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Why They Wrecking So Much at Daytona?! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hello everyone and welcome back to the Kenny Wallace Show
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  vehicles more awesome. All right everybody, we are down
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  for the Daytona 500 weekend and there has been complete chaos.
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  I don't think we have wrecked this many cars so quick.
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  We have wrecked during the dual 150's mercifully in the second
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  dual, the big one going down the front straightaway.
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  That was when William, Byron and all the boys got together and
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  took out half the field. Then we went on to the truck
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  race and Oh my Lord, they wrecked.
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  So record cautions that's why we're doing this.
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  Kenny Wallace show the truck race.
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  You would think there's no way they can wreck any more than
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  they have in the last 10 years. As they say, hold my beer,
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  right? The truck race was unbelievable.
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  Wreckage they wrecked so bad. Highlight reels, people flipping
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  over each other down the back straight away.
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  Well, that was not all. NASCAR called an audible.
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  They said, hey, the weather's not looking good after this
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  truck race. We're going to go ahead and run
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  the Arc of Menard series. Unbelievable amount of wrecking.
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  Wreck, wreck, wreck. All right, so I've laid it out.
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  This is more wrecking than normal.
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  Yes, I get it. They always wreck it.
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  Super Speedway races. So why are they wrecking so
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  much? All right, The Herminator knows
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  this is where I, you know, remind you all that I've raced
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  in NASCAR my whole life. I still race right now to this
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  day. Just got done winning down at
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  Volusia down in Florida. I just got home.
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  I've been in Florida and we won a big race.
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  So my disclaimers, I know what the hell I'm talking about.
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  Not being cocky. Just once again for my loyal
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  followers. Remember what?
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  What Brother Rusty says Herm. It's sad to say.
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  You got to remind them because they remember what they want to.
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  All right? This is why they are wrecking.
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  They're wrecking because we've got a new generation of kids
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  that grew up watching the Professionals race, and in our
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  day we learned of what they call tandem draft.
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  I would go up on this guy, you touch him and then you two cars
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  would go 2 seconds quicker than anybody.
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  Tandem drafting was a phenomenon and then NASCAR outlawed it.
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  It was dangerous. The wrecks were catastrophic
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  because this guy would be pushing you and you couldn't
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  see. You had to rely on the guy in
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  the front. But if that guy in the front,
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  OK, right, so this guy's going, the guy behind couldn't see and
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  he might lead you right into smashing into another car.
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  So tandem drafting got out outlawed and they said OK,
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  you're not allowed to attach to another car for a certain
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  distance. If you go like this all the way
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  around racetrack, you're illegal.
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  So you can kind of do it, but you got to let up right away and
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  that's driver's discretion. That's a NASCAR watching that.
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  OK, why are they wrecking? Because this new generation of
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  drivers are trying to emulate all this.
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  They're trying to emulate side draft and they're trying to
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  emulate bump drafting. They're trying to emulate tandem
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  drafting. The kids nowadays are so young
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  that they don't have the experience to keep the cars
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  underneath of them. And the experienced drivers
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  right now are wrecking. Everybody's wrecking.
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  OK, So what are we going to do about this?
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  Well, somebody on X said to me, why are they wrecking so much?
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  And I said, they're wrecking when they push and shove, right?
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  Listen, I got to give Mikey Walter a little bit of credit on
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  something years ago. He said something.
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  I thought, you know, he's right. The drivers are in control of
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  the gas pedal and the brake. And listen, they're wrecking
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  halfway through the race. They're wrecking on lap three.
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  This, this, this thing where they come out of the car and
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  they go, well, we got to do it. We got to do it as part of the
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  sport. No, you don't.
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  You don't got to do it on lap three or halfway through the
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  Daytona 500. You don't got to do it now.
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  You've got to do it when it's 5 or 10 to go.
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  Have you ever noticed during the Daytona 500, everything will
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  roll along Now there'll be some mistakes and and and that's,
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  those are accidents, right? But there will be some mistakes
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  early on. A guide, you know judges as me
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  or wrong and causes a big wreck and it's the big one but it but
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  it was a mistake. But all these kids right now,
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  the reason they're wrecking is they're trying to emulate too
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  early. It's the driver's fault.
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  And listen, people go they need more downforce.
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  So if you put more downforce on them, they go slower.
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  So now they go slower than you got to make more horsepower.
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  Nobody can pass. And then if you hit them, the
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  car don't move. You want the cars to handle a
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  little bit bad, OK? Look at every race, OK?
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  Look at one of the Daytona 5 hundreds that Dale Junior won.
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  My dear friend Dale Leonard Junior.
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  Look at the first one he won. He was out there all by himself.
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  Nobody even around him. Actually, Tony Stewart was
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  leading the race and Dale Junior just came up one year and passed
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  him. Dale Junior won the Daytona 500
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  with a half a lap on the whole field all by himself, Just just
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  going like this. Is that too boring for you?
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  Do you not like that these cars need to handle bad so you can
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  get some separation? Whenever you put downforce and
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  drag into these cars, that induces the drivers to bang on
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  each other. So right now when when they bang
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  on each other they just wiggle a little bit.
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  So why are they wrecking? Because the drivers on lap 30, I
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  got to push them. No, you don't got to.
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  It's the driver's fault. Now I want to throw a disclaimer
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  out there for the drivers that don't do this right.
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  There's a lot of drivers that that say, hey, listen, count me
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  down, let me know. And you know, I'm going to mind
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  my own business. And they're running forth in the
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  outside lane and they're just riding along and they're not,
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  they're not banging into nobody, you know, but they're just
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  staying tight in the bumper. Listen, here's what you do.
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  You hold the gas wide open and then we got big brakes on the
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  cars at Daytona and tell they because you, you keep the
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  butterfly open and then you go and then you take the break
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  because you cannot let out of the gas or else it won't
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  recover. These are techniques we use.
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  So the wrecking, because these kids are young.
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  The wrecking in the Cup series. The wrecking in the Cup Series.
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  So when you go back to the dual, even the greats are wrecking.
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  So. But that's why they're wrecking.
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  Why are they wrecking? I told you why they're wrecking?
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  Because they won't stop beating the hell out of each other.
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  All right, everybody. Well, what?
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  What do we do? Well, what do they do?
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  Well, they quit wrecking each other, and they cannot change
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  the rules to make the drivers quit wrecking.
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  It's just in the drivers meeting, it's like, guys, we
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  give you a good car. It's got a lot of downforce.
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  They quit running all over each other.
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  That's the bottom line. Hell, I heard they had a big OL
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  meeting with the Truck Series and the ARCA Menard series.
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  They didn't listen because they think on lap.
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  Hell they was they was wrecking on lap three of the ARCA race.
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  Lap three. My God, let's get some laps in.
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  All right, everybody respond right here.
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  All you, all you race car drivers that don't race but
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  you're on the couch and you know how to drive.
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  Respond right here. Tell us how to drive.
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  All right. That was a lot of fun.
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  here. They're trying to get those
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  races in down at Daytona. The weather's looking bad, but
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  they're doing hey look, everything's been canceled.
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  Evolution on on this this weekend.
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  Imagine if it was dirt. It'd be rained out.
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  The great thing about Asphalt Racing is they got those jet
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  dryers. All right, everybody, until next
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  time. Remember, we are in podcast
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  say, you come to Herman's house. All right, everybody.
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  Until next time, the next Kenny Wallace show.