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Crybabies Are Whining About Corey Heim's Truck Championship & Matt Crafton Is Bitter | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning everybody one down to to go.
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  The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series finished their
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  championship race off in Phoenix, AZ last night.
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  Corey Heim set records for the history of the NASCAR Truck
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  Series. He led the most laps for a
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  singular year. That means they started at
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  Daytona and they ended at Phoenix, and Corey Heim set a
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  record. He led more laps for the total
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  year for all the race tracks than anybody in history.
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  Twelve wins. Thirteen wins, whatever it was,
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  complete domination at Phoenix on Friday night.
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  And Matt Crafton made a little bit of news after the truck
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  race, and we're going to talk about that too.
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  But let's talk about this truck race and then on Sunday morning
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  we'll talk about the Xfinity race, OK?
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  If you see the highlight towards the end of the truck race,
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  there's seven wide, 7 trucks wide.
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  It's like, is there any racetrack that's seven lane
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  wide? No, but in Phoenix you're,
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  you're allowed to use. We're not supposed to race.
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  But NASCAR goes, ah, go ahead. You know what?
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  When they built that racetrack, that was the back straightaway.
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  And then when they really fixed Phoenix up, they made that the
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  front straightaway. Nobody stays on the racetrack
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  anymore. They go down on the apron.
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  And so that allowed everybody to be 7 wide.
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  And that, my friends, was what Corey Heim had to do.
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  He pitted for four tires when other people didn't pit, and
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  some people pitted for right sides only.
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  He came from 5th or 6th row, I mean, just with a couple laps
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  ago and he went seven wide on the inside.
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  This young man. How old is Corey Heim?
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  Is he 1920 years old? He's young.
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  He's young. And like Denny Hamlin said,
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  Denny Hamlin said that Corey Heim is coming and he is more
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  mature than any great race car driver at that age and he's ever
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  seen. That's a good shout out by Denny
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  Hamlin. So congratulations to Corey
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  Heim, well deserved, well done and he is going to be a NASCAR
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  Cup champion one day. I can tell just by the way I
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  watch him drive. OK, now let's talk about the cry
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  babies. The race is over and there
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  there's a group of people that want to prove that the NASCAR
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  championship format across the board across all three, you
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  know, series. They want to prove that it's
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  bad. So when when Corey Haim made
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  that seven wide move and eventually took the lead from Ty
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  Majeski, who only had right sides on Ty was a is a great
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  race car driver, but he only had right side towers.
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  Corey had four tires on, so he had an advantage and Corey led
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  the whole race. Anyway, they was going to try to
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  steal it from Corey Heim. So there's a group of people
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  after the truck race that went Corey Heim lagged back.
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  He got a running start and that's illegal.
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  People, people. I mean, there's somebody on my
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  timeline that mean wrote, wrote a novel and posted and pasted
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  and, you know, took a picture and then put his.
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  He took a picture right here and then over here he wrote what he
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  thought that down here there was another picture and he wrote
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  what he thought. I mean like that.
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  I love the passion, but people, you'd got to admit when you're
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  beat, you know, when I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to put the
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  knife in my back so you all feel better.
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  There was a time that I was just devastated when I realized that
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  God gave Jeff Gordon more talent than me.
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  And I was like, oh, it was a crushing blow.
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  So my message for all of you, if I can recognize and give people
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  credit when I know they're better than me.
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  I know it hurts like hell, but you just got to let it go.
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  Corey Heim, I don't care if he lagged back a half a truck or
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  one truck or whatever the hell. He's the best.
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  And when you can admit that, you'll be free and you'll be
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  happier with yourself. Now to end this, they the front
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  stretch interviewed Matt Crafton after the race.
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  Now, I want to be clear, Matt Crafton, what he said, they
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  said, they kept asking, they kept asking and he kept
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  answering. And it's like, Matt, you know,
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  you're a champion, you're great. You had a wonderful truck
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  career. And then you know that, I mean,
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  Matt Crafton is a champion, is a winner, he's great.
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  But he like anybody's getting older and it's time to race less
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  and do what he wants to do. So they said, OK, Matt, next
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  year when you race part time in the Truck Series, what are you
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  looking at doing? And Matt simply said, I want to
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  race where I matter, where I can use my 2 feet and make a
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  difference. Matt Crafton clearly said the
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  mile and a halfs are no good for the trucks right now because
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  NASCAR messed all the rules up and you just hold it wide open
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  and there's not enough horsepower.
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  Well, I I would say that he told the truth, but but he had a
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  horrible night. And I liked what Matt Crafton
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  said. He said, hey, look, we're just
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  going to forget about it. You know, we're not going to let
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  these this last year or two. And Matt said our program got
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  worse the last two years. And and I can tell you this, and
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  it happened to me. There was a time I was bitter
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  about NASCAR. I was bitter just because did
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  not go good for me. But once I moved back to Saint
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  Louis, started running my dirt car and I started, you know,
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  forgiving myself for me not running real good, I started
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  loving NASCAR again. So in the heat of the battle,
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  you're going to say some things you don't want to say.
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  And Matt Crafton last night, he told, he told that guy, he goes,
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  man, listen, our truck team has gone the wrong direction the
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  last two or three years. We are no good.
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  And when when you're when you're team goes the wrong direction,
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  that means it's going to show up on the mile and a half too.
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  I can tell you from experience, Matt is right.
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  But if you have a really good race car, you're going to love
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  the mile and a half. He's right.
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  You know, you got to have a good race car to compete on the mile
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  and a half. And if you don't, you're going
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  to hate life. You're going to hate it.
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  So Matt's going to look back later on, five years from now,
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  and he's going to fit right in there with, you know, Mike
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  Skinner and all the greats in the Truck Series.
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  And he's going to go, I love NASCAR, I forgive myself for not
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  running good at the end of my career.
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  But it wasn't him. It wasn't Matt.
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  It was his team. So I'm going to leave you all of
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  this when things aren't going good in our lives.
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  Everything's every, you're bitter, everything's bad.
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  But you cut, you come up for you come up for fresh air later on
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  you go, man, how thankful I am for winning all those
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  championships. So Matt Crafton, just bitter,
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  but he'll let a little time go. He'll go run his dirt car and
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  he'll rot. He'll realize that it was NASCAR
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  that made him a champion. It was NASCAR that made him who
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  he is today. And I went through this.
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  I went through this. I hated NASCAR, I hated
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  everybody. And then five years went by and
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  I said, OK, I'm ready to forgive myself.
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  OK, Marcus Smith, I'll come back and I'll do Trackside lives.
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  It'll be all right, Matt. It'll be all right.
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  And it sucks when you can't run good when you're used to running
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  good. All right, everybody, Today's
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  the Xfinity race. We'll talk about that tomorrow.
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  Have a great Saturday, everybody.