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Are All The Older Drivers Coming Back To Race NASCAR? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning to everybody.
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  All right, we have something brewing in the NASCAR Cup Series
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  right now. I believe you're going to see
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  little by little the older NASCAR drivers wanting to run
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  one of these next Gen. cars. I want to say thank you to
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  everybody that has really been upset about brother Mike not
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  being able to run the Daytona 500.
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  However, you know, NASCAR has said to everybody, look, you can
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  run Daytona, but you have to run a smaller track 1st and so on
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  and so forth. So, you know, we see Kasey Kahne
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  going back to run the Xfinity Series at Rockingham.
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  He's already went there and tested.
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  So does that mean Kasey Kahne's getting ready to make a Next
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  Gen. race, you know, in the future?
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  You heard it here first. So what NASCAR does is they go,
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  oh, you can run Daytona. But what you got to do is you
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  got to do what we tell you to do first.
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  You got to start working your way back up.
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  So look for Kasey Kahne in the near future.
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  Maybe, maybe not. But Kasey Kahne is, like I said,
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  I'm reminding you all, Kasey Kahne is running the NASCAR
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  Xfinity race at Rockingham. Sure, we know it's to get some,
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  sell some tickets, you know, and, and get some fans in the
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  stands at Rockingham. We know that's what that's
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  about. However, though, once Kasey runs
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  that intermediate track, that kind of starts setting him up to
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  qualify him if he wants to run the Next Gen. car somewhere
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  else. Now we see Casey Mears, you
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  know, is going to run Martinsville in Carl Long's car.
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  Now, that was the car that Mike was supposed to run at Daytona.
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  So I think what you're seeing is I see, I think you're seeing
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  Casey Mears. He you know, he runs the small
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  track. He's doing what NASCAR's telling
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  them to do. Now, I don't know anything.
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  I'm just saying that all of a sudden there's a little bit of
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  talk now I'm I'm scrolling X this morning and I'm hearing
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  some chirping about Bobby the Bonnie.
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  I don't know, I don't know. I'm just saying I see, I see
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  some chirping. Bobby Labonte, he still has it.
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  Now here's what happens. Everybody, you know, gets burnt
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  out running NASCAR and they let about 5-6 years go by and they
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  go, hey, I like NASCAR again. So all I'm saying is keep your
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  antennas up. You got I'm starting to make a
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  list. I'm starting to make a list.
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  Casey Kahne, Casey Mears, Bobby Labonte.
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  You see where I'm going with this respond right here.
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  Who's the next driver? Who's the next driver that's
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  going to say I miss NASCAR? It was me a couple years ago.
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  I told remember my story. I told Dale Junior.
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  I said Junior, I got to run one more Xfinity race and Junior
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  said, Oh no, you're going to run a Cars Tour race for me.
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  And I said all right, so I scratched that itch.
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  Well, I've taken that Mucinex X12 hour release and it really
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  helped me. But just a little cough right
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  there. I'm feeling a lot better.
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  OK, another big story in the garage area.
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  Man, oh man, how about Denny Hamlin?
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  We're changing stories. By the way, this is a new story.
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  How about Denny Hamlin and what is going on with NASCAR?
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  I mean, I know we talked about it, but all of a sudden NASCAR
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  comes out yesterday. Well, Fox Sports does through
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  over 3 million people watch on cable.
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  That's the key there. You know, when when racing's on
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  the rabbit ears and we get these 4 million viewers, we're like,
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  well, that should be because it's on rabbit ears, you know,
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  just your local channel. But now over 3 million people
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  watching on cable. What's going on?
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  Respond right here. Why is NASCAR making this rapid?
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  In other words, why this year? So, you know, we ended last year
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  looking pretty good, but this year something happened.
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  You know what's kind of funny? I think when Fox does all those
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  IndyCar commercials, I think it cross pollinates.
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  That means it helps grow everything.
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  I think with, I think with Fox Sports promote an IndyCar making
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  all those kick ass commercials. They're also promoting NASCAR.
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  So instead of seeing, you know, maybe a NASCAR commercial, now
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  you're seeing an IndyCar commercial.
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  And I think it makes people think, oh, racing.
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  So in, you know, here I'm just going to exaggerate.
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  Instead of 10 NASCAR commercials, well, you add 10
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  more IndyCar commercials. Now you got 20 racing
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  commercials. So now you've seen all these
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  racing commercials. So respond right here.
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  Be part of the conversation. All I can tell you is NASCAR's
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  booming right now in 2025. And I just gave you a little
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  reason why I think all the commercials that the finishes
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  are really good. The weather has been out of
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  sight. I mean, wow, have we, you know,
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  hey, knock, knock on wood, knock on wood.
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  The the weather's been incredible.
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  We had that little weather delay at Daytona.
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  And to prove my point, look at Progressive Insurance.
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  Progressive Insurance looks over there and they just spent
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  millions and millions and more millions of dollars sponsoring
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  Denny Hamlin. So everybody wants to be part of
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  NASCAR right now. That's my headline.
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  Everybody wants to be part of NASCAR.
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  So there's there, there's Denny Hamlin, Progressive Insurance
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  for 18 races. That's almost half the year.
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  So that's really good because now Denny and you fans, me, me
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  included, we can go, oh, that's the Progressive car. 18 races is
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  just enough to go. Oh, that's, that's Denny because
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  he's in the progressive car. When you start doing like 8
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  races here and 10 races there, it's like, who's that 18 races?
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  All right, everybody, the drivers want to come back to
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  NASCAR. The the sponsors are coming
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  back. NASCAR's on a high right now.
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  Respond right here. All right.
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  Have a great Wednesday, everybody.