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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Says My Race Car Is Twisted! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning everybody.
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  You know when when Dale Junior retweets something that I posted
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  and he comments on it, it becomes a pretty big deal.
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  So, so many days ago, Dale Junior shows a picture of my
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  Sunoco dirt car. And he said Kenny Wallace's dirt
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  car is so twisted up it looks like me drunk on the way, on the
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  way back from the bar walking. So when you look at my Sunoco
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  dirt car, you know, it kind of looks twisted and not twisted D,
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  but it's twisted. Well, like a day later, Dale
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  Junior retweets my schedule that I put out.
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  So number one, I want, I want to thank Dale Junior for
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  interacting with my ex site lately.
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  Or you know, when I post some things, Dale Junior's been
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  commenting, he's been reposting. So for every action there's a
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  reaction. I want to comment everybody,
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  when I say everybody, a lot of people on the timeline wanting
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  to know about my twisted dirt car.
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  Great question. Look at there.
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  There's Louie, there's Lucy. Little chilly today, little
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  chilly today. So I turned the fireplace on.
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  I knew this 80° weather wouldn't last.
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  All of a sudden now it's 30 last time, like, oh, here we go.
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  That was that Indian summer. I was talking about 85°, not
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  back down to 30 and 40. Just one race season.
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  Get ready to start. So anyway, that was my ADD
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  kicking, kicking in. You know, right in the middle of
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  my twisted story. I got to talk about Louie, Lucy
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  in the fire. All right, all dirt cars, all of
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  them are twisted. Whether anybody wants to think
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  they are or they aren't, let me explain.
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  Years ago they came out with an invention and the rear end of
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  the car. Now you're not going to
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  understand this, but I'm going to do my best.
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  The rear of the car is set up on what we call bird cages.
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  So the rear end, the rear end is automatically moving all around
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  and it's got what we call A4 bar set up.
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  All right, hear me out. You're trying to take the weight
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  of the car and these bars are are pushing the 2400 LB car up.
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  And as it's trying to push the rear of the car up, it's doing
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  the opposite it it is pushing the car up, but it's pushing the
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  rear tires in the ground. It's almost like a drag car set
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  up, except a drag car is on solid rods.
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  We got the bird cage, so the rear end automatically is
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  twisting and it's rear steering. It's the craziest design, but it
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  does work. All dirt cars they do do they
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  twist. So we got a lot of stuff going
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  on. It's like a Rubik's Cube.
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  So you're lifting the rear of the car up and in and in return
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  it's it's pushing the left rear tire in the ground that gains
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  traction and then the the left rear tires going forward.
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  All right. The right rear doesn't do that
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  much rear steer, but the left rear definitely goes way
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  forward. So it appears the car is crab
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  walking. Now you've heard that, you've
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  heard the crab walking, remember the NASCAR Cup cars, they would
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  be going down the straightaway. They'd be going straight like
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  this. And and that was to put down
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  force on the side of the car as it would enter the corner.
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  So anyway, just a little fun this morning.
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  And yes, is my elite car a little different than everybody
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  else's? Yes.
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  But everybody else can do what we we do too.
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  And our bodies are put it on. Our bodies are put on a little
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  different than everybody else's. But everybody's car is twisted
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  and hopefully what I just explained to you helps you.
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  All right, everybody. Well remember April 4th I start
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  racing Tri-City Speedway, Granite City, IL about 30
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  minutes from my house and then about 15 minutes from my house
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  Federated Auto Parts Raceway in Pevely, Missouri.
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  Respond right here if you don't understand.
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  I'll do my best to try to explain.
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  Have a great Thursday.