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Coffee With Kenny | NASCAR To Scold Automakers & Drivers Over Race Manipulation! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  It's a beautiful day. That's a great song, man.
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  The sun is shining. Everybody's so darn happy.
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  It's Wednesday, everybody. I'm so happy.
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  I forgot to tell you what day it was.
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  All I know is it's a beautiful day.
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  All right, We're going to be short and sweet this morning.
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  Herminator got a little more news.
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  Just to add on, it seems like things are starting to finally
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  die out in the NASCAR world as we get closer to Phoenix.
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  Once again, it's Wednesday and you know, those truck and
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  trailers takes a couple days to get from Charlotte, NC all the
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  way out to Phoenix. And I think everybody knows
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  where they stand. But big piece of news, I think
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  this tells a lot and that's why we're doing coffee with Kenny
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  this morning. As reported by Matt Weaver on X,
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  Matt knows what he's talking about.
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  He's one of the best. He travels around the short
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  tracks and covers NASCAR really well.
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  I can't pat myself on the back enough for this one.
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  So I, I, I was given a call. Somebody called me up and said,
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  Herman, you're saying everything right?
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  But I just want to let you know, and I said this on the video
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  last night, was that the automakers in the big world,
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  they call them OEMs. I don't even know what the hell that
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  stands for. Respond right here.
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  I truly don't. I'm redneck as hell.
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  All I did was go one through 12 OEMs means all the automakers I
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  know that respond right here. What does OEM stand for?
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  And one thing I want to make clear, we're all together here.
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  The Harmonator, this is a conversation that every once in
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  a while I'm going to miss something.
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  I'm, I'm not a journalist. I say it all the time.
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  I'm going to miss some things. So it's this is the only
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  platform. This is the only platform where
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  you're seen and heard. So respond right here.
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  What does OEM mean? All I know is it means
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  automakers. So the automakers, NASCAR,
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  here's the breaking news basically.
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  And it it's just going on what I said, Matt Weaver said, this is
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  Matt Weaver. Don't get mad at me.
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  Matt Weaver said that NASCAR is finally going to have a sit down
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  meeting with all the automakers and tell them to stop it.
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  Stop. The automakers are the ones
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  putting all the pressure on these drivers to block push.
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  And we talked about this last night, this push by the
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  automaker executives to tell their drivers how to drive and
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  what to do started, clearly started back at Daytona when
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  Parker Ratzliff was told who to push and not who to, who to go
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  with. And, and then Parker said, hell,
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  this is one of my very first chances to win a race.
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  I'm I'm going to try to win the race.
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  Parker Ratzliff almost created a miracle by winning Daytona and
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  reported just a day or two later.
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  And Parker, he didn't say much, but he confirmed it quietly.
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  Chevrolet was really mad at Parker.
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  They basically scolded him as what the media said.
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  And then Parker confirmed it by saying I will not go into what
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  they said because he knew better.
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  So NASCAR's had enough. So NASCAR has scheduled a
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  meeting with the automakers to tell them to stop.
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  You're ruining our sport and, and NASCAR is also going to have
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  a meeting with the drivers. So like we said, everybody on,
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  you know, Tuesday's Kenny Wall show, talk all we want.
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  We talk all we want, but it is the automakers.
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  You know, when you say automakers, you say, well, what
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  do they have to do with the sport?
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  Well, Chevrolet controls all 400 drivers.
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  Chevrolet controls all of our CR, all of track house.
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  You starting to see how it adds up, right.
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  You can very quickly get to let me see 8101215 Chevrolets right
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  away. And all it takes is, you know,
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  the boss at at one of these OEMs, automakers to say, here's
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  what we want you to do if you don't do it, you know, and then
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  and then one of the big drivers told us that there's more
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  pressure from the automakers than you than you know, And
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  NASCAR knows it. NASCAR's heard about it.
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  They told me about it. And so that's why the big
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  meeting headed to Phoenix. All right, well, we going to cut
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  it short. But I think the breaking news in
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  the garage area on this beautiful Wednesday morning is
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  that NASCAR is finally going to have a meeting with the
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  automakers and say they're going to say stop it.
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  You're making yourselves look bad because everybody knows it's
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  the automakers telling these drivers how to drive, what to
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  do. And then they're also going to
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  have a meeting with with the drivers.
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  So automakers and drivers are going to get their ass handed to
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  them. I said that redneck style.
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  But hey, listen, NASCAR, it's their ball there.
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  There's not, there's not more NASCAR's.
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  It's like, hey, go start your own series.
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  It's working just fine right now.
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  So when you think you're bigger than the sport, you realize
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  you're not. And you know NASCAR, there's an
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  old saying. OJ Kelder would tell me.
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  He'd say, Herman, they going to start this race with us or
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  without us. So we can complain about NASCAR
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  all we want, but it's their show and they ain't doing too bad.
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  They have not been doing too bad.
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  All right, everybody, I guess that's it.
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  Respond right here. What do you think NASCAR is
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  going to tell all the automakers?
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  What do you think NASCAR is going to tell all the drivers?
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  So I think that's all I got for you.
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  I think that's it. It's a beautiful day.