I've met actual real fans in that manner. Not online, real life people who can display their collection of memorabilia and the like as proof of a long history with it. Always the type that grew up watching it before they gained politics and then kept watching despite their ideology going wildly against the grain. You can find the same with a lot of Wrestling fans.

Again, its a minority amount but they do exist and likely helped NASCAR be more confident in this course working. But then it didn't because none of them could ever convince anyone that NASCAR wasn't bottom bin redneck shit.