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Jade Avedisian is The First Woman To Win a CARS Tour Race | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning, everybody. Would you look at that Sunoco
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  decal that I brought with me? I barely got it sticking on
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  All right, breaking news in the garage area.
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  So excited. Years ago there was this little
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  girl that caught my eye. I was in Jacksonville, IL and I
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  I called her a little girl at the time, Jade Avedisian.
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  We had Jade on Kenny conversation a couple years ago.
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  She's grown up, become a full blown lady now.
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  Mind you I have three daughters so I know the difference between
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  a girl and a lady. When I saw Jade, she was driving
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  the hell out of that open wheel Midget and what impressed me
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  with her right away was that when the track was rough, she
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  she knew how to keep that open wheel Midget from biking and
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  flipping. She ran good that night at at
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  Jacksonville, IL. She didn't win, but she ran
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  really good and we took a picture her she was parked next
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  to me and I, I didn't know it was even a girl running.
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  You know that that open wheel Midget, So I got a big kick out
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  of it because I'm a girl dad. I have three daughters and I'm
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  like, damn, this girl's good. I never heard of her, but what a
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  name. Jade Avedisian AV I'm not even
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  going to try Jade Avedisian. So anyway, Fast forward, she she
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  starts winning open wheel Midget races.
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  I think she won a championship. Then she moved on to asphalt
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  racing and her talent was so good that Toyota said we're
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  going to back this. This lady, now she's a lady.
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  I think she's maybe 20 years old maybe.
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  I know she's not that old whatsoever.
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  Respond right here. How old is Jade?
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  So last night and was it New River Speedway for the cars Tour
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  race? J David Dizzine runs second
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  against the big guys. She ran good pro late models.
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  Pro late models. I think pro late models are
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  super late models. Anyway, don't matter.
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  Respond right here. I watched the highlights, I
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  watched, I watched the the other race.
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  What was it? Connor Hall 1, Connor Hill.
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  I'm learning all these guys names, but he's a hell of a
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  race. Bobby McCarty started his own
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  team and he runs second. But anyway, it it was a hell of
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  a night of racing for Dale Junior and his series, Cars
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  Tour, you know, Harvick, Justin Marks, Jeff Burton.
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  So those four Cup drivers have really invested in that.
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  So the Cars Tour series is owned by Dale Junior, Kevin Harvick,
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  Jeff Burton, Justin Marks, little Carson Elige over there.
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  Carson, Ella, She's showing up. She's everywhere now.
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  She's on dirty MO medium Herman, get to the damn point.
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  Start. Didn't lose my wife to start
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  talking about everything. Jade runs second last night,
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  right? The winner, Troy Decaire, kind
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  of a French named Decaire DECAIRE.
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  Troy Decaire won the race, but when they went through tech
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  inspection right away went across the scales had too much
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  left side weight that made that made Jade Evidesian the winner.
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  She won. She flat out won.
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  But the forget about the you know the the guy being too heavy
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  or or too much left side weight. She runs second, she run good.
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  They had a late race restart. She started front or outside and
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  you know those guys on short tracks they did.
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  So she had to get down. So go to the Cars Tour series or
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  go to Flow Racing. You can go to X and see the
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  highlights right now or probably even on Facebook or even
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  Instagram. But I was really impressed just
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  with her restart where you know, she's front row outside, you
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  know, it's like a green white checkered, you know, the guy 2nd
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  row inside's going to try to fill the hole.
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  And I'm like, man, I don't know if she's going to be able to get
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  down. She geared making that thing.
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  She went through the gearbox, went through one and two real
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  good. And I believe if she tried a
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  little harder, she could have got that left front Fender on
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  Troy to cares outside. And I think she could have
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  popped him right in the ass if she wanted to.
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  But I was really impressed with Jade Avedisian's rise from open
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  wheel dirt racing to asphalt racing.
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  So she settled in right there in 2nd and she was right on him and
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  she runs second and then end up winning the race.
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  So Jade is the first lady racing ever.
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  Jade Avidisian is the first lady race here.
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  Jesus, can he get the out of your mouth?
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  This is an espresso. I think the caffeine's a hitting
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  in. Jade Avidisian is the first lady
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  racer to ever win in the Cars Tour race.
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  So congratulations, Jade. Check her out.
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  The reason I'm doing a coffee with Kenny is because she is a
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  Kenny conversation graduate. Yeah, pretty cool.
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  So and then, you know, I, I saw her for the first time as a girl
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  up there at Jacksonville. Then I the night that I went,
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  whoa, she ran down there our local track, Federated Auto
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  Parts Raceway. And that's the track that was
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  really rough. She could have flipped that
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  thing in any time. I think she won or run right
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  there in the top three against all the big boys, Zach, Dom,
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  they were all there. She outrun them.
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  So I think I think this could be the first lady racer.
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  She's the real deal. She is the real deal.
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  Watch her go from open wheel midges all the way to asphalt
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  and she's getting it done. And all right, everybody respond
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  right here. See you out here at Circuit of
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  the Americas today, 11:00 to 12:00.
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  And we got some, we got some great drivers.
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  What do you think I should ask? Danny Hamlin?
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  Respond right here. Have a great Sunday.