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My Take on Daytona! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hello everyone and welcome back to the Kenny Wallace Show
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  takes a break. It's sleeping pretty hard,
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  snowing pretty hard here in St. Louis, MO.
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  I'm about 17 miles South of the Arch.
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  We're in Arnold, MO. Love my hometown, and it's
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  Showtime. It's time for the Daytona 580°
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  in Florida, 30° up here in Saint Louis, and it's sleeping and
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  snowing outside my window. All right, everybody, let's
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  bring you up to date. Let's let's tell you what's
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  going on in Daytona. Let's give you the highlights of
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  the Twin 150's or or as they call it, the duels.
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  It used to be called the Twin 120 fives.
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  A little history lesson here. It was always the Twin 120
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  Fives. The Twin 120 Fives.
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  Let's be clear, the front row is locked in all the time.
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  When you qualify, the first two starting spots are locked in,
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  right? So on the front row for the
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  Daytona 500 is Joey Lagano on pole QuickTime and a surprise
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  Michael McDowell front row outside in that good looking
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  yellow loves truck stop car and that was a big surprise.
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  That was a shock. Michael McDowell almost was on
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  pole for the Daytona 500, but we have seen these upsets in past
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  history. I I think Lloyd Allen once with
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  the Hooters car was on the pole for the Daytona 500.
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  That kind of shocked some people, but the Daytona 500 is
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  this Sunday. The front row is set, Joey
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  Logano on pole, Mike and McDowell, front row outside.
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  All right, let's move ahead. Let's talk about Thursday night.
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  It's called the Dual One 50s. They lengthened it.
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  Like I said, it used to be the twin 120 fives, but they had to
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  make pits that they they did not have to make pit stops.
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  They can make it. So NASCAR said, well, we're
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  going to make it longer that way.
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  You have to make a pit stop. We don't want you to make it the
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  whole way on no gas. We want pit stops.
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  So NASCAR said we'll fix your butt.
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  We'll call it the dual 150's. We're going to change it.
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  So 150 miles they ran two of them on Thursday night and buddy
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  NASCAR, I'm sorry to disappoint the fans that hate their life.
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  I don't like NASCAR and that's why I watch it.
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  I watched NASCAR so I can complain about it because I like
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  talking crap. I'm sorry.
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  I'm sorry. Both these dual one 50s were
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  incredible. You did not know who was going
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  to win until they came off of turn four, side by side, door
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  handle to door handle, passing on the last corner for the win.
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  And we had Jimmie Johnson battling out with JJ Yeley.
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  We had a race for the win in the first duel and when we had a
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  race for 15th spot, Jimmie Johnson and JJ Ellie to qualify
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  for the Daytona 500. So it was drama All right.
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  So the that herminator put us. These are two hundreds built by
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  my buddy Greg Deathridge. Greg's got a what is it?
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  Deathridge Optics. Check O Greg out.
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  He got some good stuff. Going to give me a little
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  cleaner here. Greg Deathridge right there, All
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  right, Deffard certified opticians down there.
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  Wichita Falls, TX. He's also the one that makes all
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  the glasses for Jonathan Davenport and now Chris Madden,
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  all the big boys in racing. So we already talked about the
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  front row set. Legono McDowell.
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  Our dual winners were Christopher Bell and Tyler
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  Reddick. But the first dual was won by
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  Tyler Reddick. And I got to tell you, how about
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  you young kids? So Monster Energy Drink.
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  They make a new hard tea so that it's called Nasty Beast.
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  Nasty Beast is sponsoring Tyler Reddick and he wins the first
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  duel and their commercials. Kick butt.
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  Got some girls in bikinis dancing around the swimming pool
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  and I'm like, oh boy, can't wait to look at this timeline.
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  This is going to be edgy and good.
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  I liked it. I'm a girl, Dad.
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  I'm married with three daughters.
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  Go girls. So Tyler Reddick, he's married.
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  He's got a kid and Kurt Busch is there.
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  You know Kurt's retired and he's playing part, you know, team not
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  owner, but Kurt's all in right there at the Michael Jordan team
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  with Danny Hamlin. He's a big Monster Energy drink
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  guy. So this nasty beast is a hard
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  tea. It's a liquor and I like it that
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  Tyler Reddick made a last corner move going into Turn 3 coming to
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  the checkered. And Tyler Reddick wins the race
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  in exciting fashion. The first duel and he and he
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  looks in his mirror and he goes. I wonder how Jimmie Johnson
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  doing. Is he going to miss the race?
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  Is our seven time champion, Jimmie Johnson.
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  After a three-year, two year layoff, Jimmie Johnson makes the
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  Daytona 500 coming off of turn 4 passes.
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  JJ Galey. So that first duel it was, it
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  was exciting. It was wild.
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  Let's look at my notes here. Yep.
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  All right, that's it. It was big.
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  It was exciting. So let's go to the second duel.
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  Terminator got the notes. It's wild.
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  The the second duel won't take me a little time because, buddy,
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  they wrecked their butts off Dual #2.
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  All right, our winner is Christopher Bell.
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  Austin Sindrich was second and we're going down the back
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  straightaway. And Toyota's right where they
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  want to be. And Christopher Bell makes a
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  move on Denny Hamlin. And listen, I'm sorry.
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  I'm sorry to disappoint you. Denny Hamlin just keeps getting
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  better. He, you know, So what, He don't
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  win a championship. This guy wins a lot of races
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  he's in. He's going to be in the NASCAR
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  Hall of Fame. He runs that mouth.
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  We love it. Denny Hamlin has already said, I
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  like talking crap. It's part of football.
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  It's part of, you know, the NFL is part of sports.
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  So Denny Hamlin loves juking and jiving with you.
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  He knows the more he jukes, you guys are going to jive and he
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  loves it. So Danny Hamlin's there.
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  He's going for the win again. You know he's already won the
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  Daytona 500 multiple times. So Danny Hamlin is a multiple
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  time Daytona 500 winner and he cannot hold off Christopher
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  Bell. Christopher Bell wins the second
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  duel and as Larry McReynolds say, oh, and by the way, they
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  had the big one. Let's go back with about 810
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  laps to go. They're coming through the trial
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  or they're running 210 mile hour and buddy, OK, that's a joke.
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  They're not running 210 but they're digging.
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  You know the roof flaps are popping up and down and you
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  know, I I ran a lot of races at at at the speedways Daytona and
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  Talladega and and you can always tell when things are getting
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  ready, get serious aerodynamically because those
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  roof flaps that they have we have on the front of our roofs,
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  they start going. When you see those roof flaps
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  start to do this, it means it means there's turbulent air
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  ahead. So that's what happened.
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  And William Byron and and all the boys they it was Ryan
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  Blaney, William Byron, side by side, kind of moving 1/2 the
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  lane here or there, but Brad Keselowski pops cow Bush in the
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  butt, gives him a run. Kyle Busch says I don't want
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  this run because I'm going to hit William Byron in the ass.
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  But you can't help it because see Brad Keselowski.
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  It's hard to see through Kyle Busch's car.
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  So here's Kyle Busch dragging the brake.
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  Whoa, whoa. And he can't help it.
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  Kyle Busch tries to go right, but he inevitably hits.
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  He hits William Byron in the ass, runs him in to our champion
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  last year, which is Ryan Blaney and Buddy Ryan Blaney hits that
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  wall hard. I'm like, Oh no, I hope he's all
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  right. Everybody's OK And I mean, they
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  all pile in. And when I mean, they all pile
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  in. I mean 10 cars at least.
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  So you got to remember, they split the duals in half.
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  You know, what is it? You know, 20 and 20.
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  You know that's 40. So when you knockout 10, you
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  only got like 12 cars left in the whole damn race.
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  Some were able to walk away with damage, but that second duel was
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  crazy. Now, by the way, here we go
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  again. You know, we got a race in the
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  back for 15th spot and and you're not going to believe who
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  it was. It was Cosgoralla.
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  What a name, right? Cosgoralla against BJ McLeod.
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  Now you're thinking oh, BJ, you know guys got a little weight on
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  him. You know doesn't have a very big
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  operation and you know we need, we need to do a show on BJ
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  McLeod. I thought this guy would be in
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  and out of the sport. I don't know where he gets his
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  money. I don't know where he makes it.
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  The car is black. There's not a damn name on it.
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  BJ McLeod does something respond right here.
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  Tell me where he makes all his money because in that in that
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  second duel cause growls up there and and that's a front row
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  motorsport. So Koz Grotto's teammate is
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  Michael McDowell and Michael McDowell is starting front row
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  outside of the Daytona 500. Now here's what's crazy.
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  Koz Grotto's running third or fourth with three to go and
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  you're thinking Koz Grotto's looking good but they start
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  juking and jiving. Koz Grotto gets out of this
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  draft, falls to last on the last lap.
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  There's BJ McLeod. You know, the car with no name,
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  number 78. You know, BJ's got the hat on
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  backwards. He does the good interviews.
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  I like both of them. And here's Cosgrola fighting for
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  his life. They are side by side coming off
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  a Turn 4 to make the Daytona 500.
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  And boy, Cosgrola just makes it so in both duels, right?
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  Jimmy Johnson makes it by a car length, and in the second duel,
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  Koz Grala makes it by car length.
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  And I mean, you're, you're looking at who's going to win
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  the race and you're looking in the back of the back to see,
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  damn, it's snowing Hard Out Here.
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  So these, these dual one 50s, they did not disappoint.
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  I'm sorry. I know, I know you're.
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  I know you. You love being miserable.
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  I know you hate the sport, but it's a game for you, right?
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  You'll want to watch the sport so you can talk bad about it,
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  but you can't. I win, you guys lose.
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  These dual 150's were absolutely off the charts.
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  I just told you why and it was racing at the front of the pack
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  to see who wins. It was racing in the back of the
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  pack. See who's going to make the
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  Daytona 500? Well, if you made it this far,
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  that's what my buddy Mitchell Stapleton does, who's got a
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  couple 100,000 subscribers. Mitchell's my buddy.
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  He he knows that you all got short span minds like I do.
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  I'm like, I'm still watching. I'm still listening.
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  You get a bonus. If you've made it this far, I'm
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  going to give you some more great information about our
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  sport. All right, let's wrap that up.
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  So I told you who's on the front row?
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  And so 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th that all lines up for the Daytona 500
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  on the way you finished in your dual 150's.
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  Let's say it again, let's say it slow.
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  The front row for the Daytona 500 cars that qualified first
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  second. Joey Logano QuickTime, Michael
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  McDowell second. That got locked in on the two
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  fastest speeds. The reason we run the dual
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  150's. So we take the finishing order
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  of the first dual, the finishing order of the second dual, and
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  that lines up the inside row and the second duel lines up the
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  outside. And that, my friend, is the
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  start in the lineup of the Daytona 500.
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  No Provisionals because remember, it's a franchise,
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  you're automatically locked in. So there's no Provisionals.
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  Franchise is the keyword here. There's no Provisionals because
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  you are franchise. Now.
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  If you are franchise, you are locked in every single race.
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  But so it's not communism. They got to make it available
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  for some people to make the race so you don't get a lawsuit.
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  So that's where the extra spots come in.
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  And NASCAR was smart doing that. That's why Jimmie Johnson and
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  Kyle's Growler were able to race their way in and make the race.
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  OK, let's talk about the garage area.
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  This is breaking news in the garage area.
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  NASCAR is changing in leaps and bounds.
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  I like it. They're into the entertainment
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  business now. NASCAR has always been
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  entertainment, but it's always been in the suites.
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  So NASCAR is taking something out of the playbook of the NHRA.
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  When you go into the NASCAR garage area now and you are with
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  the sponsor or you are with the team, you're going to get a
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  little extra pass. And NASCAR has split the truck
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  and trailers and right here in the middle is an unbelievable
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  hospitality venue. So if you're at Henrik
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  Motorsport and they got four cars, you got an incredible palm
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  trees and beautiful couches and a beer or some liquor.
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  And you're able right there in the garage area and here comes,
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  you know, Dale Junior or here comes, you know, Chase Ellen.
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  They sit on the couch with you and they talk to the CEO.
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  You don't have to go make a hospitality appearance.
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  They can come right down to the garage area.
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  So you're going to see this, you're going to look at it,
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  you're going to go, what am I looking at?
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  So inside the garage area now in between those teams, it could be
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  Rick Hendrick, Hendrick Motorsport, it could be Gibbs.
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  And NASCAR has allowed this spacing in between these big
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  tractor trailers. So let's say Chase Elliott's
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  hauler here, the number 9. And then let's say right here
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  is, you know, Alex Bowman, another Henrik driver.
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  They leave a spot right here. And boy, this is palm trees and
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  couches, and it's awesome. All right, let's put that to
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  bed. Here's the other one.
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  LED lights, a rolling billboard on the front of the pit boxes.
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  So you're in the grandstands. You're, you're a fan.
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  You paid $100 for your ticket and you're looking on Pit Rd.
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  and these enormous pit boxes, right?
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  They're big because the crew chief, they're here.
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  And then here's the wife. And then right here is the
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  sponsors. These pit boxes are
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  entertainment. Hello, CEO.
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  Hello, wife of CEO. You can sit on our pit box and
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  watch us call the race. This is a big deal.
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  It's entertainment. You're right in the game and on
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  the front of the pit box. This year, 2024 is the
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  incredible. I mean it's like 5 TV screens
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  LED and this is a rolling billboard Now respond right
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  here. Is NASCAR going to limit this
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  rolling billboard? Can you only run it before the
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  race? Do they shut it off during the
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  race? Can you can you roll some of
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  your sponsors that are not approved by NASCAR?
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  I haven't. I haven't looked at the rules.
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  I haven't called Steve Phelps. I haven't called Mike Hilton.
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  I didn't call Steve O'Donnell. Great idea.
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  Maybe we'll have one of those on Kenny conversation.
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  So are the new LEDTVS on the front of these big pit boxes or
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  are you going to roll some sponsors by there?
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  And the fan in less than 100,000 people at the OK, 20,000 people,
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  are they going to see that? What is that sponsor?
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  Does it say Nasty Beast? Does it say, you know AC Delco
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  doesn't say Valvoline and does something slide by that NASCAR
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  is not approved. Did you know you have to call
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  NASCAR and get your sponsors approved?
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  You cannot go get a sponsor and just put it on your car.
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  You have to call NASCAR and go, can I have this sponsor?
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  And then NASCAR goes, yes, it's a good sponsor.
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  It doesn't go against our guidelines.
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  And yes, you can have that sponsor or no, you cannot have
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  that sponsor. It's a drug.
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  It's we don't like it. So all right, everybody, there
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  you go. That's, that's the twin 150
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  duels. I gave you the starting lineup.
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  I gave you what happened and I also gave you a little bit with
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  the new garage area and the new LED rolling TV screens on the
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  pit boxes. So I'm excited.
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  I'm excited. The Daytona 500, we're all going
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  to be watching. And remember, this is not about
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  going fast. This is not about motorcycles
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  doing flips. This is not about shock and awe.
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  The Daytona 500 is our Super Bowl.
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  It is about man and machine. Can your car make the distance?
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  Can you not wreck out? And it always comes down to the
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  very end, the Daytona 500, NASCAR's greatest race.
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  All right everybody, Remember we are in podcast form.
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  Kenny Wallace show. And I'm sure it will be my wrap
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  up for the Daytona 500. NASCAR is back.
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  We're rolling every week. Until the next time.
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  Goodbye everybody.