I like NASCAR. I enjoy stock car racing. It's full of some of the smartest, most competitive and hospitable people you could imagine. Been very well treated by most of the southern Americans I met in a decade working the circuit as a photojournalist.
Watch it fairly often, collect 1/24 scale diecast models of the champions' cars. Started buying them when I worked at races. Got most of them now from 2018 to the first one in 1949.
The ones I don't have, I custom make myself out of donor car bodies, chassis and aftermarket tires, wheels and decals. I've got all title winning cars by Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Jimmie Johnson, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough and many others, including the three winning Fabulous Hudson Hornets (1951-53), and a custom-made model of the 1954 Chrysler New Yorker driven to his first title by Lee Petty, almost impossible to acquire nowadays. Don't know of anyone who has a complete set of the champions in 1/24 scale metal.
For laughs, I have two cars from the movie Talladega Nights - the Laughing Clown Malt Liquor #26 driven by Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) and the Perrier #55 driven by his nemesis, Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen).
Photo pass for the Daytona 500 is a bucket list item.