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NASCAR Announces The New Points Format For 2026 | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning, everybody.
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  NASCAR, I believe, is strategically unveiling all the
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  rules for next year in 2026. First of all, you have President
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  Steve O'Donnell go on Dirty MO Media with Dale Junior and
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  they've been releasing all the clips, all the interviews all
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  last week and we reported on that.
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  Now NASCAR, Mike Ford, who's in charge of communications with
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  NASCAR is on door bumper clear yesterday, on Monday and he
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  tells us pretty much the way the points are going to be next
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  year. So I think NASCAR is doing what
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  we call a soft roll out. I think instead of leaking what
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  they're going to do next year, they're just saying it
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  themselves. Mike Ford says it looks like
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  next year they're going to do exactly what I want.
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  I think I went on this. I think they're going to do a
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  full season of points, 32 straight races, 32, and then I
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  think the last four races are going to be for the
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  championship. Now, I personally like that.
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  That has never been tried. I think that will be exciting.
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  Now, I know that there are a lot of you that are saying 36 races
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  are bust. They've tried this, they've
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  tried that, they've tried that, and all of it has failed is what
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  you say. But hold on.
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  I never heard anybody complain about the 10 race playoff.
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  Remember the one that Kurt Busch won?
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  That was exciting. Remember when his right front
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  tire rolled off and we got lucky?
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  It went down the front straightaway at Miami Homestead.
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  That was one of the most exciting championship events
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  ever. Remember we said, wow, look how
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  lucky Kurt Busch was. If the tire went down the pits,
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  he would not be your champion. But the tire barely went out on
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  the front straightaway. Remember that championship
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  format? I don't know why they got rid of
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  that. I don't know why there's things
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  going on in NASCAR that we don't know.
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  The older I get, the one thing I learned, you can go to NASCAR
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  and you can ask them a question and they'll say, well, this is
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  the reason we did that. And then I'll be like, oh, I
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  never knew that. And NASCAR will say, well, just
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  come ask us. They tell that to me, You know,
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  they say, Herman, just come ask us.
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  We'll tell you why. So I just want to leave you all
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  of this. It looks like instead of leaking
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  things and things getting out there, I think NASCAR is
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  checking our temperature. I think, I think it's on us to
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  react. So I'm reacting right now and I
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  want to hear you respond right here.
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  Let's go over it. We had Steve O'Donnell, the
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  president come out last week and say we're going 80 more
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  horsepower. We're going to have a surprise
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  for the All Star race and we want to create superstars and
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  Steve O'Donnell said a lot more and he said we will not talk
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  about, you know, what the points change is going to be until we
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  crown our champion this year. However, Mike Ford in charge of
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  NASCAR communications one week later, just yesterday, Monday,
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  goes over on door bumper clear and it's a great exchange.
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  Tommy Baldwin, the great Northeastern, he taught.
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  You think I'm hardcore. You think I say what I want to
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  say. Then Tommy Baldwin's my brother
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  Tommy Baldwin. He's the one that said, well,
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  I'd like to see like 32 straight races in like a four race
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  playoff. I think that would be awesome.
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  And Mike Ford says that's what we're going to do.
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  Oh, and he went like that. Do you do you think he was
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  acting? Do you think that he was hoping
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  Tommy Baldwin would say that? Respond right here.
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  Is is this a soft roll out? Is is NASCAR on purpose leaking
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  all this information while they got your attention right now
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  because we all know when when Phoenix is over, everybody goes
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  on to Thanksgiving, Christmas and they kind of forget about
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  it. Is NASCAR slow rolling all the
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  news for next year now? Respond right here, everybody.
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  But I'll end like this. NASCAR just announced that we're
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  going to go 32 straight races next year and we're going to
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  have a four race playoff and it's getting it's going to end
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  at Miami Homestead. And the way they're going to
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  brack them is who whoever's been leading the points all year long
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  will have an advantage going into that full race playoff.
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  That way if they win 10 races, they've earned an advantage.
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  All right, respond right here. Have a great Tuesday everyone.