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Revved up and on the road: Oklahomans love their NASCAR
Twenty percent of the Texas Motor Speedway crowd comes from Oklahoma City, Tulsa area

 
By Jenni Carlson | Published: February 29, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

GRAPEVINE, Texas — As Oklahomans, we have a good sense of who we are.

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God fearers. Family lovers. Tornado dodgers. Football worshippers.

The good folks at Texas Motor Speedway would like to add one more to the list.

Racing nuts.

"The Oklahoma City area is unbelievably strong for us,” speedway president Eddie Gossage said Thursday during the track's annual media day. "I really think demographically we fit in so perfectly with sports fans in Oklahoma, and I'm gonna tell you, it's a big part of our success.”

Sometimes, it takes outsiders to notice something about you that you may not otherwise recognize about yourself.

So it is with racing in Oklahoma.

I mean, the next time you hear someone proclaim our fair state as a racing mecca will be the first time.

Then again, you can't drive to the grocery store without seeing the evidence. Every fourth or fifth car has some sort of racing paraphernalia on it. There are Dale Earnhardt Jr. decals and Jimmie Johnson bumper stickers and Tony Stewart license plates.

But that's not the half of it.

"More Oklahoma fans come to Texas Motor Speedway than come down for the Texas-OU game,” Gossage said, "and that's something we're real proud of.

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