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My Take On Corey Lajoie's Comments Criticizing The NASCAR Xfinity & Truck Series | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  It's early. I got up.
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  I think I'm still on that European time.
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  I have a song on my mind. It's like a tick.
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  I got to get it out. It's by Dua Lipa.
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  I come man, I go. Houdini, sabi dabi dab Houdini.
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  I will worry about the words later.
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  Right now I go man, I go hootie. All right, listen, Corey Lajoie,
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  Randy Lajoie's son, he is he, he stirred up some controversy by
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  telling the truth. Couple days ago, Bob Pockrass
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  asked Corey Lajoie why doesn't he just, you know, kind of
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  consider running the Truck Series, the Xfinity Series when
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  things are going so difficult for Corey, having a hard time
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  staying in the Cup Series full time.
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  So Corey Lajoie is going to run limited Cup racing and he's
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  going to do some TV and I think it's fantastic.
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  Guess who it reminds me of? Me, Corey Lajoie reminds me of
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  me. Of course I raced a lot.
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  I'm the king at that 905 NASCAR races.
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  We're talking about me right now.
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  I'm telling you, I can relate with Corey Lajoie.
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  This is controversy. This is the story in the garage
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  area. There's a lot of crew members
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  upset with Corey right now because Corey said I'd rather
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  run a limited Cup series than to run the full Xfinity and Truck
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  Series because there's 12 people in the grandstands on Saturdays.
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  That's what Corey said. He said there's, he said my
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  sponsors want me to run some Cup races rather than run the full
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  Xfinity or Truck. Corey's right and it was hard
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  for people to hear, but I'm the king at all that, so I'm going
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  to respond. I have the most starts in the
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  Xfinity Series right now. I do.
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  And my dear friend Justin Allgire.
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  And there's one other person that are within a couple years
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  of of, you know, beating me for starts.
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  So, you know, I got, I got what, 5?
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  Let's go look real quick. How many NASCAR gave me a trophy
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  for having the most starts in the Xfinity Series?
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  Let me see. There it is.
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  So NASCAR gave me this right there.
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  Kenny Wallace 547 NASCAR starts in the Xfinity Series most all
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  time. Nobody better than me.
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  I win. All right?
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  So anyway, Corey's simply saying, look, when people race
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  on Saturdays, whether it's Truck or Xfinity, there's like 12
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  people watching. Well, he exaggerated, but he's
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  right. And I want to tell you the joke,
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  the joke with some people, when, when, when I was racing in the
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  Xfinity Series, it was always my, my backup.
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  In other words, if, if I couldn't make it in the Cup
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  Series, which I admit, I was always AB driver.
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  I was always AB driver. But people would say to me, oh,
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  what do you run? I'm like, I run the Xfinity
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  Series. You know what their smart ass
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  response to me was all the time? Oh, is, is the Xfinity Series is
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  that NASCAR would piss me off. I'm going to knock them out
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  'cause it hurt my feelings, but they were right.
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  So all the money and all the eyes are on Sunday and it's hard
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  to hear. Listen, Corey Lajoie is right,
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  and I want to tell you that I feel bad for Justin Algar.
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  Here's a kid winning almost 30 Xfinity races now.
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  They threw him a bone because they're going to let they're
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  going to let Justin run Dale Earnhardt, Junior Kelly
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  Earnhardt. They're going to let him run the
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  number 40. They're going to they're going
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  to file an entry for the Daytona 500.
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  And that's really nice of them. But listen, I just showed you
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  I'm I'm the mayor of the Xfinity Series and I keep reminding you
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  because I'm all I'm hurt some feelings today and I want to
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  remind everybody this ain't nobody give a flying about the
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  Xfinity Series or the Truck Series.
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  It is hard to hear and it it hurt me.
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  If it's so great, how come Justin Ogar, my dear friend, my
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  family friend ain't big time right now.
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  Now it's true. A lot of people go through the
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  Xfinity Series. That's the right way to do it.
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  You need to go through the Xfinity Series to make it to the
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  Cup Series and it is a great stepping stone.
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  Listen, I'm part of the NASCAR alumni.
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  I love NASCAR, but sometimes you know, the truth will set you
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  free. So for all of you that got ass
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  hurt, take a step back and and and see through the lens of
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  people that have been through it.
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  Now, like I said, this series has always been there for me and
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  I and I'm mayor of the Xfinity Series and I and I've got 11
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  truck starts, 905 NASCAR starts, 345 Cup starts.
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  Add it all together, I got 905 NASCAR starts.
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  Now, I'm I'm tired of bragging on myself, but I just got to
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  drive the point home that I know nobody knows more than me except
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  I do. What I'm saying to all of you is
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  that Corey Lajoie is exactly right.
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  Some people would say I'd rather win some races in the Xfinity
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  Series than the run 20th in the Cup Series.
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  That's bull. Let me tell you something.
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  I'm going to tell you a little secret right now.
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  And I, I know this is hard to hear.
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  I ran 20th in the Cup series all the time and I made five times
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  the money doing it. And I know, I know you can just,
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  hey, listen, the great Dick Trickle, you know what Trickle
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  would say? As long as you can justify it.
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  That's what Trickle would say, as long as you can justify it.
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  I got 9 NASCAR Xfinity wins and it's nice.
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  And I won a couple races at Martinsville right there.
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  There's there's one of the grandfather clocks.
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  I got two of those grandfather clocks.
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  My house, my garage, Ding Dong Dong Dong.
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  It's a reminder. You know how much those races
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  pay to win. You can run 20th in the Cup
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  Series and make 10 times what it paid winning those Xfinity
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  races. So it's all fine and good to
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  hear that. Oh, I'm winning in the Xfinity
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  Series, but it does not pay the bills.
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  It does not pay the bills. It winning in the Xfinity Series
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  is like winning in the Lucas Hall dirt racing or winning in
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  the World of Outlaw late Models or or winning in the World of
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  Outlaw Sprint cars. I'm going to say it again.
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  Winning in the Xfinity Series, winning in the Truck Series,
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  that's like winning big races on dirt.
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  It don't pay the bills. So I'm excited for you, Corey.
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  Corey, the joy sounds balanced. Run, run some cup races, run a
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  limited amount. Go over here and do a lot of TV.
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  See, that's what I did. And buddy, the money started
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  rolling in. Corey La Joy's going to make way
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  more money. Hey, listen, let's be honest.
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  Corey's late in the game. He's a man now.
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  It ain't like he's starting his career.
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  This was one of the best moves in Corey La Joy's life.
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  When you're a racer like me, it's hard to it's hard to hear
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  people going. You need to do TVI hated TVI
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  didn't like TV, but they said you're really good at TV, Kenny.
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  I'm like, so Corey, congratulations, make a lot of
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  money. Make a lot of money in the Cubs
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  series, run 20th, run 25th and make some good, good money.
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  You run 25th in the Cubs series, you'll wait.
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  You'll make way more than winning an Xfinity race.
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  It's a fact because I know. So I'm the one to have enough
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  balls to come out and support Corey Lajoie.
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  Now you all respond right here since you all don't race.
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  And for all you crew members who got your ass hurt over that, you
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  don't know what you're talking about because you, you just, you
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  got to ass hurt. That's all.
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  I said what I said and I mean it.
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  I said what I said and I mean it.
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  And I'm not apologizing. So you can respond right here
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  all you want, but I'm right. Go Cory Lajoie sounds to me once
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  again. I'm going to say it again.
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  You're balanced, all right? I think I made my point.
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  I thought I needed to help Corey because I saw a lot of people
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  being smart asses. Oh, how hey, Corey, you know,
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  they're at Rockingham right now. And there was practice
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  yesterday. Somebody got on an X and go,
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  hey, look, look, Corey, there's, there's more than 12 people
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  here. I'm like, oh, here we go, here
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  we go. So I had to fix it.
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  Respond right here. And by the way, nobody loves
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  Rockingham more than me. I dream about that place.
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  I'm happy to see everybody back there.
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  Almost made me want to get a car and go race there, but I ain't
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  going through that. I'm having fun.
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  I love my life so much right now.
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  It's crazy. All right, everybody, happy
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  Wednesday. Lots of love.