Rusty has graduated into a
career in announcing, and once again his part of the broadcast is no-nonsense, to the point, and the truth, regardless of
who the players are.
Kenny is, well, shall we say,
a color commentator, and generally mayhem breaks out whenever he is with Jimmy Spencer, Kenny Schrader or Michael Waltrip.
So how, one might ask, are
these two seemingly polar opposites alike?
The answer lies in the important
things that lie in between the lines of steel and rubber and statistics.
Both know how to move on with
class—and with conviction.
While others have left teams
that have given them a good run and complained about everything from teammates to team meetings to team owners, these guys
know how and when to walk away in a professional manner.
When Rusty retired there was
some amount of friction involving teammate Ryan Newman. As his final year wound down Mr. Penske purchased Rusty’s part
of the team and retained Ryan, but Rusty left Penske South on a positive note and remains supportive.
Recently when Kenny and Furniture
Row Racing—a Team that Kenny helped build from the ground up—decided to part ways, Kenny has been equally complimentary
of his former associates, saying “I really want everybody to know that our team manager, Joe Garrone, and our team owner,
Barney Visser, have been really good to me…”
