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My Thoughts On NASCAR's "Clash" | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday everybody. I'm laughing because I am still
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  in Florida. Yup, I'm I'm at Uncle Rusty and
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  Aunt Patty's house still. Man, what a heartbreak for our
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  race team last night. Had a 2 1/2 second lead.
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  Caution comes out, go green, get another 3 second lead and the
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  darn left rear shock broke the spring and everything come
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  flying out. They showed it all over TV and
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  that was it. That was the end of my that was
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  the end of my feature. But I want to thank Nick and
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  Darryl Hoffman for giving me an incredibly fast race car moving
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  forward. Shake it off, all right, it's
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  another day. Let's go at it again.
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  Don't cry over spilt milk Psychology one O 1 OK, we are
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  going to talk about NASCAR and Bowman Gray.
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  Listen, I I don't know how to feel.
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  I I can get on here and make a lot of you happy by being part
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  of the angry mob. Do you want me to be part of the
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  angry mob? Rah.
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  NASCAR's dumb. Bring that clash back to
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  Daytona. That is the rally cry.
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  Should I do that? Should I pile on with you all?
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  Let's go a different way. Let's go a different way, OK?
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  I'm happy that NASCAR has changed the points.
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  I'm happy that NASCAR is bringing NASCAR back.
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  Remember, let's let's not forget.
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  Hell yeah. NASCAR's bringing back your
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  commercials, your way of racing. We, we can't forget that.
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  OK, so here's what I'm going to say.
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  Look at the damn card. Look at the cards that NASCAR
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  was dealt. You know, last year, we went to
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  Beaumont Gray. It was standing room only.
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  The weather was cold and they got it in and it was a hell of a
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  race. Chase Elliott won it.
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  And then all of a sudden Ryan Blaney came from last.
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  This is last year, Brian. Ryan Blaney comes from last all
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  the way up to second last year. So it was it was a great race.
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  Everybody did talk last year how well we got away with that.
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  Can you, Can you believe last year, 2000, what, 25 we raced at
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  Bowman Gray and it was 30° out. It was a it was a close, close
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  call. So this year the weather gods
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  say, hey, NASCAR, we are going to mess you up.
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  We're going to give you a foot of snow.
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  Go ahead and clean it all up. And by the way, when you get
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  ready to race again, we're we're going to let you get halfway
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  through the race last night and we're going to make it sleet.
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  NASCAR counter punches and said, OK, weather gods, you're going
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  to give us sleet. We're going to put on rain
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  tires. If if that's not enough, NASCAR
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  receives a kick in the gut, Fox TV says, hey, listen, we gave
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  this like a really long window. We never thought we'd still be
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  racing, and we're going to take the largest form of Motorsports
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  in America, which is NASCAR. We're going to take it off the
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  air and we're going to put on Mask Singer.
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  What? It tells you how big that goofy
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  show is. You know, when that Masked
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  Singer, come on, I thought, I can't get into this, it's
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  cartoonish. But boy, I'll tell you what, the
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  people love that Masked Singer. So they kick NASCAR off which is
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  the largest Motorsports in America.
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  It just amazes me, it really does.
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  But the but that's the way it is.
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  So they put the NASCAR race on FS2, which a lot of people don't
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  know but they got it. They dropped the green flag
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  after these cars put all weather tires on the fans that are
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  there, they stay there. They got to be cold.
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  It's 34° out. They go around and you ask why
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  did they all go high? Why did all the cars go high?
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  Well, I found that out. I asked last night.
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  I asked Joey Walsh. She used to be a go Kart racer.
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  He he is the crew chief for Kenny Schrader.
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  He says the reason all the cars go high in the rain is because
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  down around the bottom, that's where they race every week.
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  All the modifieds run around the bottom.
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  So do you know an asphalt? It's called aggregate.
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  Aggregate means you, you take rock, you take all this mixture,
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  you put it together well, the rock will barely stick up and it
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  makes grip. But around the bottom of the
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  racetrack, it's polished up like polishing a diamond.
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  But up top, the rocks kind of stick up still.
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  There's grip up top. So during the rain, they ran
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  around the top. Yeah.
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  I just, I just, I just found that out too.
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  Listen, if you were, if you were going through the channel
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  changer, you would stop. You would stop right there and
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  go. What in the world is going on?
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  They're running $500,000 race cars like Formula One does
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  through the rain. And they're, you know, there,
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  there are some people that can go that that won't acknowledge
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  the race. So in other words, you're
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  watching the race and you just can't watch the race because
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  it's so easy to say, bring this damn thing back to Daytona.
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  At least we'll get it in. So there you go.
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  I just broke it all down for you.
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  Look at look at the cards that NASCAR was dealt.
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  They got it in, you know, when they threw the checkered flag.
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  I looked at Jeremy Burnett who was right next to me, Nick
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  Hoffman's brother-in-law. I looked at Jeremy and I went,
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  don't you know, Ben Kenny and everybody at NASCAR is like,
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  let's get the hell out of here. You talk about I bet those guys
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  are so ready to get out of damn Winston Salem, NC, Get Me Out of
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  here. And and just for good measure,
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  18 minutes after the race is over, they received about 1 inch
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  of snow at that race track. I woke up this morning, I got on
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  X and they're like, there's Jeff Cluck.
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  Everything is quiet, happy track and it and it shows snow.
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  And then later on shows right at an inch of snow.
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  The Clash, the cookout Clash was doomed from the beginning, but
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  we didn't know it. We just really didn't know it
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  until that crazy weather pattern come.
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  You know, they said, Oh yeah, we're going to get a little
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  snow, but they didn't know it was going to be what they call a
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  cyclonic, cyclonic boom. So I'm going to take, I'm going
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  to take something from the drivers.
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  Did you know every driver said that the class should still come
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  back there one more year? So in ending, I'm not going to
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  be part of the angry mob. I'm not going to pile on because
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  if the weather would have been OK, it would have been OK.
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  Now everything is Earnhardt and we all know that.
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  Did you know that? It's just not an Earnhardt
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  number? Pains me to say that.
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  Did you know everybody does all everything in threes?
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  Why is that? Respond right here.
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  Everybody does everything in threes.
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  So within the Bowman grade 2 times, just for good measure, we
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  got to go back one more time. Now, if the weather is bad again
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  next year, you will hear me say take this damn thing back to
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  Daytona. Have a great Thursday,
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  everybody.