go karts, they come off the track, the tires come
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  off, they wash them in the sink and they get locked up and put
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  in a big building at Millbridge. Figure something like that out.
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  And if you don't do something like that, then you're just
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  going to be dealing with this all the time.
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  Do you like NASCAR? Did you know the the people
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  don't even detect the cars anymore?
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  It's all done by lasers. The the officials are like this.
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  Our hands are on nothing. There it is.
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  So that's what Lucas Oil and that's what World of Outlaws
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  need to do. And here's why they need to do
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  it, because we're running for the million at Eldora.
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  We're running for 200,000 to win here and there.
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  When the money gets involved, shit gets real, real quick.
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  That's the 5th, 6th SHIT work. I never meant to make your
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  daughter cry. I apologize at three times.
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  Thomas Jackson. So anyway, respond right here.
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  I told you what I would do to fix it.
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  You got to pay a fee early in the year.
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  This fee takes care of two tractor trailers that carries
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  your wheels all year long, right?
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  And when you go to the track, there's somebody mounting your
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  own tires and that and, OK, well, that's not justifiable her
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  and we can't do that. Well, respond right here.
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  What else you going to do? OK, so I don't have an opinion
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  on the soap and the tires all, although I taught you a little
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  bit about what they're what they what I've heard people are doing
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  make that hard tire thing is warm.
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  So like I said, the Pierce family are my friends.
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  I think Devin Miranda's a bad ass.
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  And Bronson, these are all great people.
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  I just gave you my opinion on what they should do to fix the
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  problem. Respond right here.
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  All right, over and out, GI Joe.