NASCAR - NASCAR in Culture

NASCAR in Culture

Several films are set in NASCAR, most recently Days of Thunder, Herbie: Fully Loaded and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

A NASCAR dad is a stereotype of white, middle-aged, lower middle class American men. The term was used during the 2004 United States presidential election.

During the 2012 United States third party presidential debate, libertarian candidate Gary Johnson criticized major corporation backing the Democrat and Republican candidates by suggesting that they "should be required to wear NASCAR-like jackets" with logos of the companies that back their campaigns.

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