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I Almost Burned To Death Once Flipping My Car · Kenny Wallace Media

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  I'm upside down and Gordy goes home.
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  What do you need? What do you need?
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  I said, Gordy, I said here's the deal.
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  I said. I got fuel pouring out.
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  I said I need you to turn me over now.
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  This was my experience and this is what I want to share with you
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  all this night. Scared to death, right?
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  I said, when you flip me back over, flip me back over.
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  I said the fuel is going to hit the headers right and it's going
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  to catch on fire. It's the Kenny Wallace Show
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  of you. OK, man, big story in NASCAR,
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  way bigger than I ever thought. Caught me by surprise.
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  Corey Lajoie on Monday at Michigan Speedway.
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  Sunday, the race got rained out so we raced on Monday.
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  So Corey Lajoie comes off Turn 2 and Charlie Marlowe is going to
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  earn. Insert some pictures here In
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  just a minute, Corey makes a move on Noah Graxton.
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  It doesn't go right and Corey goes to flipping.
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  Now I, I got some still pictures here that I took off the TV.
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  So these are my pictures that I took off the TV.
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  And you see Corey is, is flipping and, and listen, it's
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  violent. There's no such thing as tipping
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  over. This is a violent flip.
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  Anytime you flip over, you're you're, you know, you're on your
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  roof. Listen, here's what I have to
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  say about flipping. You're doing something that a
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  car is not meant to do. A car is not built to be upside
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  down. However, we have some safety
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  measures in place for a car to flip.
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  OK. So, for example, you have a row
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  cage, you wear a helmet, you have seatbelts, all these safety
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  devices. However, and I want to be very
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  clear on this, hear me, hear me loud, the motor is not meant to
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  run upside down, OK? The motor in the car is not
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  meant to be run upside down, OK? So you see Corey's car, it's
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  done all this flipping, it's violent.
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  Now, what happened was Steve Letarte and Jeff Burton on NBC,
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  they were shocked. They said, oh, my God, this
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  should not happen. Well, when that happened,
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  everybody in America some. Charlie, insert something else
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  here. Charlie, I'm going to send you
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  this. This is why we're doing this
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  show. I simply gave my opinion on why
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  this flip happened and we're over 260,000 likes comments.
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  I mean, here Charlie, let's insert that right now.
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  Here we go. Check this out, would you?
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  So I've circled the likes so we're over 260,000 and I'm like,
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  Oh my God. I guess I'd better do a show
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  about flipping if the people have been going on for days and
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  days about Corey Lajoie flipping.
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  And I'm like, why is this such a big now deal?
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  Now we had Ryan Priest as my dear friend, you know, Dale
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  Earnhardt junior talked about on Dirty MO Medium.
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  Ryan Priest flipped worse last year on the back straightaway at
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  Daytona. We've watched, you know, Austin
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  Dillon flip violently on the front stretch at Daytona.
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  So why is everybody overreacting to this flip?
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  I mean, roof flaps or not, we have all the safety devices
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  known to engineers. We have we, we've done
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  everything we can do. So it's like, why is everybody
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  overreacting about this particular flip when we've been
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  flipping with roof flaps? Ryan Preese had roof flaps.
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  He flipped Austin Dillon, he climbed the wall in the front
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  straightaway. He had a roof flaps.
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  So we had all these flips over the last two years, but now all
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  of a sudden there's complete drama about this flip.
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  Well, a lot of people are telling me it's because Jeff
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  Burton, Steve Letarte said, oh, my God, oh, my God, this should
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  not have happened. So what happened?
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  OK, are we good now? I've given you, I've given you
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  my disclaimer. I've showed you Corey Lajoy.
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  We put the still pictures up. He's flipped.
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  I've given you examples that people have been flipping for
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  2-3 years, ever since the invention of the roof.
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  Flaps are meant to help. OK, sometimes a car comes up, it
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  goes back down, and we say the roof flaps save the day right
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  there. But for the most part, people
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  have been flipping for years, even since the invention of the
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  roof flaps. Well, all right, I talked to
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  Charlie and I said, Charlie, let's do a show about flipping.
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  So now we're going to do something that'll make your
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  eyeballs pop out of your head. I have done some flipping.
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  You talk about somebody that's done some flipping.
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  Charlie, let's insert the picture right now.
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  This is around 2016 somewhere in there.
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  Let's insert the picture right now.
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  OK, here you go. Yep, that's me.
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  That's me. That is in Quincy, IL at Adams
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  County Speedway. And buddy, I got some air.
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  That was a real flip, as Kenny Schrader would say.
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  Yeah, that was a real flip. You did not tip over.
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  That was a real flip. Even the World of Outlaws Sprint
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  car guys are like, Yep, that's a real flip.
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  Herman, how many times did you flip?
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  I said around six. OK, now that you see it, that's
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  air. You can see the car.
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  That's a banked racetrack. What happened?
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  What happened? Why'd you flip, Herman?
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  And here's where my experience is going to come in.
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  And let me tell you something else.
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  I flipped a total three times that flip right there at Adams
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  County Speedway in Quincy, IL And I've also, as Schrader said,
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  I tipped over one time and turned three and four Volusia,
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  but then I flipped another time. I was running 4th at the Gator
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  at Volusia. We were coming to the green
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  flag. Nick Hoffman, he had some
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  aluminum lug nuts, aluminum lug nuts that came loose.
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  His left footer tire fell off coming to the green, and my left
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  front went up over Austin Dillon when he was driving the black #3
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  modified. And when my left front went up
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  over, I started flipping. Well, something happened there
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  that scared the bejeezis out of me.
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  So we're going to tell you about that moment.
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  Then we're going to go to the Quincy Adams County Speedway
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  flip. All right?
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  The second time I flipped was on the front straightaway at
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  Volusia, and I flipped. And when I flipped over, I end
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  upside down. Now remember, cars are not built
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  to flip. However, we wear helmets and
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  seatbelts and roll cages. But motors.
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  Here's specifically the carburetor with the gasoline.
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  The gasoline, the gas, you'll burn to death.
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  You'll kill yourself because you're flipped upside down.
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  Oh, and by the way, people have killed themselves because when
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  they've been flipped upside down, they panic and they reach
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  down, they grab the seat belt, they jerked the seat belt loose
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  and they fell down and broke their neck.
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  So flipping is funny until it's not.
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  People have broke their neck because they're upside down.
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  They're like, I got to get out of this car before I burn to
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  death. They released the seat belt.
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  They forget to put their hand down and they fall down.
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  They break their neck and they kill themselves.
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  So the flip didn't kill them, but releasing the seatbelts and
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  breaking your neck killed them. And oh, by the way, when you're
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  upside down, all the gas is draining out of my carburetor.
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  So here's where my story starts. I'm on the front straightaway at
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  Volusia. I'm upside down.
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  And my local friend, there's hundreds of people gathering
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  around the car. It's a catastrophic wreck.
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  And Ray Walsh from right here in Saint Louis goes, Herman, what
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  do you need? What do you need?
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  And I said, Ray, don't let me burn to death.
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  The gas is pouring out of the carburetor.
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  So I heard about the story of the people dying releasing her
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  seatbelts. So I I said, Ray, don't let me
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  burn to death. The gas is just pouring because
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  I'm upside down. The gas is pouring out of the
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  carburetor. I see it, I see it right because
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  there it's sticking up out of my hood because I'm in a dirt car.
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  It's not like a NASCAR Cup car. My carburetor, my air cleaners
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  up, sticking up out of the hood so I can see it.
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  I'm like, oh, no. So I put my hand down, I release
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  my buckles and I'm skinny, man. I'm skinny.
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  I'm as skinny as I get, and I barely get out of that damn
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  thing. All right, So I escaped death.
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  My wife was there on the front straightaway.
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  It was a very scary moment. Now, I flipped over once.
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  Remember down in turns one and two?
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  Schrader said. I tipped over, then I really
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  flipped, Schrader said. That was a flip.
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  Any time the Sprint car guys tell you you flipped, that's
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  when you get your approval because they're professional
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  flippers. We spin out and they flipped it
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  When, when, when wing Sprint cars are open with guys, when
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  they flip, that's just like spinning out for them.
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  They just, they flip all the time.
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  Hell, they flip, tip it over and take back off and race.
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  I've seen guys flip, take over, take off and and win the race
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  because those cars are designed to flip.
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  That's just the way they are. Stock cars are not designed to
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  flip. So all right, I told you my
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  experience there at that time. All right, Charlie, let's go.
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  Let's go back to this flip one more time.
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  Let's insert Charlie, let's insert the pitcher again one
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  more time. Here I am, Adams County
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  Speedway, Quincy, IL All right, knock on wood.
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  This is a this is a wood desk. I'm knocking on wood.
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  This was the last time I flipped.
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  And by this time I'd become a professional.
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  So I go down the back straight away and I had some Winter's
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  hubs on. This was the brand called
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  Winters Hubs. Well, after I flipped, everybody
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  told me, Oh yeah. Well, what had happened?
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  The Chinese junk metal, of course, everybody in racing
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  goes, Oh yeah, you know, you get some bad metal.
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  It's that, that's that stuff made in China.
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  Chinese junk studs, the wheel studs that hold my right rear
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  wheel on. They broke off.
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  Well, they weren't loose. What had happened?
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  The studs were still there. The, the, the, so like you got a
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  bolt, right? And here's the head, the heads
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  broke off. And so as I'm going down the
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  back straightaway, my right rear wheel falls off.
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  As I'm going into the corner, my right rear wheel falls off.
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  My car right here. Let's do it like this.
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  Here's the moth. All right, I'm going, this is
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  the right rear. I'm going down the straightaway.
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  This falls off and then it digs into the frame and then I start
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  flipping. I start vaulting.
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  OK, I'm up in the air. I'm shocked.
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  I'm like, what the hell just happened?
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  Why am I flipping? And so, as you saw in the
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  picture, this has got this is serious.
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  So I land upside down and thank God once again, Gordy Gundaker.
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  Yes, Gordy Gundaker runs with the World of Outlaws and Gordy,
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  you know, his brother Trevor, Mom, Kevin and Tammy.
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  Gordy Gundaker. I'm upside down and Gordy goes
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  home. What do you need?
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  What do you need? I said, Gordy, I said here's the
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  deal. I said.
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  I got fuel pouring out. I said I need you to turn me
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  over now. This was my experience and this
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  is what I want to share with you all this night.
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  Scared to death, right? I said, when you flip me back
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  over, flip me back over, I said the fuel is going to hit the
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  headers right and it's going to catch on fire.
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  The reason I decided to do this is because my roof was
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  collapsed. I've learned.
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  I've learned this. When you build a dirt car on the
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  driver's side, don't make the nameplate real thick.
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  Don't make it real thick because when you're upside down, the
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  roof, the roof right here, right here, the roof smashes down and
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  now you can't get out of the damn car.
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  Then if you make make the door too tall, see where the driver
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  tries to get out, you can't get out.
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  So I thought, Oh my God, my roof is.
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  So I, I started making my name plates.
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  I started making this area thin. That was my phone.
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  So anyway, I said, Gordy, here's what we're going to do.
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  And I'm saying this real fast. You, you all flip me back over.
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  I'm going to I'm going to have my hand on my belt.
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  Have my hand here, flip me over. I'm going to release the belt.
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  I'm going to go, I'm going to hold my breath.
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  And as soon as I catch on fire because the gas is going to hit
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  the headers, because now we're turning the car back the way it
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  ought to be, right? I'm like this.
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  Soon as we go get over the carburetors up here, the gas is
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  going to hit the headers. Sure enough, sure enough, I
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  become a Kenny Wallace had become a professional flipper.
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  I mean, it happened exactly as soon as they went over.
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  As soon as it went over, I land, I land, I go, I hit the
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  seatbelts, it catches on fire. They hit it with the fire
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  distinguisher and I get out. OK, That's my story.
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  That car was destroyed because it caught air and it diamonded.
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  It twisted it, you know what I mean?
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  The car was twisted because I was hitting right front, right
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  rear. Car was destroyed, framing cage
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  was twisted. So when we talk about flipping,
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  OK, I see a lot of you people out there get get real like that
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  car should never flip. Here's the bottom line.
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  You're going to flip. I don't care what kind of safety
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  advances NASCAR comes out with. You're going to flip and that's
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  all there is to it. So everybody hold your horses.
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  Remember we say that back when we were in school, Hey, hold
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  your horses. Why?
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  I mean it, take the reins, hold your horses.
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  You're going to flip no matter if you're, I mean all the only
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  reason we're doing this is because everybody's like, he
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  shouldn't have flipped. No, you're going to flip because
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  he took his right front. And listen, even the mayor, the
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  mayor is Jeff Burton safety. We do our best.
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  You're going to find a vulnerable moment and you're
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  going to say, oh, I never saw that.
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  I can't believe we hit here. You look at a dirt track and
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  you're like, Oh my God, it it dirt tracks are so dangerous
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  because walls are not proper here.
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  NASCAR, Formula One, we're as good as we can be, but you're
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  still going to find those spots. So Corey Lajoie, Corey Lajoie,
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  he takes, what's Corey do? Let's take that trip now let's
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  take brother Rusty all right, so you got OK, let's let's say this
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  OK, Corey, this is Corey Lajoie, Brother Rusty.
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  Corey Lajoie coming down the back straightaway turns left,
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  gets ready to go around and he takes his right front tire.
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  He takes see that he takes that right front tire and he and he
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  gets into Noah grats and he launches, he launches himself.
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  Corey did this himself. He'll tell you he launched it
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  up. He did it.
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  The car, the car wasn't going straight and just started
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  flipping. The right front goes into Noah's
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  left rear launches and starts flipping.
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  So the, the whole damn reason I'm doing this is people, we're
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  going to flip. And when you flip, it's not fun
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  and it's nothing to make fun of. I just explained to you my
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  experience with flipping. Now I do want to give a shout
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  out to, to end. We're going to end, OK.
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  We're going to end like this. Willie's carburetor out of Mount
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  Carmel, IL saved the day. They came out with what we call
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  roll over plates. They go between the metering
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  blocks and the end of the carburetor.
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  It's about, it's about, you know, about 3/8, maybe 1/2 inch
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  thick, 3/8. And what it does is when you
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  flip over these, these small like like sticks, like little
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  miniature pennies, like like change like pennies, these
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  things fall down and they do not let the fuel escape.
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  So now when dirt cars flip, the fuel should not come out of the
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  venturi tubes on the carburetor. Now, fuel might come out
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  somewhere else, but once again, we're doing our best.
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  All right, everybody, shout out to Willie's carburetors for an
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  incredible invention called the rollover plates.
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  Car flips over. Fuel does not come out of the
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  venturi tubes. All that fuel in the carburetor
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  comes out, pours on the header. Car burst into flames.
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  Driver burns to death. Dead.
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  Worst thing in the world watching my burn to death.
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  All right, everybody respond right here.
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  What are we missing? How come it was OK?
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  Here's the question. Why was it OK for Ryan Priest to
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  flip last year and that was a bad flip?
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  Why was it OK for Austin Dillon to flip on the front
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  straightaway? That was a bad flip.
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  Why is everybody complaining about this flip?
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  I just explained to you, y'all are telling me that it was
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  because Jeff Burton and Steve Letart said, oh, that should
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  have never happened. Well, maybe it should have never
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  happened. And then the other reason we're
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  doing this video, Charlie, let's end it like let's let let's
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  insert this one more time. I did my take on why the car
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  flipped and over 260,000 of you have responded here it is.
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  Look at it so we can talk about the turtle shell bottom helped
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  it flip. We can talk about the rockers
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  making it flip. People, if you race long enough,
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  you're going to flip. All right, everybody, I hope you
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  enjoyed my take on my dangerous moments in life flipping my race
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  car. Remember, we are in podcast
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  form. If you're watching this on
• 20:51
  podcast, you didn't get to see me emulate with my little
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  diecast cars here, but still, you get it and you understand
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  it. We are in podcast form and
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  iTunes until the next Kenny Wallace show.
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  We'll see you next time.