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There's Huge Off Track Drama in NASCAR Right Now! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning everybody. I woke up to see Denny Hamlin
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  and Marcus Smith, who owns SMI Speedway Motorsports
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  Incorporated, shocked the ever living heck out of me.
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  I'm like whoa and here's why. Because it's definitely like a
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  battery, a negative and a positive.
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  You got Denny Hamlin, who's ready to argue at the drop of a
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  hat. Now he's taking on the role of
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  the bad guy. Then you got Marcus Smith is is
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  a God fearing man. His his demeanor is always been
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  incredibly nice, but I guess Denny Hamlin must have pushed
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  his button. And I and I saw this when I went
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  to bed last night, but I never thought in a million years
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  Marcus Smith would respond just because Marcus is so damn nice.
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  Race car drivers get passionate. There's some underlying tones
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  right now in NASCAR that I'm going to try to explain.
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  I'm going to give it my best go here.
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  But I do want to say this before I start.
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  Last week there was a tweet put out.
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  Maybe two weeks ago there was a tweet put out by my dear friend
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  Dale Earnhardt Junior, something like repaved Bristol.
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  And I went like an old dog. I went because you never see my
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  dear friend, the great, the most famous driver since Dale Senior,
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  come alive. We witnessed Dale Junior just
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  say repaved Bristol and and and I thought wow that's pretty big
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  because Dale Junior is a dear friend of mine and he just he
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  just don't say things like that. So I I logged that one Dale
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  Junior, remember Dale Junior? Said Repave Bristol.
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  In other words, Bristol's concrete right now.
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  Remember that? Yes, it is.
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  It's concrete. And Dale Junior a week or two
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  ago said Repave Bristol put put pavement on Bristol.
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  So that that kind of got me going.
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  Oh my. Then somebody pops up on Twitter
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  yesterday and shows that the paving, the brand new paving at
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  Sonoma is not looking good. It shows that it just kind of
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  like in a strange way like if a lady had makeup on.
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  It's like somebody smeared the pavement.
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  The pavement just got smooshed and and there was the the real
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  whatever it is underneath it the new pavement did not a he's to
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  the whatever it is underneath there it's Sonoma.
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  All right so let's get through it.
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  We got Dale Junior saying repay Bristol when Bristol has been
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  concrete forever and I'm like oh boy that's pretty big.
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  Then we got got Denny Hamlin coming on here saying this was
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  the big one right here. Drumroll, Denny Hamlin says Look
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  for North Wilkesboro pavement to go bad too, because Marcus Smith
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  does a cheap job. This is what you get when you
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  don't have a budget. I went to bed last night
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  thinking that was pretty strong, but now listen to this, it's
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  going to take. I can't do this in 2 minutes
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  because there's too much going on and I and I got right to the
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  point now the follow the bouncing ball because I do know
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  a little bit, but I don't know why this all started now.
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  The drivers, especially Danny Hamlin, are getting pissed right
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  now because Racing Alliance, now Racing Alliance is this group
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  that acts as union for the drivers.
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  OK, Racing Alliance is the owners.
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  So Racing Alliance is Rodger Penske, it's Rick Hendrick, it's
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  Jack Roush, it's Richard Childers, you get my point.
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  And Racing Alliance has a representative now, Racing
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  Alliance, they go to NASCAR and they go, look, we want some damn
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  TV money this year or or next year in 2025.
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  Well, behind the scenes right here, I'm, I'm telling it to
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  you, it's getting really ugly. It's getting really bad.
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  Everybody on the street, everybody I know, it says, man,
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  all Hell's getting ready to break loose right now.
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  I said really? So NASCAR is not giving the team
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  owners what they want and it's been going on for quite a while.
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  So there's a little bit more to this than meets the eye.
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  Now you could say these are two separate situations.
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  You can say, oh, Denny Hamlin and Marcus Smith are over here,
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  you know, throwing barbs at each other and that, and that's
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  separate. However, Dale Junior two weeks
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  ago said, hey, you need to repave Bristol and I'm like, OK,
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  so I do this two times, right? I go Dale, Junior says, repaid
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  Bristol. I go like that.
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  Then all of a sudden not two weeks later, Danny Hamlin goes,
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  Sonoma's messed up because they had a low budget.
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  They didn't spend the money. Now I go, then all of a sudden
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  all these birds come flocking, landing all over my swimming
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  pool. A lot of birds go, man, there's
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  an internal warfare going on right now between NASCAR and all
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  the team owners. I'm like, tell me more, I'm all
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  ears. So once again, Racing Alliance
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  and NASCAR right now, and I done told you who Racing Alliances
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  Racing Alliance is this group that's been formed, I guess
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  maybe going on 3-4 years and the way it works.
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  Racing Alliance is like I said, it's Rodger Penske, it's Rick
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  Hendrick, it's it's all the owners and it's real, it's not
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  fake. And what they do is they
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  sometimes try to make things better for them by buying diesel
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  fuel in bulk so they can afford diesel fuel better.
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  So Racing Alliance will go to a big fuel company and they go,
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  hey, we got hundreds of tractor trailers that are headed out to
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  all the West Coast or NASCAR trucks and trailers we need to
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  buy frigging 150,000 gallons of diesel fuel.
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  Can we get a good price? That's what Racing Alliance is.
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  And they do get a good price. Maybe, I don't know.
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  That's, that's what I heard that was going to go on.
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  Whether that happened or not, I don't know.
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  All right, let's wrap it up. So here's what we got going on
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  right now. We got drama in River City.
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  I did not see this coming. You've got you've got Dale
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  Junior last week going, hey put asphalt back on Bristol.
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  You got Denny Hamlin saying this is what you get when you don't
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  spend any money on a repaved job at Sonoma.
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  Definitely taking a shot at Marcus and I go, then all of a
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  sudden somebody tells me last week it's getting really ugly
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  between NASCAR and racing Alliance and that and then I go
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  that's Reeve Earnhardt. There is a lot of crap going on
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  right now. I did not see this coming.
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  Not my fault. This ain't, hey, this is the
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  Kenny Wallace show. But it's out there for everybody
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  to see. So I got to comment on it
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  because everybody's on Twitter right now.
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  Herman, what's going on? I got my ass up off the couch,
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  Came out here to my new open swimming pool.
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  Not new, but it's open. It's cold.
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  So anyway, all right, everybody, remember, pay attention.
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  I think there's going to be a press conference at Martinsville
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  this weekend. I'd like to see how this is
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  going to end. There's three storylines going
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  on, and I told them to y'all. All right.