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NASCAR 2026 Cup Series Schedule Reveal | Charlie Marlow Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  All right, we are live. What's up everybody?
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  Charlie Marlowe here on the Kenny Wallace YouTube channel.
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  Some big news because the 2026 NASCAR Cup schedule has been
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  released. I thought it'd be fun to come
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  here on YouTube and just look over the schedule.
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  I kind of glanced at it, but I haven't gone through all of it.
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  So I thought it would be cool to just go through the dates, go
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  through the changes, go through the races together and kind of
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  react naturally, organically to what we're seeing.
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  Here It is right here. I got it on Twitter.
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  On Twitter. There it is, 2026 schedule,
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  NASCAR Cup Series. Boom, let's go.
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  All right, I'm going to go to my Twitter here on the old computer
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  and let's go through race by race, everybody.
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  OK. NASCAR Cup Series 2026 schedule
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  The Clash at Bowman Gray Sunday, February 1st back at Bowman
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  Gray, the Daytona 500, you know they're not messing with that
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  one. Sunday, February 15th Echo Park.
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  Remember, Echo Park is now Atlanta or that's the name of
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  Atlanta. Sunday, February 22nd you got
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  CODA. Coda was a great race.
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  Remember the battle? That was what that was.
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  Christopher Bell and and Kyle Busch battling was William Byron
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  in there as Kenny Wallace would say.
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  Respond right here. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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  Koda was a great race. So that's Sunday, March 1st.
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  You got Phoenix Sunday, March 8th, Las Vegas Sunday, March
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  15th. So everything pretty much
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  standard here. But there there are changes.
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  I promise you. Darlington Sunday March 22nd,
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  Martinsville Sunday March 29th and off week.
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  So this time you got 2 off weeks right?
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  This year. Was there only one off week?
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  I feel like there was only one off week.
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  Let me know on that. Again, I don't want to go back
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  and look. I want to do the reveal for
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  2026, but off week Sunday April 5th.
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  I'm guessing that's Easter. Let's look it up real quick.
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  Doo Doo Doo. While you're with me, please
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  comment like subscribe. I believe that's Easter.
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  Easter 2026 is yeah, Sunday, April 5th off for Easter.
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  OK, so here we go. We got the clash you go.
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  Points races 123-4567 Seven points races off week for
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  Easter. Then you got Bristol Sunday,
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  April 12th. Kansas Kansas might be my
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  favorite track to watch April 19th, Talladega Sunday, April
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  26th Texas Sunday May 3rd. You got Watkins Glen Sunday May
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  10th. That's the first third of the
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  schedule. I'll go back here to stream
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  yard. Check you guys out here, see if
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  we have any comments. 96 of you watching on YouTube.
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  I appreciate that Jim Overschmidt says hey Randall G,
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  good afternoon TMC 9 to know what's better, Homestead back to
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  championship race or Chicago and oh wait, I don't want to give
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  everything away and North Wilkesboro back as points races.
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  I guess I already gave it away. You guys probably know anyway,
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  there's TMC 9. I want to read your comments.
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  I want you guys to get involved. There's Jim, there's Randall.
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  Red Cat Blue Hat says, howdy, Randall saying happy to see
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  Chicago and Speedway back on the schedule.
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  We'll get to that. And Astrid's action, RC says
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  Watkins in May is really weird. Kevin C says get it.
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  All right, so thanks for commenting.
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  Get your comments in. Let's get back to the schedule.
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  I read the first third of the schedule.
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  So basically you got now the the All Star race.
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  I feel like that All Star race is kind of early All Star race
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  at Dover. So there's there's a big change.
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  All Star race is at Dover on Sunday, May 17th, all right,
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  followed by Charlotte Sunday, May 24th.
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  Nashville is Sunday, May 31st Michigan, we'll call that my
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  home track, Michigan International Speedway.
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  I grew up about hour and 15 minutes from Brooklyn.
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  That's great racing too. Michigan was a fantastic race
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  this year. So Michigan Sunday, June 7th,
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  Pocono is Sunday, June 14th. So here's another change.
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  We knew this was coming, but the San Diego St. course, they're
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  going to be over there. Coronado, beautiful part of
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  California, beautiful part of San Diego right there on the
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  military base. That's going to be really,
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  really awesome. So this is cool too.
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  And by the way, Austin Dillon, Austin Dillon is on Kenny
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  conversations this week. We just recorded it like an hour
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  ago. So Austin Dillon will drop on
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  Dirty MO Media podcast on Thursday morning about what,
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  5:00 AM and then on YouTube later.
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  But Austin Dillon, we were basically Kenny read him the
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  schedule and he said he really liked the fact that the drivers,
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  the teams can stay out there in California because you have San
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  Diego June 21st and then Sonoma the following week, June 28th.
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  So you can stay out there in California.
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  You can hit the beach for a few days, you can hit wine country
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  for a few days. There you go and it's
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  back-to-back Rd. courses. So you can kind of get the the
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  feel of the road stuff. And then earlier what so earlier
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  the road courses were spread out because you had CODA March 1st,
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  Watkins Glen, May 10th. OK, Chicagoland, another big
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  change. Again, I know this was
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  unofficially announced, but NASCAR going back to Chicagoland
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  Speedway. So they won't be running the
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  street course in downtown Chicago.
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  The street course deal is switching over to San Diego, but
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  they'll stay in the Chicagoland area at that track.
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  Where is it, Joliet, That's Sunday, July 5th, back to
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  Atlanta or Echo Park Sunday, July 12th.
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  And then here's another one of the the big headlines.
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  North Wilkesboro Speedway is a points race.
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  How cool is that? North Wilkesboro back to being a
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  points race. Sunday, July 19th, you got
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  Indianapolis and the Brickyard 400, that's Sunday, July 26th.
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  Then there's an off week. You got an off week there right
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  as it's the end of summer. It's right before school starts
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  for the kids off week Sunday, August 2nd.
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  You got Iowa, Iowa back on the schedule.
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  When I say back, there was some discussion wondering if if Iowa
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  would remain on the cup schedule.
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  And, and maybe that's a question more for the future, but Iowa
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  Cup date Sunday, August 9th. And then you got Richmond
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  Saturday, a Saturday night race, August 15th.
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  Remember, Richmond just ended here.
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  Obviously I want to go through and make sure.
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  Yeah. So.
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  So everything was a Sunday race. Everything was a Sunday race
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  until Richmond. So Richmond the first night race
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  of the year next year, Saturday, August 15th.
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  All right, let's go back. Let's go back to the chat.
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  Just want to see what people are doing what people are saying.
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  Let's go to YouTube real quick. How many people are watching?
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  Got a few of you. Got to 298 of you total have
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  tuned in right now live 110 of you.
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  Kevin CI left your comment up there.
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  Forget it. There we go.
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  All right, let's go back to the chat, see what you guys are
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  saying. Jeff Davis.
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  Hello. Ken Ruggles Bowman will be fun
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  again. Shawn Watson need more Saturday
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  night races. Cajun NVA is at N Virginia.
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  Only one Richmond race after how many years?
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  Awesome to hear a points race for North Wilkesboro that's from
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  Tim Childress. I agree.
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  Sure hope they bring back actual horsepower again.
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  Not the proposed 750 but more like 875 plus and not the BS.
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  Just one. Just on short tracks on every
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  track except Daytona and Talladega.
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  That's bass for life. Alex Malky, 08, says San Diego,
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  Saint Pete and Chicago with dollar signs.
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  Saint Pete though. Saint Pete?
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  Is that trucks or Xfinity? I'll look that up.
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  That's not cup. Chicago and being back is
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  awesome. That's from TMC just straight
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  up. Let's see Koda.
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  No Richmond shouldn't lose a race from Gary.
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  Gary Stabe also heard that Mark Martin is doing a one off.
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  What what? That'd be awesome.
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  I haven't heard that Watkins in May ruin so many plans.
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  Dover returns to May. No one goes up to the Finger
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  Lakes until the end of June. Talking about Watkins Glen
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  people's vacation schedule. BFB.
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  I'm loving this. When is the Loudon race?
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  Next year we'll get to that Bowline Rail fan.
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  I'm surprised that Watkins Glen is in May now.
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  It's been in August since before I became a fan over 20 years
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  ago. Where's Herm Herm's busy look,
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  Herm works his butt off. He already did a coffee with
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  Kenny talking about Dale Junior helping bring back Wilkesboro
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  being a points race. And then we just finished up.
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  It was about 10:10. We started 10:10 central time.
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  We did an hour. Kenny Wallace did an hour with
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  Austin Dillon. So Kenny's been working his butt
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  off. And again, Austin Dillon, Kenny
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  conversation really good talking about his relationship with his
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  grandpa Richard Childress and how they're running the business
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  and how they collaborate and butt heads every once in awhile.
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  Really good stuff that'll come out tomorrow.
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  XANA of Xanax Kamikaze, they should race at the Milwaukee
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  Mile. Will you be at Gateway in a few
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  weeks from Aaron Beck? I sure as heck will be, buddy.
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  Ricky Craven just bought Speedway 95 in Herman, Maine.
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  I saw that, that's awesome. Delaney Dunn again, Ricky Craven
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  also on Kenny conversation couple weeks ago.
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  Was that just last week? 2 weeks ago?
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  Really good conversation, long like a hour and 40 minutes.
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  Yes, Maine racing is awesome. The Oxford 250 is this week.
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  All right, back to the schedule. We're 2/3 down.
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  Want to get to your guys comments.
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  Justin Kidd saying no second race at Richmond is stupid.
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  That's his opinion. All right, I will, I'll hide
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  that comment just as we go back to the schedule.
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  Here we go. So the final third of the
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  schedule, we ended on Richmond, which is the night race
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  Saturday, August 15th of next year.
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  So OK, moving on New Hampshire, somebody just asked about this
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  New Hampshire Loudon is Sunday, August 23rd.
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  So a little different schedule here, right?
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  Because this week we have, or this year we have Richmond
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  followed by Daytona, followed by the play offs.
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  So next year it's Richmond, New Hampshire, Sunday, August 23rd,
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  Daytona once again, the regular season finale, another Saturday
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  night race, August 29th of next year.
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  And look, you know that regular season finale at Daytona where
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  anything can happen whether you like it or not, that brings a
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  ton of excitement to the sport with somebody like a Harrison
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  Burton last year winning because we know how crazy things get at
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  Daytona. OK, now playoffs, Playoffs round
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  of 16, Darlington Worldwide Technology Raceway in Madison,
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  IL, we call it Saint Louis. That's our home track here.
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  That's Sunday, September 13th. So that's a week, week later
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  because the race this year is September 7th.
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  Yeah, remember there's two, there's two off weeks next year,
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  a little different. So round of 16 is Darlington,
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  Saint Louis, Bristol. All right, round of 12 next
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  year. And by the way, Bristol also the
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  cutoff race is a Saturday night race round of 12 for the
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  playoffs next year. Kansas, Las Vegas and the
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  Charlotte Roval lot of talk about, you know, not bringing
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  back the Rowville maybe having two Oval races at Charlotte for
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  next year. They are back on the Rowville.
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  So that's the cut off race. That's on a Sunday, October 11th
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  round of eight. Now remember we're going to
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  we're going to rotate the championship races moving
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  forward. It's been Phoenix of course the
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  last several years already announced it's going to be at
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  Homestead Miami coming up. Then they'll have a rotation
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  people think in Phoenix, Homestead.
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  Could a Vegas be in there? Could a Charlotte be in there?
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  Which tracks do you guys want to see?
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  Could it be Darlington? Anyway, Round of 8 next year,
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  Phoenix October 18th, Talladega the Superspeedway Sunday,
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  October 25th, and then of course Martinsville Sunday, November
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  1st and you have the championship race 2026 next year
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  at Homestead Miami Sunday, November 8th.
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  What do you guys think about that?
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  I've just read the entire schedule right there, the entire
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  schedule, all the playoffs, all the different tracks.
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  What do you think? We'll go back to the chat, 126
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  of you watching. I appreciate that.
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  Let's see Bowline railfan says. Does anyone think the All Star
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  race at Dover is a good idea? I'm not sure about it myself.
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  Angela Adams Love the Nashville race staying at the end of May
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  1st of June ish. Danny Alex says Dover as the All
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  Star race isn't a great idea. Sally Dewint night race at
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  Bristol. Bebe glad Phoenix is gone.
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  What? That's from Biker Bob.
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  I don't know what he's saying there.
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  That might be a typo. Luke Carter.
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  Why don't we race a dirt race at a real dirt track like Eldora?
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  Maybe that's coming down the Pike, as they say.
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  What about Kentucky? This is Cup.
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  I just read you. Cup.
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  Any news on Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway?
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  Not that I know of right now. You can go back to YouTube.
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  Kenny Wallace did a really cool really cool video touring that
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  track couple years ago. Just search on YouTube.
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  I hate Michigan needs a second race.
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  Does that mean you like Michigan?
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  And you mean Michigan needs a second race?
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  I would agree, especially with the way Michigan was this year.
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  Very racy, looked very good on TVI haven't been in Michigan in
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  several years but went to several cup races there in O6
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  and O7. Went to some Indy races there
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  back in the day as well. So there you go.
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  We're 16 minutes in. I'm not going to go super long.
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  I'll go back to the schedule real quick and just highlight
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  the big changes. Big changes.
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  OK, Now clash at Bowman Gray again, but two off weeks instead
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  of one. OK Watkins Glen in May, All
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  right, The All Star race at Dover this year.
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  No points race for Dover. It's the All Star race and then
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  San Diego is the street course this year, excuse me, next year,
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  that's Sunday, June 21st, Chicagoland Speedway, back on
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  the schedule. So it's not going to be the July
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  4th St. course race, but it will be right there around July 4th.
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  Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, Sunday, July 5th, 2020 sixth.
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  North Wilkesboro is a points race Sunday, July 19th.
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  You had another off week end of summer there Sunday, August 2nd.
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  And let's see. So Richmond has the one race and
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  New Hampshire is August 23rd. And then when you get to the
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  play offs, Bing bang boom, it's it's the robo in the play offs.
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  There was some talk of going to two Oval races in Charlotte and
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  then of course the championship race rotating.
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  So no longer just Phoenix, it'll be at Homestead Miami 2026.
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  That is Sunday, November 8th. There you go.
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  There is your NASCAR 2026 Cup schedule reveal folks.
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  There it is. Couple more comments, it is Luke
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  Carter. Thank you for reading my
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  comments. I appreciate it.
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  Well, thank you for jumping on the live stream.
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  Let's see Turn and bank. Love to see NASCAR come back to
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  most sport. The cup cars would be great
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  there also. Can't we learn less is more?
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  One race a year brings out the fans.
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  That's from Dean Tate. A second Michigan race would be
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  great. Due to circumstances beyond my
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  control I missed most of it and just barely caught the end.
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  Great race this year at Michigan.
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  Did everybody give Charlie a thumbs up from Jeff Davis?
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  Yes, please. Hit the like, hit the subscribe.
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  We appreciate it. This year's Michigan race that
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  is yeah. Bowline Rail fan saying he
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  missed the race. It was a it was a great race
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  this year at Michigan. Super fast, super racy, lots of
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  short tracks. Love it.
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  That's from Anthony Rosada. All right, we're closing in.
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  We'll we'll we'll end here in a minute right around 20 minutes.
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  So real quick once again, that was the schedule reveal Austin
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  Dillon coming on Kenny conversation Dirty MO Media
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  podcast about 5:00 in the morning Thursday, Austin Dillon
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  YouTube. That'll be later in the day
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  whatever 2-3 o'clock Herman Schrader right now is on Dirty
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  MO Media podcast. I think that dropped at about
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  whatever 5:00 AM I'm on central time.
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  I know a lot of you guys are all over the the map.
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  And then I scheduled it. I scheduled Hermann Schrader
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  YouTube to come out at 2:00 central today, 3:00 eastern.
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  So you'll have tons of content. You have a coffee with Kenny
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  from this morning. You have this live stream.
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  You have Hermann Schrader coming out at 2:00 central.
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  You have Austin Dillon Kenny conversation coming out Thursday
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  on podcast and YouTube and I'm guessing Kenny will probably
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  give you a coffee with Kenny tomorrow morning.
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  I'm also visiting Kenny at his shop tomorrow and we're going to
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  shoot something in his shop because I know you guys like
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  those videos where he's tinkering with the car and all
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  that. So there you go.
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  And Grandpa FPV says yay, only four Rd. races.
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  Is that true? Let me go back real quick.
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  Four Rd. races Coda Doo Doo Doo Doo Watkins Glen.
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  San Diego's a street course, Sonoma, obviously a road course,
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  and what am I missing? And the Rovo, we'll call that a
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  road course. I got 5, I got 5.
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  Obviously, Chicago changes from the street course to
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  Chicagoland, but you keep a street course with Chicago
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  basically moving to San Diego. Let me do that one more time.
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  I'm confusing myself. Coda Rd. course.
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  Watkins Glen Rd. course. San Diego Rd. course.
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  St. course. Sonoma Rd. course.
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  Yeah, I got 55. If you're including the
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  Charlotte Roble, are we including the Roble as a true
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  Rd. course? This could be semantics there.
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  Oh, he says. Oh, forgot San Diego.
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  All good. Yeah, so 5 road and St. courses.
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  Vapin bachelor. I do not click bait.
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  This isn't click bait. We just read the schedule.
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  Come on now. All Star Race is now dead.
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  Dover is dead. Roville needs to go to ovals.
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  I agree with that. I'd like to see the Roville as
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  an Oval. I'm not going to agree with you
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  right now on Dover being dead. I know Denny Hamlin didn't like
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  the fact that Dover's going to be the All Star race.
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  He says you need longer runs there for Dover to really show
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  off and scuffed Seam Reaper says I'm going to need more sliders.
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  Green Charlie, what does that mean?
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  What does green mean? Let me know.
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  I'll tell you what. Let me know later.
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  We're all good. Thanks for joining us here.
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  Comment like subscribe 2026 NASCAR Cup Series reveal.
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  There you go. Thank you so much for joining me
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  and we will end stream. One more comment.
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  Rovo will be an Oval in 2027 for moving championship race
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  potential for Charlotte. I like that idea.
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  Agree. Charlotte as an Oval.
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  I like that, too. You're not Kenny.
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  Crybaby Wallace. Just kidding.
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  Oh, there's the clickbait. You thought this was Kenny.
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  I always put Kenny's face in the thumbnail.
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  It's going to be Kenny. I'm sorry I disappointed you.
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  It's just little old me. All right, All right, guys.
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  Thanks so much. We'll see you later.
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  Thanks for your comments. End stream.