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Why Did NASCAR Leave Daytona For Chicago on July 4th Weekend? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  All right, before we talk about NASCAR at Chicago and why
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  NASCAR's not at Daytona like the old days, like the old days,
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  that is our subject matter of the day.
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  Why is NASCAR not back at Daytona like the old days?
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  Now, I haven't heard very many people, you know, screaming,
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  wanting NASCAR back in Daytona for July 4th weekend.
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  However, this week I've been hearing a lot of people bring
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  back NASCAR to Daytona. So we're we're going to discuss
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  that. We're going to we're going to D
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  bullshit right now. Why is NASCAR in Chicago on this
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  July 4th weekend? Before we do that, I'm going to
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  let you know on this Saturday night I will be running my
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  Sunoco dirt car. Sunoco High Octane Coffee will
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  be racing tonight in Pevely, MO at Federated Auto Parts Raceway
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  Park. Yeah, Federated Auto Parts
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  Raceway Park. I got to add the word park on
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  there. All right, let's discuss why
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  NASCAR went to the Chicago St. course.
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  Now, I know a lot of you are looking for my comedy.
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  You're looking for my Saturday Night Live comedy.
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  So here's what I'm going to start with.
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  NASCAR doesn't like you. They said screw all of you.
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  We're going to piss you off on purpose.
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  And we're going to we're going to go to the down downtown
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  streets of Chicago because it's dangerous.
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  And we like all our fans, you know, to, to be in a dangerous
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  environment. Dude, so stupid people.
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  Come on Jesus. That's not why NASCAR went to
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  Chicago. Now let let let's just state the
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  obvious everybody. NASCAR is based in Daytona
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  Beach, FL, right across the street from the Daytona
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  International Motor Speedway. So to say NASCAR is getting away
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  from the troops in this case in in this exact case seems a
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  little far fetched because that would mean they're leaving their
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  own house. We all know that NASCAR probably
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  most likely gets a big ass tax break from the city of Daytona,
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  so I don't think NASCAR would would have cost their own selves
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  money. So put yourself in NASCAR's
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  point. Hey, we're NASCAR.
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  We're we're going to lose millions of dollars by leaving
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  our own racetrack. Daytona is the home of NASCAR
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  right across the street from the from the racetrack.
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  NASCAR went in business with I think the Marriott and they
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  built a hotel and they got bass pro shops.
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  You've all been there right across the street.
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  And if you haven't been there, maybe Google Earth it.
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  But Daytona built a big old shopping mall and, you know,
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  hotel and bass pro So to say NASCAR going to
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  Chicago is dumb, well, that's just for us to say.
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  That's just stupid talk. OK, now let's get down to it.
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  Let's get down to it. Why is NASCAR in Chicago?
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  Well, I don't know, but I can most likely take a take a shot
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  at it. First of all, we're on our third
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  year #1 the races have been really good.
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  I mean, that first race in the rain, we saw, we saw SVG, we
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  watched Shane van Gisbergen, he come from over there in
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  Australia and and he showed those boys how to run those,
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  those Rd. courses, those St. courses.
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  Now a lot of you cry out that politically, you know, and I
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  don't like talking about this and I'm not going to, I'm just
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  going to give you a little soft curveball right here.
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  Politically, it's not aligned with NASCAR.
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  Well, you know, they got to work with everybody.
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  It it, it's like a car dealership.
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  You can't say you're line politically one way or the
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  other. Because like my old friends told
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  me, Herman, we're not here for 50% of the business.
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  We're here for all the business. So NASCAR is in Chicago because
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  they want all the business. They don't want 50% of the
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  business. NASCAR races everywhere.
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  So you got to get that out of your mind.
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  They're not there because they like they're not politically
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  aligned with this group of people or that group of people.
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  Now, I've talked to the bosses. They said one thing they do like
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  about Chicago is they, you know, they serve lunch up.
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  You know, they do a lot of their activity in some of their old
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  buildings and they, it's got a good feel.
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  Everybody I talked to, you know the teams and everybody, but
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  everybody I talked to, if you get the politics out of your
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  brain, say get the politics out of your brain, la, la, LA, you
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  go downtown Chicago, they all have a good time.
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  They really like it. That's what I hear, you know
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  what I mean? That's really what I hear.
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  And and the race, the race is good guys.
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  It really good. Now, are they going to go back
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  next year, which will be a fourth year?
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  When NASCAR's taught us that they don't do that.
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  NASCAR's taught us that they don't go back somewhere for a
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  fourth year. Now this is something new and we
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  all know it. You know, we did the Coliseum
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  out there in in LA for three years.
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  That's over. Now we're up here to St. course.
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  But little birdie tells me that they like it that they're having
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  a good time, but I'm sure it's going to be up to the city.
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  They say that they got this deal really down path that they know
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  how to build these St. courses. I'm going to bet.
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  I'm going to guess it's 5050, but if I'm a guessing man, I
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  don't think they're going to go back to Chicago.
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  From what I'm hearing is that they're going to either go to
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  San Diego or Philadelphia. Now, forget about politics.
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  Get that out of your head. Quit thinking like that.
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  They're not going these places for politics, guys.
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  Maybe you think that way. They're going to these places
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  because the city is giving NASCAR money.
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  Yes, and it's making sense if you read any stories.
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  Chicago is paying NASCAR a good amount of money now.
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  Are they losing money? Oh, I'm sure they are.
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  I'm sure NASCAR has lost some money building this.
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  But in the future they got this company that has all the
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  concrete barriers, the fences, and now, now they can do this.
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  Now they got all the materials. So they hire a company.
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  I think it's the same people that put up the Memphis St.
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  course. So just for once, just for once,
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  come on now, respond right here. Why do you think NASCAR did a
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  street course at Chicago? Forget about politics.
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  He can't can't play that game. That's weak.
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  That's weak. Why didn't NASCAR leave their
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  own racetrack at Daytona to go somewhere else?
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  That's the question. All right, everybody, I'll see
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  you tonight at a Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park in Pevely, MO
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  Have a great Saturday.