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Nobody Has Won More Money at Eldora Than Jonathan Davenport | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning everybody. The news just came on and it
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  said, hey, we will not have any tornado activity in at least
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  three days. That's how bad it's been around
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  here. OK, it's going to be all about
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  dirt racing today and Jonathan Davenport Superman.
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  But before we talk about JD and his record winning at Eldora, we
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  are going to let you all know that this Tuesday is night
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  number one of the Summer Nationals.
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  The summer nationals is in Brownstown, IL, Illinois.
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  The reason I say that is there is a Brownstown IN.
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  There have been people that went to one track or the other.
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  How'd you like to do that? I'm in Brownstown IN.
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  Where's everybody at? It's because they're in
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  Brownstown, IL. But anyway, the Summer Nationals
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  starts this Tuesday night #1 it's a month long of racing, and
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  for the Late Models, they pretty much race every day.
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  Might get a little bit off, but every day, OK.
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  Jonathan Davenport out of Georgia gave everybody a
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  Tennessee ass whipping at Tony Stewart's Eldora Speedway in
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  Rossburg, OH on early Saturday evening.
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  They beat the rain. They had a really good crowd,
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  around 20,000 people and they decided to start the dream.
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  It's called the Dream. Paid 100,000 when they said
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  let's start it early. There's rain coming and it looks
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  like they got out of there before the rains come.
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  OK, JDJD is like Kenny Rogers. He's an overnight hero.
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  Did you know Kenny Rogers the singer had like his first hit
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  like at 4041 years old? JD Superman.
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  He's a great dirt racer. That's why they call him
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  Superman. And did you know I had a Kenny
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  conversation with JD? So go to YouTube.
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  Look, just punch in Kenny Wallace.
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  Jonathan Davenport. Let it be known that I am a dirt
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  racer. I race as much dirt as anybody.
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  I just don't talk about it a lot because it doesn't get a lot of
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  hits, does not get a lot of views.
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  Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
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  But I love dirt racing. And once again, about 20,000
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  people squeezed their skinny little asses in up there at a
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  Tony Stewart's Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio.
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  And Tony was there. Tony Stewart was there.
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  I believe he was there on Thursday night.
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  Everybody took a lot of pictures.
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  Tony was out there with a broom sweeping water off the racetrack
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  and they had a lot of rain up there.
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  OK, why are we going to talk about Jonathan Davenport?
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  Well, JD gave him a Tennessee ass whipping last night and that
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  is a tribute to the great Scott Bloomquist.
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  No one was as good as Scott Bloomquist at Eldora in the day.
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  The great Billy Moyer. Billy Moyer should be mentioned
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  right there with that. Years ago there was $1,000,000
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  to win race. And Donnie Moran, the $1,000,000
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  man, he won that race what, 40 years ago, Earl Baltus, the
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  original owner of Eldora, said we're going to pay $1,000,000 to
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  win. And Donnie Moran, the $1,000,000
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  Moran, he won that race. Now Donnie Moran's got a boy out
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  there named Devin Devin's a hot rod, too.
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  He runs good and he wins a lot, but this is all about Superman
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  Jonathan Davenport. Jonathan has won over $2,000,000
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  at one racetrack. Yes, Louie.
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  Even Louie looked at me like what the hell did you just say?
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  Now listen, there's only one way you went over $2,000,000 at one
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  racetrack on dirt and you do it at Eldora Speedway.
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  Eldora Speedway and Knoxville, IA are famous for holding big
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  money dirt races and around COVID, believe it or not around
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  COVID they started holding these special races.
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  They paid them. It was called the Million and JD
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  won it. Superman Jonathan Davenport, he
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  won $1 million. Then they held a big money race.
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  I think it paid two 250,000 to win.
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  It was called the Intercontinental.
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  Oh, I forgot about that one too until I saw I think Derek
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  Kissinger put it on X. Then JD has won like 5 dreams
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  and four worlds. World one hundreds.
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  So you add it all up, it's well over $2,000,000.
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  If you if you've won five dreams and four worlds and then you won
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  the million, then you won the Intercontinental.
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  Is there, is there any other dirt track on the planet that
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  one driver has won over $2,000,000 at?
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  I don't think so. All right, let's talk about OJD
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  from Georgia giving them a Tennessee ass whipping because
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  that's what Bloomquist would say.
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  Bloomquist would win and he'd say I gave everybody a Tennessee
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  ass whipping tonight. So that was a tribute.
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  When I said JD gave him a Tennessee ass whipping, that was
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  a tribute to the great Scott Bloomquist.
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  We lost Scott in a sad way, crashed his plane into the side
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  of a barn and sad, sad time in dirt racing.
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  But Scott's been gone for a year or so now, so we do miss Scott
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  Bloomquist. OK, so JD started out, you know,
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  came storming on the dirt super late mile stage driving for
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  NASCAR's Clint Boyer. Clint Boyer had a team and Clint
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  fired him. Didn't think he was good enough.
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  Remember those days. Hey Clint, what are you thinking
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  now, buddy, I just poking at you.
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  But anyway, last night on Saturday, they they knew that
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  rain was coming in. So they started the race early.
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  Listen to this talk about something insane. 100 lap race.
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  And JD won the race by not pitting.
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  Not he never pitted. He ran the whole race on the
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  same set of tires. He won by 10 seconds, actually
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  10.1 seconds. And he was 100 lbs heavy at the
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  scales. Now I always run heavy too
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  because my car likes rear percentage.
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  So to get my rear percentage the way it is, it's got to run a
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  little heavy. There's nothing wrong with your
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  car being a little heavy as long as the weight is in the right
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  spot. So JD does it the hard way.
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  He never pits and he's over 100 lbs heavy now.
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  Bobby Pierce runs second. Bobby's.
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  Bobby's kicking everybody's ass this year.
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  He's on it. Bobby had a right rear flat, so
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  they went ahead and changed both rear tires.
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  Why not? Bobby came from last and came
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  all the way up to second. My buddy Nick Hoffman, shout out
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  to Nick Hoffman. Nick ran third.
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  Nick got in the wall, he had to pit.
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  He went down a lap. He got the lucky dog, got his
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  lap back. 100 laps at Eldora, like 300 laps at Martinsville.
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  It's a lot of laps. So I don't think anybody has
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  done what what Jonathan has ever done in the history at Eldora
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  Speedway. So Superman is at it again.
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  And once again, if you want to see an in depth conversation
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  about Jonathan Davenport, go over there to the Kenny Wallace
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  YouTube show. Just punch in Kenny Wallace.
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  Jonathan Davenport. Jonathan's got a hell of a
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  story. He was once almost blind.
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  He said he was driving down the road and the road was, you know,
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  illuminated, and he was seeing double of lights on people's
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  cars. And our buddy Greg Deathridge.
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  Greg, I'm giving you a shout out.
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  So calm down. Every time we talk about
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  glasses, Greg, Greg, text me. Greg is out of Texas.
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  He loves the Texas Rangers. But Greg is a great optician.
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  And he gave Jonathan Davenport some glasses.
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  And once Jonathan Davenport started wearing glasses, he
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  said, here's what Jonathan said. He said it's easy for him to see
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  the rubber and up when the track takes rubber and he just started
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  winning. It's crazy as hell.
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  It's a crazy story. But you can find that story over
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  there on the Kenny Wallace YouTube show.
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  Just punch in Kenny Wallace, Jonathan Davenport.
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  All right, JD setting records. I'll venture to say and respond
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  right here. No one has ever in history won
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  over $2,000,000 at Eldora Speedway.
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  So all right, I want everybody to start telling me who has won
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  more money, Who has won more money at Eldora than Superman?
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  I don't think anybody has ever won as much money as Jonathan
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  Davenport. And here's why.
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  Because they held the 1,000,000, the million, then the
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  Intercontinental. So when you add up the million
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  and the Intercontinental and add that on to the world one
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  hundreds and the dream when he won that million, that put him
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  up there really quick. So congratulations, JD, you are
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  certainly and you truly are Superman.
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  By the way, JD, if you got this far, I can smell your breath
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  from here. I know you like that liquor
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  buddy. I can't wait to see you on
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  Snapchat. You going to be you going to you
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  and your wife going to be bellied up at the bar at the
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  house. What are you going to drink?
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  What do you drink? By the way, JD respond right
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  here. What do you drink?
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  I see you at your bar all the time and for everybody here on
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  social media, just a just a little something to tell you
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  Snapchat is where it really happens.
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  Snapchat. Congratulations, JD Bobby Pierce
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  on 2nd. Nick Hoffman 3rd.
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  All right, Louie, Louie, stop it.
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  If every man could do that.