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I'm At Germany's World Famous Nurburgring! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning to everybody and we are here.
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  I am so excited. I have goosebumps.
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  My buddy John Scotone is working the camera.
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  I got to include him in this soap.
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  This is coffee with Kenny and there's going to be a lot more
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  afterwards. This is Max Maximus.
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  It's not Max Verstappen, but hold on, hold on.
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  OK, John, we are here in Nurburgering.
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  What do you think, my friend? It's incredible.
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  We are going to drive the most famous racetrack in the world.
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  Yeah, well, thank you for working the camera.
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  We're going to talk to Maximus. All right, here we go.
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  You turn it around. OK.
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  Maximus. He he doesn't know me, and this
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  is wonderful. I came in here and I said we
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  want to rent a car. And I said my name is Kenny
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  Wallace. I'm from the United States.
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  And he didn't give a crap. He's like OK, so it's going to
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  be about $2500 in American money and we're going to make 6 slaps.
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  We're going to have an instructor with us.
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  He's going to be in the passenger seat.
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  Tell me what I can expect with this experience.
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  Well guys, speak up. We don't handle microphones.
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  We don't handle microphones all right.
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  What you can expect a lot of locals, lot of traffic, but also
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  lots of lots of funny things, which means that it's the
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  longest track in the world, hey. How, how?
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  How many miles is the race track?
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  13 point something. OK, I watched a video we're just
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  going to have fun. So I watched the video, looked
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  like a Daytona prototype car was run 240 mile hour and he went
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  around here in 5 minutes 11 seconds.
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  Is that an old video? It's a very old.
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  Video What's. The truck, it's a Porsche.
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  That's a. Porsche that That car was a
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  Porsche. Badass.
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  It was the 919 from 2019 or something. 2019.
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  It was from the WEC series, so the World Endurance
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  Championship. But Porsche said like, Nah, we
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  can. Do better.
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  Can we turn that down? Yeah, we got to.
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  We got to make sure we get this right.
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  Hey, fun man, I said, Do you speak English?
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  He said. What do you say, everybody?
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  I don't speak German. OK, so what's the track record
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  now? It's still 5 minutes and 14
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  seconds, OK, 14 because nobody else tried to to come close to
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  that. And why is that?
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  Because that car that did that lap could go faster.
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  The driver couldn't. My God, 240 miles an hour,
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  right? I mean, I've raced, I've raced
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  all over, you know, of course, NASCAR, I, I run Suzuka Circuit,
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  Japan, Motigi, you know, the Sergeant Jacques Belneau, Dana
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  Hermano Rodriguez. But for me, for us Americans,
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  this, I feel like this is the most famous Rd. course in all
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  the world. What is it in your eyes since
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  you live here? The same.
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  It is the most famous. I came from the Netherlands.
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  Oh, you're from Netherlands? No.
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  OK, very cool. Max, I'm from the Netherlands,
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  but almost no I came from the Netherlands when I was 18.
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  I got my driver license. First thing I did come to this
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  magical place because it's only a 3 1/2 hour drive.
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  Very cool. Did too many laps and decided,
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  men, let's live here and work here and do more laps.
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  So yeah, I now live 10 minutes away.
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  That's awesome. The moment that the track is
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  open and we don't have customers, then we go out for
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  laps. Real OK, You love racing like we
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  love racing probably. Do you ever, have you ever heard
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  of or you ever, ever watch NASCAR?
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  One race. One race?
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  Yeah. Do you like Formula One?
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  No, not anymore. OK.
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  That's the big controversy. So from what I've understand is
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  all the manufacturers over here in Europe, they want to make 50%
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  combustion, 50% battery and now that it it tell me if I've said
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  this wrong. Now they brought that to the
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  Formula One cars. Is that right?
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  So that was a thing like in general here we use hybrid
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  systems more and more because of the emissions.
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  At least that's what the government wants us to use.
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  Yeah. And with that reason, also
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  Formula One went to in that direction.
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  Yeah, we don't like it. Yeah, because you you can't go
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  as fast as you want to go. No, it's always restricted to
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  what the battery can do. Yeah, you come off the corner, a
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  lot of torque, get halfway down the straightaway and you.
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  Just lose 70 kilometers. What?
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  OK, great conversation. So now I want to thank you for
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  letting me talk to you. This is coffee with Kenny.
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  And we're going to have more videos throughout the day and
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  maybe tomorrow. And I told our YouTube manager
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  Charlie that this is the way it would be.
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  OK, this is where you want us at 4:15 today.
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  This is the meeting. John, want to do a 360 real
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  quick? Just do a 360.
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  So this is where Maximus wants us, and they're going to tutor
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  us and let us know what we're in for.
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  And are those the helmets? Yes, those are the helmets.
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  Those are the helmets. OK.
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  So do you got the contract? OK, You don't need to look at
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  John. Come close here.
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  OK, so this just kind of flipped through the pages, so.
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  This is the standard contract. And by the way, I did.
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  I did sign my life away and look here.
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  Yeah. So I guess I read all this and
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  that's my signature. OK.
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  So, John, you're good, €2500. What is that in America?
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  Or are we closing on on three grand close to that?
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  We're closing. So this is worth every penny for
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  me because I've never been here and I'll probably never come
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  back again. It's a shame.
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  It is a shame. I like you, Maximus.
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  You know what just I don't know where that guy's Hey John, show
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  that carp there. Is that common when the tracks
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  green and wide open? You do you get air here a lot.
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  The moment that you start to push towards your 100%, yes.
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  So if you're, if you go 100%, you're going to get air here.
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  Yes, I was in your bathroom. I saw somebody got air.
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  Because of the elevation changes, you all have a lot of
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  places where you have, you're going up and all of a sudden
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  it's flat. That's where the especially the
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  front tires just loose grip, but you also have lots of places
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  where you all of a sudden have a dip where.
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  I mean compression. Compressions and also the other
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  way around. You just get air and then you
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  land again. So I want to talk about some of
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  the most famous moments in good and bad.
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  Let's start with the ugly first. Niki Lotta got burnt 1970s What?
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  You're young. What do you you know, you're
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  from the Netherlands, but you live here.
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  Tell me about besides Niki Lauda getting burnt up here, what
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  other tragic events that you know of happened here?
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  What? In general, the tragic, tragic
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  events that happened here are around there.
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  Yeah. The shameful thing is around 4
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  to 5 people die minimum per year.
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  Oh my gosh. Because of heavy crashes, the
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  Norse life with us, a lot of things to improve a lot on that,
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  but unfortunately you can't. Yeah, completely wipe out the
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  danger of Motorsports. Yeah.
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  What they did after the Niki Lauder crash, though, is they
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  shut the entire track down. So first of all, it was the
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  northern loop, which called the Nordslife, and the southern
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  loop, which is the suit Slifer. The suit Slifer, they bend
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  completely because it had trees as natural barriers and.
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  Then they built. They were just running off into
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  the woods. Yeah.
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  And then they made the GP track, which is, which was made in
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  1981. And that is still to this day
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  platinum circuit. So Formula One can drive here.
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  Yeah. But the Norse life or the
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  Nurburcrane just says, wow, we don't want them here.
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  Yeah. What a so Max Verstappen.
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  Yes, they were here 2 weeks ago. He was here yesterday.
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  He was here yesterday. Hold on.
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  OK, Tell me all about it. He's testing for the 24 hours.
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  So of course 2 weeks ago what everybody noticed is that he
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  started the NLS two race, which is the 4 hour variant of the 24
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  hours. They do that around 10 to 12 * a
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  year, every month one sometimes 2.
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  And he just booked the track for a test day and they did laps to
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  test the Mercedes that they are being running for the 24 hours.
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  So what do you think? OK, two weeks ago Max wins in
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  the Red Bull car and then they come out hours later and said
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  you used used seven sets of towers.
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  You were only only supposed to use six.
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  Do you call bullshit on that? No I don't because that once set
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  that was used was used during a pit stop practice the day
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  before. Yeah.
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  So he was illegal? You were saying so?
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  He indeed used the seven set, but it was not in the race, so
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  the race pace that they had was indeed the race pace that every
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  other car should be. So you're when I say bull, that
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  means he do you. I don't think he should have
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  been penalized. Do you think he should have?
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  It's what the rules say. It's the rules, John.
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  How? Where we at, buddy?
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  How many minutes? 510-1010?
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  OK, Well, well, listen. Thank you, Max.
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  Is it Maximus? No.
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  It's just. Max, Max.
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  All right, OK, stay tuned. We're going to come back later
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  today. It's around 1:30.
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  We start our safety, you know, deal here 415 the breathing and
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  we're going to get on the track 5:00.