Anyone ever been to the Knoxville Nationals? It's on my list for sure. Always hear good things.
I live 90 minutes away and have never had the urge. I'm going to be honest, the current political climate, particularly people not willing to leave all of their signs and flags at home, makes going to small town tracks very uncomfortable for me. In the 90s and early aughts I used to go to dirt tracks all over Kansas and Missouri but people are just to hostile right now. That track where that dude said a bunch of stuff about "the colored people" was another track 90 minutes away from my house.
I was an hour away from Watkins Glen last Sunday, not doing a damn thing. I was going to go and take my son but u drove through there on Friday and I counted, saw 11 confederate flags, IN NEW YORK!!! 6 thin blue line flags, and I didn't even bother counting the scores trump flags and signs.
I really don't care who votes for who, shooter you've made the rare post at the pit, I know how you lean and we're cool. However all that visible propaganda and now open hostile language, is prevalent at and around a lot of tracks and it isn't welcoming..
Sorry for the rant.
One more thing, the coolest part of the Knoxville Nationals is a couple of days before it starts they always have a charity event at a local go cart track called Slideways, and they always get the biggest NASCAR starts of the time not named Busch or Harvick, guess they are too good for it, and race the go carts.