Did you pick your driver for on track skills or off track personality?

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I went with #48 for both his skills and off track personality....

By how they drive and what they do off track. Charities, hobbies, etc.

Martin Truex Jr
>>Great Attitude
>>Won 2 Busch(Nationwide) Championship
>>Drove for Dale Earnhardt Inc
>> Sponsored Bass Pro/ Tracker Boats
>> Great Driver

Paul Menard
>> Sideburns
>> Underdog
>> Underrated Road Course Ringer
>> Knows Car Control
>> Menards Sponsorships
>Johns Manville
> Super Clean
>Hot Shot
> Q Motor Oil


Thats why I chose these 2 Drivers. Oh and because they are always under the radar.

Hope I explained it thorough.

I picked David because:
A:He was young
B:Because he was doing pretty good
C:Because seemed Nice
D:He's cute

My favorite is Tony Stewart. I became a fan of his when he was on ESPN's Thursday Night Thunder running the midgets. So for me, it was driving style at first that drew me to him. Later as he moved to the IRL I began to love his personality. Now in NASCAR he is the link to the past. He is the kind of driver that Cale Yarborough was. Fiery and aggressive both on the track and off. Speaks his mind....that is a refreshing change in today's PC NASCAR world.

I pick my driver for manuacture. I picked Kenseth back in 2000 because he was going to Roush. I don't know what I will do if he pulls a mark martin or a jeff burton. I am a manufacture guy. I pull for fords every week, Matt in particular though.

both. rowdy has mad skills, and is often mad off-track as well. as he said in an interview not all that long ago - "i am a miserable person." he was half-joking as he had just won a race, but only half. he is a racer on and off the track, and has a one track mind - one track at a time that is, and he wants to be on a track every day racing, and would be if his schedule permitted.

i actually picked kurt as my first favorite when i caught "nascar fever" in vegas back around five or six years ago. i probably would have picked kyle straight off but he hadn't yet come back from his "mandatory vacation" from nascar's top series - mandatory in that after he had already raced six truck races when he was sixteen, but was ejected from the track at "fontuckit" as CART was having an event sponsored by a tobacco company that weekend. CART had a rule prohibiting anyone under 18 in the garage for such events. a few weeks later, nascar implemented a minimum age rule and kyle had to take a two year break.

living in vegas, when i went to my first live race in 2003 i was told by friends to pick a favorite to follow. i picked the hometown boy kurt and watched his rise and fall over the next few years. but it was early on that i read kurt's quote about his little brother being the best driver in the family. so from his first race back in the major series, i cheered for kyle, and felt a closer affinity as i got to be his fan right from the start of his re-entrance to nascar. and where kurt was brash and arrogant, then calmed a bit, kyle was the same and never let up - on the throttle nor on the attitude.

and off-track, from what i've seen, read, and heard, kyle is actually a great guy. young and immature at times maybe, but by all accounts, he is giving of his time, energy, and money to various worthy causes. but most importantly, i like him because he is a racer. when qualifying, the nationwide race, and the cup race were delayed until sunday at richmond four weeks ago, the first thing he did was get on the phone to find out about getting to a late model race his team (kyle busch motorsports) was going to be in on saturday. only after speaking with jd gibbs did he decide that maybe he better stick around and focus on the upcoming cup race. my money says he still snuck out and raced somewhere under another name, but i can't prove it.

i love the fact that from the time he straps on the helmet till hours after the race he turns into one of the fiercest competitors there has been in a long time. more importantly, he has never let me down. he may not always say or do the right things, and he will probably never win "most popular driver," he has always been himself, no matter how immature or "socially incorrect" that may be. when he wins he's truly happy and is magnanimous in his spreading the credit, and when he loses, crashes out, or blows up, he lets the world know what he's feeling. there is no need to second guess or interpret what he's thinking or feeling - he gives it to you straight out, or heads directly to his trailer, also letting you know exactly how he feels. fault him for it if you like, but what you see is what you get, and i like that.

Off track personality. Obviously I root for the two drivers that dont win much (Jamie McMurray and Bobby LaBonte), but they seem to be great guys off the track, and just class acts and dont blame people.

a little of both

I picked my driver because
1) I use to drink Bud
2) My x liked someone else.
I'm hard headed and will stick with something so I just stuck with him.

To tell you the truth, I started to like Junior becasue of the color of his car. Red. My favorite color.

Over the years I came to like him for his personality, and for is respect for the sport.

Both. I started watching Junior when he was just a little squirt since of course I have been a Dale Earnhardt fan all my life. So I knew Junior before he ever started racing and watched him grow up and then during his first 2 full years of racing in the Bush (Nationwide) Series and he won back to back Championships and that excitement and his modest personality set me up to be a Junior fan for life. I am not a bandwagon jumper nor am I a fan just because of who his dad was. He earned my respect when he was just a young guy and I am a very loyal fan.

Love his driving. Love his personality. Hope he never changes either one of them.

I was a fan of ironhead and when he died I stayed with his boy.........RIP Dale Sr.

It had a lot to do with his record, but his off-track personality counts too.

LMAO, Do I really need to answer this?

I initially went with my driver, Kasey, because of his skill, that and at the time he was a rookie (I always pick a rookie to root for every season) but then as I got to know his off-track personality, that strengthened my choice in him, not to mention I really look good in his merchandise. lol

I’d say for me it’s about 60% personality, 40% ability because no matter what driver you choose, they’re always going to have a bad day/race.

he won the first race i ever watched..i think i was like 14...Go Jimmie Go!! <348

Both but there is probably a little more emphasis on the on track skills and the way Jimmie manages races. He is not only a great driver but a great tactician as well. He usually does just enough to give himself a chance to contend for the win in the majority of races he's in. That could mean sandbagging a little and saving your car for the end or running real hard, ahead of the wrecks all day. Of course he has a lot of extra confidence with Chad on top of his pitbox. He is a laid back California kid at heart and a lot more fun in real life than the corporate robot that he appears to be at times.
3 STR8 N 08!!!

I like Kurt for both. He has matured immensely over the past couple of years. He is going to bounce back.

I like Elliott because he is cool off track. No way would I be a fan if I looked at his record. lol

Once upon a time (lol), I liked almost all of the drivers. Two of my older brothers were huge Intimidator fans. They thought that he did no wrong. Being a good little sister - doing what little sisters do - I loved harassing them about their "dirty, cheating, stupid, etc. favorite driver".
One day, my brothers cried foul. They insisted that I pick just one driver as my favorite, so that they could bug me about him. I thought about it long and hard. I considered everything: talent, personality, style, and yes, even his good looks. I chose Terry Labonte over all of the rest.
My choice has proved to be a good one. Best of all, my brothers could never find any fault with him, either. : )

Both, actually. I started liking Matt Kenseth when I felt he was getting the least disrespect of anyone who'd ever competed for the championship back in 2003. His personality is a lot like mine too, though.

loved Kyle Busch's seriously competitive nature on the track, I like to root for someone who always remains competitive. The attitude off the track is a big controversy that I feel has been blown out of proportion a bit, mostly after the Richmond incident with Dale Jr., where they both were at fault, just as they both admitted. also my boyfriend said that kyle looked like an alien, so I said "oh yeah? i happen to like alien-lookin guys" so it's been on since then. LMAO

I had "favorites" from all the teams. Still do. But I watched Rowdy while he was at Hendrick and he was my favorite of all over there because he was so good for such a young guy. BP and DW kept saying "watch him make this maneuver" and "keep your eye on him coming through the pack" etc.....and so I did and he became the top favorite to watch. Personality and skill. it's been a lot of fun and a lot of heartache but he is still my main guy.

Well I picked mine when my other favorite retired and it was his first race and I saw him in Busch and liked him .

I picked Sadler for his funny good ol' boy image (and if I'm completely honest, his looks, at least before he whacked all his hair off), and Mark Martin for his character and driving skills.

Both. I think they need to be decent people on and off the track and also be talented drivers. However I do like some of the drivers who never win or have top 20 finishes, because I like their personalities.