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A Driver Got $1 Million For Doing Media Appearances & Should NASCAR Dumb Down The Sport To Save Money? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning everybody.
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  I thought, since it 100° outside, you see how I left off
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  the S again? Since in 100° outside, I figured
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  I'd just do coffee with Kenny right here, right here, right in
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  the kitchen. No need to go outside and sweat
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  just to get a different look. OK we got two things to talk
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  about today. Should we dumb the sport down
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  with all this fighting over money?
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  So yesterday we got massive reviews.
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  One of my one of my biggest coffee with Kenny's ever with
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  almost 30,000 views talking about the lawsuit, you know,
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  between 2311, you know, and front row suing NASCAR.
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  And you know just an update from yesterday.
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  Remember the judge, Judge Bell said I've never seen a group of
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  people trying to burn NASCAR down so hard.
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  And there was a a talk there was a discussion yesterday.
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  Are the teams wasting money trying to be big time?
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  That that's the dumbed down version.
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  The judge. Judge Bell used the word.
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  Are they spending money egregiously.
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  Egregiously. OK, we'll get Ken involved here
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  in a minute. How you doing?
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  I'm fine. OK.
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  Do you see anything in the background there?
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  There's her little pill box. I, I, I know how people are.
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  They never, I better turn this or else you guys will be zooming
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  in on the back and everything. There's my toaster.
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  They do it. They do it.
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  They do it. Who cares, They have it too.
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  You guys got stuff in your kitchen?
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  OK. That's a better look, right?
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  Now I'm busy. Nowadays I just don't have time.
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  What's that say that again? Yes, I'm busy.
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  Everybody got a a junkie area. OK, look what Herman did.
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  Wetting the old finger up here. Hermanator made notes.
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  Made notes. OK, breaking news in the garage
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  area. NASCAR created the ambassador
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  program at the end of last year. What that means is drivers that
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  help promote the sport the most drivers that do appearances are
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  going to pay, get paid $1 million.
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  I think it's like the first quarter or whatever, they'll,
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  they'll be millions more to hand out.
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  That's a lot to say. Where was that when we were
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  racing? Say that again.
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  Where was that kind of money when we were racing?
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  Yeah, I yesterday I talked about how I bought a King Air 200
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  plane so I could fly around America for my sponsors.
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  Kim would book planes, you know, before she booked commercial
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  airliners, before I got a plane. Hell, I remember flying out to
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  California and back one time in one day because we left
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  Charlotte, NC. Like plane would leave at 6-3
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  hour difference. But we were always on the go,
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  you know, taking care of sponsors, promoting the sport
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  for NASCAR. They called it the victory.
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  It was a the victory, Latin, not victory.
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  Winner's circle program, winner's circle program.
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  You know, if you won races, you got more money, but they had you
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  doing appearances. So now NASCAR is paying drivers.
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  Your winner right there for the ambassador program.
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  Joey Logano gets $1 million. She's pissed.
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  No, I just. Oh my.
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  Yeah, we. Did all this stuff for free.
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  What's that? We did it all for free.
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  Yeah, well, that's because we were back in the old day.
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  Back in those days, honey, we only made 3,000,000 a year.
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  No, you. No, it wasn't that you.
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  We were part of a program. Yeah.
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  You just did it. Yeah, to help everybody.
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  Wow. OK, so there's your top three
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  for the Ambassador program. Joey Logano receives a cool
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  $1,000,000. Kyle Larson and Ryan Blaney your
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  top three once again, Joey Logano receives 1,000,000
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  dollars, $1 million for help promoting the sport.
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  Good job, Kyle Larson, all that dirt racing you do, all that
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  dirt racing you do and you still found time to help promote
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  NASCAR. And then of course, Ryan Blaney.
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  Who doesn't love Ryan Blaney? He's he's such a fun person.
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  And I really like that new commercial that Ryan Blaney did
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  with, you know, Ricky Stenhouse and Josh Berry and John Hunter
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  Nemechek. It was a really good one about
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  the new gamb. Kim, you love gambling.
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  You get you going to gamble. Friday morning.
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  What was that? Friday morning.
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  I said, Kim, you're going to gamble, she says Friday morning.
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  She goes, that's the mayor of the casino.
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  She lives at the casino I. Do not one day a week for four
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  hours. She deserves it though.
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  She put up on my ass. She goes, you go racing.
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  So I'm going to, I'm going to gamble, OK, At the six minute
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  mark, there's my timer up there. Everybody's got one on an iPhone
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  right now. We're at 6 minutes.
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  Should NASCAR dumb the sport down now before you get upset?
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  Do we really got to spend all this money to put on a good
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  show? That's the question.
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  I think that's going to be my headline.
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  Do we really got to spend all this money to put on a good
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  show? You know, do the V8 cars over in
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  Europe, do they cost that much? I mean Australia, IndyCar, I
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  don't know, but I'm Privy to some information.
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  You know the Cup cars were just here in Saint Louis for a test.
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  Listen to this at the Goodyear tire test yesterday and today. 2
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  day tire test. NASCAR limited each team and
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  manufacturer to only 25 person roster.
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  That's down from 30 a year ago. So five people were not allowed
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  to come. Now, first of all, I got to say
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  this. Are you kidding me?
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  At a Goodyear tired test, NASCAR limited each team and
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  manufacturer. So let's say I saw Kyle Busch
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  was there right here in my hometown yesterday.
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  So Kyle Busch with Richard Childress Racing, Kyle Larson.
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  I think Kyle was here. He was at the Cardinal game.
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  Kyle Larson. But anyway, only 25 people.
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  What the Jesus? That's down from 30 a year ago.
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  25 people, almost all engineers. This will be like the fourth
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  time we've raced at Saint Louis. This will be almost a fourth
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  time. And it was a hell of a race
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  every time. That's why Saint Louis got
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  awarded a playoff race. You know that the playoff race
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  here in Saint Louis is in September.
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  OK, I, I get it. I'm a racer, I'm sophisticated.
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  But really, we're still tested at a track we've run three
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  times. Well, because you know this and
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  that and I get all that, but still, OK, there were a total of
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  100 people working for a three car test, not counting, you
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  know, the fire crew, the safety people, everybody at the
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  racetrack. Now I'm just adding on my own
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  here. I wrote all this down for the
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  for the test, Roush. Roush had a plane for their 25
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  people and I'm sure they sold whatever seats were left over to
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  another manufacturer. Probably looking at like what,
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  15 to 20 hotel rooms per per team for a 2 day test.
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  So right now for a test we have 25 people, you know, 3 car
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  tests, 100 people 8 hours a day, 15 to 20 hotel rooms.
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  They went through four times. They went through about 120
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  gallons, which is 4 drums of fuel logged over 800 miles of
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  testing. I guarantee the cheapest part of
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  this was the track rental. I'm thinking and in my head to
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  come test per team probably you got to rebuild the motor because
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  you burnt the motor up. So that motor is no good. 15 to
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  20 hotel rooms. I'm betting this test probably
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  if you rebuild the motor probably 100,000 per car,
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  100,000 per car and that's the low end.
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  I'm taking a guess because I'm saying you're going to rebuild
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  the motor and you're putting new Pistons in, I mean your valve in
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  yours. So they probably spent upwards
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  to a half, $1,000,000 for a 2 day test.
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  I'm not, I'm not, I'm not criticizing it.
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  I'm saying really, and I realized we need to do it, but
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  still, do we need to dumb the sport down?
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  Are there things in NASCAR that we just don't need to do because
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  you don't see it? Respond right here.
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  What would you dumb down in NASCAR?
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  Do you know that we have about 20?
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  No, we 50 I think. I think we have 50.
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  Count them. I think there are 55 O tractor
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  trailers carrying everybody's to the NASCAR race, their war
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  wagon, their pit cart, their tires, their wheels, war wagon
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  and pit cart. Well, if you want the sponsors
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  to sit on the pit box and receive that great experience.
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  So the whole point of doing coffee with Kenny this morning
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  was I'm letting you see where the costs are in racing.
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  It's expensive. Everybody respond right here.
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  What would you cut out at the race track?
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  It can you or does the sport cost that much money?
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  Respond right here.