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Is Shane van Gisbergen a Better Road Racer Than Jeff Gordon? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning, everybody. Well, today is a somber day.
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  It's early in the morning. Kim and myself headed to Aunt
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  Pat's funeral. It's going to be a long day.
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  I'll be making sure that I'm by Kim's side.
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  She's not doing too good. She's a little quiet.
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  Aunt Pat was there for Kim and her whole life.
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  So a sad day. All right, Just read a little
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  something on X social media site that made me think about the
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  story that I've told you all a couple times.
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  I would say, oh God, 2020 years ago, I was out in Sonoma and
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  Dale Earnhardt junior was standing at the back of his
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  Budweiser Cup car, the NASCAR Cup car, and he didn't look
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  happy. And I went over to Dale Junior
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  and I said, I've known you far too long.
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  I said, what's wrong? Junior looked at me, goes I'm
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  supposed to be this big time racer and I qualified 25th.
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  I said junior, I said this stuff is hard.
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  Just because you're Dale senior son doesn't mean you're always
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  going to please everybody. So this morning I read on X.
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  He writes a nice little story, he said.
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  I used to dread going to Sonoma, everything about it, the travel,
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  the track. And now he is learn to love it
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  and likes going out there with his wife Amy and enjoying it.
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  All this makes me happy because I can relate.
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  I used to absolutely dread going to Dover.
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  Dover was my worst racetrack. I used to dread it, didn't
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  understand it and then finally one day said I'm going to like a
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  Dover. I'm going to learn this place
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  and I learned to like it, learned to love it towards the
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  end. So I just thought that was
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  really interesting. Sometimes you got to forgive
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  yourself. You know, I I don't like this
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  place where I'm going, but I got to go and now he loves it, so
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  that makes me happy. Congratulations, Dale Junior.
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  Got rid of your damn demons for Sonoma.
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  Well, we're making this big old deal out of Shane van Gisbergen,
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  SVG, the the great Rd. racer of our era.
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  Now, when you live long enough like me, you start to call
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  bullshit on a lot of things. You're like, hold on.
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  So SVG has got some of our fans in an uproar.
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  They're upset because the media is bragging on Shane van
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  Gisbergen. SVG has won Mexico City, the
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  street course in Chicago, and of course he just got done winning
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  Sonoma. Hardly any competition because
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  all the competitors say his skill set is much better than
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  anybody's in the NASCAR Cup Series.
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  They say SVG does not allow the TV networks to film his
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  footwork. In other words, his footwork,
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  wide open, break, heel, toe, you know, clutch all that.
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  He will not allow anybody to watch what he's doing because it
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  allows him to break better, you know, match his shifting points
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  better. He's just damn good.
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  However. However, there was a stretch
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  where the great Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon at 1.1 like 6 Rd.
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  course races in a row, 8 out of 10.
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  And there was a time that Jeff Gordon was not just good at
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  everything, but he was a great Rd. racer.
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  Now I'll meet some of you halfway.
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  I would say this is the first time that a road course ringer
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  did capitalize. So in other words, we we've
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  watched Tommy Kendall, Boris said.
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  We've watched a lot of the great Rd. racers come in and never win
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  a NASCAR Cup Rd. course race. So I would say OK, this is the
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  first time an actual great Rd. racer, you know SVG is known to
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  really dominate it and win many championships in what they call
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  the V8 series in Australia. And of course he's from New
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  Zealand just right there. So as far as as far as SVG being
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  the greatest Rd. racer of all time, I'll say let's wait a
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  little longer. Let's let's give it some some
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  more years and let's see if he matches Jeff Gordon.
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  But right now, I'll meet you halfway.
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  There was one point in that race yesterday that I went, what the
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  Hell's going on? They come up the top of the hill
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  there and Noah Graxson spins out.
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  Then they start going down to the bottom of the hill there and
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  they're wrecking each other there.
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  Then Buscher spins Ryan Blaney out.
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  Now this is all in one lap. Then at the very top of the
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  hill, again, not top of the hill, you know, past start
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  finish line, Bubba Wallace and Danny Hamlin spin out.
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  I thought, I thought, oh, my God.
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  Then the announcer out of nowhere.
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  The announcer reads my mind and announcer goes, boy, a lot
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  happening in one lap race fans. I'm like, you think I think
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  about 10 seconds go out and said, Oh my God, what a crazy
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  lap. It's funny though, because the
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  real the real cup racers, they just wrecked the at each other.
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  And to end it all, sure enough, the biggest upset there are is
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  that that in season gambling Ty Dillon.
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  Ty Dillon has won the third round in a row.
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  He comes now first of all, Ty Dillon.
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  You would think now Ty Dillon's a good racer, but you you sure,
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  sure wouldn't think that he would be all over Alex Bowman in
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  the Hendrick car. Come to the start finish line
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  for $1,000,000. Now we're not done yet, but he
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  keeps on rolling. He's all over.
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  Alex Bowman gets down to the very last corner and just pop,
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  just pops. Alex Bowman right now, moves him
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  up. Alex Bowman knew it was coming,
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  and Ty Dillon outruns Alex Bowman and is moving on for the
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  $1,000,000 to win in season Challenge.
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  It was a wild one. Everybody all right, We'll talk
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  to you later. Have a great Monday.