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Has NASCAR's "Clash" Lost Its Luster? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday, February 4th. I don't know why I added the
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  date on there. I think I'm kind of getting the
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  lost as the days go by. You know, you come down here for
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  speed weeks and it is exciting to come here and then when you
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  get here, it becomes like the 24 hours of Volusia.
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  It's like we're still here. But man, I'll tell you what,
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  Aunt Patty and Uncle Rusty's house right here, it makes it so
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  much easier. I used to stay in hotels and
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  boy, it really was almost like Groundhog Day.
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  But I was young enough where I had fun with it.
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  So let me see, We've already run 5 races.
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  I've already raced five times down here.
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  I have finished and it's a coincidence everybody.
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  I have finished first, second, third, 4th, 5th.
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  Not, not, not in that order. Not in that order.
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  It's kind of been like 4th, 3rd, 1st, 5th, 2nd.
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  So we want to, we want to just keep on, keep on going.
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  I'm happy, All is good. But I, I, I always do this.
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  Dear Lord, please forgive me my sins.
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  Please keep me rolling, keep me safe.
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  Amen. So, yeah, it's it's kind of wild
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  to think that you can race somewhere that, that many nights
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  complete different races. OK, everybody, today's subject
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  matter is Dale Earnhardt Junior's take and his thoughts
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  on basically the Bud Shootout. You know, here we are.
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  It's Wednesday. And tonight, tonight at Bowman
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  Gray, they're going to finally get this race in.
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  Now I want everything to go just perfectly good.
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  I don't want any drama. Everybody, everybody's been
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  roughed up enough. Let's let's enjoy the race
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  tonight. Now I'll be out of Volusia, so
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  come watch me race out there. But you know, we have our
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  phones, we have our apps so we can watch the the Bowman Gray
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  race. They are, they are taking rain
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  tires. They are taking rain tires.
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  So I'm sure if it's raining a little bit, if it's misting a
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  little bit, they're going to go green flag on that little bitty
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  racetrack. I don't know if you remember a
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  year or two ago, they went green flag at Richmond on a wet
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  racetrack and it was shocking. They were hauling ass around
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  there with with a little with a wet racetrack.
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  However, if it is raining and they are on rain tires, they're
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  going to wreck the heck out of each other and it should be a
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  show. Hey, it is the Madhouse.
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  It did get its name. The Madhouse For nothing.
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  For for nothing. Yeah, it is the Madhouse.
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  OK, drink coffee. Back to Dale Junior, because
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  tonight is the race. Dale Junior said something that
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  I think is worth talking about. But it.
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  But it's just not that easy. Dale Junior's like, OK, look, we
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  left the original place where we do all this, you know, the pre
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  season race, you know, it was always called the, you know, the
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  Bush clash, the Bud shootout, whatever you want to call it.
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  And people weren't showing up. Guys out there cleaning the
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  pool. See him.
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  I was going to, I was going to keep on going, but I figured I'd
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  a little more show, you know, kind of show you what's going
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  on, adds to the show. But anyway, back to junior.
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  Junior's like, OK, look, you know, we left the Daytona
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  because nobody was in the grandstands.
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  It got really bad. So it was like, OK, we bore
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  Daytona out. Nobody cares anymore there.
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  There's a theory that the cars were just going around the
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  racetrack. Now, one thing that I don't
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  understand is in the day when we were three wide 11 rows deep,
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  you guys loved it. It was exciting.
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  It's like, Oh my God, look at that.
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  And then all of a sudden somewhere you guys start calling
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  it a rec fest. That's a rec fest.
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  But me, I'm like, Oh my God, they're three wide 11 rows deep.
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  So when, when did you all quit liking that and why?
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  So I thought the races at Daytona were exciting, but there
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  was nobody in the grand since. So they said, let's move it.
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  So, you know, for all the right reasons, You know, with with Fox
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  TV, they all went to, you know, the Coliseum and my God, they
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  pulled off something that was unbelievable.
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  They put a racetrack on a football field.
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  And here you all go again. This, this is no good.
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  I don't like it. They're not going to be able to
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  race. But we were just at Daytona and
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  you guys didn't like it. So it's like, OK, let's go to
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  Bowman Gray. And Bowman Gray was, you know,
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  more NASCAR. It was an original NASCAR track
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  on the same thing we had at the Coliseum, a football field.
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  You know, Bowman Gray is on a football field, has been
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  forever. It's a legendary.
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  It's an original NASCAR track. But this is where Dale Junior
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  comes in. He says, OK, we've done all
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  this. We've done all this, and it just
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  hasn't moved the needle. So I want you all to respond
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  right here. Should should this event be
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  scrapped? But like Dale Junior said, this
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  is kind of like a, you know, a, the salad before your meal.
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  That's what I say. Dale Junior didn't say that, but
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  that's what I say. It's a it's a preview before the
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  Daytona 500. But to me, the preview before
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  the Daytona 500 is like the twin one fifties, right?
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  That's something. When did we all start doing
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  that? When we say right at the end of
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  a sentence, I make fun of people to do that.
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  At the end of the day, remember that, right?
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  But Dale Junior is right. Nothing has moved the needle.
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  Does this race need to go away? Is the preview before the
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  Daytona 500? Is that the twin one 50s or?
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  I've been saying this all along and I love racing more than
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  anybody, as you can tell. Is racing just not as big as it
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  used to be anymore? That's my take, not I'm hoping
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  that racing can make this big comeback.
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  I like the IndyCar 250 up around the nation's capital, up there
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  in Washington, DC That's going to be exciting.
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  You know, I think that is going to lift everybody up.
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  That's a good deal where I because it's kind of promoting
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  racing. You know, I mean, listen, our,
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  our, our government is going, hey, we're going to race cars
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  and I think that's exciting. It's going to remind everybody
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  that racing is alive and well. So respond right here.
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  Should we go back to Daytona? And if we do go back to Daytona,
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  well, that will you go, will that make you happy?
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  Because what has it been three years at the Coliseum for?
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  We're on our fifth year. And I agree with Dale Junior,
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  nothing has moved the needle. Respond right here.