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Qualifying Is Not For The Weak & NASCAR Has A New CEO | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody.
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  The new Mobile 1 Racing coffee mug looks good up there, doesn't
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  it? Looks good.
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  All right, we're filling a lot of orders, well over hundreds of
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  We had to order some more of those.
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  So thank you all so much. Go to shopkennywallace.com and
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  check us out. Well, I went and raced last
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  night. I went to Brownstown, IL, the
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  Brownstown Bullring. Would you look at Louie?
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  Let's zoom in on Louie, see what he does.
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  What you doing? What you doing?
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  He's like, he's like get that damn thing off of me.
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  I'm trying to relax. OK back to the Brownstown
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  boring. Brownstown, IL Went there last
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  night on Friday night and set QuickTime. 62 year old man sets
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  QuickTime man, I ripped that damn lip and turns 1.
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  I went down into turn one on the on the high side like, oh, Larry
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  Mack say, you know, when I qualify, I'm a qualifying son
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  bitch. You're going to have to do
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  something to out qualify me. And here's why.
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  I grew up in the in NASCAR in the early days where you had to
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  qualify. Oh, yeah, all the the Bush train
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  national races, all the Cup races, 50 to 60 cars, you know,
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  for 3840 starting spots. So every week at all the Bush
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  races, the Cup races, if you weren't in the points, you were
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  going to go home. But I'd get in that car and oh,
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  my God. I mean, I would.
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  I wouldn't wish it upon my enemies.
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  I mean, you dare to kill my family.
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  But qualifying in in the NASCAR days, the glory days, was
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  misery. Yeah.
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  I had to cheat death, man. I remember Atlanta.
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  You know, we'd go in the corners of Atlanta like 220 mile an
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  hour. I'd always get in the car or
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  seven race or seven cars before, you know my time to go out.
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  So I'd go, I, I had a little rhythm.
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  I'd go 123456 OK, get in the car.
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  I'd get in and I'd go through a deal.
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  I'd do all this, you know, I get all this tweaking out of me,
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  stretch my neck muscles, fire that, fire that baby up and you
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  know, and then they pat on your your hood of your car.
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  They that you know, it go like this ago.
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  That meant go start out in first gear.
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  And I mean, now, now it's on And buddy, I can remember going into
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  turn one in Atlanta all the time, just up over that hump and
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  that bitch would land in man with you and you let off a
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  little bit. Never all the way.
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  And I mean, as soon as you let off, you just had you had to get
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  back in it. And that old car would it would
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  y'all out? Y'all means want to spin out.
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  And I can feel it. You just go with it.
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  It's like you, you I'd tell the car if you want to spin out,
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  it's up to you car. But we got to go.
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  And if it come around, we wrecked and we wrecked, but you
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  had to lay that much gas to it, you know, to get a good time.
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  It was like that everywhere, pretty, you know, Charlotte,
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  Atlanta, you know, where, wherever you were going.
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  But man, we would lay the gas to it and we were hauling ass.
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  So I grew up like that. So when I went to qualify last
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  night, what was it, 2526? Mods?
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  Here's another one. We're coming home last night
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  from Brownstown and Austin. He went and helped Austin and
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  Roy. I don't know where Austin's in
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  the back seat. He takes his phone and Austin
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  brings his phone up and everybody is showing the video
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  of me and Earnhardt. You know, when Earnhardt, Dale
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  senior when he won his last race and Austin brings it up and I
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  said, yeah, I said that's me. And I said here now is that the
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  Brownstown Bullring tonight where they got 1 Porta Potti in,
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  in the in the pit area? I mean, what Austin was saying,
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  he goes, Herman, you're a big deal.
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  Everybody's shown that, you know, you were a NASCAR driver
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  and and I, I knew what he was doing.
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  And I said, Yep, I said those were the days, my friend.
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  He goes, I just forget how popular you are now.
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  Listen it, I'm embarrassed to say that, but I just want to
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  share that with you qualifying. And those aren't, you know, it's
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  Talladega. The race in Talladega is, is
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  tomorrow. So they're showing, you know,
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  and I and I and I can't help it, they just show it.
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  And Kenny Wallace, Kenny Wallace.
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  So he's young, he's in his mid 20s.
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  And he's like I said, Yep, that's the same guy that said
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  quit time here at the Brownstown Bullring and in the in the in
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  the pit area, there's one porta potty.
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  You look down and there's some man's turd staring at you.
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  It's brutal. These dirt tracks are just
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  brutal. But this is the way it is.
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  This is the real world set QuickTime one my heat.
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  Wouldn't you know it, you go across the scales.
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  When you go across the scales, they got a bag.
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  You reach in there, I pull out five they invert the top six
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  anyway I drew five run 9 didn't run good I just didn't run good
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  that's all there is to it I you know I got my excuses, but you
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  don't want need to hear them so that's that but hey it's all
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  going good it's a good start to the year.
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  The mobile 1 dirt cart is fast. We won the feature last week,
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  run 9th this week and going to peevely tonight.
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  I I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park, 6 minutes and 50
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  seconds. That's the longest monologue
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  I've ever done in my life. All right, just a couple minutes
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  here, everybody. Big news in the garage area.
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  It happens all the time to me. I mean, the president, OK, we
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  got a new we got a new president of NASCAR, Steve O'Donnell.
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  Steve O'donnell's taking over for Jim France.
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  So the way it's going to go now is this will be the first time
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  in the history of NASCAR that somebody that is not a NASCAR
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  family member is the president of NASCAR.
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  So, so congratulations to Steve O'Donnell, the new president of
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  NASCAR. And then and then Ben Kennedy is
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  going to be right behind him. And of course, that is a family
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  member of NASCAR. And Jim France is going to enjoy
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  his life now, which he he he should enjoy it.
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  And I got to be honest, I'm just going to say it the way I feel
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  it. I like Jim France a lot.
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  But boy, I'll tell you what, there's something about, you
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  know, modern thinking. And I think Steve O'Donnell is
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  the man for the job. I think Steve O'Donnell is the
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  man for the job. Steve, I'm just going to say it.
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  Steve's a good friend of mine. We text each other all the time.
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  That's what I'm laughing at. I'll never forget Chip, while he
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  was my PR guy at Bill Davis and he becomes the president of
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  NASCAR. Paul Doshaw, good friend of mine
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  at Toyota, we text each other all the time and all of a sudden
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  they announcing the president of Toyota.
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  And here's Steve O'Donnell and myself, we text each other all
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  the time. And if some bitch is now the
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  president of NASCAR, Jesus, I got hey, I got friends in big
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  places. Everybody as they say down
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  South, Louie, show me his ass. Get down young Louie.
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  Show me his ass Louis. As I say down South everything
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  be I it be I see at I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway
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  Park tonight. Have a great Saturday everyone.