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I Won Last Night & North Wilkesboro is The Real Deal! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning, everybody. I thought I'd just stay right
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  here on the couch today and I felt like I just keep my glasses
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  on as, as a friend of mine said, just simmer down, Simmer down.
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  I is that a real word? Simmer, simmer down.
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  I love it. It means calm the down, chill
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  out, take it easy. You know, everyone swats just
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  like sometimes my eyes are. I did one of these deals a
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  little bit ago. I went, I went like this.
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  And I went, yeah. Oh, yeah, That's that feels
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  better. You know what I mean?
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  You, you go like this. You go.
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  Oh, yeah, way better. OK, We won last night and I will
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  tell you Dave de Spain, I believe it was.
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  Remember Dave de Spain from the wind tunnel had a great TV show.
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  He said there is no easy local race to win and I'll say this,
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  I'm not defending my win. I'm just giving you the
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  parameters and letting you know. It's just like the great Dale
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  senior said. There are thousands of great
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  race car drivers all over America.
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  They can't all go to NASCAR. So last night I had some great
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  race car drivers and it was my night.
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  We had Rick Canoyer, who wins a lot.
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  We had Trev Jacoby used to be a young kid.
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  Now he's a man. He's a hot rod, you know, and
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  you had a had a lot of other good ones.
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  I'm just highlighting so really good race cars last night and we
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  we just had a really good car. I'm always up in the shop
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  tinkering with that thing and I think I got the balance.
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  I think finally this year I got the balance right.
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  I'm always, you know, I'm like, OK, this week I'm going to try
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  this. And then, you know, you never
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  have magic, you have balance. So my car was balanced.
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  It would get in the corner good. It turned good little tied off,
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  but I could deal with that. That kept it gripping.
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  I'd rather be a little tight off and be loose because that's what
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  keeps that that that momentum going.
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  So anyway, it was a great win last night.
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  Thank you, Sunoco. Thank you.
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  I love the colors on our new dirt car.
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  I love it. My youngest daughter, Brittany,
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  she was there to watch her husband Brody race.
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  Brody ran a Be mine. Brody's a great race car driver.
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  Brody was racing modifies and decided to quit doing that and
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  he builds outlaw carts. Now.
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  Brody grew up in Oregon and outlaw carts, you know, like
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  Rico a brew and and you know, Kyle Larson, they grew up
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  running. No, they're they're they're boy,
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  they're big time. They're high end, but they got
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  wings on and man, they're fast. They got motorcycle motors on
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  them, but my son-in-law works up in my shop with me and I give
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  him free run of my shop too. And he builds a lot of go karts,
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  but they're called outlaw carts and he does it all, he builds
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  them all. But Brody's a great race car
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  driver. He ran good last night and I
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  think he ran 8th but he was a little, he was loose in the
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  feature. But anyway, it sure was good
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  when I won. I come around, you know, I go
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  across the scales and I come around the corner to go to
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  Victor Lane and you can see the smile on my face right now.
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  There was my grandbaby. I'm like, Oh yes, right away.
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  I thought that's my first win with this grandbaby.
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  So all the grandbabies have been to Victory Lane now.
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  But that was Lila's first Victory Lane.
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  Her name is Lila LILAH. And then Brody came to Victory
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  Lane. And of course, my youngest
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  daughter, Brittany. Now, when you look at all my
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  daughters, they're the best. I love them all equally.
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  But Brittany looks just like me. So.
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  And Brittany's pregnant again, and that baby is due in
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  September. OK, that was about last night.
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  Just leave it. Leave you with this.
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  Earnhardt says it right. There's thousands of great race
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  car drivers all over. They all can't go on NASCAR and
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  a lot of them race every Saturday night right there at
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  Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park.
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  They're good. So it was a good win.
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  OK, Today we're going to talk about the All Star race.
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  It's Sunday and the All Star races tonight.
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  Also, the final 12 go for the pole for the Indianapolis 500.
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  So we got two things going on. You know, it's so neat.
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  They call this the month of May and it's appropriate.
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  You know, qualifying was exciting yesterday for the
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  Indianapolis 500. I didn't know there's only one
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  car going to go home. But damn, they made it exciting.
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  And you're just waiting for those Indycars to spin out.
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  All right, enough of IndyCar racing.
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  We talked about it all day yesterday on Saturday, but at
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  Wilkesboro, man, that place looks good.
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  It just seems like they just keep adding on to it.
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  I was watching the truck race yesterday and man was it a good
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  one. It reminded me of the old days.
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  Go down that front straight away and how about that Lane Riggs
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  got underneath Corey Heim and ran Corey Heim up the wall, spun
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  Corey Heim out. Chandler Smith wins the race.
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  It was a barn burn. Boy, it was a good one.
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  But as I was watching the race, I was looking at all the all the
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  upgrades at Wilkesboro. It looks really good.
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  North Wilkesboro looks really good, but it's a blast from the
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  past. How many of you ever thought
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  Wilkesboro would be back? Respond right here.
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  Did you think North Wilkesboro would ever make it back?
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  Hell, it was full of grass. It was dilapidated.
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  Buildings were falling down, grandstands were caving in.
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  Remember, they made-up a lot of fun that they found a cavern
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  underneath the front straightaway and that's where
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  all the liquor was. That was fun.
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  But I mean, they had to rebuild some of the grandstands they had
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  that, you know, they had to really go to work on this place
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  and they got it looking good. That leads me this.
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  What's going to happen to Wilkesboro?
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  What's going to happen to Rockingham?
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  How about this, everybody that was reminiscing, there were so
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  many people reminiscing and I mean, they exhausted themselves.
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  Bring Wilkes Burrell back, dammit.
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  Bring Rockingham back, dammit. They're back.
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  So now what? I don't see no tears.
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  I don't see anybody crying. Let let me remind you how
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  awesome this is. These race tracks are back.
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  Let's take advantage of it. Let's be happy.
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  Wildsboro's back, it's the good old days.
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  Rockingham's back, it's the good old days.
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  And it's those racetrack designs that make for great racing.
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  That truck raced yesterday and now you know, that was new
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  asphalt. That asphalt's about a 1-2 years
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  old maybe Max. It still looks beautiful, but
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  it's starting to get a little age on it.
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  Corey Heim ran that high lane, Chandler Smith running the
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  bottom. What's going to happen?
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  And boy, it was a hell of a finish.
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  Really good race. So leads me to this.
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  Kevin Harvick said it's time to have a normal race there.
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  No more points or no more All Star race.
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  Kevin Harvick, he said no more All Star race.
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  Let's have a real race there. It's time.
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  It's it's real. It's good.
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  Wilkesboro has shown that it's great.
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  It is. It's good.
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  It's a great racetrack. There's no reason not to go back
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  there. It races wide.
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  You can enter, turn on wide, people can get underneath of
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  you. It's a wide track.
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  Corey Heim ran right through the middle of three and four
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  yesterday, so it's not tight. It races wide.
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  Has the perfect amount of grandstands.
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  I don't know what the hell happened there.
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  Has the perfect amount of grandstands.
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  I almost got tongue tied. Has the perfect amount of
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  grandstands. Sells at what?
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  25,000 people? Looks good all the time.
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  My thoughts on this is my thoughts on Wilkesboro.
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  I'm not a dummy. They just put in a brand new
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  pedestrian bridge. That pedestrian bridge, I'm
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  going to guess it cost a lot of money.
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  I don't think Marcus Smith is going to spend that kind of
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  money on a pedestrian bridge thinking NASCAR's going to
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  leave. I think they have projection.
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  I think they project. I think they have meetings.
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  I think Wilkesboro's in a good spot.
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  NASCAR, Ben Kennedy, Steve O'donnell's the president now.
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  I think they know that they need two or three races that not
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  going to kill it financially. Little Birdie told me that
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  NASCAR can stand not to kill it for two or three races.
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  In other words, anytime you run a NASCAR race, you want to make
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  all the money in the world. You want to make all the money.
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  The more money makes make money. But I think it's good for NASCAR
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  two or three races to just make some money.
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  You don't got to kill it all the time.
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  And here's why I'm telling you why 'cause we need the sport to
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  come back. Willsboro is what we call good
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  medicine. It's just good medicine.
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  All right, let's go to Rockingham.
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  Steve O'Donnell, the new president, you know, they, they
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  brought, they brought Rockingham back and then then O'Donnell
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  became the new president. So this is a deal where it's
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  timing and circumstances. They bring Rockingham back and
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  then we got a new president. So this is this is breaking news
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  in a garage area. Steve O'Donnell says, you know
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  what? I think we're just going to
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  leave Rockingham alone and we're just going to run ARCA, Trucks
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  and Xfinity. Fine with me.
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  Now, I'm the one that said, and and I'll admit it, but the
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  game's changed. Things change.
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  I'm the one that said to Bob Pop Crash, there will be Cup here,
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  you know, next year. But here's what I learned.
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  And here's what they learned. Rockingham still needs some
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  money spent on it. Where's this money going to come
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  from? See, they never thought
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  Rockingham would come back in a million years.
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  So they got rid of all the grandstands.
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  Now it seats around 1820 thousand people.
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  And we thought, you know, that's fine, it looks good.
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  But if we're really going to have a Cup race there, you'd
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  like to see a little more grandstands.
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  There's some improvements that I don't know about, but we need
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  some more, a little more money at Rockingham, a little more,
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  just a little more. And Steve O'Donnell says, I
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  believe we're just going to leave everything alone and we're
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  going to ask more Cup drivers. We're going to bring in a load
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  of Cup drivers for that weekend to run the Xfinity Series.
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  Hell, let them run. Let them run trucks, Make them
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  sign autographs downtown Rockingham like me and Schrader
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  did. Hey, Schrader and myself, we
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  went downtown Rockingham. It was awesome.
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  The the town square was filled up.
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  It was a good vibe. I'll go for that.
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  Hell yeah. Let's do it.
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  All right, let's get some Cub drivers there.
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  Let's. Let's let three run the Xfinity
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  race. Let's three run the truck race.
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  Make those one of your five. So the rule right now is Cup
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  drivers are not allowed to run any more than five of Truck or
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  five of Xfinity. I don't know the rules.
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  I don't know exactly, but respond right here.
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  I know this Cup drivers are limited, so let's celebrate
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  these tracks. Let's celebrate these tracks.
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  This is one time to feel good. This is one time to feel good
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  about it. In the end, Wilkesboro's back,
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  Rockingham's back. Let's celebrate.
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  Let's have fun. Go ahead and argue about all the
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  other tracks, but a couple times a year we should just feel good
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  about it and let it let it be. We don't got to argue about it
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  every damn track. We don't.
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  All right, everybody have a have a great Sunday, enjoy the All
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  Star race, enjoy Indianapolis qualifying and I think I think
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  the Formula One race is running right now.
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  Happy Sunday.