When did you first start watching Nascar?

Question

Only serously 6 years ago for me

Answer 1

1979 Daytona 500 first live CBS broadcast.

Answer 2

I watched every snippet of highly edited taped broadcasts on ABC's Wide World Of Sports every Saturday it was included in their coverage of lesser known and sometimes quirky sports like log rolling, motorcycles on ice, stuff like that.

The first flag to flag live coverage wasn't until Feb, 1979, some 30 plus years after the sport was born.

The primary reason I don't mind the commercials is because I remember what it was like prior to Feb, 1979. Voices and the sounds of cars over the radio and grainy B&W photographs in the newspaper.

I have been "watching" NASCAR via radio, newspapers, and TV for 49 years.

I remember the first time I actually sat in the old concrete grandstand at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which was built a mile from where I grew up when I was eight years old.

My dad took me to a practice session for the first race ever held there. We only stayed a short while but I remember the excitement from getting to see David Pearson, both Lee and Richard Petty, Rex White, Fireball Roberts, Fred Lorenzen, Speedy Thompson, Buck and Buddy Baker, "Little" Joe Weatherly, Junior Johnson and Curtis "Pops" Turner take some laps around the track, live and right in front of me. I remember the rush of air as the cars sped by.

Rex White went on to beat R. Petty for the Championship that year. It was 1960.

I wouldn't take a million dollars to forget that day.

Answer 3

I only started watching it a year ago, but I think for a new fan I've learned a lot and have really come to understand the sport. I'm not just the causual fan you think of when someone says they've been watching for a short time. I watch the races every week, and do almost everything in my power to be sure I watch them. I'm very loyal to my favorite driver, Sterling Marlin. With the 2006 season Sterling had, not many newcomers would keep him, but I'm either very loyal or very stubborn, because he is by far still my favorite driver.

Answer 4

I used to watch races occasionally but not every Sunday,mainly because I didn't have a favorite driver .The first race I watched all the way through was the Dayton 500 in 2001. Kurt Busch was a rookie and ran well most of the race and I knew then this guy is going to be good.

Answer 5

Like most drivers I started with the dirt tracks every Saturday night when just a kid. Only natural to move up to Nascar. Been watching as along as I can remember.

Answer 6

I'll never forget my first race. My dad took my friend and I for a long roadtrip from the shores of Lake Erie, South to Bristol in 1993. I had never really watched any racing until then. What racing I did watch I rooted for Bill Elliott because he drove the Budwieser car (#11) and I was also a big fan of Terry LaBonte and his Kellogs #5. We arrived in Bristol on Friday night and slept in the parking lot of the racetrack in my dads suburban. My dad said since we are here in plenty of time that we were gonna get tickets to the Budwieser 250 on Saturday (Busch Series). When we walked in to the track I was just amazed. When the race started I had to pick a driver to root for. Since there was no Awesome Bill From Dawsonville or Texas Terry in the race I decided my Busch driver was going to be the #44 car because I liked the way it looked and #44 was the number of one of my favorite players on our highschool football team when we went to state in 85. About ten laps into the race I found out that the driver of that #44 was actually Texas Terrys brother, Bobby LaBonte. What a coincidence. Bobby went on to win the Budwieser 250. What a great start to a great weekend. The next day the cup drivers hit the track for the Food City 500. What an exciting specticle. 500 laps of pure power, banging and bumping the whole race. I've never seen so much excitement in one place. The late great Alan Kulwicki won the race in the #7 Hooters car with some awesome driving all day. Since that day I have a part of me that will never forget Alan Kulwicki and what he done as an owner/driver. I will also continue to root for Bobby LaBonte as I have since my day at the Bud 250. I took alot of years off of watching live races at the cup level but did manage to get to both races Last season at MIS. They were great races at a great facility yet nothing compares to Bristol in my book.

Answer 7

The first one was the 1979 Daytona, and then heavily in the 1980's. Tim Richmond was part of the first two crew team for Rick Hendricks and I loved to watch him race.

He was a personal friend and one hell of a driver and I miss him dearly. The sport just isn't the same these days.

Answer 8

I was born off of Thunder Road - used to hang out in Boone, North Wilkesboro, Lenoir and Hickory, NC - this is where NASCAR was born out of the bootleggers running from the law.

I have an older friend who can remember when Jr. Johnson used to run the law through the middle of town, then lose them on the back roads.

I started listening to MRN on Sundays with my dad fishing and 'watched' what was available on ABC's Wide World of Sports - and let's not forget "Car and Track" with Bud Lindemann.

so let's call it about 40 years or so ago....

Answer 9

August 3,1960 on the 1/4th mile DIXIE SPEEDWAY Midfield,Alabama.This was during NASCAR barn storming days.
The race was won by NedJarrett,the intresting side note here is that there were 3 Petty's racing in the event(Lee,Richard,Maurice).The lattest,Talladega this year.
So I guess that adds up to 47 years.

Answer 10

Daytona 2003 was rained out but I became fan with the Craven/Busch finish in the Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 race in '03

Answer 11

like 4 years ago
i got into cuz of Gordon
i used to just turn on t.v and leave it in a nascar race
and one day (after watching Gordon on a talk show) i decided to really watch it, at first i didn't understand it but then i started watching it every Sunday and really got the hang of it...i love it!! my family is always asking me why are u watching that its boring...NO WAY!! now i spend my sunday afternoons watching it for four straight hours! its an awesome sport!!