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Kyle Larson vs Christopher Bell in Tulsa Was Epic | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning everybody, coming to you from a snowy, icy
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  Arnold, MO, right outside of Saint Louis.
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  All right, how about that show last night in Tulsa, OK, the
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  Tulsa Shootout. So for a lot of you NASCAR
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  people that don't really understand the situation, the
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  Tulsa Shootout was made-up of almost 1800 cars in about 5 or 6
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  different divisions. Now they're going to take a week
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  off and then next week they come in with the open wheel midgets.
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  That's that's the name for them. That's what they call them and
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  they'll be over 300. And this is the granddaddy of
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  these type of race cars. This is the date total 500 and
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  this is what Christopher Bell and Kyle Larson grew up doing.
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  All right, now that I've given you all that information and
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  it's on dirt by the way, you know, I like that dirt racing.
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  I like that dirt racing because it's groovy.
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  It's groovy. You just don't got to run right
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  here. You know, an asphalt sometimes
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  you got to run here and it's it's like, Oh, my car don't
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  handle here and it won't go anywhere else in dirt racing.
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  You can just go everywhere and get your car going.
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  So last night the big story was Kyle Larson versus Christopher
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  Bell and boy, they did not disappoint.
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  First thing I want to address is it was the non wing, non wing
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  class. OK, no wing and and that's the
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  one everybody wanted to wanted to watch the one with no wing on
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  it and 55 laps. And if you won that baby, that
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  meant you were the baddest son of a bitch there.
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  OK, so if you win this 55 lapper, it's unbelievable.
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  And Kyle Larson flew from Australia all the way over here
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  to America because he wanted to run this big race.
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  It paid $2500 to win. You get it now.
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  Hey Herman, you run that old dirt car and you don't make no
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  it. That didn't even pay for the
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  hotel room. A little bit of a smart ass
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  kicking in here right now. Y'all getting it?
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  Kyle Larson flew from 15-18 hours away and he won 100,000
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  over there. He won $100,000 over there at
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  Perth, over there in Australia, Perth Motorsports Plex.
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  But he flew all the way over here.
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  Now he he won two out of three because there's all these
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  divisions, but he came all the way over here because he wanted
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  to win that $2500. OK, it ain't about the money.
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  It's called the Golden Driller. What it is, it's this trophy and
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  it's a little bitty trophy, but boy, it's nice.
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  It's heavy. And if you win one of them, you
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  a badass. Same as me when I go down to
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  Volusia, win this little video trophy.
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  But it's made, it's good solid wood and it's got a alligator on
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  it. And if you win one of them, that
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  means you a badass. Because when I go down there,
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  you run 8 nights in a row. So that means it's there's only
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  eight of them for that year possible.
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  So in other words, every time I go on the track, if I go on the
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  track 8 times, 888 trophies for the whole year, they're very
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  rare. OK, now that I've explained all
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  that, done my very best Bell versus Larson.
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  Oh my God, it did not disappoint.
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  OK, Christopher Bell starts front row outside.
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  Now this is key right here. This is key.
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  Christopher Bell starts front row outside.
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  OK, Hans starts out HAHNI think that's M and Hans boy.
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  Respond right here because you know everything because you're
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  an open wheeled person. I know everything.
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  Is that M and Hans boy or relative?
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  He starts on the pole and he's a favorite because he's won a lot
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  of races there and he leaves for 20 something lap and then all he
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  fades. I don't know what happened to
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  him, right rear tire or whatever, but Christopher Bell
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  gets by and then Snyder's going to win it.
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  But Snyder showed Kyle Larson the line getting into one some
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  crazy ass line. He's going into one going to
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  climb the banking and come off of it and just a Daredevil line.
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  Daredevil line. Well, it got Snyder it Blues
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  right rear tire out. So that's fine.
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  That's fine to show everybody you're the best, but you're
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  going to pay the price when you run that highline.
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  You, you going to pay the price. Snyder paid the price.
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  Now he was the show and I like him.
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  I want to meet him. Congratulations, buddy, you a
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  badass, but you blew the right rear tire out.
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  Now the difference was was Kyle Larson said, OK, Snyder, you
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  showed me the line, but I'm going to enter with my right
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  front. That's why Kyle's so good.
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  He goes in the corner, enters with the right front.
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  Snyder was entering with the right rear, so Kyle goes in,
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  enters with the right front, climbs it, gasses it shoots
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  across and gains on Christopher Bell.
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  And I mean the crowds on their feet and here they here they
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  come. Now listen, these are the 2
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  greatest NASCAR drivers of our era.
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  It's Kyle Larson verse sea belt. Did I tell you that Kyle Larson
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  started 14th? Is that fair?
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  Is that fair? I mean it's Kyle Larson versus
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  Christopher Bell, but Christopher Bell starts front
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  row outside and we got Kyle Larson back here in 14th.
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  Is that fair? You know, it's luck of the draw
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  for those those qualifying races anyway.
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  We don't even talk like that. I just want to let you know that
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  in dirt race and it don't matter where you start if you're 1, you
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  one because you can't control it.
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  You can't control it, right? You could you could win all your
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  stuff, but with all those cars there, you going to start
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  somewhere. So here comes Kyle Larson and I
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  mean at the very end, it's a photo finish.
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  Kyle Larson is underneath Christopher Bell coming to start
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  finish line. Now here's the big deal in
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  Victory Lane. In Victory Lane, Christopher
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  Bell says some things that are unbelievable and so does Kyle
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  Larson. The first one I want to tell you
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  that was awesome was Kyle Larson says.
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  I don't like running second to Christopher Bell.
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  That's the rivalry we've all been looking for.
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  It ain't that they hate each other.
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  They both from the same type of Motorsports, you know, they're
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  both open wheel guys and boy, they're both really talented.
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  But Kyle Larson says he just admits it and the and we all
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  love it and everybody quotes it all over social media.
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  Kyle Larson says, I don't like running second to Christopher
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  Bell. Now let's go over here to Victor
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  Lane. A lot of good stuff comes out of
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  Christopher Bell. He says 4 words, thank you Joe
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  Gibbs. Now here's the back story to
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  that. Christopher Bell says thank you,
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  Joe Gibbs. Joe Gibbs said, I don't want my
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  NASCAR drivers running dirt because you're going to hurt
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  yourself and it's going to destroy my, you know, those Cup
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  cars are $20 million a year and all these employees.
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  I can see Joe Gibbs point, but you know what happens my I
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  called them up. I called to Joe, I'm not going
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  to tell you who I I told I'm not going to tell you who I called
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  it Joe Gibbs. But I called Joe Gibbs and I
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  said what made coach Joe Gibbs change his mind?
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  They said Ty Gibbs, Ty Gibbs said come on grandpa.
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  So I guess Joe Gibbs said I'm tired of y'all beating my ass
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  and all right, go run your dirt cars.
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  So there that that was the big deal.
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  Coach Joe Gibbs takes a page right out of Rick Henry, you
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  know, playbook and you know, we all know that.
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  Jeff Gordon says, hey, now I'm talking about Hendrick.
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  Now I'm talking about Rick Henry.
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  Now Jeff Gordon says, Rick just just let let Kyle arson race.
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  Let let him be happy. So Kyle Larson been doing all
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  this because they figured that's the best way to keep Kyle Larson
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  happy. Let Kyle be Kyle.
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  Don't try ruling him and go you or this is the biggest
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  Motorsports and you know, just let Kyle be Kyle and he's going
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  to drive better. But go back to Christopher Bell.
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  Christopher Bell says he first of all, nobody has ever seen
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  Christopher Bell that happy. Finally later, Christopher Bell
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  says, I'm so happy because this is my car.
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  I own it. He says the micro sprints are
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  the largest growing type of division in open wheel.
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  Does that upset some of you open wheel people?
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  See, here's what I've learned about that.
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  I've talked to Tony Stewart when he was up there practicing go
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  karts. It's Stefan Johansson's go Kart
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  place up there in Indy. Tony Stewart.
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  Tony Stewart takes every type of racing serious.
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  Is the World of Outlaw Sprint cars like the greatest division
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  of all because they cost the most.
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  A lot of these real racers, they don't care what they're racing.
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  They just racing and it's very serious to them.
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  So Christopher Bell decides to spend his money on these micro
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  midgets sprints, whatever the hell you want to call them.
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  Father in law's building them. He moves Christopher Bell moves
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  the father-in-law to North Carolina.
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  So, so I, I think what we're looking at here and the point
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  that I want to make is that if you're a racer, you race if you
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  race in a damn go Kart, we going to race now.
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  I think it's fine and dandy that, you know, the cup series,
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  the world wild lost Sprint cars. It's it's thought it was the
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  most popular because it's the most money.
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  But on the end like this, there's a reason Kyle Larson
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  flew from Australia over there in Perth Motorsports complex to
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  come over here to win $2500 because these kids love racing.
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  And I'm, I'm going to say this, they made the Tulsa shoot out
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  better. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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  You think he's supposed to get rid of all the great drivers and
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  don't let him? Emerson asked him.
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  He won three or four of those Tulsa shootouts.
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  It's fine. And the man's growing up.
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  Kyle Larson, Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell made the Tulsa
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  shootout better. All right, everybody from a
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  snowy Arnold, MO have a great Sunday.
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  This is the day. This is the day that the Lord
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  has my.