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My Dirt Racing, Hot Daytona Bleachers & Daniel Suarez Leaves Trackhouse | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  Well, the king is sitting up here.
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  Look at him. He's such a legend.
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  All right, Last night, Tuesday night in Benton, MO, I qualified
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  second overall. 24 cars, 24 cars entered.
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  I qualified second overall, won my heat race and finished fourth
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  in the future. One of those deals where I took
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  off in the lead, had a couple restarts and then like on the
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  third restart, I got down into turn one, got in there hot, had
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  some front brake in it and got to hopping across the corner and
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  Lucas Lee, who was one of the best, he got underneath.
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  We we battled side by side and in the end the top came in.
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  I can't go up there, I'm too old.
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  Actually our cars don't go good up there.
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  I'd have to run a whole new setup to run through those
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  holes, not holes, but it gets rough up there.
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  I could run up there but I'd have to set my car up to run up
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  there. But it was a good night.
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  It was a good night. So qualified second overall on
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  the heat finish 4th. And I'm, I'm, I'm not content.
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  Content is not in my vocabulary towards the end, you know, of
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  course, Lucas leading myself had a hell of a battle for 3rd and
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  4th. I guess with two to go, I moved
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  around a little bit, got going. He knew I was there and so he
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  started moving around, took my lane away.
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  But that's awesome. That's what's that's what race
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  is all about. So it was a great night.
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  Now today I'm going to do just a little bit of work to the car,
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  very little and get ready to run Lincoln, IL tomorrow.
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  On Thursday they got triple thirties 330 lappers for I think
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  pro mods or no pro late models. Pro late models, they have crate
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  motors in them. Pro late models are mods and I
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  think pro mods too, but I think there's going to be like 5
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  divisions up in Lincoln, IL on Thursday.
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  But we do a little work today. But this evening we're going to
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  go out for our grandbaby's birthday.
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  Mila, it's Mila's birthday. I think she's turning God seven
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  maybe got 5 grandbabies, got another one on the way.
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  Got another one on the way. It's going to make it a total of
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  6 grandbabies and I, the girls tell me that's it dad.
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  So as Kim would say, we'll see. OK, couple things today #1 is we
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  are going to talk about racing at Daytona in July.
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  And of course, Daniel Suarez announced yesterday that he's
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  leaving his ride track house. So OK, yesterday on social
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  media, somebody said, Kenny, do you think NASCAR should come
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  back to Daytona in in July? I said I wasn't being a smart
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  ass. I said absolutely not.
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  People are weaker nowadays. They're not going to sit on
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  those hot bleaches bleachers in the middle of July.
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  I answered a question, Kenny, do you think NASCAR should come
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  back to Daytona for 4th of July? I said no, people are weaker
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  nowadays. They're smarter.
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  Weaker and smarter. So you mean to tell me we going
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  to go back to the old days? NASCAR needs to go back to the
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  old days. I threw that one in there later
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  in the day and everybody started piling on in a great way.
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  But it was funny because probably for half the day people
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  were mad at me. Oh, we're not.
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  We're not weaker. We're used to doing that down
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  here in Daytona. We're used to being outside.
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  I'm like, not on aluminum bleachers, as Fred Sanford would
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  say to Lamont, a big dummy. You know, I've got the thinking
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  about this. We're supposed to be smarter
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  nowadays, right, Because of technology and we develop.
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  So I'm not being a smart ass. I'm just saying no, I, I mean,
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  if, if we're going to go back to, to Daytona in July, that
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  race better start about 8:00, go green flag at 8:00 and make it
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  the Daytona 200 there. Every you know, I know some of
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  the drunks, they want their races longer so they can drink
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  their beer longer. Hey, let's shorten the NASCAR
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  races. I'll never go to another one.
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  How come you don't? How come you don't want to
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  shorter NASCAR coverage? It cuts into my beer drinking
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  time. I can't get as drunk.
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  Takes me all four 4-5 hours to get drunk.
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  When the truth really comes out, you know, when the truth really
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  comes out, they want, they want to keep those damn NASCAR races
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  long so they can drink long time.
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  Five hours. So no, that that's one deal
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  where I think I don't want to go back to the old days and go
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  back, you know, 100° with 100% humidity.
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  Leave that alone, race somewhere.
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  And I will say go back to Rd. America, Wisconsin, no humidity.
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  It's nice. Love Wisconsin.
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  Respond right here. Do you want to go back to
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  Daytona July? And would you go?
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  Would you go? We're not talking about going
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  back to Daytona to race. We're going back as a fan.
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  Oh, yeah, I forgot to add that. Respond right here.
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  Do you want to go to Dayton? July?
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  Sit your ass on them bleachers. Now I know their seats.
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  Don't get me here. Hold on, hold on.
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  I know they're nice chairs still still OK?
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  It's hot. It's humid.
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  Bang, bang. Respond right here.
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  All right, Daniel Suarez. I read everything Daniel said.
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  He said. Actually, I've known this for a
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  while, but I decided to tell you it now because everything
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  finally developed, Daniel Suarez said.
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  It is, it is a relief for him to be able to say this.
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  Now you got to ask yourself the first thing, the first thing,
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  why did Daniel Suarez leave? OK, now we know that together
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  collectively, the team, you know, gave real nice statements.
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  It was nice. It was nice.
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  I liked it. I enjoyed the track house that
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  Daniel Suarez released. That's the way they all should
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  be. Did Daniel Suarez get fired?
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  Maybe, but but they didn't they didn't announce that and they
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  didn't say it. I've experienced in this.
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  I I truly my hand on a Bible, my hand on the Bible.
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  I quit working for Fox. My hand on the Bible, I quit
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  working for Fox Sports TV. But boy, it just wasn't a juicy
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  enough story. So, you know, they're the people
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  out there. Wallace got fired.
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  I'm like, no dumbass, I got tired of being on the road and I
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  got to be of age and I did something that shocked people.
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  I quit the American dream. Take this job and shove it.
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  How are you working here? No more.
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  I quit. But then, of course, people
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  can't understand that. They can't understand that how
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  Kenny Wallace would quit a national TV job.
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  Well, it's pretty simple. Got tired of it.
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  Had all my money saved. It was the right time.
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  It was the right time. Had all my money saved.
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  Even my boss at that time, Steve Craddock, I went to shake his
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  hand when it was all over and he goes, Nope, give me a hug.
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  And they gave me that beautiful frame up there at my Ray shop
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  thanking me. Sometimes you just sometimes you
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  just had enough. OK, so now the reason I told you
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  about me is because I have experience in this.
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  Maybe Daniel Suarez and maybe Track House.
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  And you know what? Have you had enough?
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  And maybe Daniel said, Yep, I've had enough.
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  And maybe that was just it. Maybe they just had enough each
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  other. And let's face it, Daniel Suarez
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  is not poor. He is not poor.
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  Daniel Suarez is married to the great Formula One driver Nelson
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  Piquet's daughter. They're not poor.
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  I've seen pictures. OK, so let's give Daniel a
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  break. We don't got to go all that you
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  fired in me. Whatever.
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  But they both gave great press releases, and that's the way it
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  ought to be. They both are done now.
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  They move on. Everything will be fine.
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  I'm happy for Danielle and I congratulated him.
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  The man moved from a different country, learned our, learned
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  our language, made friends with everybody, didn't make one
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  enemy. Daniel Schwarz, the nicest guy
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  in the world. And as a Cup winner, a Cup
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  winner. Respond right here is it OK
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  people for quit for quitting their cup team or do you think
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  there there's got to be something more to it.
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  I love you all have a great Wednesday and I will see you
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  tomorrow Thursday in Lincoln, IL Hopefully the son of a bitch it
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  get over before 1030. Another one last night, get done
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  loading up, leave us 1136 at night.
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  Got home right at 1:32 in the morning.