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Coffee With Kenny | Looks Like NASCAR Will Tweak The Playoff Format · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  I'm down here in Dallas, Fort Worth staying at a beautiful
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  hotel called the Drover. Not Dover, DE Drover DROVER.
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  Man, this place has got a lot of cowboy in it.
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  It's really nice. Got like cowboy leather stuff
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  everywhere. All right, listen, up here.
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  There it is. The perfect storm is what I'm
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  going to call this coffee with Kenny.
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  The perfect storm. All right, yesterday, all hell
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  broke loose. All of you have been raising
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  Cane. I want NASCAR to change the
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  playoffs. I mean it it Everybody is out of
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  breath. They are exhausted.
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  I've never seen, I've never seen this much upheaval in NASCAR.
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  I really haven't. It.
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  It amazes me. I have never seen all of you,
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  all the fans. This proves to me that you all
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  love, love, love NASCAR. You really do because you're
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  working overtime. You want the playoffs changed.
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  Now reported by Adam Stern right there.
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  This is per Adam Storm, not me. Remember, coffee with Kenny is
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  always about what I read, what I see.
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  So Adam Stern said that NASCAR executives, Adam always gives
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  these little innuendos. So somebody at NASCAR told Adam,
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  hey, here's what we're going to do.
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  So NASCAR has said they're going to make a little tweak for next
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  year per Adam Stern, but no big, no big overhaul until 2026.
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  So sounds to me like you all are going to get exactly what you
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  want. You're going to get a little
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  tweak for next year. And if that helps, maybe they'll
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  leave it alone. But as far as a major overhaul,
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  like a a whole different change that might happen in 2026.
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  Now, my opinion, my opinion, everybody has said everything.
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  I hear every once in a while Kevin Harvick says this.
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  Herman, what do you think of Kevin Harvick?
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  I've been paying attention, Harvick said.
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  No way. Can we go back to the old point
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  system where you run all year long and there's a champion guys
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  I know there there's a lot of you purist out there and you
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  want to go back to the old days. Kevin Harvick said no way.
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  Me. I say why?
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  Because this is way better. OK, then I see all of you out
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  there, all of you. I look at all the social media.
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  Not a one of you, not a one of you have decided what you want,
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  but you want to change. I've heard everything.
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  I've heard all I've heard that you want the regular season
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  champion guaranteed a spot in the playoffs, whatever.
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  Fine with me. You want you just want
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  something. What you want is you want
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  somebody like a Christopher Bell and Kyle Larson.
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  You want to make sure those two guys are in.
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  So whatever it is you want, you want to make sure like a
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  Christopher Bell and a Kyle Larson, you want them to get in.
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  All right. So I don't think nobody knows
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  what they want. They all say it out.
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  But when I, when I look at social media, it's it's just
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  everywhere. It's like a bag of scrambled
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  eggs. So here's my opinion again, but
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  this time I, I do have a different take.
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  I call it the perfect storm. I, I titled it The Perfect
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  Storm. What does the Herminator mean by
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  that? Now we're going to talk about
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  what Joey Logano said. Joey Logano, you know, after the
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  race, Jordan Bianchi and Jeff Kluck did an incredible job, the
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  best job out of all the media. It was incredible.
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  They did the teardown on Dirty MO Media directly after the race
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  with some microphones and they interviewed Joey Logano in his
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  fire suit. And Joey Logano is like, come
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  on, guys. And his response was good.
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  Joey Logano said what? Whatever you do, however you
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  change it, then that's what they will focus on.
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  So it's like if if they said, OK, let's go back to the old
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  point system. Well, that's what Joey Logano
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  and their team, that's what they they would focus on that point
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  system. There's other other drivers that
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  said, hey, if they leave the final race at Phoenix now, this
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  is what this is, Denny Hamlin. What did Denny Hamlin say on
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  actions detrimental? Denny Hamlin said, listen, as
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  long as the playoff system is at Phoenix right now, they've got a
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  stranglehold on it. Penske does right now.
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  As long as the playoffs finish at Phoenix.
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  It looks like Penske's got a stranglehold on it.
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  Now. I'm giving you all these quotes.
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  What did Jeff Gordon say? Jeff Gordon said we have been
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  working on Phoenix for one year. Jeff Gordon said we have been
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  working on our setup in our race car at Phoenix for one year.
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  So when you think about the totality of this, all these
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  teams, they know, and Joey Logano said it best.
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  It's the same rules for everybody.
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  So as much as everybody wants to complain, I hate the playoff
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  system, OK, put Christopher Bell, put Kyle Larson in it.
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  Everybody shuts up. That's what I believe.
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  That's what I believe. So you put them in and then you
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  say, let's hold a race. Well, we held a race, right?
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  And Jeff Gordon said it best. Hendrick has been working on
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  their chassis setup for Phoenix for one full year, and William
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  Byron and Kyle Larson did not come close to winning the race.
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  So right now, Penske has the stranglehold on winning the
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  championship if it's run every year at Phoenix.
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  Now go back to four days ago right here, the Hermanator said.
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  Four days ago or so I said the only thing I could see happening
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  2 years from now, 2026, is I said I would like to see three
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  different race tracks or two, two or three different race
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  tracks determine the championship.
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  Because I said I don't like it that you, you have the final
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  four champions and then a Jack breaking, something happened and
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  that determines your championship.
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  So I'd like to see, I thought about it.
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  I'd like to see it at Phoenix. I would like to see it at Miami
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  Homestead. There you go.
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  Riding high, not afraid to die. Can he do it?
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  Jack Hewitt? Hewitt said.
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  I would rather lose running high than to win running low.
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  So my 3 championship race tracks would be Phoenix short track,
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  intermediate, kind of like Miami Homestead.
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  And then I'd like to go to Vegas.
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  Those are my 3 tracks. So listen, wow, what a different
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  look and all. Everybody's in now.
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  So there's your news. Adam Stern reporting that NASCAR
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  says they're going to tweak it for next year.
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  No, no big change until 2026. And if they do make the big
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  change, I'm saying it's three races to determine to champion.
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  But guys, we start with 16 people.
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  We throw out four every three races.
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  So Kevin Harvick has already responded.
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  He responded yesterday and he said he does not want.
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  And you know what I did? I went on his timeline and you
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  all chew Kevin Harvick's ass out just like you chew my ass out.
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  Then you you go to the teardown where Jordan Bianchi and Jeff
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  Clucker interviewing our champion Joey Logano, and you
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  chew their ass out like you chew my ass out.
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  So one thing's for sure, my feelings sure ain't hurt because
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  you guys chew everybody's ass out.
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  All right, I told you what's up. I brought you up to date respond
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  right here. But one thing's for sure, it's
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  scrambled eggs right now. Nobody knows what the hell they
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  want. I want this.
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  Well, then I want this and I want that.
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  I told you what I thought all right about now it's Wednesday.
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  Herman Schrader on The Dirty MO Media platform from Mid America
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  in St. Louis, MO starts right now.
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  Check it out everybody. Check it out right now.
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  It's on The Dirty MO Media podcast.
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  I hope you like it. Kenny Schrader is awesome.
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  Listen to his opinion. Kenny Schrader's got a great
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  opinion on all this. He don't understand what's wrong
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  with y'all. He's like, you know, and he
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  explains it all. So check out the Herman Schrader
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  podcast. It's the hottest thing going
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  right now. It really is.
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  And yeah. All right, everybody.
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  Well, I'm, I'm down here with Sunoco Race Fields and Fred
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  McConnell and Mr. Vaughn and a lot of lot of great Drifters,
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  the guys that drift and great Rd. course race.
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  I'm the old guy, but I'm having a good time.
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  So we're going to go have fun today going back to St.
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  Louis, MO tonight, All right?