Why Is There A Connection Between Nascar And Rednecks?

Well being a redneck from Tn. myself, What’s not to like Fast cars crashing, cold beer, hot wings, redneck women half dressed, at the track………..I Love Nascar………#20

NASCAR started with bootleggers and all bootleggers are rednecks!!!!

Short simple answer it was run in the south for years, the stereotype of southern white people are that they are toothless inbred rednecks. That was the fan base for Nascar up until the last decade or so, and almost all Northern drivers in the series get respect, ie J. Gordon, T. Stewart, R. Newman, M. Kenseth get the picture.

Everyone is right.
If you think about it, back then a redneck is the only one that would be just CRAZY enough to actually want to disconnect one of there front brakes so they could turn harder with a trunk full of illegal booze with the Fed’s hot on there tale and I love that. There’s a certain feeling of pride in that. Alot of people complain about all the oval’s but it was the back road’s of the south were drivers honed there skills on some of most treacherous road rally type conditions in do or die circumstances. Only a redneck had the guts to pull that off.
At first, the racing was just a way to supplement there moonshine income in a legitimate way. At a few races, after promoters took off with ALL the money while the race was still running, Bill France saw the need to make it a legitimate organization with guaranteed prize money if the sport was to survive.
I don’t consider myself a redneck but if you wanna call me that………COOL!

Because the sport started in the deep south, when moonshiners tried to outrun the Law.
Barefoot Tex