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Breaking: NASCAR Considering Going Back To Season Long Points Format | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning, everybody.
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  The rain is gone, but tonight's races here at Tri-City Speedway
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  in Granite City, IL have been canceled.
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  So we will be racing Friday and Saturday and then Sunday at
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  Quincy. All right, breaking news in the
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  garage area. I'm simply about best, better
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  than all the rest, better than at one.
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  I just had to get that out of my system.
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  OK today on this Thursday. Reported by Adam Stern.
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  Reported by Adam Stern I want to show you all something.
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  Well, this arm, I got the, you know, the two torn tennis, but
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  oh, do you see what I'm doing? I'm, I'm breaking my arm,
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  patting myself on the back. I'm always right.
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  How long have I been telling you all that NASCAR is going to
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  change the point system? How long have I been telling you
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  that? That's right, months.
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  Months. I've been saying NASCAR's going
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  to go to a three or four race playoff.
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  They're going to change the point system.
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  I've been saying that for months.
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  How long have I been telling you that they're going to work on
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  the car, They're going to make the car a little bit better.
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  So today, reported by Adam Stern, NASCAR is seriously
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  considering putting the Mark Martin rule back into effect.
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  NASCAR might go back to the good old days.
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  That could be my headline. NASCAR could go back to the 36th
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  race point system, but let's look at my coffee.
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  But I'm going to play devil's advocate here.
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  I don't want you all to get your hopes up.
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  And here's why. I don't know if this is going to
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  do it for you all because I really think it's a big societal
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  shift. It's it's like our Saint Louis
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  Cardinals, they can't put 20,000 people in the stadium anymore
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  because we don't got any superstars.
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  Now you look out there in Seattle, the Seattle Mariners,
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  they got this player who just hit his 60th home run.
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  Well, no, Sherlock, you got somebody on your team that can
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  hit sixty home runs during the playoffs.
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  People are jacked up on Sun Drop.
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  They're going to go to the the stadium just like they did right
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  here in Saint Louis. We don't got anybody showing up
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  anymore because there's no Albert Pools, there's no Yadier
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  Molina, no Wainwright, there's no heroes.
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  There's no heroes. So NASCAR's thinking, OK, if we
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  make the fans happy and we give them what they want, which is
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  who, you know, it's we take these polls.
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  These polls are, you know, it's like Mark Martin, I'm going to
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  take a poll, Welsh, it's going to be favored because it's on
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  Mark's platform. I'm warning you, you know that
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  there's an old saying, be careful, young man.
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  This might not make you happy. You know they be careful what
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  you asked for, right? That's what it is.
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  That's the old saying, be careful what you asked for.
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  So I'm going to challenge all of you right now.
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  You're, you're saying I don't watch NASCAR because I don't
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  like the point system. That's, that's one of the things
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  you say, besides, I don't watch NASCAR 'cause I don't like the
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  car. I really feel that you believe
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  this. I, I do believe that you believe
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  this in your brain, but you mean to tell me, OK, let's let here
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  we go. We're going to act it out like
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  Saturday Night Live, OK, It's 2026 right now.
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  It's next year. All right?
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  I'm going to watch the races because the points have changed,
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  man. Look at the cars.
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  Oh wow, man, the points have changed.
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  What the does the points have to do with the racing on the
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  racetrack? Respond right here.
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  Right now they're racing harder because it's broke up in
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  sections. You got the first stage, you
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  race hard, you win, you get 10 bonus points, second gets 9, you
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  can win more bonus points. You can win more points in
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  stages. Then you can simply racing for
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  your end points. You see what I mean?
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  Right now the drivers are running hard in stages, so they
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  can get those points if we go back to 36, which is fine with
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  me. Listen, I'm serious when I say
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  this. I don't give a flying what they
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  do. I don't.
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  I'm just doing this because I think it's a great conversation.
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  My Charlie Marlow, my producer, he's, he's really on the
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  Internet now. You talk about the Internet
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  influencing people. My Charlie Marlow, who's going
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  to watch this and going to edit this up, Charlie's telling me
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  yesterday out of nowhere, like we've been doing this for almost
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  4 years and somewhere out of nowhere it's like Charlie got
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  real serious. He goes, Herman, I'm on the
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  Internet. These fans don't like this.
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  I'm like, Charlie, you're the same person that's been editing
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  this stuff up for years. What?
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  What makes you say this all of a sudden?
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  No, the fans say they don't like the points.
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  The fans say they don't like the car.
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  But the last three races have been side by side, guys coming
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  from the back to the front. My message to all of you is be
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  careful when we drop the green flag next year and they start
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  racing and the car's the same and you're going to go, yeah, I
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  like NASCAR, though, because the points are back.
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  I don't understand what the points have to do with the
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  racing on the racetrack. If you go, OK, we're going to go
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  back to, you know, all 36 races, determine a champion.
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  I don't understand how they're going to race harder because we
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  got rid of that because drivers were Dick Trickle his quote, you
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  must first finish to finish first.
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  So now instead of racing hard, they're going to go hell, I'm
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  just going to take it easier. We got a 500 mile race.
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  If they if they get, if they get rid of the stages like you want
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  them to, it's just going to become a fast.
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  They're just going to be running around in circles because I it's
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  a 500 mile race. I don't want to get in a wreck.
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  So they going to be doing and that's it right now.
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  You know that. Oh my God, they're racing to lap
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  60 and who's going to win this? And they're three wide.
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  They're taking chances now respond right here.
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  I want you to explain to me how this is going to entertain you
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  more. Or is it just going to make you
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  happy because it remind you of the good old days.
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  See, I, I don't, I don't agree with you all Now, I think the
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  mob, the, the angry mob is, and I think that there is a large
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  group of you that say, hey, if you bring, if you bring 36 races
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  back and get rid of the stages and put the number in the middle
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  and change the car, you think that's what you want, but that's
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  not what you want. Because I'm good at psychology.
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  Just just play devil's advocate one more time.
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  Let's put everything back. And then the cars are just going
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  to go around the racetrack and you go, well, this ain't what I
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  thought it was going to be. Respond right here how all 36
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  points are going to make you watch more.
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  All right, have a great Thursday, everybody.