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The Next NASCAR Generation Has Arrived | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning, everybody. 5:33 in the morning,
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  533 Herman. Why not 535-3333 for Harry Gant?
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  That was a mouthful, Herman. Well, good morning everybody.
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  Today's subject matter is something that I saw last night
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  on Flow Racing. I witnessed some young racers
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  with big last names. I saw Owen Larson, Kyle Larson's
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  son start 8th, 8th. That's way back for a heat race.
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  Little 8 lap heat race. Owen Larson driving for Chad
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  Boat. You're going to see a lot of
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  those race cars down there at the Tulsa Shootout, Chad Boat
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  fielding these cars and helping all the racers out.
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  And Kyle Larson, the father, decided to put his son Owen
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  Larson in Chad's race cars. And Owen goes from dead last to
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  the wind. Then my heart was so happy to
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  see Braxton Bush. Braxton won his race and started
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  6th. But what I was more impressed
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  about with Braxton was his his interview after the race.
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  Now, listen, the Herminator's an honest man in a good way, a
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  loving way. All right, Herman, what?
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  What are you getting ready to say?
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  Well, we know that the Bush brothers have always been very
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  intense with their interviews. But it appears Mama Samantha
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  Bush as as they call her Sam, it appears Sam has got a hold of
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  Braxton. What a pleasant, happy young
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  man. Just just a good interview.
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  You could you could just tell he was a different.
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  He's a different spirit. I I think he's got his daddy's
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  driving skills. I really think Braxton drives
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  like his father but acts like his Mama.
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  Just a good spirit. I really like Braxton.
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  Owen. I don't know enough, but I but I
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  know there's some funny things. You you know, I've interviewed
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  Kyle Larson and Caitlin Larson inside joke Owen.
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  Owen was upset a couple years ago and Kyle Larson joke to all
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  of us racers. He said, well, Owens retired.
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  He said he was retired. He had a bad night at the
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  racetrack couple years ago. So I'm kind of still waiting to
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  see how Owen turns out now. Owen's got a great mommy and
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  daddy and I think Owen's going to be just fine.
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  So you know, and the listen there, there's another driver
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  out there that I don't see going this route, which is Keelan
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  Harvick, Keelan and Mama Delana and Kevin.
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  They're going more the asphalt route.
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  I think this is very interesting.
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  Now I do, I do want to say this. I watched the Flow racing last
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  night, the Tulsa Shootout, Tulsa, OK on a dirt track.
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  But my buddy Eddie Balkovic giving a shout out to Eddie.
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  Hey, Eddie, good morning. Eddie was the one a couple weeks
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  ago. He said Herman, he said maybe
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  talk about some of these young racers coming up.
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  So this is kind of A2 fold idea here as I watched the races of
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  Flow, you know, on Flow TV last night.
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  Now watch these young racers, you know, I thought, boy, they
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  stand out. Their their dads are, are great
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  NASCAR racers and not not just great NASCAR racers.
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  These are great, great racers, right, because Kyle Larson, he
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  wins and everything. So he's just not a great NASCAR
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  racer, but he's teaching his son, you know, Owen Larson how
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  to start out on dirt and very impressed with the route that
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  Kyle Larson and Mama Sam have chosen for Braxton to go dirt.
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  Now getting back to Keelan, Mama Delana and and Kevin Harvick
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  have chose to take Keelan more the asphalt route.
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  Hey, listen, it don't matter as long as they get to where they
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  want to go. I will say that when I look back
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  on my young career, I spent a lot of time in my early days
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  becoming a fabricator, a crew member, crew chief.
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  Hell, I didn't start racing until I was 22.
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  So nowadays, if you don't got these kids in a race car racing
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  at five years old, you're considered behind.
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  And I blame all that on Tiger Woods.
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  Jeff Gordon, you go back, you go back in my day, Tiger Woods.
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  I remember Tiger Woods being on the Johnny Carson show as a
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  baby, you know, And here all these years later, Oh my God.
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  And then same with Jeff Gordon. So this new phenomenon, society
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  doesn't allow you to wait anymore.
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  They want everything hurried up. And here's another thing, they
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  love youth. Youth is inspiring.
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  These girls nowadays getting all this Botox they don't want, no,
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  you know, old age on their faces.
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  So we all love youth. Oh, look, my kids 8 years old.
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  He's already won 12 championships.
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  So that that's life. Now.
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  This is where we're at. But I really think these parents
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  are doing a wonderful job raising their kids at the
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  racetrack. They're allowing them to get out
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  of the race car, be kids, hang out with their friends, but yet
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  all the while teaching them geometry.
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  I want to share something that I saw last night that I that I
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  really liked. You know, when, when Brexton
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  Bush got the lead, his entry to the corners.
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  Everything is a race car driver and and and for the matter of
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  fact, just every entry to every corner, even if it's Rd. course.
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  That's everything. That's that's all there is to
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  it. How you enter that corner is
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  going to determine what kind of race car driver you're going to
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  be. If you don't get it early on in
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  life, you got to you got to practice and make it better.
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  I've watched Jeff Gordon and I'm I'm going to tell you another
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  driver that entered really good until he got hurt, which was,
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  you know, Shane Meals boy, he'd let off early, drift that thing
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  down or get his entry right. But that Braxton Bush, he's
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  going to be a good one every single lap.
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  I kept studying them. His entry was really good.
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  He didn't chop the corner. He wasn't out too far, had a
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  really good entry. And I've noticed that even with
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  Owen. So one thing I noticed with
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  Keelan Harvick on the asphalt. Now, Keelan did not race last
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  night, but I watch him race. Keelan.
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  OK, here's what we're going to end with.
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  Everybody. One way to see a good young race
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  car driver watch their entry to all the corners.
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  I'm just giving you a shortcut. I'm giving you all a shortcut.
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  Keelan, Harvick, Braxton Bush, Owen Larson.
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  They get the entry right. Don't chop the corner, don't get
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  your left front up on that curve and lose your center of the
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  corner speed. Don't get out too far.
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  Just get that entry right, you know, and roll that corner
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  speed, get through the middle really fast.
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  That's that's one thing that I see that dad Kevin Harvick
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  taught Keelan, Kyle Busch has taught Braxton and Kyle Larson
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  has taught Owens. So for are you daddy racers out
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  there? Get your boys to enter the
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  corner properly and that's going to excel their racing career.
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  And another thing cheers because they got good mom and dads.
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  I can see they're raising them right.
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  They're letting them be kids. They're letting them get out of
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  the race cars and go go with their buddies a little bit and
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  then and then they mature right up when they get back in their
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  race car and they put that helmet on.
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  It's like, I can't believe my kid drives like this.
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  They'll be, they'll be all these kids that I'm talking about
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  their kids. But boy, when they get in that
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  race car and they put that helmet on, it's like they, it's
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  like they grown up 20 years. They they get in that race car
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  810 years old, but once they put that helmet on, they're like 25
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  years old. All right, everybody respond
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  right here. I hope you enjoyed my little
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  update on these young, outstanding race car drivers.
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  And there's more now, don't get on me.
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  I know your driver's great too. I'm just saying these are the
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  ones that I see standing out. Mom and dad's doing a great
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  deal, but they're winning. That's if you want your kid to
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  show up. It's a sad, it's a sad statement
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  to say. They used to say this to me in
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  NASCAR. I used to complain, Hey, put me
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  on TV. You know what they would say?
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  Give me a reason to put you on TV.
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  So I'm sure your child is good too.
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  But when you're up front, they put you on TV and you stand out
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  and I love you. I love you all very much, but
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  you got to show up up front. That's the sad state of affair
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  for competition. Happens that way in baseball and
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  football. Give me a reason to talk about
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  you. All right, everybody have a
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  great Thursday.