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The REAL Reason NASCAR Teams Are Complaining About The Next Gen Car | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning, everybody.
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  It's about 7:15 AM and it's already 90° in St.
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  Louis, MO Hotter than a well digger's ass out here.
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  There it is, the legendary. You know, it's funny, I'll call
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  that a gutter. And some people are so bored,
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  they go, that's not a gutter, that's a downspout.
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  I'm like, simmer down. It's just funny, ain't it?
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  All right, So today, children, we going to talk about race cars
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  in NASCAR. Somebody on X was so nice to me.
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  They wrote me this long love letter for everybody to see.
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  And it said, Herman, you're getting too jacked up on Sun
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  Drop about some of these fans not liking the Gen. 7 car.
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  Take it easy on yourself. You're a good guy.
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  I thought that was really nice, but I said no because coffee
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  with Kenny, we always we always stay on the hot topics.
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  We always hit the hot topics. So we're going to ride this
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  horse until it breaks its foot. Y'all want to talk about how bad
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  the Gen. 7 car is? Hell, I've realized.
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  Let's talk about it. I just never thought.
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  I just thought it was stupid. You know, every race this is a
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  bad car. Go to the next race. 3 wide
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  finish. It might have been a three wide
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  finish, but still a bad car. Everybody and their brother says
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  that Kansas was a great race. The car's still bad.
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  I said OK, and it hit me like a ton of bricks.
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  What I'm going to tell you right now is going to shock you all
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  because it shocked me. You know, brother Rusty would
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  say, Herman, you're thinking wrong and I'll be damned.
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  We all have been thinking wrong. So I looked it up and I just
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  went to Google, punched it in, and I said different NASCAR race
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  cars. I forgot exactly what I punched
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  in. So here's the history lesson.
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  Did you know the reason we got here?
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  I'm getting ready to tell you. When NASCAR was invented, they
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  came out with a race car and it was called the Generation 1.
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  So when the NASCAR first race car came out, it was Generation
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  one. Well, you already know where
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  this is going. You know, the Hudson Hornet, all
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  those legendary old cars. And then, you know, years went
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  by, you know, 20 years ago by and then it was Generation 2
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  car, you know, then, then you start out, you know, with the
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  Buick Regal and the Oldsmobile, you know, Buddy Baker's Grey
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  Ghost, you know, and then to this day we got to the
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  Generation 7. So since the invention of
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  NASCAR, the cars have changed for one reason or another.
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  You know, most of it was because the automakers were building new
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  passenger cars on the street. So the thought was, what winds
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  on Sunday sells on Monday. That was the slogan for all of
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  us old people. So here's the part that's going
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  to blow you away. All right, I'm going to act this
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  out 'cause I lived it all, I was part of it.
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  And I'm, I am a fabricator, I am a mechanic.
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  I became a race car driver. Here we go.
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  Hey, we're going to Daytona. Do you have your superspeedway
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  car ready to go? Well, we're getting close.
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  Yeah, but you know, right after Daytona we go to California.
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  Do you have your intermediate car ready to go?
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  Well, we're working really hard on our superspeedway car and we
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  know we got to have our intermediate car ready to go
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  because we leave right after Daytona and we head out to
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  Fontana, CA. Yeah, but what about your short
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  track car? Yeah, we're, we're getting,
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  we're working hard, but you got plenty of time for your Rd.
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  course car. Wow, right.
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  There's the answer, everybody right in front of our face.
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  So for all these years, to create a car good for that
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  racetrack, we made a Daytona Talladega car, superspeedway
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  car. Sleek one was sleeker than your
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  car. We would go to the wind tunnel.
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  Boy, this car's got good balance and no drag.
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  That is our Daytona Talladega car.
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  It goes through the wind and it's balanced.
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  Might have a little lift on the nose, but I can still turn it.
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  OK, let's put some downforce in this baby because you know,
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  we're going to go to Fontana, CA, we're going to Texas.
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  Now this intermediate car, we don't want it to have a whole
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  lot of drag because the tracks mount have more.
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  The fenders have got to be wide because when the corner comes
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  up, we got to turn good. We want some downforce on this
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  car. Now we're going to go to
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  Martinsville. We want the wheel walls cut out
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  real big. We want the chassis way
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  different. We want short little A frames on
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  the right front because we want quick camber game.
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  We want big breaks because we don't want to burn the brakes
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  off. You see where I'm going with
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  this? OK, now we're going to the road
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  courses and we want the chassis offset.
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  We want it, we want it square or we want it a half one way or the
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  other. How many how many right-handed
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  turns are on this road course? How many right hand turns are on
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  this road course? I just explained all the
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  differences. Superspeedway car, intermediate
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  car, short track car, Rd. course car.
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  OK, so you know what happened. This is the part I've told you
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  before. I've already told you this
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  before and I haven't heard much out of it.
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  The NASCAR car owners, the car owners, they went to NASCAR and
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  said save us, we're going broke building all these cars.
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  We got all these cars. We got a superspeedway car.
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  We have an intermediate car. We've got a short track car.
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  We got a road course car. Oh yeah.
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  How many race cars do you guys have?
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  Each team has 15 to 20 cars. What each.
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  So over here, Joe Gibbs, Joey Logano, when he first started,
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  he had 15 to 20 cars. Danny Hamlin had 15 to 20 cars.
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  These teams had so many cars they started storing them in
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  warehouses. Hey, we're getting ready for the
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  road course. Bring the go, go down the road,
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  go into our our our warehouse and get out the road course cars
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  because we don't have enough room for our cars in our race
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  shop. That's how bad it was getting.
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  Therefore the races were OK. Now here's when all the bitching
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  and moaning started. Remember the car when they put
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  the wing on the back of it? Remember the Dale Earnhardt
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  junior interview with Brian France And Dale Junior said,
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  Brian, did it upset you that all the drivers talk so badly of
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  your car? Brian said, yeah, it really
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  pissed me off. So here's the moral of the
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  story. This new, next, this, we call it
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  the Gen. 7. The Gen. 7 car was created by
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  all the NASCAR car owners, Rodger Penske, you know, Jack
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  Roush, Richard Childress. Let's build 1 car to save
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  ourselves. We need one car that we can go
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  from Daytona to Martinsville with and that my friends like
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  Paul Harvey would say. That's the rest of the story.
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  So now I'm hearing that. You know what the rally cry
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  right now is? If we just give this car a
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  little more horsepower, it will run better at Martinsville.
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  The comp, it will be better. Let's try some more horsepower,
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  OK? Have a great day everybody.