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My Take On NASCAR Going To Mexico City & Richmond Losing a Cup Date · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  Well, the legendary Gutter is very sad because the swimming
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  pool's been getting a lot of attention.
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  There she is, standing tall and proud.
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  Starts real nice, comes away from the house.
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  Hey Wallace, why don't you go to the Lowe's and get you a 45 and
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  hold it close to the house? All right, so today's subject is
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  Ben Kennedy, who owns NASCAR. He came out yesterday and said
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  that Richmond Raceway is going to lose 1 date next year.
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  Story in the garage area is that NASCAR is getting ready to come
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  out with 2025 NASCAR schedule and in June I guess we are going
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  down to Hermano Rodriguez down there in Mexico City.
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  The NASCAR Cup Series is going to Mexico again.
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  It was the Xfinity Series or Nationwide Series that I raced
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  at I I've raced at Hermano Rodriguez about three times.
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  I really enjoyed my time in Mexico.
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  It was a fun track. And you know, Formula One has
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  raced there, a Formula One their, their circuit ran through
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  the stadium and back out. And we, we ran around the
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  outside of the stadium. Actually, as we were coming
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  around the stadium, you could look to the right and you're
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  passing the ticket gate with your race car and then down the
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  long front straightaway. So I, I like the idea that that
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  NASCAR is going to Mexico. Yeah, I know the it's way up in
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  the air up there. We, we did several different
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  things to race in Mexico City. Mexico, the largest, the largest
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  city, I believe in the world. Respond right here if I'm wrong,
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  but I believe Mexico City, Mexico, largest city in the
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  world. And so it was a good time.
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  I will tell you, though, I never left my hotel.
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  You got to watch your back down there.
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  You got to watch your back. That's that's no joke.
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  Richard Childress Racing. Some of those guys will tell you
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  some stories. I don't know if they're true or
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  not, but I believe that bunch store in the garage areas that
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  Richard Childress Racing went out, went out partying one night
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  did not end too well with them. But anyway, Hermano Rodriguez,
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  great racetrack. I'm sure my amigo Daniel Suarez
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  is very happy. All his amigos will will be
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  excited that they're coming to his home home country of Mexico.
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  So that's in the middle of June next year.
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  I believe that's what respond right here.
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  You know everything. What is it?
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  June 14th, 1516, something like that.
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  All right, one thing that's bothering me, the herminator
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  right here was Mr. Richmond Raceway.
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  Yes, I am. I won in that red Dog car and
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  the TIC car. Did you ever wonder what TIC
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  stand for? It stood for Transportation
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  Industry Consultant. I drove for that Fillmore race
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  team out of Nashville, TN Crew chief was Gil Martin, Newt
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  Moore, all the big boys. That team ended up going to big
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  Cup teams. So that film, our race team,
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  they ended up having a lot of talent and that's why I won a
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  lot with them. So I guess I'm just a little
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  taken aback. We won Richmond 19949596.
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  The Herminator got some good trophies from Richmond Raceway.
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  That racetrack really suited me well and all I remember was the
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  packed grandstands, standing room only.
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  How about the guy remember, remember the guy there and turn
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  forward and got so drunk that he went up on top the fence.
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  Remember that legendary. Hey, somebody grabbed the
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  picture and put it right here, if you don't mind, put it right
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  here in this timeline. But anyway, Ben Kennedy says
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  we're going to take a date away from Richmond and my has this
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  racetrack fallen from grace? Why?
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  Why has Richmond Raceway fallen from grace?
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  Respond right here. My track.
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  Now, my dear friend Max Pappas says something that I agree
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  with. Max came out on the X timeline
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  and he said Kenny, he said, you know, when race tracks don't do
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  good, you get rid of one day and go to a road course.
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  So I agree with Max. He says Formula One doesn't run
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  twice at the same racetrack. I agree with that.
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  I just I just shocked, you know, there's a study in these dates.
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  Let's go do Atlanta, for example, Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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  Just the attendance was past tense was horrible.
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  And boy, Marcus Smith, he took a beating because he tore that
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  racetrack up and he made a new racetrack.
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  And everybody's like, you're stupid, you're dumb.
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  And now Atlanta is the greatest racetrack of them all.
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  Have you learned a lesson? Their children change is hard.
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  When Marcus Smith was tearing the old Atlanta right, You know,
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  Atlanta's been through three designs, the very old Atlanta,
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  then the next new Atlanta where they moved the front
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  straightaway to the back straightaway, that's Atlanta
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  too. And now Atlanta 3.
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  But Marcus changed this racetrack and last year, or
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  earlier this year, excuse me, earlier this year, 2000, there
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  went Louis the legend. 2024 was one of the greatest race
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  finishes in NASCAR history. 3 wide at the line.
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  And Daniel Suarez wanted, man, what a race that was.
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  But what happened to Richmond? What happened to Richmond?
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  The races were unbelievable. They they used to pack them in
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  there. I will say that I will say this,
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  love the town of Richmond, but the people just quit showing up.
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  You, you would think that Richmond, VA was close to
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  Washington, DC. We always had all the government
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  people coming there. You know, it was such a such a
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  great race track for, you know, some of our leaders in our
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  defense, you know, the people that go to war, they were always
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  coming to the Richmond Raceway. Just made a lot of sense, you
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  know, But how in the hell do we lose one of the greatest race
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  tracks in NASCAR history? Because the finishes were
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  unbelievable. I, I don't think there's ever
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  been a bad finish at Richmond. So today, today's I guess
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  question begs is, is Max Pappas right?
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  Respond right here. Does NASCAR need two dates at
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  Martinsville? Does NASCAR need two dates at
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  Bristol? Does NASCAR need two dates at
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  Charlotte? That is the question.
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  Should we go to all new tracks and just race one time at these
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  tracks? Because Max Pappas, my dear
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  friend, says Kenny Wallace, my dear friend, Formula One doesn't
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  race 2 times at one track. I kind of got to agree with Max.
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  You know, they paved Paradise put in a parking lot.
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  Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got till
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  it's gone? Don't it always seem to go that
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  you don't know what you got till it's gone?
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  They paid Paradise put in a parking lot, lot, lot.
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  Richmond Raceway is down to one day.
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  Keep it up, everybody, and we'll be down to one racetrack a year,
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  and then that will make you like it because less is more.
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  And while we're at it, do you also agree with Dale Earnhardt
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  Junior? We race too much.
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  Respond right here. Do we race too much?
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  Dale Junior says the NFL does it right.
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  They only play so many games a year and it's always over early
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  and they leave you wanting for more.
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  So the question is, is Dale Junior right?
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  Do we race too much and is Max Pappas right?
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  Should we only race one time at each race track?