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[mlmpetert]

Originally Posted by hooskins

One of the main reasons I shy away from NASCAR is the perception of the fans. Did you find them to be dumb "rednecks"? Also, were there any minorities at the race?

Yeah definitely a lot of rednecks, probably the most ive ever seen in 1 day before. But I wouldn’t nescearlly label them as “dumb rednecks” either. Everyone was super nice. I tried to go to the bathroom once and ended up getting forced into playing a beer pong game with some serious rednecks, one of which is a doctor and a another guy has a daughter going to uva. Their wives though (the ones I thought I was going to play beer pong with at first) did end up “kissing” or eating a cherry out of the others mouth, which I thought was pretty sweet/redneck like.

As mlmdub mentioned there was a hot tub some guy brought and a stripper pole, all right next to the row of port-a-johns. The way people dressed was absolutely ridiculous/really sweet. I thought maybe I went too far with my getup but I could have rednedcked it out a little more.

There was a guy that looked VERY similar to Kenny Powers a few seats down from me; black jeans, red cutoff, oakley style sunglasses, no ear plugs, jerry curl type mullet, “sat” leaning up against the wall one leg perched up arms crossed, all by himself. This guy was totally sweet. I honestly don’t know about how many minorities were there, I wasnt paying attention to that at all. We had a asian friend with us who loves nascar and goes all the time though. I feel like there were some there but I didn’t notice one way or another.