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Did NASCAR Throw The Caution Too Early? · Kenny Wallace Media

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  All right, that Michigan race is over.
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  It was rained away, so they starved the race on Sunday and
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  they had to finish it on this beautiful Monday.
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  And I'm going to tell you what, usually when they drop the green
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  flag on a Sunday race and they go, OK, let's restart it on a
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  Monday. Usually it's a calmer race
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  because everybody has the jitters out of them.
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  However, this race had it all, man, they wrecked their butt
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  off. How about Kyle Larson gets loose
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  in front of everybody in the middle of turns 3 and 4, takes
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  out a load of great race cars, takes out Joey Logano, Bubba
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  Wallace, a lot of other ones. But Kyle Larson says, man, there
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  was a lot of grip. I just got loose and I
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  apologize. That was one wreck.
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  So the reason we're going to do a Kenny Wallace show on this
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  Michigan races, buddy. It had it all, and here's what
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  it had had. Controversy, controversy.
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  Herminator rotors and notes down.
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  Let's let's talk about the winner of the race right now,
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  Tyler Reddick. Tyler Reddick wins the race.
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  He deserved the win. He was the fastest car.
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  So no doubt that Tyler Reddick is the winner.
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  But what we want to talk about is the controversy at hand.
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  What is going on with NASCAR right now?
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  Two to go, 4 to go. Somebody barely gets in the wall
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  caution. They, they, they throw that
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  caution boy, they just caution flag.
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  Oh, look, look, somebody touches the wall caution.
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  I've always believed that late in a race, society hits the
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  wall. There's got to be debris on the
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  racetrack. Now, you might not agree with
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  this, but listen, here are the herminators.
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  Again, this is for the people that don't know me very well.
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  My name is Kenny Wallace and I raced in 905 NASCAR races and
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  here's the way it works. NASCAR employs what they call
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  spotters. So they have spotters around the
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  racetrack. And if they think that when
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  Martin Truex late in this race, OK, four to go, Martin Truex
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  gets loose running about fourth or fifth respond right here
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  since once again, you know it all, Wallace is snarky again.
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  So Truex gets loose, chases it and hits the wall pretty hard
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  because they play the in car camera and you can see he hits
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  it really hard. Well, Tyler Reddick's going to
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  win again. Remember Tyler Reddick?
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  His owner is Denny Hamlin and the great Michael Jordan, the
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  greatest basketball player of all time.
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  If you don't think he's the greatest, respond right here,
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  LeBron. LeBron James is the greatest.
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  No, he's not. Michael Jordan is.
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  Listen, the reason LeBron plays is because of Michael Jordan.
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  So Michael Jordan owns Tyler Reddick's race car, had had
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  McDonald's on it, it looked good, showed up good today's but
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  but Tyler Reddick wins at Talladega about 3 months ago
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  with Michael Jordan there, right?
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  Michael Jordan was at the race at Talladega.
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  Well, Michael Jordan was at the race yesterday on Sunday, but it
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  rains out so he goes home. Michael, he might have had
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  something to do today, so we can't rough him up too bad.
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  Michael Jordan might have had something to do on this Monday.
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  He goes home and his car wins today.
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  So it would have been good because that's a different
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  sponsor. You know, when Tyler Reddick won
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  the race at Talladega, it had the Air Jordan Schwartz on it.
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  Michael's, you know, Nike, they sponsored it, but this time it
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  was McDonald's. So it would have been good to
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  see Michael Jordan in Victor Lane.
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  But you know, once again, the quick caution is that is NASCAR
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  guilty of throwing the caution flag too quick?
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  Yes, yes, they are. But the spotters that I told you
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  about, NASCAR employs these spotters.
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  Their job is to go breaker 19. I see debris on the racetrack.
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  That's my mouse, by the way. So these spotters job are to
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  say, OK, you know, Martin Trux hits the wall, there's debris
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  and that debris could be dangerous.
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  It could flatten other people's tires.
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  So listen, I think they do throw the caution flag a little fast.
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  I think where there could have been debris is in no man's land
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  anyway. It's up there 3 feet from the
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  wall. I don't know if there was debris
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  or not. That is a conversation right
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  here for all of you respond right here in this timeline.
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  Did you see debris when Martin trucks hit that wall?
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  I just say yes, I think NASCAR gets a little caution flag happy
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  because there's an old saying there's nothing better in a
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  NASCAR race than a caution flag to wad them all up for them to
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  try to wreck again because that, my friends, is called a show.
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  Oh Lord, OK, but anyway, it ends up not mattering.
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  Of course it does matter because it causes another wreck.
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  They go green flag they and and William Byron comes off.
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  So let's talk about what the caution did do the caution flag
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  did make a more exciting finish #2 it, it made William Byron
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  when they went green after the caution and made Byron get
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  loose, which was his fault. That was all Williams fault, not
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  the caution flag. But he hit the wall and in
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  return that took out Ross Chastain.
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  I want to talk about that in a minute.
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  Ross Chastain spins out because of Byron getting in the wall.
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  Chain reaction. And now here we go again, Ross
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  Chastain stuck in the grass with that damn race car.
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  I'm going to go ahead and say it right now, then I'll go back.
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  Here's my opinion. NASCAR needs to make a new rule.
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  If you get stuck in the grass with this new turtle shell
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  bottom car and the pace car comes around and laps you, you
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  get your lap back, respond right here.
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  That is not their fault. That's NASCAR's fault.
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  They built a race car that if you get a flat tower, you can't
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  leave because the car's here. You get a flat tower goes here
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  and and the car's dragging the grass.
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  The car's dragging and it can't even go.
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  So that, listen, that's the one. I'm sure there's more, but
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  that's one design that NASCAR didn't see.
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  They got to adjust that rule. So I know NASCAR is watching
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  this right now. Listen, I'm a lover.
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  I'm not a complainer. We're just, listen, we love this
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  sport. We talk about what we see.
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  A man should be able to spin out and have a flat tire.
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  I'm going to say, I'm going to say a man or a lady ought to be
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  able to spin out in the grass and then they cut the grass and
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  it's not wet and you should be able to take off.
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  You cannot take off because this car drags ass and it stuck it.
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  You can even see when you can see Ross Chastain's shield.
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  It's kind of barely like this. And when they went to the in car
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  camera, he went because he knew it.
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  He couldn't get back around and get a good finish because he
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  knew he was stuck. So he's like you could see his
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  face through through his tinted shield.
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  He's like God. So he's like push me, push me.
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  So anyway, let's go through it real quick.
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  I, I addressed a quick caution flag.
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  Yes, I think they're quick on it.
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  OK, Michael Jordan should have stayed the caution flag was all
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  for Naughty because Reddick wins the race anyway.
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  See, this whole this whole caution towards the end of the
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  race, you know, last week at Richmond when Stenhouse and
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  Priest got together and caused a real caution.
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  I mean, they wrecked their asses off.
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  That was a real caution. And then that caused all the
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  drama of the three of Austin Dillon, you know, getting
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  roughed up at the end of the race and not being able to
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  advance into the playoffs. So that's where all this comes
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  from. It's like, you know, why all
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  these cautions at the end? Well, and it's weird too, right?
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  Because they'll be running 30 laps and everybody, everybody
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  strung out. Everybody strung out.
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  It's like no big deal. All of a sudden some some guy
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  wrecks. Like why did you wreck with four
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  laps to go? Why?
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  That man had a straightaway lead.
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  Let him win the race. Respond right here.
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  Damn, that hat looks good. Don't wear that thing very much.
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  I, I, I save these hats for the race tracks.
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  Get yourself one, jigs.com. Get yourself for sure, jigs.com.
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  They probably have some of my die casts left too.
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  That was my super late model. OK, quick cautions.
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  Stuck in the grass, debris. Car flipping.
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  Car flipping. All right, Randy, Lajoie, you
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  know, they made a big deal out about it, and that's why I'm
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  reporting on it. Look, the Hermitian reports on
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  what he sees. OK, here's what I saw.
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  I saw that Lajoie does it himself.
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  I'll listen. I love him.
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  I love him. He's my buddy.
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  But they had a pissing match going on there, as you saw on
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  TV. He run in the back of whoever
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  the hell that was. I got brain fade.
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  Tell me right now. So then they come around another
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  lap. So what happens?
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  They come off at two and and Corey gets this big run.
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  Bam Smith, instead of passing him, hits him hard.
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  OK, so then we come around another lap.
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  Now, now, now he's got this big run and he barely, he barely
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  nips him. He tried to side draft.
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  So he did this on his own. Well, but what he didn't do,
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  it's like when I say a man this, this is what Sterling Marlin
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  used to say. A man ought to be able to spin
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  out every once in a while. He ain't perfect.
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  Well, a man ought to be able to just spin out.
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  Well, when, when he went to get back the car in front of him, he
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  he, oh, I knew who it was. It was the 10 car.
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  Noah Graxson. Thank you.
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  You can also include yourself in here.
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  But it was Noah Graxson. So Corey Lajoie, Noah Graxson,
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  they're in this little pissing match.
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  So he comes back, Corey is going to side draft and he misjudged
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  and and Corey took his right front and ran in to Noah Graxson
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  and he starts to spin and his car flips up, starts flipping
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  and everybody screams they shouldn't have done that.
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  That's NASCAR's fault. We hate NASCAR.
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  That shouldn't have happened. People love just being mean to
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  NASCAR. The car flips and now let's
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  blame it on NASCAR. Don't blame it on Corey ass
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  packing. You know Noah.
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  So Corey started it on his own. But yes, you're right.
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  The car should have never flipped.
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  The reason the car is flipping by the way, NASCAR, I was going
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  to use it. NASCAR sent me a thank you card.
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  NASCAR Foundation. I did the charity ride and thank
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  you, Nicole. They sent me a nice little thank
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  you, sent me a nice little thank you and anyway, I was going to
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  use this. I'm going to use this as a car.
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  So the bottom of these new cup cars look like this.
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  I call them turtle shells because a turtle has a smooth
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  bottom. Well, when Corey went like this,
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  these cars are smooth, so it's a maximum air, so it creates a
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  lift. See, the roof flaps worked
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  better on the old car because the old car had a messy bottom.
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  Air could bleed through. Now with this turtle shell, when
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  it starts to lift up, you get air.
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  Here, the roof flaps kind of pulled it over a little bit.
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  You know, I'm just so listen, respond right here if I don't
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  know what I'm talking about. Everybody says that I do know
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  what I'm talking about. But that turtle shell bottom,
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  once you lift it, you see it on the Indycars, you see it on the
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  Indycars, that smooth surface that makes cars more
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  aerodynamically efficient. But, but it's those smooth
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  bottoms are meant not the cars. It's the smooth bottoms are not
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  meant to be tilted up because then then they get maximum lift
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  like a parachute. So anyway, I wanted to address
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  that and I think that's it. Everybody this Monday race had
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  it all. And listen, I want to say this.
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  That was a legit rain out. That was scary weather yesterday
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  there in Michigan. You're just going to have this.
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  But look, if it was a dirt race, you'd have never even thought
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  about raining. The beauty of asphalt is you can
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  drive a track and keep going. So that race in Michigan
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  yesterday, that was a that was an ugly scene.
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  It was very dark and they just got flat rained out.
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  But buddy, a day later it was worth it.
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  That was some exciting racing. You can't help that you know
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  Martin Truex hits the wall. He he does hit the wall.
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  Was there debris respond right here.
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  If there was debris, where is it?
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  I didn't see it, but this this is about breaking the race down.
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  But was there debris? Respond right here.
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  I say they are. I'm going to end like this.
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  I say NASCAR is a little quick to the caution flag and in their
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  defense, they want to see a show.
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  But but here's the deal. They got to be careful throwing
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  this caution flag. But that will hold up in court.
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  NASCAR throwing the caution flag will hold up in court because
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  Martin Trucks did pound the wall and there was dust and I did see
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  a little piece of something black.
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  There's gambling is legal now. Gambling is legal.
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  If you go back to the Kenny conversation with Tony Stewart
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  two years ago, Tony Stewart said NASCAR's got to be careful with
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  fake cautions because it it changes the outcome.
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  So in NASCAR's defense, I don't think they're going to be
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  throwing any more fake caution flags.
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  Respond right here. However, this will hold up in
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  court because somebody did pound the wall.
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  Shit was flying. And I saw a little something
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  black. I'm an attorney.
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  way to work, and it's Monday, so listen to this on the way home
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  until the next Kenny Wallace show.
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  We got one of my local racing nemesis, Rick Kenoyer.
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  Rick's won eight races this year.
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  Shout out to the locals. Why does Rick Kenoyer want to
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  outrun me so bad? His answer is heartfelt.
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  So, so sorry about Bloomer losing his life.
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  That's another story. Some stuff's going to be coming
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  out on Bloomer. That's a little innuendo.
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  There's going to be some stuff coming out on Bloomer.
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  Don't know when everybody knows about it.
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  Everybody knows. Quit acting like you don't know.
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  The complete racing community knows.
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  All right, that's it. Everybody got more.
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  This will be our third installment of Catching Up with
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  the Great Race Car Drivers. All right, that's the report
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  from Michigan. Tell me about that caution flag.
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  Should they have thrown the caution flag?
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  Respond right here.