How I Became a NASCAR Fan

[@DoritosandMtnDew]

Even when spending the weekend at DannyB's house, Eric still has his Kenseth diecasts in the background.

[@dom.rockchalkjayhawk.8990]

This was filmed in his house that cup windshield is his he showed it in a twitter post and youtube vieeo last year.

[@sdj2166]

This Eric’s place, he mentioned recently that windshield with photos that’s on the wall.

[@Caymand29]

The thing I give credit for making me a nascar fan is you. I was bored one day with nothing to watch and I was recommended a video of yours titled “the time nascar lost control” and since I had nothing to do, I watched it, and I was hooked ever since.

[@chefmike146]

Same way but I got hooked bc there was nothing on tv and I watched a nascar race on tv and when I watched it I was like this is pretty entertaining and I got hooked

[@rexjenkinssimracing]

@@chefmike146 Similar to yours, there wasn't anything but a NASCAR race on so I watched it then

[@pauldaniel4095]

I got hooked in high school a math teacher used the points system to teach i think you picked car numbers for your team and had to add up there points way back in 1996 I was all ford on my team

[@DennyDeliversYT]

_How did Eric get into NASCAR?…_ In simple answer: *_Matt Kenseth._*

[@groovemeister5583]

Max Kansas!

[@SyffRacing]

same, but me it’s johnson

[@friesareyummy]

Meth Kensatt

[@Blown_engine]

Matt Kenseth is our God and Savior

[@Fordske]

@@Blown_engine and Hamlin but yes

[@TTFNG063]

How I became a NASCAR fan: Just by watching the races and loving it

[@GOROCKIES]

Lol

[@csnakegaming7389]

Eric: *exists* Kenseth: Is for me?

[@truexfan5641]

Same thing for me but instead of Kenseth it was Martin Truex Jr. Edit: Well actually it was Casey Mears but Truex was soon after

[@StuffNMoreHotwheels]

HERE IS MY STORY: I was on the training "potty" in the living room yelling GO #6 GO MARK MARTIN.

[@papadragon695]

Is this Slapshoes?😂

[@StuffNMoreHotwheels]

@@papadragon695 No y?

[@happyboi5374]

Cha cha real smooth

[@papadragon695]

@@StuffNMoreHotwheels Beacuse he’s a hardcore Mark Martin fan, do you not know who he is?

[@StuffNMoreHotwheels]

@@papadragon695 I know who he is but I've only seen a handful of his videos

[@travisparkerracing2063]

"I didn't believe racecars were real"

[@limesgaming1241]

lol

[@kyleguess2806]

I love the movie Cars! I searched the internet for anything and everything Cars!(I was 8) Then I accidentally clicked on a NASCAR Xfinity Race and saw KB go from the back to the front. I looked at another race 2016 Michigan, saw Larson win and Elliott finish runner up. I loved it!

[@Unc222]

I became a nascar fan around 6 , we were at our trailer camping and it was really crappy outside , so we watched the 2013 daytona 500 , im a Harvick fan but I'll always remember that day when JIMMAY won the great American race for the 2nd time

[@kyleenglandracing701]

Here’s how I got into racing and NASCAR. Four letters, one word: CARS (the movie) ALSO… Me since last years Daytona 500 as a Kyle Busch fan: Aw shucks Jk lol. Keep up the good work Eric

[@jonpike9991]

My Dad is big sports fan. When ever he came back from his deployments he would take me to the dirt track in Jacksonville. This was back in 87 or 88. He bought me Richard Petty race car. Playing Days of Thunder on the NES

[@davidcunningham3]

So this may turn out pretty long, so to whoever reads this, thank you. My obsession with NASCAR started probably the same way a lot of other kids my age (25) started, with my dad. He was a huge Dale Sr fan. We share the same name so I am a Jr, so you can tell who I cheered for. I also remember being a Ward Burton fan early on in the early 2000s, with the CAT car. I loved bulldozers, dump trucks and even trains growing up. (still do today actually, lol) My parents unfortunately never got married and split up a couple years after I was born, but I still remember being with my mom and watching Ward Burton win the Daytona 500, instantly jumped on the phone to call my dad who was in tears. Was a rough year in 2001 for Sr fans, and 2002 started out with my dad being happy and proud that his son was rooting for the guy who just won. I'm pretty sure my first live NASCAR race was at Dover in 99 or 2000, when the track still had small grandstands on the back stretch right off of turn 2. Fast forward a couple years... Ps2 and NASCAR Thunder 04-07 is out. My dad had his own memory card for his career modes and we would still bring up the time I accidently messed up his saved game 10 years later! My 2nd live race was also at Dover in the fall of 2007 with an Uncle. Sat in the middle of turns 1 and 2 in the upper half of the stands. After my first two races I didn't remember too much about how loud the cars were and the amazing smells they give off. Fast forward to 2014... Graduating high school, the only thing on my mind was girls, money, and where the parties were going to be that weekend. Didn't think about racing too much in the last two years of high school, playing baseball for the school team also. I would catch parts of races when my dad was watching on TV and still root for Jr of course, but the obsession kinda faded. I raced RC cars at almost a professional level thru middle school and early high school. Traveled the northern half of the east coast racing and even announcing some multi day events. Loved every minute of it because not long after graduating high school, I found my self back out in the hot parking lots and small hobby shop tracks getting my racing fix. Eventually faded away from the toy cars and found myself at my local Autobahn indoor karting tracks. Still race in the league nights here and there but United Karting BWI is the place to go now. Your typical 70mph gas rental race karts. So now I'm addicted again right? But now I'm older and able to understand more complicated things. I'm able to drive a car on the road, even though I've been driving power wheels cars, riding lawn mowers, even driving my drunk dad around at about 8 years old, starting a job at Amazon and now UPS as a delivery driver. But things were different now that I'm older... I knew the time with my dad was getting more and more limited. So I ordered some tickets to Dover to surprise him for his 58th birthday in the spring of 2018. Got a couple tickets for one of his friends that is like family to us, and my buddy PJ who I've kidnapped into watching racing. It was awesome, sat in turn 4 directly in front of the first pit box but in the upper section so we could see the whole track. Kevin Harvick was pitting in that box that day and man did he know how to work that clutch to get out of the box all day! What a sound it is when the drivers start to rev their engines as the car is still jacked up, and then the pop and roar the second the car is let down. One of my favorite parts of a live NASCAR race for sure, TV can never do it justice. The field is on it's first couple pace laps and we are just taking it all in. My first NASCAR race in 10 years! Here comes the field to get the one to go signal, the drivers are revving to kick the tires in a beautiful songlike way. I catch my dad not looking at the cars, not looking at things going on down on pit road, not grabbing another beer, but looking at me... I didn't pay too much attention to it at first, and played it off by continuing to look at the cars... But when the field came back around to launch for the initial start of the race, he was looking at me again and looking for my reaction. I just smiled and shook my head in disbelief in the power that was just laid down pretty much right in front of me. A feeling you can only understand by going to a race in person. Later that summer I took a 3 hour drive to Pocono by myself because my buddy PJ bailed. Sat two rows away from the track and loved seeing that beautiful part of the world. Spend many Saturday nights at my local dirt tracks, and have already been to Richmond and Dover this year! Maybe Pocono this weekend? Still haven't decided. Will be at Richmond in the fall for my first night race! Unfortunately my dad passed away November 16th, 2019 from cancer. He battled bladder cancer for a while and beat it. But some how it popped up in his lungs. Watching my father take his last breaths will probably always be one of the hardest things I will be put thru in my life. It definitely hasn't gotten any easier so far. But he has left me with an addiction to NASCAR and racing in general. An addiction to become one with machine. To adapt, adjust and overcome. I still want to run and tell him any new little thing I learn about racing or any news that's going on in the NASCAR world. Every time I'm at a race track and a field of cars takes off for the green flag, I think about how he was watching to see my reaction to something he loved. He was still mad about the Ps2 memory card two months before he passed away, that being the last time we joked about it. The good days. Lol. I love and miss you old man, keep watching over me like I know you have been. Thank you for everything you have done for me. I hope I'm making you proud. #FuckCancer Support your local short tracks!

[@jeffersondonovan521]

The nostalgia hit HARD during the part about "Getting out a tray, putting the steering wheel on it, sitting in a kitchen chair and playing Nascar 07" .... because honestly same 😂😂 Also I've never been to a Nascar race but been to dozens and dozens of dirt races...and there's nothing like the smells and sounds of racecars in person

[@erichetherington602]

The first time I got into NASCAR was when I watched Jeff Gordon get his first career win back in 1994, which I was 5 years old.

[@nascaradam6837]

I wish I could trade die-cast with my friends

[@Footyshorts923]

Same my friends know nothing about nascar or even care to know

[@anthonycoolaid3993]

@@Footyshorts923 ya same

[@snuffsternetwork]

@@Footyshorts923 some of mine do but they don't really follow it

[@icebergmaysjr]

The first cars movie is what got me into nascar and the first race I ever watched was the 2009 texes race don't know who won but I was a 48 fan ever since

[@PaperBanjo64]

Jeff Gordon won the Texas Spring race in 2009.

[@slysupersonic]

For me it started when my mom got me into IndyCar. Tony Stewart left IndyCar to join NASCAR. He was my childhood hero. Then when he retired, Kyle Busch became my new favorite driver.

[@mksaviation7270]

The only reason I watch these videos is because of the Double E Cup series! I’m a nascar fan because I was born in 2005 and was watching the Cars movie since before I could talk

[@ChaseTPS]

I became a NASCAR Fan in 2009. At Wal-Mart I saw a 2007 Dale Earnhardt Jr diecast, and my Grandfather has a Dale Earnhardt Hat, that's how I became a NASCAR fan. I miss my Grandfather (1961-2018), I haven't seen him since 2018.

[@kevinharvickfan8217]

I’m going to pocono raceway for my first race I’m so excited

[@truexfan5641]

I’m going to Road America for my 2nd race

[@merety91]

I’m going to the Championship in Phoenix for my 16th race. Only been to three other tracks. Sonoma 13 times, Daytona and Talladega once.

[@darthhull85]

I’ll be there. My first race was at Pocono 20 years ago. Only felt right to come back this year.

[@Sithman1776]

I got into nascar because of their diecasts. I was majorly into hot wheels, matchbox, etc. Eventually bought a nascar Authentics from Walmart. Loved the detail on them. Fast forward a couple years and now I only collect nascar diecasts and am a huge fan of the sport.

[@firelynx1108]

fun fact: 5,000 people cant all be 1st on this video

[@kyleguess2806]

Lol

[@romanmalo]

I remember going to a local restaurant in my city when I was about 6 or 7 I was playing with some coffee cream containers and raced them like that they were cars

[@jeffy4368]

Jeff Gordon fan here, followed Chase after his retirement. Cried in his last race

[@ryanwu332]

Probably one of the strangest stories ever for myself For a long time I have been a fan of LEGO. In 2019 (I think) they came out with a NASCAR Cup Camaro which I though was pretty cool, so I got one of those and decided to find out more about NASCAR. I think this was around the time of the 2019 Kansas Playoff race. So yeah Lego got me into NASCAR

[@danielschell3839]

I played with diecast so much that i created a groove on a table. i was in high school in the early to mid 2000s . i wore alot of Jeff Gordon jackets and shirts i got mostly gordon stuff we used to have a nascar shop at our local mall i have pictures of me in gordon shirts a few times

[@rustklz]

The fact that you created a *groove* is honestly quite impressive 😂

[@elijahjp2158]

Here's my story: One time I was curious what my dad and his friend were watching. I saw that they were watching something (I believe it was the 2010 Daytona 500). I decided to cheer for the 2 car because it was blue and blue was my favorite color. I was kinda off and on through 2010 and even into 2011, but I specifically remember the Daytona 500, just because it was remarkable. I kinda got into it later into 2011 and started watching every race. It was at this moment that I started cheering for Jimmie Johnson instead of that blue 2 bc the paint scheme was cool and it had blue on it (this was kind of ironic bc Kurt Busch and Johnson had their rivalry those years). I have stuck with Jimmie since then and now I am a Hendrick fan as opposed to just a JJ fan. I will say I felt incredible pain the last few years bc JJ never won. But I remember the 2013 and 2016 championships and how I lost my marbles when he won it. This is also how I came to dislike BK, simply bc he won the championship and not JJ in 2012. I can assure you I was bitter about that.

[@RhygonGG]

My story is simple. My Poppop went to a NASCAR race and thought is was the coolest thing ever and got my Nana into it and then got me into it when I was born

[@Cuhh346]

I was 5 when i became a nascar fan because my dad used to work on sundays and called so i could see cars racing on tv. That race happened to be the 2009 aarons 499 at talladega and the finish got me hooked Edit: only my younger brother an i are nascar fans

[@fredericcaissie1666]

I became a nascar fan just last year i have heard of nascar before but thought it was boring watching cars until the daytona 500 2020 i was at my grandpa house and he was watching the race he the told me that corey lajoie who was running in the 10 was a 3rd cousin of me my grandma and his grandpa don lajoie were cousin. At the start i was watching the race not really understanding much but with your video eric i learned a lot and now i am such a big fan of the sport watch every truck xfinity and cup races

[@briangriffinfamilyguyfan81]

Who else is excited to watch the history of Eric being a NASCAR fan?

[@cringefootball2020]

Me!

[@kevincouture627]

Calm down Uke Kid

[@lylechatt1417]

My dad got me into NASCAR when I was like 4 in 2011 and it was the Daytona 500, I really had liked the movie Cars at the time and my dad compared the two and I was immediately invested, my favorite was Jeff Gordon, and I started collecting diecasts and I still do to this day, and I got my first video game in 2012.

[@Wec-Enjoyer-]

How I became a nascar fan: I like cars so 40 cars going around a track was mind blowing

[@robrohrer2014]

Eric, my very informed friend. It bit me in the ass in ,'99. Yourself and I r too much alike. I'm 43 & you care about the wellbeing of the sport in-whole. U have my “informed” RESPECT!!! THANK You!!!

[@AaronAuman]

My dad stopped caring for NASCAR when Dale Earnhardt died. Ever since I really got into Nascar around 2017-2018 he has been somewhat back into it and now next weekend we are going to the Poconos.

[@johnclaudejoe]

I'm going too

[@JalenHurtsWorshipper1]

Same I’m going

[@AaronAuman]

@@nascarfanFlatTire going Saturday as well

[@bullseyearcher1]

I was 7 years old and was at my uncles house and I saw the 2012 Watkins glen race and and ever since I’ve been hooked

[@iceeblueburst03]

I became a NASCAR fan ever since I watched Disney Pixar Cars which is based around NASCAR and I remember some NASCAR drivers that are in the Disney Pixar Cars universe such as Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, Bubba Wallace, Daniel Suarez, and also Darrell Waltrip who’s the announcers in the Cars universe in the Piston Cup booth! Then, I started to discover what Disney Pixar Cars was based on and it’s based on NASCAR. That’s how I got into the sport, watching all the races, and even buying the diecasts.

[@williambaker787]

I became a nascar fan by clicking on a race (las vegas fall 2018) and it was fun and the bad part of the race was when my favorite driver denny hamlin crashed into the grass and ended his race and after that race was over I decided that i was gonna watch nascar from now on and it has been so much fun to watch since the las vegas race 2018 fall. I also attended my first nascar race at circut of the americas (cota) in 2021

[@redhawkk]

If Eric became a fan within the last couple of years, would he have become a big Ty Dillon fan?

[@kuhnjdog]

Wow how you talked about how u traded Die-Cast cars touched me, when I was in 2-3rd grade me and my friends would get a nascar Die-Cast and build a hot wheels track and whoever won got the other peoples cars. BTW I'm in 8th grade now. I got into NASCAR when I was 3 but then I stopped watching it and then I got a NASCAR stop motion vid by the one and only Eric Estepp in my recommended page and since then I've watched every race and went to at least 7, and I've never stopped watching you, and your stop motion inspired me to do some for my KZbin channel.

[@tannerwilburn9203]

I remember I was a fan in 2008 , I close the Kyle Busch M&m car driving and dominating watklens glen . The first race I remember I watched full and know my every reaction was the 2009 Daytona 500 witch was ...not the best as a Kyle Busch fan . But ever since watklens glen 2008 I have been a die hard Kyle Busch fan and supporter My first race was actually the 2012 Las Vegas race , witch was also not the best day to be a Kyle Busch fan , but still , loved it

[@thatpaintschemeguy8]

Same

[@nicholasrauseo2229]

I am a newer NASCAR fan but I got into it during last years Daytona 500. I was at my grandmas house and my cousin who kinda liked NASCAR where watching so we all picked a car to win I liked Bubbas car so I was watching him the next day when the I was home but I did not see the start when I did see it Bubba was not doing good so my Brother told me to pick some one else and I picked the blue and yellow car of Ryan Blaney at the end of the race with that photo finish I was iematly hooked than I got NASCAR heat mobile and fell in love with the sport

[@mountblessingrailroad6103]

You are right take them to a race I took my friend and we've been going ever since 2016 we used to go to Kentucky speedway but they're not there anymore this year we're going to make it to Bristol YAY! stay safe keep up the great job and have a good day and thanks for sharing a little bit of your personal life👍

[@jayden_bacon9475]

I had always loved speed but I didn't watch any racing, I loved the movie cars and in when cars 3 came out u went with my grandma and i love the movie so when I got home I searched up some real racing and found NASCAR I watched the whole race and I was in love with the sport, I quickly began to follow truex

[@ryansclips5023]

my first experience was during the red flag when montoya hit the jet dryer and i thought it was boring because there was no racing but then i started watching in 2013 and that’s actually when i started watching you and i loved the stop motion videos, my first race i went to was at chicagoland for the truck race where kyle busch won and that’s how i became a kyle busch fan

[@Lightningillustrated]

I started watching when I was Four years old. I could remember every single driver and their sponsor, Driver, and Manufacture. The first Video game I ever played was NASCAR 2000 on the N64. I’m 29 years old now and have been a NASCAR for almost three decades. My favorite driver was also Matt Kenseth. It was originally Jeremy Mayfield

[@Igknight-db3wr]

My first ever nascar memory was watching Trevor Bayne win the Daytona 500 live. First time I cried because of sports was when Jimmie Johnson won a race at auto club. I finally appreciate NASCAR for what it is. I want to watch every race of a season lap by lap.

[@josephharrison5639]

Got into nascar at age 4 or 5 when my dad put it on one Sunday. I originally was a Joey logano fan simply cause his name was similar but later moved to jimmie johnson after tiny me saw him winning so much(keep in mind I got into it in the middle of the five in a row era) as years went on my interest flickered a little cause I didn’t know which channel it was on half the time. But In 2011 I went to the inaugural Kentucky race, standing about 15ft from the track in turn 3 was awe inspiring. Stuck with jimmie till the day he retired cause I fell in love with his character on and off the track and now just root for Hendrick in general. The only other race I’ve been to was Atlanta 2013(or 2014) but it was rained out

[@rick6083]

I was the first person in the family to get into nascar with all my uncles into drag racing ! Got my pops into it also !! I was 8 years old watched rusty win his 89 championship and was hooked and he was my fave till he retired !!! Then tony till he retired .. now chase 🤣

[@dalejr8854]

How I got into nascar it was during the Brickyard 400 that Kasey Kane won and I Tried to recreate it with Hotwheels and my Uncle said do u want to go to a Race at Texas And I said sure and I went and thought this sport looks really cool and I like it and that’s how i got into nascar and the Texas race I went was the 2018 Oriley Auto Parts 500

[@largelarson7933]

When you go to Wisconsin in a couple of weeks you need to go to Matt's home track in cambridge look it up Jefferson Speedway

[@aldouscoroza]

I got into NASCAR in 2005 when I was 8. I've been a Life Long Racing Fan. My favorite is Jimmie Johnson, and HMS and Chevy

[@YankeesFan-yq1fc]

How I became a nascar fan was my dad's brother my uncle was getting married so I had to go to the wedding and the night of it when we got back to the hotel my parents tried to find the disney channel but it wasn't the disney channel it was espn and I wanted to watch it the race I watches was the one where carl Edward's wrecked Keselowski on the front starightway to win in Xfinity that's how I became a nascar fan

[@southeastcupseries]

The best way to get into NASCAR. Go to Daytona every year with your dad. Yeah that’s how I got into racing in general

[@EphramDemczyk]

i was at my grandpa's house one day in 2013, it happened to be the day of the April Bristol race, Kasey Kahne won that race, i got hooked that day and since then i've gone to 30-40 some races.

[@danielpaine6608]

Funny that's the first race i went too

[@EphramDemczyk]

@@danielpaine6608 I was 6 when i went to my first race that year at the fall Michigan race, I've been to maybe 6 or 7 Michigan races now.

[@CanuckIV]

This is my story on how I became a NASCAR fan: My grandmother was into it, to start off. Richard Petty was her favourite. Then it got passed on to her daughter (my Mom). She was into Geoff Bodine at the time. Today it is Chase Elliott. I would come and watch once in a blue moon but I was too young to understand what I was watching and to be honest thought it was too long and boring (kids and their short attention spans lol). I had NASCAR 2000 for PS1, had a steering wheel and peddles, but was never into it. Probably more into Need For Speed III Hot Pursuit. It wasn't until I was 18 in early 2006 when I owned NASCAR 2005: Chase For The Cup (similar to how you got into it) when I starting becoming a die hard NASCAR fan. I would watch every race that season including practice and qualifying on SPEED and that show i forgot the name of on the same channel with Jimmy Spencer and Kenny Wallace before the race was on. Later that year on October 29th, 2006 I went to my first ever NASCAR race at the Bass Pro Shops 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. I still remember Tony Stewart's number 20 Home Depot car winning that one and got to experience his signature climbing the fence with his pit crew which felt like no more than 50 ft away from me. I even got to experience the pits, infield garage etc. Since then I had been to Pocono 3 times and Montreal for NASCAR's first ever race in the rain in 2008. I stopped watching after Jimmy Johnson had won the championship 5 times in a row. I was a sore loser, what can i say? 🤣 Then as of 2017, I got back to it full time, and this time don't plan on leaving the sport. I have grown up and not salty anymore. Kyle Larson is my current driver but I do respect all of the other drivers pretty equally without malding about if they win. I am just a huge fan now, that's it

[@NinjaXavier2]

when i became a nascar fan it was because of a race that was on. at the time i would watch any race. (now this might be a dream but) i then turned on a race. i saw kevin havick leading at what i think is walkins glen. then harvick ran out of fuel and truex jr stole it.

[@MultiplayerBV]

The way I got into NASCAR was with my mom and my step dad taught me some stuff about it and then I started studying it myself and I just got hooked on it. I got into it when I was 4. So I have been a fan for 8 years

[@raptorhardmind6186]

#MyNascarFanStory I strated watching fully in 2014, i remember watching a part of the 2013 finale where Menard's blow up, now my is to go to the US and A Bristol, Talladega and a Daytona 500 race.

[@romanmalo]

And I remember a few years ago I watched Chase Elliott's first win and I cried tears of joy when it happened and I loved the part where Jimmy Johnson pushed him to Victory Lane and it was the best moment of being a nascar fan

[@ryderedwards7544]

I always liked nascar but never was a super fan until the pff season between 2018 and 19 I watched alot of your videos and now I cant miss a single race thanks Eric 😂😂😂

[@pledgerpowell2599]

Jeff Gordon for me. Growing up i refused Coke products. Not even a Dasani or powerade.

[@who_am_you]

I got into nascar when I was 2 because my dad and his friend were standing behind the couch with beers and watching a nascar race (I remember it being either texas, atlanta, or charolette) and after that point I loved nascar

[@zachwright3759]

Been a fan for almost 15 years and I just went to my first race 2 years ago at my home track, Michigan. Really need to go to more. Interest fell off after Jr. retired but I've still had Truex as my backup so I've been rooting for him since. His live sure has turned around since his early days.

[@snuffsternetwork]

I've been to MIS even through I live in Maryland. My grandparents live in Michigan so I got to watch 2018 fall practice and qualifying at the track.

[@jerrettbeard8404]

My whole family was watching nascar since Richard petty was still racing

[@FireBall_Hamlin]

In 2019, I went to Texas Motor Speedway in the spring and thanks to Denny Hamlin, I had the best time.

[@truexfan5641]

The First NASCAR race I watched on TV was in 2012. It was the Talladega race where Stewart flipped. Anyway I saw Casey Mears in the 13 Geico car at the front pushing Michael Waltrip and I LOVED the paint scheme on Mears’ car. And that’s how I became a Casey Mears fan and a NASCAR fan. Also the First race I went to in person was the Firekeepers Casino 400 at Michigan in 2019

[@snuffsternetwork]

Nice to see a Casey Mears fan! I'm one too!

[@alexander_324]

I became a nascar fan because of 1970s-1980s F1. My dad grew up in Colombia in South America and loved watching F1 with his dad. Fast forward to the late 90s-early 2000s Juan Pablo Montoya from Colombia making his name on the F1 scene. And since my dad is Colombian he supported him along the way. Then in 2006 Montoya went to nascar and my dad watched him there along with my brother. And since Montoya raced until 2014 I got a chance to watch him race and become a nascar fan along the way. I loved the 42 from Larson, Kenseth, and Chastain until they merged with trackhouse. But in 2017 I got a new favorite driver. Daniel Suarez. My mom is Mexican so I loved him in Xfinity and now I loved him even more in cup. Now, trackhouse is my favorite team along with my favorite drivers Suarez and Chastain. So I shall thank my grandfather although probably not knowing about nascar. He made me a nascar fan.

[@ThatCrazyUncleJimbo]

Tbh, it was Herbie fully loaded. Jeff Gordon finished second so I picked him as my favorite. I started watching in 2006. Been a fan ever since. I now root for Chase Elliott

[@lauragreen-zq3nr]

Hi Can we be trustworthy friends?? this will not lead to anything else, just friends? Ok??

[@alexrogers9485]

My first race was also the dickies 500 but in 2008

[@GlassOfWhiteMilk]

I was born in Daytona, I grew up around racing and was the first sport I was shown from my parents, my parents were friends with a lower ranked racer not a full cup series driver and my whole life was just around playing the ps2 games and watching the races so ever since I was a small infant I enjoyed Nascar!

[@snuffsternetwork]

do you remember what driver?

[@darthbone8487]

If Jimmie Johnson hadn't been in Nascar, I don't think I would have been into Nascar as much as I am today. Edit: Jimmie is just a nice guy and seeing him happy and winning really made my day.

[@lauragreen-zq3nr]

Hi Can we be trustworthy friends?? this will not lead to anything else, just friends? Ok??

[@fivespeed42]

OMG your first diecast was a KENNY SCHRADER?!? he was(is) my favorite driver, was a HUGE Schrader fan. My first race was watkins glen in '86 and Tim Richmond won, he was my favorite and then Kenny got the 25 ride (something I didn't totally understand when i was that young) but yeah just thought that was cool Schrader had a little part in you becoming a NASCAR fan because he played a BIG part in mine 👍💯

[@daleearnhardtfan3889]

I’ve been going to my local tracks in Minnesota a lot before I went to a NASCAR race I’ve been going to ELKO SPEEDWAY for 20 years I was born in 1996 I went to ELKO in 2000 I was 4 now this year I’m 25 I’m going for 21 years and never missed a season 😎 I went to Shakopee Raceway park for 3 years 2005 I got to be inside the pace car 2006 and last time 2008 I was 12 and I for got my earmuffs and I never needed them ever again the DODGE WEEKLY SERIES SUPER LATE MODELS were pretty loud but I tuff it out 😎 The biggest race in my life this one is tie and here is why you either have to lived in Minneapolis Minnesota around the 80’s the 90’s or the early 2000’s or have been to this race in person like I was when I was 6 for the last race of this tracks existence in 2002 or have seen this race on KZbin or have heard about it from other racing fans my first major race took place back in 2002 I was 6 and I went on Labor Day Monday to the MINNESOTA STATE FAIR SPEEDWAY the AMERICAN SPEED ASSOCIATION or ASA RACING ran it last race the MILLER LIGHT 300 and it was a 300 lap race all of the drivers were ASA late model drivers except one this driver did win 1,000 late model short track races some in ASA back in the 1980’s but he did do a hand full NASCAR races his last race was at DOVER in 2002 driving the white #71 MONTE CARLO SS and I saw him race his last ASA MINNESOTA STATE FAIR RACE he drove the white 2002 MONTE CARLO SS #43 Citizens Bank the driver Dick Trickle saw him race for the first time in my life the last time I saw him race was at ELKO SPEEDWAY in 2004 I have a good buddy of mine who owns the left side fender off of Dick Trickle’s 2002 #43 Citizens Bank MONTE CARLO SS and I got to hold that fender at his house and I have 2 pictures of that car on a 4x6 Dick drove the #43 car in 2001 the car was not wrecked and 2002 Dick Trickle was in a crash and have the pic of the wrecked #43 car underneath the photo my good friend who let me hold the fender of that 2002 car he gave me a small white piece of it and the 2nd biggest race of my life was the DAYTONA 500 in 2016

[@seanimusprime9849]

I’ll give the 2006 Pixar Cars movie for ultimately getting me into Nascar. And even tho it’s not an official nascar game, the 2006 PS2 Pixar Cars game featured about 5 of those oval-like speedway tracks and I played at those tracks like crazy. And even tho he’s fictional, Lightning McQueen was my “favorite driver” guy that I rooted for as a kid. Nowadays it’s Elliott, but I’ll never forget those endless hours of playing as Lightning McQueen at that Palm Mile Speedway track from 2006 to 2010ish. I even was able to get my older uncle to play that very game with me during then. Good times. Miss those days.

[@FinkedOO]

I got into nascar bc of my older brother. He was a sports fan watching most sports from hockey to nascar. He would talk about it to me and my younger brother and became a fan in 2012 after my parents had bought us nascar inside line and nascar unleashed for the wii. I never watched it seriously weekend to weekend bc I was 6 and didn’t watch Nascar seriously until more recently in 2018 as a 13 year old.

[@snuffsternetwork]

I still play Inside Line on my Wii

[@griffenwattsbass]

As a kid my grandpa got me into it. Every Sunday he’d come to my house and we’d always watch the races start to finish. There for a couple years things were great I was the biggest dale jr fan. I had diecasts all over the place from Jeff Gordon to kasey Khane and so many more. I also played the old EA games growing up. Then in 2013 he passed away and I grew apart from the sport for a bit I loosely paid attention to Dale Jrs success those last years of his career. Then I fell completely off the fandom when he retired. Then primarily my focus was high school playing other sports and just focusing on school. Then after I graduated thanks to ole covid. My best friend and I started playing the Nascar heat series and I fell back in love it. Then he started dirt go cart racing and almost won his first race. But now my dad and I our friendship has come back to how it used to be. He was always a Jimmie Johnson fan and I know get the nice experience with him watching Jimmie grow as a driver in Indy Car and also watching Hendricks Motorsports success so far this season. I found your page a couple months ago after the Daytona 500 this year and I just want to say thank you for the content every video has been great. It’s nice hearing your story and how you became a fan. Unfortunately I am one of the fans that has never seen a race in person which I live in Tennessee but I was hoping that the race at Nashville would have been my first one but hopefully I can go to Bristol in the fall.

[@chubb3034]

My story's a little odd, but kinda simple. I remember back in 2019, I watched EmpLemon's video about Dale Earnhardt. After watching it, I wanted to learn more about NASCAR itself and it's history, which eventually just evolved into an interest in the sport. Of course after that I started watching more NASCAR related videos, I started to watch the races on TV, and here I am 2 years later, now having gone to a race, owning a diecast, and as of now i'm sitting in my room watching the Xfinity race (or at least the preshow or "countdown to green"). Edit: just realized how long this is so i guess the "kinda simple" part went out the window, eh?

[@jamesdoner7458]

I started to know what NASCAR was when I was little. Specifically, when I played EA sport NASCAR Sim racing made. I would remember myself playing as Tony Stewart in his #20 Home Depot Car since it was the only sponsor I knew. I would definitely go back to play that game in which I still have. At a different time period around when I was 8, I found Jimmie Johnson's Chevorlet (yes a car dealership around my hometown). With that, I wanted to learn more about Jimmie in terms of what number and sponsor he races. This is where I learned that Jimmie grew up near my hometown as I learned on the news covering his recent championship at the time. That was where Jimmie Johnson became my favorite driver and the only driver I knew until I followed the sport in years to come. With both NASCAR Sim racing and Jimmie Johnson were influences to for me to become a NASCAR fan, it was around 2017 is where I started to follow the sport on a weekly basis. It all started with social media, specifically where I followed NASCAR on Instagram and I have been seeing their posts pop up. It was also that I was into Monster Jam. I had some online friends who enjoyed mainly Monster Jam but also watches NASCAR. It also helped that since Monster Jam had a short season in terms of championships, NASCAR basically gave me something to enjoy. So then because of social media in general, I wanted to watch a whole NASCAR race on TV. That first race I watched was the 2017 Brickyard 400 in where Kasey Kahne got his final win of his NASCAR career. Because of how intense the race was due to the crashes and battles towards the end of the race, I was immediately hooked into the sport. Before that, I had thought that racing was boring to watch because I also had friends who have other races until that race. Now today I'm proving them wrong. I have kept up with the sport ever since.

[@merety91]

I went to Sonoma every year since 2008. I was 2 then. My grandparents would take me. I wasn’t completely into it for a while. 2015 I started paying attention more still wasn’t completely in. I remember watching Jimmie Johnson who is my favorite run out of gas at the end of the 2015 Sonoma race with only a few laps to go and Kyle Busch won. The next thing was seeing Austin Dillons catch fence crash at Daytona on TV. It wasn’t until the amazing battle of Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin in the 2016 Sonoma race that got me hooked. Since then I watched whenever I could. I missed a few races in 2017 still went to Sonoma. In 2018 I went to the Daytona 500 and that was an incredible experience. I didn’t go to any races in 2020 for obvious reasons. This year I’ve already been to Talladega, also amazing, and Sonoma I’m going to the Championship race at the end of the year. Haven’t missed a race since Fall Talladega 2019 because it got delayed to Monday and I was in school. Anyway Nascars awesome and screw Kyle Busch.

[@cringefootball2020]

Holy crap I gotta stop But Eric has more sponsors than most teams

[@shorttrackthing6919]

Lol he should race real life stock cars at a local short track

[@DonCarlosDonCarlos]

Family had moved from NY to GA in 1998, older brother was in Junior High I was like 4, he was watching a race & said Jeff Gordon was his favorite. I picked Rusty Wallace because it was a blue car, but he spun & Jeff won the race & switched to a Gordon fan right after & stuck with it. My brother lost interest I didn't.

[@stoneracing1778]

Fall Martinsville 2015 was when I got hooked

[@theultimatekfbfan2721]

I became a Nascar fan in 2015 my dad had a race on at Sonoma of all places and I spotted the number 18 crispy M&MS and immediately knew that was my guy ( Kyle Busch went on to win that race) in 2017 that was the first year I watched every race and I haven't missed a race since. I I I saw Kyle Busch win the 2019 championship on tv and jumped out of my seat. Now I have so much Kyle Busch merchandise it's ridiculous

[@BelowTheApron]

In 6th or 7th grade my teacher had a rusty Wallace die cast on her desk. Then I found interest .. long story short my grandmother called me next about a Richmond race on fox in 2001. First live race was Talladega 2003 Aaron's 499 got soaked in beer by jr fans celebrating win I was about 17... #mynascarstory

[@glennovak5093]

I would say the thing that got me into NASCAR was the Cars movie. My family was not racing fans but after that movie we started watching NASCAR. I became a Jeff Gordon fan because of his awesome flame paint scheme and brother became a Jimmie Johnson fan. Our family was really invested after going to our first race Chicagoland speedway 2012.

[@WelchC8289]

I too drove backwards and destroyed cars but it was like NASCAR 95 on ps1 lol. And one thing I think missing for kids is car looks consistency. I fell in love with the mark martin valvoline car from the time I was 5. Now my kid may love the McDonald’s scheme but not see it again for 12 weeks and is like where’s my car daddy

[@blackhawkrescue5fromroblox151]

My son is obsessed with NASCAR like he asked me to take him to the Daytona International speedway for the 2022 Coke zero 400 round 9

[@nascarmonsterjamindycar9031]

Ok I've told other people this before but never have told Eric I got into Nascar from the 2012 Daytona 500 when Juan Pablo Montoya crashed into the jet dryer of that's how I got introduced and I liked it t because I'm what you call a destruction idiot I grew up in my early years watching monster jam before Nascar but in 2015 I starting to watch nascar way more and the rest for me is history

[@itzdeacon2491]

I became a nascar fan when my dad wanted me to watch the Daytona 500 with him. I remember thing to myself “ugh ok 200 laps I have to watch and then no more” but then i saw the drafting, the train racing, the side by side action, and all the colourful cars flying at high speeds kept me watching. Ever since then I’ve been hooked

[@dna-dadandanthony973]

3:50 I used to do the same thing!! Except I would protect Jimmie johnson or Jeff Gordon!

[@snuffsternetwork]

In NASCAR the Game: Inside Line me and my siblings will do 25 laps at Bristol and no cautions or damage. Normally we wreck the field a lot. One time my brother finished like 3 or 4 laps ahead of second place. Recently, my 7-year old brother did a race at Bristol. He wrecked literally everyone and (Eric will be mad here) wrecked Kenseth out of the race. When the leaders (Ambrose and Stewart) were on the last lap, he collected them in a pileup and Dave Blaney won.

[@joshandlena13]

I love how my story is the same as yours just about except I'm 26 and i got into it when i 6 watching the 2001 race at Atlanta Kevin harvicks first win. I didn't he was dale Sr. Replacement i didn't know who dale Sr. Was, but that car with the flames on it was running him down. I got home from church that day bored and scrolling thru the channels, and i caught the last 40 laps of that race and seeing those cars all over the place and cheering for" the one with the flames" oh to go back

[@dngnascar]

I’m simply going to thank Lighting McQueen and TNTMan93 for getting me into NASCAR

[@acegarcia3719]

I have been a Nascar fan for as long as I can remember as the earliest I could trace back was watching the 2005 Brickyard 400 with my Dad at just 3 years old and arguebly became a Stewart fan early on cause he won that very race. It was always an interesting love affair, growing up in northern New Jersey it was never very popular amongst schoolmates, hid my love for it a lot. And while I did loose regular interest for a few years in the mid2010s for various reasons, I've gotten back into it like old times since 2017, have seen the sport at it's peak and its lows and without question played a large role on my early life and even somewhat today.

[@aydennotconceited]

I'll never forget the beautiful orange and black tracker boats impala no. 1 of Jamie McMurray winning the Daytona 500. I've been a fan ever since.

[@colingallagher797]

My story of how I became a nascar fan is pretty cool I think. It was 2005 and I was 5 years old when my dad had the race at Auto Club on and I was interested and asked him who drives the number 5 car (because I was 5 years old), he said Kyle Busch. I then rooted for Busch through the race and he ended up winning, I was hooked at that moment. It was my first nascar race I ever watched and it was his first cup win in his rookie year. I've been his fan ever since, so thats 16 years of being a Kyle Busch and nascar fan.

[@masonnoorda2888]

I was pretty much forced to watch it every Sunday, and being a Jr fan helped me like the sport better.

[@coltsfani3139]

Last night at Nashville it took us 2 hours to leave after the race

[@thedaquinoteam6227]

I watched the 2018 NASCAR Championship and became a Joey Logano fan and got my dad and two brothers into it.

[@tylerbronson945]

I was born and people in my family loved NASCAR so I grew up watching so now I love NASCAR.