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My Daytona 500 Memories | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Daytona 500 Sunday. Well, if I'm ever going to do a
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  coffee with Kenny, today is the day.
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  This is the biggest NASCAR race we have of the year.
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  Did you know? Did you know this is the 67th
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  running of the Daytona 500 and the first winner of the Daytona
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  500 was Lee Petty. Lee Petty, the father of Richard
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  Petty, the grandpa of Kyle Petty.
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  Did you know last year the Daytona 500 winner was who was
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  it? Everybody.
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  It was a Hendrick driver, William Byron.
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  So I just got done telling you who was the first winner of the
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  Daytona 500 at the racetrack at the Daytona Motor Speedway.
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  Not the beach, Not the beach. Listen, it's early in the
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  morning. Don't don't start, OK?
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  You're already on your phone. I'm going to prove him wrong.
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  It's a calm down, everybody. It's a nice, nice morning.
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  We are celebrating the Daytona 500.
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  When I was a kid, we'd say it's the Daytona 500 by STPSTP.
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  Is the racer's edge OK? Can you respond right here and
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  tell me how many Daytona 5 hundreds I have raced in?
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  I don't know. All I can tell you is this.
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  I can tell you some stories. My very first Daytona 500, I'll
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  never forget it. What was it, 93?
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  I think it was 1993 and I'm getting ready to run the race
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  and I'll never forget I was, you know, starting towards the rear
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  of the field. I qualified my way in at that
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  time. It was the twin 120 fives.
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  And I'll never forget Mark Martin.
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  He looked at me and he's very serious and Mark Martin, said
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  Herman, 'cause you know, we were tight.
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  We came out of ASA together. Of course, Mark is a little
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  older than me, made it to Daytona, made it to NASCAR
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  before me. And he said, Herman, your goal
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  should be to finish in the top 20.
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  That's what he told me. Mark Martin in my first Daytona
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  500. Hey, you know what?
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  I just told you something I'm I'm thinking about.
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  I want to go back just a minute actually.
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  Actually, I made it to NASCAR before Mark Martin 1984.
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  I don't know. Did Mark make it?
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  Did NASCAR before me? I'm trying to figure that out.
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  His first NASCAR Cup race was Nashville.
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  Think he said QuickTime. I think Mark, I think respond
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  right here. Let's have fun together.
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  This is not a competition. I'm going to say it again.
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  It's a happy day. This is not a competition coffee
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  with Kenny as all of us together, we're one big old
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  happy family. Respond right here.
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  Was Mark Martin's first NASCAR race at the Nashville
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  Fairgrounds and was he on pole? Did Mark Martin set QuickTime?
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  What I'm thinking though is in 1984 I became a NASCAR Cup crew
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  chief for the Levi Garrett team. But way before then I was a crew
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  member with Rusty and we did a one off.
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  We went down to Daytona to qualify for the Daytona 500.
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  Like 19811982. Rusty wrecked violently in the
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  Twin 120 fives. See if you can find any pictures
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  and show them right here. In the Twin 125 Rusty flipped
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  violently off at turn 2. I remember Rusty was racing
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  Richard Petty and Rick Mast. Rick Mast was in the no not Rick
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  Mast Rick. God I forgot his name.
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  But anyway Rusty was racing Richard Petty and the number 4
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  Kodak car. Not not Ernie and not Sterling,
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  but they got into Rusty and the rear spunning out coming off
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  tattoo and Rusty flipped violently.
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  So who was that driver? Rick, somebody respond right
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  here. These are some of my Daytona 500
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  memories. 1984 was my first Daytona 500 memory as a, you
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  know, just as on the starting field as a crew chief.
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  So many great memories for me for from Daytona.
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  What are your Daytona memories? Respond right here.
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  Did you go down as a family? I did.
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  Tell me your Daytona 500 memories right here.
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  My Daytona 500 memory Dad proudly.
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  My dad Russ Wallace. We lost dad.
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  Dad's gone now. He died October 30th, 2011 of a
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  massive heart attack. Miss my dad every day I pray
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  about my dad every time I get in my dirt car and get ready to
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  start. So I got a picture of my dad
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  right there in my dirt car every time every year a picture of my
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  mom and dad and me. But one of my Daytona 500
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  memories was dad. My dad was a proud man, so he
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  bought a Ford Lincoln Town Car. Big, old, beautiful, brand new.
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  It was yellow. And here we are.
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  We take off out of Arnold MO Mom mom, if you're listening to
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  this, you'll remember. So Rusty and Mike were fighting
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  all the time. They fought the whole damn trip.
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  So we leave Arnold, MO and we take off for speed weeks and I'm
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  maybe I'm 810 years old, maybe. And Rusty and Mike were in that
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  big back seat. We're we're, you know, it's a
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  1516 hour trip going through Atlanta.
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  We love racing. We're local racers at this time.
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  And I ended up the whole trip being up in the that thing that
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  that Lincoln Town Car was so big that I was up in the back glass.
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  That's how much room there was. You know, there's a shelf behind
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  the back seat and in the glass and Rusty Mike just fought their
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  whole ass off this constantly. Of course, Mom and Dad were up
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  front. We get to Daytona and that was
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  the race that I believe. Who was it?
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  I know Benny Parsons won because I was it the race that they all
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  wrecked at the end and Benny Parsons won in the number 72
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  King's Row car respond right here.
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  Benny Parsons was your Daytona 500 winner in the number 72 gold
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  and white because I built the model King's Row.
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  I maybe that was a fireplace company.
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  So today we're celebrating the Daytona 500 and I encourage you
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  all to be happy. I encourage you all to
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  understand that this has been the best start start.
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  This has been the best start in NASCAR in 20 years.
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  Viewership is way up. We did a Kenny Wallace show on
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  Saturday evening. It was very good on Thursday
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  night. Listen to this On Thursday night
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  we had 1.8 million more viewers that we've had in years.
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  I think it was the biggest Thursday night viewership for
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  the Duels, 1.8 million more up 1.8 million.
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  So no, 1.8 million people watched.
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  Excuse me, 1.8 million people watched the Duels that that's a
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  big deal setter. More people watched qualifying
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  on Wednesday night. Every single race has been
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  unbelievable. They have ended with massive
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  wrecks coming to the checkered flag.
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  Hey, listen, you can't blame that on NASCAR.
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  Blame that on the drivers. That's the drivers wanting to
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  win so bad. The duels were won by Bubba
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  Wallace and Austin Syndrich side by side.
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  Throw the caution because they're wrecking.
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  The truck race was unbelievable. Reckon the Xfinity race was
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  unbelievable. They were wrecking every, every
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  race. Hey, be ready.
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  Be ready, everybody. The Daytona 500 should end up
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  under caution whether we like it or not.
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  It's not NASCAR's fault. We've done, we've done been down
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  that road. We've done been down that road.
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  Once they take the white flag, the race is over.
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  And if you think that is bad, just remember this for almost
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  over 40 years, every single NASCAR race, even in the good
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  old days, everybody in the good old days, every NASCAR race
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  ended under caution. If there was 4 to go and the
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  caution came out, they'd go around that mean 3 laps ago.
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  They'd go around that mean two laps ago, they'd go around mean
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  one lap to go and they'd be under caution for 45 years and
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  they'd come around under real slow pace and they'd throw the
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  checkered flag. So be ready.
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  These drivers want to win the Daytona 500 really bad.
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  It most likely going to end at speed.
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  At speed. They're going to be wrecking off
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  at Turn 4. They trained us.
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  They're going to be coming off at Turn 4.
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  They're going to wreck their ass off and they're going to be.
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  And they're the cautions coming out and we've got cameras and
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  that's why we're going to watch everyone.
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  You know the rules going into it.
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  We know the rules. The Xfinity race ended under
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  caution. Jesse love, congratulations.
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  Justin Allgar turn left and all hell broke loose.
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  Truck race, every race, every race they wrecked their ass off.
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  So TuneIn today it's going to be it's going to be exciting and
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  this is Daytona and these these race car drivers are going to do
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  whatever it takes to win the Daytona 500.
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  This is our biggest race. Happy Sunday, everybody.
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  Tell me your Daytona 500 story right here.