'That doesn't sit well with all the good ol' boys, but it is what it is.' 'I don't think there's a place for it in NASCAR, to be honest with you,' he said. He said he started coming to Talladega in the 1990s when his father parked cars at races, and he applauds NASCAR's decision to ban the Confederate flags. It's just a heritage thing.'ĭavid Radvansky, a 32-year-old from suburban Atlanta, brought his wife and boys, who are 3 and 6, on Sunday. I don't think anybody really connects it to any kind of racism or anything. It's been around for as long as all of us have been. 'People are disappointed that NASCAR has taken that stance. 'They're doing very well,' said the Helena, Alabama, resident, who has been selling an array of wares at NASCAR races for 21 years. Ed Sugg's merchandise tent flew them prominently in a display alongside Trump 2020 banners and an American flag. NASCAR has not stated how exactly it plans to stop fans from displaying the flag on track property, though none of the instances Sunday at Talladega were inside the facility.Ī pickup truck with Confederate flags flying from the back tooled around Speedway Boulevard. Vehicles lined the boulevard outside Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama, waving the flag and a plane flew above the track towing a banner of a Confederate flag that read, 'Defund NASCAR.'

NASCAR has banned the Confederate flag from being displayed at its events, but supporters of the symbol still managed to be seen Sunday before the race was postponed to Monday because of inclement weather.

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