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Is The NASCAR Race Car Dead? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody.
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  This is it. This is the last Saturday for us
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  modified guys out of the Volusia Speedway.
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  I've had a hell of a time won a Gator.
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  We've been running so good all week long.
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  Everybody I said when I won that Gator, the story wasn't Kenny
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  Wallace won a Gator, it's Kenny Wallace is 62 years old.
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  How the hell have you in a Gator against the best?
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  I was lined up against the best. Thank you.
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  Nick Hoffman, Darrell Hoffman, Rhonda Hoffman, Ashley, thank
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  you to the complete Hoffman family.
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  You know, it was four years ago I quit coming to Volusia.
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  And for good measure, I said, let's go to Cobble honey.
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  That way we don't go to Volusia and I won't miss it.
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  So I'm at Kabul 4 years ago and looked down.
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  My phone's ringing. It's Nick Hoffman.
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  Nick says. Herman, it's not the same down
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  here without you. I said, Nick, that's pretty
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  simple. I'm too tired to be taking my
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  own race car, my own truck and trailer, going through Atlanta,
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  all that traffic. But if you want to field me a
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  car, Nick Hoffman, I'd be happy to come back to Volusia.
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  So this was all Nick Hoffman's idea.
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  I want to thank you, Nick. You've given this old man two
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  more Gators. We won one a couple years ago,
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  and then we won one just lately here on Monday.
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  Thank you, Nick. Thank you, Darrell, Rhonda,
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  Ashley, once again, you created some great memories for me.
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  OK, Drink a coffee. Saw something on X yesterday
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  reported by Adam Stern. Adam Stern, he said basically
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  I'm going to paraphrase it. Wow.
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  The 24 Hours of Daytona set records 3.8 million views on
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  YouTube. That's up 30 percent, 180,000
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  people at the 24 Hours of Daytona over 4 days.
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  Basically the article reads. The 24 Hours of Daytona was
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  unbelievable and it's soaring. It's bigger than big.
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  So, so I got to read between the lines here and I'm thinking, OK,
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  that this is IMSA. Now before we go any further,
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  you got to, we got to know this. NASCAR and Jim France, they own
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  MSO, NASCAR owns IMSA. Remember that.
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  So these are made-up of sports cars.
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  These are cars that don't look anything like cars on the
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  street. I got to repeat that.
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  The Daytona 24, those are cars that don't look anything like on
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  the street. They're not stock cars.
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  They are not stock cars. All right, done repeating
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  myself. Wanted to drive it home.
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  Wanted to make sure you understood that.
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  So it begs this, I ask you had a lot of conversations over the
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  last winter and people tell me and you respond right here.
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  Is the passenger car now that is made by all the manufacturers?
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  Is it just a transportation device?
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  Is it because I'm told that kids don't like cars anymore?
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  Kids don't like cars anymore. It's just a transportation
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  device. You can't work on them.
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  You got to plug the computer in. You got to, you know, there's
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  something wrong with my car. Well, you, you can't work on it
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  'cause you need all these special tools.
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  So you've taken the kids right out of the car because they need
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  all these special tools. You know, drifting is big.
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  But really when when you drift, all you can do is put tires on
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  it and some pipes. And, you know, if you're going
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  to do any drifting, you know, what can you do to it?
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  I'm sure, I'm sure you can do a lot.
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  But for the most part, what I'm told is that kids don't like
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  cars. There's groups here and there.
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  So what has happened to the NASCAR race car?
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  Is it a box that just goes right?
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  Is it a family sedan? Is the NASCAR race car, is it a
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  a family sedan? While listen to me repeat myself
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  today. I'm very passionate.
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  Last night at the Volusia Speedway, we all got to talk
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  about it and everybody that I talked to that was super smart.
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  They confirmed. Oh, yeah, Kids don't even, you
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  know, I, I have a, a good friend that runs a college, runs a
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  university. He says, oh, it's not even a
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  conversation. Kids do not care about passenger
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  cars. Now you're going to get a group
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  of kids here. They're you're, you're going to
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  say, oh, my kid loves cars. Does he really?
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  Is he the only one? Does he stand out?
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  How many kids love cars? It's hard to get kids to work on
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  race cars nowadays. When you find a kid that likes
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  working on race cars, it's like a fine and a diamond in the
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  rough. It's like, Oh my God, this kids
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  19 and he likes race cars. So here it goes.
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  I'm going to say it if if IMSA is owned by NASCAR and that's,
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  that's the rally cry now and Formula One race cars don't even
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  look like cars. They're sports cars.
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  They're they're a design of a car.
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  Is the NASCAR race car, is it dead?
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  I think that's my headlines. Is the NASCAR race car dead?
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  I know this sounds crazy, but I'm going to tell you something.
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  I've said some stuff in the past that you all thought it was
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  crazy. I said in the past that we
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  should run around the Charlotte Motor Speedway and jump through
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  the road course and come out, and we did.
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  It was called the Robo, and when I said it, I was working at
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  SiriusXM radio. Nobody really said I was crazy,
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  but you know what? I was right.
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  They did it. So it begs the question, that is
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  unbelievable, here goes. Is the NASCAR race car not what
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  we want anymore? Is that one of the problems with
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  NASCAR? Do we want sports cars?
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  Hey, I'm just reporting on the article.
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  The 24 Hours of Daytona is booming.
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  What? What's booming?
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  What is booming? INSA Insa's great.
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  Maybe it's because it's sports cars.
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  After all, the cars that NASCAR is racing, they're just sport.
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  They're sedans. Take your kids to school in
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  them. Used to be what's what winds on
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  Sunday sells on Monday. I haven't heard that in 100
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  years. So should we take MSA and should
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  that be the new NASCAR race car? Should we get rid of the quote
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  UN quote sedan that we're running right now?
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  Should we get rid of it and create sports cars since sports
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  cars are where it's at? You, you know, so many people
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  that love Formula One, they love Formula One and it's not even a
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  car. It it's a it's something
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  somebody makes. You can't take your children to
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  to school in a Formula One car. It seats one person.
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  Now I know this all sounds crazy, but if the rally cry is
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  Imps is where it's at and NASCAR owns MSO, is it the car?
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  Is it the car that the kids don't like racing anymore?
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  Respond right here. Have a great Saturday,
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  everybody.