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Dale Blaney Made World of Outlaws History | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning, everybody. It is a beautiful day here in
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  St. Louis, MO All right, I am headed
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  up to Quincy, IL Quincy Raceway racing starts at 4:30 this
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  evening. You got Hannibal, MO on this
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  side of the Mississippi River, and then you got Quincy, IL on
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  this side of the Mississippi River.
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  That area up there is awesome. That's where Mark Twain wrote
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  all his novels. You know, remember Huckleberry
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  Finn? All the big boys.
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  OK, so I'll see you all. Quincy Raceways tonight in
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  Quincy, IL Racing starts at 4:30 because it's Sunday.
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  OK, Something big happened last night and I want to talk about
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  it. The World of Outlaw Sprint Cars
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  is the largest dirt sanctioning body as far as excitement and
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  packing the grandstands. These these World of Outlaw
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  Sprint cars got wings on them and they are fast man, they fly.
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  So they went there sharing the Speedway last night.
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  Now this is a track that Dave Blaney.
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  Dave Blaney owns it and his son is Ryan Blaney, the NASCAR
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  driver. Well, Uncle, Uncle Dale Blaney
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  won the race last night over all the World of Outlaw guys.
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  Dale Blaney, 61 years old, 61 years young.
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  Dale Blaney outrun everybody outrun, you know, Han Sheld
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  outrun David Gravel, you name it.
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  He drove so beautifully. Dale Blaney drove so
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  beautifully. I'll watch.
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  You could see his arms in there, you know, as he was going around
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  racetrack track was super slippery.
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  He drove that thing so beautifully and pulled away from
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  him every every caution. Like there was 2 cautions like
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  with 10 to go. So they were testing.
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  Oh, Dale, Uncle Dale Blaney, tall.
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  Man, I don't know who was that tall in the Blaney family.
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  I don't think it was the mom or the grandma.
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  I think it was, maybe, I don't know who it was, but Uncle Dale,
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  super tall. Twice as tall as Ryan and twice
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  as tall as the great Dave Blaney.
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  Now, about four or five years ago, Dave Blaney won a World of
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  Outlaw race at that racetrack. But here's the reason we're
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  talking about it and why this is such a big deal. 61 years young
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  in the outrun everybody. So I want to talk about why do
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  people race at an age? How can you stay competitive at
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  that age? It's all over America right now.
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  Dale Blaney. Dale Blaney becomes the oldest
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  winner in the World of Outlaw Sprint Cars at 61.
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  Kenny Schrader was there with his Modified.
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  Kenny Schrader is 70 years old now.
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  I don't know where Kenny finished, but some other man
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  wanna saw a picture of him. Track was super slippery.
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  Locals might have had an advantage.
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  I think Dave and Dale had an advantage because they owned the
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  racetrack. They know that track like the
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  back of their hand. Still, it begs.
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  It begs me answering your question, Kenny Wallace, you're
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  62 years old. Why do you still race that older
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  car? Well, it's pretty simple.
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  I'm still very competitive and it's like a workout.
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  It really does give me something to do.
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  It really is that simple. I do want to say the reason I
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  run the dirt car is not these things.
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  I don't run the dirt car because my cup career didn't go the way
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  I wanted it to. If you, if you look at my cup
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  career, by all accounts, it was a dream come true for a kid out
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  of Arnold, MO is where I'm at right now.
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  So I grew up as a, you know, middle class kid, ride my
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  bicycle, shoot BB guns, run the creeks.
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  And are you kidding me? I made it to the NASCAR Cup
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  series. I ran 905 races between the big
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  three, 547 Xfinity races. I still have the most starts,
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  340 something Cup races, 11 truck races.
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  I'm not going to dumb it down. I'm not going to go.
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  Oh, well, you know, I mean, no, I justified.
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  I look at it like this. I came out of friggin Arnold, MO
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  just a redneck kid. Like I said, I truly did shoot
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  BB guns, run the Creek, build tree houses.
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  So I do not run my dirt car because I didn't win a cup race.
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  I had three second place finishes in the Cup series.
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  Talladega, Rockingham, Loudon, I remember them had nine Xfinity
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  wins. So I do not run the dirt car
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  because I'm chasing something. I think I run the dirt car.
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  I mean, sometimes I ask myself, why am I doing this?
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  It really is fun. I enjoy racing dirt.
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  I enjoy I I enjoy the process of going up to that shop.
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  I'm loaded up right now. You see that black, you see that
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  black truck and trailer right there.
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  I'm loaded up. I'm ready to go.
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  I'm ready to go. I did that last night.
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  Loaded my carp, worked hard on it.
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  The reason I run that old dirt car is because it's like playing
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  a game. It's no different than people
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  putting a puzzle together. It's fun.
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  I love competition, you know? It's it's it's why does anybody
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  do what they do? Why do you do what you do?
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  Why don't you race? Oh, I don't have the money.
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  Oh come on, I doubt that there's a division for everybody.
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  I know people that are on 4 cylinders and sportsman cars and
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  they are way cheaper than getting a boat and going down to
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  Lake Ozark. Why do why do guys fish?
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  Why do they spend all that money on those fishing reels in the,
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  you know, $40,000 boats? You know, my my motor is faster
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  than your boat because I can get to Matt fish and hold quicker
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  than you for these tournaments. The reason I race is because I
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  love him. Now is it it?
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  It is odd that I'm I'm a Wallace, but I am different.
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  You know, brother Mike always says Kenny Wallace.
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  My brother Kenny Herman's always doing his own thing.
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  And I am a Wallace and I look like a Wallace.
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  But why am I different than that?
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  Well, Rusty, Rusty, just he's not wired like me.
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  He's, we look like each other, but he's totally different than
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  me, Mike, totally different than me.
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  I'm totally different than the whole family.
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  But we do have some, we do have some characteristics.
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  So I just race because I love it.
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  I will say this. And at the very end of this next
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  year, 2026, I will not be racing every week.
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  We're round, we're rounding it out.
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  Everybody, This, this would be the last year that I race every
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  single week. For me to stay competitive, I
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  got to race a little less. All right, listen, I'll see you
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  at Quincy Raceways tonight.