“I Got No A**”- Kenny Wallace Reveals How a Departed Friend Solved His NASCAR Careers’ Biggest Plight

Loss is an indispensable part of life that no man is impervious to. Losing your close ones over the course of time is one aspect of life that every human being has to accept and go through, no matter what. However, taking one’s own life and leaving everything and everyone behind in the cold, cruel world is something no one should ever attempt to do.

Unfortunately for NASCAR veteran Kenny Wallace, he had to live through it as his dear friend took his life, leaving the veteran and his close ones aching. In the wake of the horrific loss, the 60-year-old went down memory to reveal how his late buddy cracked Wallace’s “seating” crisis—one that haunted him for most of his NASCAR career—solving it and getting him back in the game.

Heartbroken Kenny Wallace relives how his late friend solved his “seating” problem in NASCAR

A true friend is someone who isn’t the one who’s always there for you but is the one who will be there for you no matter what the circumstances are. And thus we get the quote, “A friend in need is a friend in indeed!” Everyone has that one friend in life that he/she can bet on to stand up to the occasion and be there beside you even if the sky comes down crumbling—someone who will get one through thick and thin.

Kenny Wallace also had someone like that. Unfortunately, the “had” part is the brutal reality that came down on the veteran like a hammer when he was informed about the death of his friend, Chris when he took his own life. Paying his respects to his friend, Wallace said, “This is a very sad story and it pains me, my dear friend, Chris who used to own ISP committed suicide so anyway there’s more to the story but anyway I feel so bad for his family, I loved Chris. Chris was the one that helped me get fitted in a seat.” 

The 60-year-old then revealed the problem his late buddy solved for him before he killed himself. Wallace said, “I had a problem my whole NASCAR career; you know, the race be over and I’d be sliding forward, and Chris really helped me; my seats are for me and I got no a** and they, my seats are kind of like this, not like that, the bottom’s like this so it keeps me from submarining. Listen, I got to sit right; if I don’t sit right in that race car, I’m not no good.”

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Expectation is something that can weigh down a person or propel him into fame. However, for most individuals, it’s the first case that comes to reality. Imagine filling the shoes of GOATs. Well, that was a brutal reality that Dale Earnhardt Jr had to live up to. Being the son of the great Dale Earnhardt, aka “The Intimidator,” Dale Jr was expected to be bigger than his late father, who took NASCAR to greater heights.

While Junior got close to the late 7-time champ’s popularity, having his own cult following, the JR Motorsports co-owner could never really come close to the accomplishments of his father. Similarly, Kenny Wallace also had to fill the shoes of his brother, the legendary Rusty Wallace, NASCAR’s 1989 Winston Cup Series champion.

Now, coming to the crux of the matter, Wallace recently had Junior on his popular “The Kenny Wallace conversation” where the duo discussed the massive void they were expected to fill in. With Wallace breaking the ice and opening the conversation, Junior said, “I just wanted to do good, I always felt like I was falling short of expectations, even if no one ever said anything to me, my expectation was my father, his success, right?” 

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Junior then reiterated his mindset that such expectations never really fazed him or got to his head. “I expected to be a champion, I expected to be a winner, people might say that I felt a lot of pressure from the outside about my last name and my dad and his fans and my fans and the NASCAR fandom in general… I had even higher expectations of myself.