Daytona 500: Nation star Hint Adkins champions patriotism, nation music at NASCAR race

NASCAR’s Daytona 500 championship race is understood for bolstering the American spirit and nation music star Hint Adkins credited the followers for prioritizing patriotism on “Fox & Mates Weekend.”

“It’s the followers,” he stated. “These are hard-working, center class, principally simply good hard-working people that love quick automobiles. And so they wish to drive too quick themselves, most likely.”

Whereas different sports activities have a historical past of pulling politics into the sport, Adkins was adamant that “you gained’t see” any habits of the type at a NASCAR race.

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The singer talked about how the connection between NASCAR and nation music has all the time been “robust” and nonetheless is. Adkins’ personal relationship with NASCAR grew after shifting from Louisiana to Tennessee in 1992, initially of his profession, when he realized race followers had been “severe” in regards to the sport.

“It didn’t take me lengthy to fall proper in with that crowd,” he stated. “That’s after I began getting extra concerned personally with NASCAR – going to races, doing the anthem, being the marshal and having a race. I had my very own race one 12 months – the Chrome 300. And that was when my daddy lastly stated, ‘Effectively, you lastly made it.’”

The multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated recording artist might be performing the nationwide anthem on the 2022 Daytona 500, for which he admitted even he’s “slightly nervous.”

“Singing the anthem is the one factor that also makes me nervous,” he stated. “It doesn’t actually matter how large the group is. It’s simply the truth that you may’t mess around with the lyrics on that one. For those who mess it up, you’re on YouTube perpetually.”