What is your favorite childhood Nascar memory?

Question

What is your favorite childhood Nascar memory?

Answer 1

I wouldn't say it was the best, but it's the one I remember the most lol.

It was when my mom, dad, and I went to the Bristol spring race in 1998. I was 9 years old and it was really hot that day considering it was March and Bristol is in the mountains of Tennessee. It was about 80 degrees for the end of March and the sun was really bright.

Well, I was a big Rusty Wallace fan then and I believe he had crashed out and Jeff Gordon dominated the race, which really dissapointed the crowd, and I thought it was kinda funny. That's when I really started liking him.

It was still a lot more boring race than what I'd expected for Bristol, and the most I got out of it was a really bad sunburn.

It was a really bad sunburn! To add insult to injury, it took us over 6 hours just to get home because of all the bad traffic, when usually it would take about 2.

The next day at school (I think I was in 4th grade) we had a substitute teacher and she didn't know any of our names. So she was trying to figure out which kids were which and she saw me and she said "Well you'll be easy to remember, I'll just call you sunburnt kid"...and so that's what I was called that day after the race and that's the only souvenier I brought home besides a Rusty Wallace shirt.

It's 12 years later now and people still call me the sunburnt kid from that day in Bristol all the way back in 1998 when it hit a record high temperature.

Ok I'm kidding about the last part, that would be bad, lol.

Answer 2

In 1986, I was at Pocono with my Dad. We had pit passes. Practice was over and all the teams were in the garage. I am a huge Cale Yarborough fan and my Dad bought me a long sleeved shirt of his #28 Hardee's car. The body of the shirt was white but the sleeves were neon orange (like the nose of his car was). Cale stepped out of the garage while talking to his crew. He looked over and saw my shirt. He then walked to the fence and offered to sign something for me. That was very cool. Then next day after qualifying Cale was at the Hardee's tent for autographs and I got a few more and he remembered me from the day before.

Cale went on to finish 3rd in the race.

Answer 3

Well being since I grew up next door to Ralph and Martha Earnhardt, it was cool playing softball in the fields close by with Dale Sr, when I was young, then we moved and then I got to meet him all over again at the 1998 Daytona 500 with my dad, that was so cool. He actually remembered me, cause I was a dang good pitcher. I was so happy I was at that race, and to see him win I will never forget it. I'm so glad he signed my 1998 Daytona 500 program which I still have today, and I do place it on the coffee table every year before the Daytona 500.

Go Dale Jr & Hms

Answer 4

The first race I ever watched, I was 15, it was the 1988 Daytona 500.

I was at my boyfriend's house(that boyfriend is now my husband)

He comes from a large family, so there was alot of screaming, and cheering, and trash talking. 20 years later, we still go to my in-laws to watch the races, and it's pretty much the same, only now there are grandkids to add to the mix. Still alot of trash-talking!!

Answer 5

Sitting on the hill on the backstretch at Talladega, before the Allison grandstand was there.  Just me and my dad, with a cooler and a blanket wathcing Cale Yarbrough, Dale Earnhardt, the Allisons, etc. go around that track with no restrictor plates.  Great memories!!

Answer 6

The third time the doctors dropped me on my head and I was like holy moly I'm a NASCAR fan now!!!!!!

Answer 7

well since im still a kid and i have only been watchin for a few years this isnt that easy, i'll probaly go with the martin and harvick dual for the 07 daytona 500, i also liked watchin jr. get his win this year.

Answer 8

Well I didn't watch Nascar when I was a child (i've been watching just a few years) so...... what is your favorite childhood Nascar memory?

Answer 9

Meeting the King at the Richard Petty Museum in Level Cross NC. Super nice guy...also got to watch the pit crew practice pit stops on the #43. My dad and I went once a year every year. Now my 8 year old son and I make the same trip once per year....he met the King last year at the newer museum in Randleman NC!!! Great memories!!!

Answer 10

I am 33 and I still have not grown up.  My favorite 'childhood' memory of Nascar was they year I first started watching Nascar in 1992 and that was the year Alan Kulwicki won the Winston cup.  That last race was and will always be my favorite 'childhood' memory of Nascar.

Answer 11

me my dad and his friend were watching a race cant remember which one it was it was a while back but i saw jr come up from 15th to 3rd in 5 laps

matbe dega

Answer 12

My favorites childhood Nascar memories are spending time with my dad watching the races, My dad is really who got me into Nascar at an early age! So I can't pinpoint just one memory it's just all those weekends spending quality time with my dad watching Nascar!

Answer 13

Of course I was 20 at the time but Rusty winning the championship in 1989 the year you were born. Good year huh!

Answer 14

All the fans at Bristol booing Earnhardt. Wonder if they threw any beer cans?

Answer 15

kinnivle

idk how to spell it but when he jumped like a whole bunch of hummers at an indy race

Answer 16

The first time i met Jeremy i was only a child (11). He put his arm around me and told me not to be nervous (because i was). I will never forget that.

Answer 17

Richard Petty kicking butt in that 1970 Charger http://i21.ebayimg.com/08/i/000/e9/b1/9c...

Answer 18

the 2007 Daytona 500

Answer 19

Not childhood but still a good one. I had a friend working at Atlanta for the Hooters 500 in 1992 who got me and my brother in the pits. We hung out with Lake Speed's team (Purex #83) and Alan Kulwicki's pit was next door. Not only did I get to see an epic battle for a championship decided between three drivers by one lap (Elliott, Allison, Kulwicki) but I got to see the King pass by right in front of me in a fireball during his last race and shake his hand after wards. When Kulwicki pulled that Ford up off of the track and shut the engine off, I was standing right next to Bob Brooks and I said, 'Kulwicki, where's the party tonight?" Alan replied, "Any where I'm at!"

If you pulled the Stock Car racing magazine that covered that race, you will see a picture of me standing next to the Hooter's car with Kulwicki standing on the door. The King took a trip around the track in a convertible and waved one last time to the fans. Bill Elliott won the race but Alan beat him by one lap led to get the five bonus points and win the Winston Cup. And I was there the whole time. The next day before I bid farewell to my friend and rode my bike back to college, I stood up in the silent turn two and watched Darrell Waltrip test his Western Auto car for the next year. I remember looking at the people cleaning up the stands from the day before thinking that I had witnessed one of the best days ever.  

Answer 20

I guess mine would be being pulled around by my ear at Talladega in the infield by my mom and dad in the 80's. That was a great time to go through puberty.