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My Take On Harrison Burton's Epic Daytona Win! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Whoa, coffee is a little hot this morning.
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  Happy Sunday morning everybody. I'm in Chico, CA still.
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  My plane takes off at 1:40 today so I got a little time.
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  When Kim and myself booked this ticket, I said let's let's just
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  take it easy. I've already, you know, been
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  here Friday, Saturday, No, no need to get up at 6:00 in the
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  morning. Not not going to run Quincy
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  today. I did that last time.
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  Boy or me out. All right, so listen, we're
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  going to talk about Corey Day winning the Gold Cup right here
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  in Chico at silver Dollar Speedway.
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  But let's get right away to the NASCAR race.
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  My NASCAR thoughts. Listen, Dale Junior and myself
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  now listen, I'm not throwing Dale Junior in with me.
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  I'm just saying we both said cars are going to flip and I and
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  I still believe NASCAR race cars are going to flip.
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  You're just not going to prevent angle of the dangles all the
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  time, Wallace said. Angle of the dangles, phrase of
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  the day, angle of the dangles. So there, there's going to be
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  times where you're not going to stop physics, OK.
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  However, you know, Josh Berry, again, you know they're going to
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  flip. I get that.
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  But you know, you look at Michael McDowell.
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  Michael McDowell, man, I'm going to tell you what that car is
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  going to flip. Thank God Joey Logano's in his
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  window and keeps him from flipping because I believe he he
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  might have tried to leave the ballpark in turns one and two.
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  And I think the last time we saw that happen at the superspeedway
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  was Jimmy Horton way back in the early 1800s going into turn one
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  at, at Talladega. And by the way, I saw Jimmy
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  Horton up in Oswego a couple years ago.
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  He's doing good. All right.
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  So I still think we got an issue with the flipping.
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  Now, listen, respond right here. It could be a deal where it's a
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  coincidence. Wow, what's what a coincidence?
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  Everybody's been flipping a lot the last two NASCAR races.
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  I believe I saw a stat. I believe I saw a stat.
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  This is not my opinion. Respond right here.
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  I think the stat I saw last night was never, never in NASCAR
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  history has NASCAR had back-to-back weeks.
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  Is it a coincidence? So you look at Corey Lajoie last
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  week at, at Michigan where he just, you know, he launches now
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  he calls that himself 'cause he run into Noah Graxton, Corey
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  Lajoie at Michigan right in front, he runs into, runs into
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  Noah Graxton. He kind of launches his car.
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  So I kind of think that's, that was Corey's deal.
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  He kind of started it, but the car did lift up awfully easy.
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  All right, so NASCAR goes back this week and said we we got
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  some, we got some aerodynamic data from the wind tunnel.
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  We going to put a little Wicker bill for Daytona this week.
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  So they go to flipping again. But this is the first time in
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  NASCAR history I believe respond right here.
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  It's fine if I'm wrong. Listen, it's not important that
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  I'm right. I'm just saying I, I think I saw
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  the stat and they said they'd done their due diligence.
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  They looked through the history of NASCAR, first time in NASCAR
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  history that back-to-back weeks. Coral Joy flips last week,
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  flipping this week. So anyway, all right, enough of
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  the flipping stuff. All I'm saying is cars are going
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  to flip, however, seems like there's a lot of flipping going
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  on lately. Is is it is it just a
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  coincidence? Respond right here because I
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  know that you know everything you know because because you
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  watching while you're drinking beer on the couch.
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  I then so Harrison Burton. I agree with his dad, Jeff.
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  He earned it. Listen, they are going to wreck
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  in every one of those races at Daytona and Talladega.
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  The key is to make it to the end.
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  Remember what Dick Trickle said, You must first finish to finish
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  first. So you know there was a time
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  that if you made it to the end of the Daytona and Talladega
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  race, that meant you was you was a good driver because you knew
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  how to you knew how to navigate not wrecking out.
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  That's bullshit. That's bullshit.
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  You're going to wreck just because because somebody pushes
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  the leader, which is Michael McDowell.
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  They go into turn one, somebody pushes the leader and spins him
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  out. Michael McDowell, leading the
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  race by himself, gets spun out and wrecks the field.
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  What are you going to do? You you don't got to be good to
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  navigate that. You got to be lucky to miss that
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  damn wreck. So that, that deal of, oh, he's
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  a good superspeedway racer. Well, that's fine as long as you
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  don't wreck out. So and it, I've changed my mind
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  the old days when I raced, I'm an old man, I'm 61.
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  When I raced, you could get away from people, you know, five cars
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  would take off and there's a 5 car breakaway.
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  They've got a straightaway on the field here in Daytona. 6th
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  or 10th are five. You know, we had that all the
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  time. We had that in our day.
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  So nowadays you don't get away from nobody.
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  So somebody farts while they're leading the race.
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  Whole field going to smell it. Oh, look, the leader farted.
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  20th place smells it because he's on his ass.
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  That was good. That was good, That was good.
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  All right, get off my ass. If I fart, you go smell my fart.
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  And that's the way it is superspeedway racing cause the
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  leaders here and twenty of those two feet back.
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  So Harrison Burton, here's my point.
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  Harrison Burton deserved the win.
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  That was not a fluke win. Here's why it was not a fluke
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  win. It was not a fluke win because
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  he was side by side with Kyle Busch.
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  And here's the other thing that's crazy.
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  This Parker rats rats lift. I meant this kid at Houston a
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  couple years ago. Remember last it was last year.
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  Remember last year when I drove that cars Tour race for Dale
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  Junior? Dale Junior and me got to
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  talking and Junior goes Herman come run the cars Tour race.
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  So I go to tri-county to test. Well, we get rained out, but as
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  I'm on my way back down 40 EI stopped at Hickory 'cause they
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  running the ASA race and this little skinny kid gets to
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  talking to me. It's Parker.
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  And like you're a race car driver.
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  It was so tiny, so skinny. That kid was who pushed Jet
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  Harrison Burton to the wind last night.
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  That Parker Ratzliff, that little skinny kid growed up a
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  little bit. Now he pushed Harrison Burton to
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  the wind past the big teams. Now, now if that don't cry,
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  these cars are equal like Mark Martin's Mark Martin go back to
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  catching up with Mark Martin last week he said, Herman,
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  they're going to wreck. Same motors, same cars, double
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  foul restart parody beyond belief.
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  So you got Parker Ratcliffe in a in a OK team, but not a super
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  powerhouse team. By the way, he finished 7th.
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  Parker finished 7th. He pushed Harrison Burton past,
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  you know, Kyle Busch, how I was like this.
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  I thought Kyle Busch is going to win this damn race because they
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  knocked everybody out. But then all of a sudden behind
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  Kyle Busch was Christopher Bell, one of the best things.
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  So on the inside lane you had, you had Kyle Busch and
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  Christopher Bell to the fastest race cars right now because RCR
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  has found something. Richard Children's Racing hasn't
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  found something they're back. It was all engineer related.
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  So on that inside lane you had you had Kyle Busch and you had
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  Christopher Bell and on the outside lane you had two guys
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  that have not hit their ass all year long.
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  That's that's just fun. Harrison Burton and Parker
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  Ratcliffe outrun Kyle Busch and and and and Christopher Bell.
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  Are you kidding me? It happened.
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  That's why Harrison deserved to win.
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  And Harrison made some daredevil news coming to the checkered
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  flag. Yes, he did.
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  I believe. And listen how we broke it down.
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  I told my Charlie Marlow. I told Charlie.
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  I said, Charlie, go back to the Jeff Burton Kenny conversation.
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  I said, I believe we talk. We talk about the struggles of
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  Harrison and I said clip that and get let's get that up today
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  because Jeff Burton does talk about Harrison struggle because
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  Harrison Burton, who won last night, he came up winning
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  everything on the short tracks, the the the stock cars, the late
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  model stock cars. Then he wanted, you know,
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  believe the Bush series. So Harrison's real deal.
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  However, you know, he might be just like a Joey Logano.
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  When Joey was at, at, you know, the, the Joe Gibbs teamwork, he
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  struggled. Joey Logano struggled and Joe
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  Gibbs like, I don't want this Joey Logano.
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  Rodger Penske says I'll take him.
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  He's ready now. So maybe it might be a deal
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  where Harrison might be ready pretty soon and some other
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  coroner get the benefits. So Harrison, Harrison learns the
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  race, goes through the struggles, and then somebody
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  reaps the benefits and says I'll take Harrison now.
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  Now I don't see Harrison with a incredible team, but I believe
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  Harrison now, now I've changed my mind because he won last
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  night. That puts him in a different
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  dynamic. Listen, my career could have
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  went through the roof if I could have won One Cup race.
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  Because when you win 1 Cup race, hey, listen, this win by
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  Harrison Burton, he's going to go down in the history books
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  because he won Ford, what, their 100th race, something like that.
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  There's some stat there. Tell me the stat because once
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  again, you know everything. Wallace being snarky this
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  morning. So we're having fun.
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  So that that win last night was unbelievable for all the reasons
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  I just told you that inside lane, come on, Christopher Bell,
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  Kyle Busch versus these children on the outside.
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  I mean, I mean, kids, we're talking 2020 year old kids with,
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  you know, OK, cars. All right, everybody, I I talked
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  about the flipping. I talked about why Harrison
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  Burke deserved the win. And let me just tell you about
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  last night. It's going to be short and
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  sweet. Remember when Kyle Larson and
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  Christopher Bell came along and we're like where those guys come
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  from? They come from open wheel dirt
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  racing. Last night here in Chico, CA,
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  Silver Dollar Speedway. The next phenomenon is on his
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  way. It was Corey Day.
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  This kid destroyed the field. Nobody had nothing for him.
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  Every time they drop the green flag after a caution, there was
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  a time he had like 1/2 a lap against the best, against Rico,
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  against Brad Suite, you name it. So this Corey Day is the real
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  deal. He's he's 18 years old and he's
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  already won this, this Gold Cup back-to-back it paid $100,000 to
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  win. So Corey Day is coming to you.
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  He Hendrick was smart. Kyle Larson told Rick Hendrick.
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  Hendrick said, well, let's get him signed up.
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  So Corey Day is already running ARCA and watch out for him.
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  He's only 18. Calm down, calm down.
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  I'm just saying he's coming. Look for him to be in the Cub
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  series. I'd say five years, 18/19/2022,
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  maybe 4-5 years. But I've I've he'll be there.
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  What else? Dirt side live.
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  The reason I came out here. Hey Wallace, where'd you go out
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  there for? You know how we do trackside
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  live at the NASCAR tracks. We did a dirtside live here, all
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  Brad Sweets idea and buddy, we hit a home run.
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  We tested it. We tested a dirtside live.
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  We did one at Texas and it was big.
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  So Brad's got this. Brad Sweet and his wife, Rachel
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  and the Larsons, Kyle Larson, Caitlin Larson, a mom to dad,
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  Don Sweet, everybody. They got this high limit deal
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  going. So it was a show.
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  There was so much stuff going on every everywhere you looked
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  there was something going on. But Dirtside Live was awesome
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  because we interviewed some of the greatest open wheel dirt
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  racers of all time. A buddy.
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  We had a good time. The fans were laughing.
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  They were oh so good time. They sang me happy birthday too.
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  All right everybody see you later.
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  I'll probably, I'm probably going to go Charleston, IL
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  Saturday next week because all my local tracks are shut down
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  next week. So probably Charleston, IL
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  Saturday next week, Quincy on Sunday.
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  All right, I'm right. I miss Kim, I miss my wife.
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  I'm on my way home.