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Judge Says Lawsuit is "Burning" NASCAR Down | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  On this Wednesday night we are racing dirt.
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  We are racing on dirt at Tri-City Speedway in Granite
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  City, IL. It's all part of the Hell Tour.
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  It's hell 'cause it's 100° out and it can be rough, but it is
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  the summer Nationals. Looking forward to running my
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  Sunoco Dirt car over there tonight.
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  So as they say down South, y'all come out now here.
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  All right everybody. I don't want to do it, I don't
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  want to do it, but it's everywhere.
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  I always say that I report. I report on what I see Bob
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  Pockrash or Jeff Cluck say, and Jeff Cluck has done some big
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  reporting on this. And man, you know, it's one of
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  those deals where it's none of our business.
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  Doesn't have anything to do with me, but boy, it sure as a hell
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  of a soap opera. NASCAR wants to know every
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  team's financial records. Now, let's let's not get
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  sophisticated here. I don't want y'all telling me,
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  you know, this or that. All I'm saying is NASCAR said to
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  Judge Bell. I remember.
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  Yeah. Lou's like, what the hell?
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  Judge Bell is the guy's name. He's the one.
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  He's the judge presiding over this man.
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  They are. They are going at it.
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  I mean, this, this is a damn battle Royale, it appears to me
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  now this is my opinion. NASCAR is getting more pissed by
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  the day, NASCAR said. Well, the article reads, The
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  article reads. NASCAR wants 12 of the 15 teams
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  now 12 of the 15 teams. So if one of the teams was, you
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  know, Hendrick, that's four cars.
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  And if the other one is Joe gives us another, you know, so
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  12 of the 15 teams, that's basically everybody.
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  NASCAR wants to see the financial records because
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  NASCAR's like here, here's what NASCAR says.
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  NASCAR says you all are making money and you want more.
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  That's pissing us off. Now I said that NASCAR's getting
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  mad because they feel like the teams have plenty money and they
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  don't need any more. The teams are saying this in the
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  article. It says it takes as much as
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  18,000,000 a year to run each car.
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  So the the story is this. Are you all spending the money?
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  I think the word they used was egregiously, and I'll put it in
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  herminator terms. Are you all wasting money trying
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  to be big time? Well, I mean, what is wasting
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  money? You're running, you know,
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  NASCAR's got jets now. I have seen Ben Kennedy and I've
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  seen Steve O'Donnell on commercial airliners.
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  I, I was on with them. I was at the Daytona airport and
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  I got on a plane and there's old Ben Kennedy and we had a nice
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  little talk and then I was sitting in first class and here
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  comes Steve O'Donnell. He looked at me and he said
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  Herman. So NASCAR does fly their
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  executives commercial, but I'm, I'm assuming you got to have you
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  got to have airplanes. You you're not going to be able
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  to run 39 weekends out of the year commercial.
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  All the teams have got, you know, they, they charter big
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  airplanes. I mean, do you need a motorhome?
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  I think you do. I think you do.
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  Now, let me tell you about me. When I raced the NASCAR, you
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  know, there was 250,000 people at all the races.
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  So I had to have a motorhome. You did not dare leave that
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  racetrack. If you left a racetrack with two
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  hundred 250,000 people, you couldn't get back in.
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  So I had a motorhome. I had a motorhome driver, I had
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  a King Air 200 airplane, and I had a pilot.
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  So right, there's two employees just being a race car driver.
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  I also took that airplane and went around and serviced my
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  sponsors every week. Square D they were wanting me to
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  give speeches, you know, go here, go there.
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  So I'd run a race on Sunday and on Tuesday I'd be somewhere in
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  America giving speeches because the sponsor paid me not just for
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  that name on the car. There's way more you got to do
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  it do appearances, speeches, autograph sessions.
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  So you have to what we call service to sponsor.
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  So that's stuff you can't do commercial.
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  So I I don't know that these teams are wasting money.
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  I will say that, you know, this next Gen. car was no joke, but
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  you know it. Where you going to get that
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  money? So when when they brought the
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  new car in when they brought the new next Gen. car in, where you
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  going to get that fresh money and what are you going to do
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  with what are you going to do with the cars that you've been
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  running? You can't sell them so you smash
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  them. I don't I don't see you know,
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  arka taking them. I don't see the Xfinity series
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  taking them. It won't work.
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  They're Cup cars and that's all they are.
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  Now. You might be able to use some of
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  the parts, but I believe it does take every bit of 15,000,000.
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  How much does the driver make? So you see what I'm saying?
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  You got payroll, you got planes, you got buses, you got parts
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  pieces. It takes a lot to run this deal.
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  The bottom line is, is NASCAR wants to see if these guys are
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  spending too much money. But, but I want to end like
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  this, everybody, Judge Bell said this.
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  Remember about two weeks ago, I said, the judge said you all go
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  in a locked room and figure this out.
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  Well, they didn't. And Judge Bell said something
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  very profound. He said, I've never seen a group
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  of people wanting to burn the house down, he said, But I'm the
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  fire Marshall. And in December, when this goes
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  to court, I will put the fire out.
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  It's right there. That's what Judge Bell said.
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  I've never seen a group of people trying to burn NASCAR
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  down, burn the sport down. All of you, all together,
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  basically everybody. Why are you trying to burn the
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  sport down? You, you made a living out of
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  this long. Kind of reminds me of what Mark
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  Martin said. Mark said what was wrong with
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  what was wrong in the 90s, Everybody was making a lot of
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  money. What what was wrong?
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  Everything was good back then. Why is it not good now?
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  I don't know. I think Denny Hamlin and Michael
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  Jordan and that whole bunch and, you know, 2311 and not they're
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  not, they're not really, I guess you could say 2311 in front row.
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  They're taking NASCAR to court. I guess they need more money.
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  It's getting ugly, everybody. It's getting ugly.
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  Judge Bell said, I'm going to give you this opportunity to go
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  in, go into a closed room and come out and be done with this.
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  But why would the judge say, I've never seen an effort to
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  burn the sport down? He didn't say sport, but
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  basically what does that mean? What does that mean?
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  Respond right here. And the teams are arguing that
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  if we were to show you our financial records, it could be
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  catastrophic. What does that mean?
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  So I'm asking you 2 things to respond to, Judge Bell says.
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  I've never seen an effort to burn a sport down so hard as
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  NASCAR and 2311 in front row and then the 12 teams that are
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  wanting to, you know, so here's what happens.
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  They said that there was a line of lawyers there, just a line of
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  lawyers for all these teams. And they're all saying it would
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  be catastrophic if everybody knew our business because the
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  article read well, what happens if you know, they're showing
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  what drivers make, you know, all that.
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  That's nobody's business. That's like that's like you
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  getting to see how much money Shawnee or Tony makes.
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  Well, maybe it's worth it because when he gets done
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  hitting, he can also go pitch. But really it's none of my
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  business what you make it. It Listen, it's the same thing
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  as me going around me going to lunch and and going to
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  everybody's table at lunch going how much money you make.
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  And they're, they're appalled. So are you willing?
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  Are are you, Yeah. You are you willing to just put
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  it on? I mean, maybe you will, because
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  maybe you make 52,000 a year. And that's fine.
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  That's great. But I think there's a big
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  portion of people out there just don't want their family and
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  their friends knowing what kind of money they make.
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  It leads to jealousy. It leads to all bad.
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  And it's all got to do with the brain.
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  So that's what these teams are fighting against.
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  We don't want you to know what we're making because it leads to
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  jealousy and it leads to everything.
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  It could lead to NASCAR going. Y'all are spending too much
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  money. See, we told you.
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  All right, respond right here. Have a great Wednesday.