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This is How I'm Able To Race! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  It's Thanksgiving, everyone, and it's time for me to tell you how
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  thankful I am of all my sponsors.
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  So Brody's working the camera. We do this once a year.
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  Without these sponsors, I could not race.
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  So let's let's go. All right, Jags out of Delaware.
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  OH, and as you know, Jags, the leader in high performance
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  aftermarket car parts. Remember to go to jags.com.
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  Scott and Peggy Crow out of Jasonville, Indiana.
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  Man, they are great people. They just got back from
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  Asheville. They took a load of goods down
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  there. They just got great hearts.
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  Love Scott and Peggy Crow. Trevor Atwell, my buddy down
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  there in North Carolina, Atwell exterior services.
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  He does it all. OK, low voltage solution.
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  This is the new hot rod and down this is Gary Saints Inn.
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  Gary called me up a year ago and now we got him on Bobby Pierce's
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  card, but I was the 1st and then he called me later and said what
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  about that? Bobby Pierce?
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  I said spots for him too. Gary.
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  Gary, thank you so much. You're helping all these race
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  tracks with nice sound systems like you did over there with
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  Josh Carroll, and I know you're going to do some more work with
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  some other race tracks. Gary St.
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  Sin, thank you so much. My buddy Dave Pitts out there in
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  Wyoming. Dave Pitts and his whole family.
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  They are wonderful people. I want to thank them for
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  everything they do for me. Became friends with Dave Pitts
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  and his family, OH years ago when I raced out there in Yuma,
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  AZ. How about the Collie family?
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  Chris and Tyler Collie up there in Ohio.
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  KNL ready mix. Love you guys so much.
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  We miss Ron dearly. I met Ron years ago.
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  The family's still rolling and that is a very heartfelt decal
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  because we're still rolling and we looking up at Ron every year.
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  Thank you. Thank you to the Cotley family.
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  Now you know, when you're a kid, you just want to put some cool
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  decals on your car, right? So like, man, I just want to I
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  want to decal on my car That will inspire me.
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  I've got a couple decals on the car that are just from my heart
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  being a kid. AJ Mother Boyd baby, AJ Foyd,
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  four time winner of the Indy 500 in 2024.
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  I was so thankful that I fulfilled the dream and I went
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  and saw AJ and his whole team. They they welcomed me in and I
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  went went up to the Indianapolis 500.
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  I went up a week before the race and you've all seen the
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  pictures. I hung out with AJ and boy, that
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  was awesome. So I run that decal just because
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  it inspires me. AJ Foy, Mario Andretti, I know
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  those still got those two, still got a little rivalry, but AJ is
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  a badass and that just inspires me.
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  All right, back here, the NASCAR alumni, I know a lot of you like
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  to hate on NASCAR, but when you get down to it, without NASCAR,
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  my family, our whole Wallace family, we wouldn't have
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  anything that we have now. So you know, Mike Helton, Jim
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  France, they reached out to me and I thought I'll just run that
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  decal for the Dome. So the NASCAR alumni, thank you,
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  NASCAR. All right, My sponsors that have
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  been awesome to me, these are product sponsors.
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  Mobil One, I've run that. I run Zero 50, been running it
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  forever. And my motor builders, you know,
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  Daryl Hoffman builds one of my motors, Chad Mullins builds the
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  others other. I have two motors and they'll
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  say my bearings look good. I box springs have been running
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  them forever. Sunoco race fuel.
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  I run 112 Sunoco Blue and it is the best.
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  They never let me down. Right here.
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  Jennifer and Richard Marshall, Priority Aviation, maybe the
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  most important sponsor in all of dirt racing.
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  They own a World of Outlaw team. They own a high limit team.
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  Without Jennifer and Richard Marshall, the sport would be
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  lesser. Thank you, Jennifer and Richard.
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  Love you so much. Big Brother Rusty.
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  I, I love him with my life. I'm so thankful on this day.
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  I would have never made it to NASCAR.
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  And I'll admit it right now, I'm on his coattails.
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  I'm on my brother Rusty's coattails.
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  Couldn't be more happy. Rusty.
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  I'm on his coattails. That's a comedy I love.
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  I love Rusty and Patty. They've been with me, supporting
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  me ever since I wanted to race. So thank you Rusty and Patty and
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  Southern country customs. They build motorcycles.
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  Steven is down there and Josh they build those motorcycles and
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  I got two of them now. So check them out.
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  Southern country customs all Gar, Justin all gar.
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  Congratulations on your championship.
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  This is Gator all God, they got they got great performance
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  parts. Check them out up there in
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  Springfield. How about Tim love at tire
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  demon? I was the 1st Kim.
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  Kim said to me, there's somebody trying to get a hold of you on
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  Facebook and he's got a tire machine. 8 years ago, eight
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  years ago, he drove his truck down in the rain from Iowa and
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  we did a video right here in this shop and now the rest is
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  history. The number one tire machine in
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  all of dart racing. Thank you, Tim.
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  Love Impact. Without impact, I'd be unsafe.
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  They take care of my helmet, my fire suit, my shoes, my gloves,
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  Thank you to impact. And how about excess batteries,
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  man, They they got I got a battery in this car now come
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  here check it out. This battery, I can lift it up.
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  It's lithium. There's my battery right up
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  here. I want to thank that thing is so
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  light. It is so light and it charges so
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  fast with this, with this battery charger in the past, it
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  would take me 20 minutes. That thing charges up like I
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  mean less than 5 minutes when it's fully dead.
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  We're not done. How about this Kelly at Arrow?
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  It's the only wheels I've ever run.
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  That's all I know. They last long.
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  They're strong. I've been hitting the left.
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  You know how many times I've been hitting the left rear?
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  I've been hitting the left rear a lot because I was trying to
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  get Kenny Wallace. I'm going to get Kenny Wallace
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  and those left rear arrow wheels.
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  They never let me down. My childhood buddy, the
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  Schoenfeld family, Don Doug Dennis, thank you to Schoenfeld
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  headers. It's the only headers I run.
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  How about Ryan Rosenauer of it shocks.
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  Want to thank them so much. I met Ryan at this year and then
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  he came to the shop and I'd like to think that I'm faster at the
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  end of this year. I'm I'm faster than I have been.
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  Thank you to Ryan for straighten me out and getting me pointed in
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  the right direction. The herminator need a little
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  help. I need a little help.
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  Thank you, Ryan rose. Now Chad weirs Chad.
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  Chad makes everything, but I'm going to tell you one thing He
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  makes it. I really like he's made it right
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  here. I'll tell you what he makes
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  these things. Now I know I know you can you
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  can do your little plastic things, but buddy, these things
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  right here and they hold my quarter pan is on.
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  Come here real quick. Check this out.
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  You see this you see this right here, watch this, see how strong
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  it is. But look, see Chad Weirs, he
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  makes so much good stuff. But anyway, so yeah, Chad Weirs
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  couple more things and then we're done.
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  I don't I would do this one time of year right here, Matt James
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  Race Ranch wear.com. He does all my souvenirs and I
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  want to tell you kids something, even guys like Turbo.
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  I was first, You all are second. I took a chance.
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  Matt called me up. I said let's do it.
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  They were working out of plastic crates.
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  So I've been with him the longest.
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  Maybe Will Krupp was first, but I am the innovator.
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  Race Ranch, wear.com. And then of course, last but not
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  least, Fox Shops. That is part of Ryan Rose now
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  and Jerovitz without them. And then of course, my my buddy
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  Wimpy. How about Wimpy high caliber
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  graphics? If you want your car decal, call
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  Wimpy up. His real name is Chris Larose.
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  You know, my real name is Kenny Wallace, but they call me
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  Herman. What?
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  We call him Wimpy. All right, everybody, thanks for
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  listening. And you know, listen, this is
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  the only way I learned how to race.
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  Sponsorships, friendships, relationships, networking.
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  If if you don't do this, you can't race.
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  And I've made friends with every one of my sponsors.
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  They are not just my sponsors. These are my friends.
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  Happy Thanksgiving everybody, and I'm so thankful.