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NASCAR Needs To Bring Back The Penalty Box | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning everybody.
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  I'm right back in my comfort spot and even Louis the legend,
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  sitting right there like the king he is.
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  Song of the day, When the sun goes down on my side of town at
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  a lonesome feeling comes through the room and the whole world
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  turns blue. You know, that's a really good
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  song. And I could keep singing it.
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  But I know you all are going to stream through the phone.
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  You're going to say, Wallace, what'd you do with all that
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  singing lesson money? Well, OK, we're at the end of
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  the week, and there's been a lot of NASCAR news.
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  And I sat here this morning, got my little blanket on.
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  Temperature just been up and down.
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  Now today it's cold. Yesterday it was 80°.
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  Now it's cold today. So well, here, there you go.
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  Says 50° in Arnold, MO. But I swear it was 80 yesterday.
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  So all right. Breaking news in the garage
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  area. Congratulations to Steve
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  O'Donnell, the new NASCAR president.
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  Steve is actually a friend of mine.
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  It's so it's so funny, you know, as you grow older, some friends
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  that you hang out with, I can't tell you how many crew chiefs
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  that were like engineers of mine, like, man, I don't know.
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  You just name it there. There is.
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  There is a lot of guys that were just normal, you know, crew
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  members and, you know, they just ended up going on and and being
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  bigger and better. So congratulations to Steve
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  O'Donnell. I've always thought Steve was
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  very worthy. One thing I like about Steve
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  O'Donnell, he he looks like a football player.
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  He looks like a lineman. So if Steve is going to, you
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  know, be the president of NASCAR, he's going to run it.
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  First of all, let me back up. I don't think anybody is looks
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  as bad ass as Mike Helton. Like the the great thing about
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  Mike Helton being the NASCAR president, he looks a little
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  mean. Hilton, Hilton, chew your ass
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  out and you're like, yes, Sir, 'cause he's way bigger than
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  everybody and he's got a little girth to him.
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  And same thing with the new president, Steve O'Donnell.
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  I kind of think that's, you know, one of the, the resume
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  skills you should have if you're going to be a president to any
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  company, anything be a little big because it's sad to say, but
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  when people respect you, things go a little better.
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  You get things done. So congratulations to Steve
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  O'Donnell. I texted him, he responded.
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  And so Steve Phelps, the the, the man that was the president,
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  Steve, has gone on to take care of international affairs.
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  In other words, NASCAR has been screaming that they want to go
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  global. So NASCAR assuming they're going
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  to go global. I mean, we have been racing in
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  Mexico for years now. The Cup Series is going back to
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  Hermano Rodriguez this year. We've raced up in Canada, up
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  there at Montreal, and the trucks have been running up
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  there somewhere. And so we've been on both sides.
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  We've been to Mexico, we've been to Canada.
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  Remember, I raced in Japan with NASCAR two of those three years.
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  So NASCAR went to Japan for three years and I raced in two
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  of them. OK.
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  So Steve O'Donnell is your new NASCAR president, I think.
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  I think he's going to do good. He's been with NASCAR forever,
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  so he should know what's up. OK, Remember, we've been talking
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  everybody, all the, all the NASCAR heroes of the past.
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  Mark Martin was on Dirty MO Media.
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  You know Mark Martin's like EF Hutton.
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  When Mark Martin talks, everybody listens and we all
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  respect Mark the Kid Martin out of Batesville, AR.
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  I just love saying that because when I was a kid, the announcer
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  would go, ladies and gentlemen out of Batesville, AR, Mark the
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  Kid Martin. We need announcers like that
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  again, damn it. Announcers.
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  Announcers make all the difference in the world and they
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  they put an aura about the racetrack.
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  OK, so NASCAR announced some fines and penalties.
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  Looks like Sammy Smith, the man that you know, you know, started
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  all this chaos. Sammy has been they, they give
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  him 50 points. They took 50 points from him and
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  a $25,000 penalty now on Herman Schrader.
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  Herman Schrader's been up. Go there.
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  I like what Kenny Schrader says. Schrader says Herman, they spend
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  $6 million a year. That ain't going to do nothing,
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  he says. Schrader says they need to set
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  them all out. And there's a lot more to that.
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  I'll never forget They set Kevin Harvick out.
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  And by the way, it's over there on Herman Schrader.
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  But you know, Kevin Harvick would probably hold a record
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  right now. But they, they set Kevin Harvick
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  out a race and I drove the number 29.
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  Yours truly. I was the one that drove Kevin
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  harvick's #29 GM Goodrin Chevrolet when he drove for
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  Richard Childress. I'm the one that drove that car
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  at Martinsville when old Harvard got in trouble with NASCAR.
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  Simmer down, simmer down. Cleaning ladies coming today.
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  That's what it is. She probably coming through the
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  doorbells are going off Louie, look at him going like a hot dog
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  running around. So the penalty to to Sammy Smith
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  was $50,000 and and 25 points. So, all right, so it's been the
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  the new NASCAR president, it's been the penalty for Sammy
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  Smith. They they also find Jeb Burton
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  and Taylor Gray 5 grand for getting in a little fisticuff
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  there out of the NASCAR in a little hospital there inside the
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  Martinsville Speedway. 5 grand is a lot of money, but it's
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  almost like a side note, right? My God.
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  OK, so tomorrow, I believe on Friday, the NASCAR Xfinity
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  Series director, he said he's going to hold a meeting with
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  those drivers in the Xfinity Series.
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  So it's kind of like one of these breaking news in the
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  garage area. NASCAR Xfinity director is going
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  to hold a meeting. All right, if you're watching
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  this boss, man, you better get aggressive here.
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  You can't be doing like this. OK, here's my advice.
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  When you have a meeting with these drivers, you don't stand
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  up and you go, gentlemen, first of all, they're not gentlemen
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  right now. They're ass holes.
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  I'd start out by saying listening, you ass holes, y'all
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  driving like it. Don't.
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  Don't give them any respect. That's the wrong foot to get off
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  on because they haven't given you any respect.
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  You got to treat them like children that just like Mike
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  Elton did me when, when NASCAR fined me 10 grand, 'cause I
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  didn't listen to them. They were black flagging me at
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  Phoenix and I didn't listen. I did.
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  Later on NASCAR, Mike Elton called me and he, he was
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  screaming at me, screaming. Mike Elton was screaming at me,
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  fined me $10,000. So Mr. Director, the new
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  director, I have a lot of respect for you.
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  I forgot your name because you're new.
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  Wayne Alton's been there forever, but now we got a new
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  director. Do not give those children any
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  respect. Start out stern and tell them
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  how they're making a fool. And you and they and and you,
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  you act like it's your series. And you say to those drivers,
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  boys, you have embarrassed my series.
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  My series, that's the way old Gazaway used to do it pissed me
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  off. I'd be working on that, that
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  Levi Garrett car and he'd say, boy, get in my car hot higher.
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  And I'm like, it's not, I wanted to say it's not your car.
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  But he made his point. He pissed me off right away.
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  So that's what you need to do. And you give this speech.
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  Don't think you'll, oh, I'm gonna talk nice to him 'cause
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  they, they won't listen. You threaten them, I'm going to
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  leave you with this. Steve Bird, one of the greatest
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  crew chiefs of all time, You know, he came out of there
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  quicker than John Force. Louie came out quicker than John
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  Force. Bow is gone.
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  Great reaction time. Steve Birdie said they need to
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  put him in the penalty box. I was like, damn, Birdie, I
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  remember that. So NASCAR, bring back the
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  penalty box. And for all you fans, respond
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  right here. If you start getting rough, park
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  them. Park them for 10 laps, put them
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  out of the race. If they want to pull off, then
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  that's your point. But you park them.
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  But they got to stay in their car.
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  Park them 2-3 laps, you know, start rough.
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  They start driving like fools. Park them, put them in the
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  penalty box and we used to have that bring the penalty box back.
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  All right, everybody, I think we broke down all the NASCAR news
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  today. You have a new president.
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  I told you about the fine and I told you about the new Xfinity
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  director. Are you going to give a meeting
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  tomorrow? If those drivers come out
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  smiling, you know the meeting didn't work.
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  Have a great Thursday.