How and why did you get into NASCAR racing in the 1st place?

Question

This question is for NASCAR fans ONLY!!!

Answer 1

followed it on tv when i was young.  then went and saw harvick win the tropicanna 400 at chicagoland.  that is all it took.

Answer 2

How?  Live here by it

Why? It's a Henry County thang !!

Answer 3

i just always have with my Daddy! he always loved Darrell Waltrip and i liked that black 3 car! but now he is to sick to watch so i watch for him keep him updated on whats happening!!That's why i love NASCAR it reminds

me of my Daddy plus it  kinda grows on you after awhile

  GO JR!!!!  

Answer 4

growing up in 60's every company had a muscle car  GTO,  super bird road runner, 396  Malibu, cyclone  Each owner of one  thought his was the fastest but we could not keep affording the tickets street racing (cops couldn't take a joke then) So we used watch NASCAR (or listen not much on TV then) cause then stock cars were stock cars not clones of each other. Believe me  those were the great days with great pioneer drivers of NASCAR

Answer 5

Well, I remember my Father watching racing on tv when I was young, but I really got into watching NASCAR in 2003. I started dating a guy who was a Jr. fanatic. We even went to the Spring 2005 race in Texas. Mind you that it was a 12 hour drive with his 10 year old son for our first and only live race. When we split I realized I really liked watching racing  and have continued on. I have even brought my current guy into the world of NASCAR!

Answer 6

I didn't really have a choice.  Apparently I was a fan before birth as my Daddy would say.  You see my Dad & all my uncles were all NASCAR fanatics.  My brother who is a couple years older than me never caught the bug so I was transformed into one of the boys every Sunday afternoon listening to it on the radio.  My brother finally did catch the bug once they started televising it on National TV.  So we were forced to let him back in the family.

Answer 7

Because you get into way too much trouble street racing!

Answer 8

The first time?  Because it was on... I remember when I was a kid and I had a big plastic toy Geoff Bodine Gatorade car... so I'd root for Geoff Bodine... then I found out about Richard Petty... and my local boy Rusty Wallace...

Answer 9

My Godparents' sons both used to race in Wisconsin.  Yes, it was Late Model, but it was NASCAR Wisconsin Late Model.  One of the sons raced against Matt Kenseth, and the other works for JGR.

Answer 10

i didn't. i got into it like third place, behind nhra and indycars. my first step-father and my half-brother were both nhra/drag racers, so we watched that a lot and were fixtures at the track in sacramento. later, we watched the indy 500 each year. nascar was an "also-ran," even for my second step-dad who was from southern miss. we watched the daytona 500 every now and then, and although i knew the names of a few drivers, i couldn't tell you who won any races i watched back then (70s and 80s).

then while living in vegas right after the millenium i started watching with some friends who liked nascar. i learned from them how to appreciate it, just like you would learn from a music aficionado how to appreciate jazz. then in 2003, i went to my first live race in vegas and caught a terminal case of "nascar fever." i had picked a favorite driver - hometown boy kurt busch - and placed some bets on him at the casinos. and i put some bets on junior as well, for my (now) ex-girlfriend. between 2003 and 2004 those two won me a fair amount of money. and the excitement of watching my boy kurt win the first ever chase just turned up the heat on my fever. by then i was also a fan of kyle's - he went to the same high school as my ex and right down the road from where i went to high school many years earlier. the rest, as they say, is history.

Answer 11

Because my EX was in the Navy away on his 1st deployment and told me to tape and send the races...back then..I did not know you could tape and not watch...and I got hooked!

Answer 12

Family tradition when NASCAR was on the radio and we lived near a track...seeing was believing even in ancient days when The King was a dirt track prince.  I get a kick out of the Matchbox 20 "Look How Far We've Come" being used as a NASCAR promotion as an indication this sport is still attracting both genders, all ages even unto the next generations and still not a doper, steroid or only about the money entertainment.  Even casual friends are allowed to cheer for other drivers and drink my beer  during qualify, Trucks, Nationwide or Cup days as long as a hockey game doesn't break out...never has, NASCAR fans like to party too, but no one has to call the cops.

Answer 13

Many moons ago when my children were young, a friend worked for a car dealership and gave us  tickets to a race at Rockingham, NC. So we figured why not go and see what it's all about. Well the whole day my sons had the  wide eye syndrome and fell immediately for Dale Sr.

So from that day on we as a family came to love and become Nascar fans!!  Now my husband and I try to visit a new race track each year. We have been 10 different tracks so far. Let's go racing!!!!

Answer 14

Girlfriend was a fan.

That was about 13 years ago.

We're not together... what was I thinking?

Answer 15

How:

via channel surfing one kinda boring Sunday afternoon in November '98.

Why:

I liked what I saw, & have ever since.

Answer 16

My sister got into NASCAR in 2001 and wanted me to watch races with her. I started watching and commented on how cool Jeff Gordon's car was. She screamed "NO" and said I couldn't like him. I've been watching and have been a Jeff fan every since.

Answer 17

A group of my friends went to Darling ton in 1976 and I went along for the ride. After watching David Pearson in the # 21 Mercury win the race, I was hooked. I had never seen a race on TV or live so this hooked me. I went back there in 1978 and saw the 1980 race in Atlanta. Anyone who has only watched it on TV is missing a treat. Live is so much better than on TV if you live anywhere near a track.

Answer 18

Bologna sandwiches, bags of Fritos, 2 cans of Pepsi. Lunch at Bristol with my dad while we headed to Bristol in 1983. He was always (and still is) a huge Petty fan. We lived 27 miles from N Wilkesboro, 90 miles from Martinsville, and 108 miles to Bristol. Great childhood.

Answer 19

I got into racing as a kid.. My dad was a pit guy for his buddy at a local track... then as an adult I didn't have cable TV so on Sundays there wasn't a whole lot to watch most of the time so I chose NASCAR over the other choices... Then I became addicted... Due to my location and lack of finances I didn't make it to my first race until June 2005 - Infineon and loved it...

I am going to the Pepsi 500 in 11 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 20

My husband, when he was still my boyfriend. He LOVES racing, so I was watching TV alone one day and started watching a NASCAR race. I didn't know who anyone was, but I loved the way "the guy in the black car" drove! (#3)

  I'm not the #1 fan ever, but I love it!

  

Answer 21

My dad always liked Jeff Gordon! The race was always blasting through the house on Sundays! I started liking Jimmie Johnson! He started doing really good and have been hooked every since! GO 48