Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage said there will not be any “political speeches” or statements at Saturday’s NRA 500 race.
After the NRA signed on as a sponsor of the race, liberals, gun control activists, and the mainstream media have put pressure on the organizers–and NASCAR–to distance themselves from the NRA and tried to demonize the NRA and the race.
“Saturday night no one is going to force any NRA literature in your hands. No one is going to be making political speeches or anything like that,” Gossage said on Sunday. “It’s going to be a race. We are going to have a winner and have a lot of fun, and that’s going to be the extent of it.”
As Dallas’ CBS affiliate noted, though, many fans have viewed the sponsorship favorably. And had a liberal-leaning organization sponsored the race, the speedway’s president probably would not have to make such statements.
The outlet interviewed Tom Crum, who bought his daughters two lifetime NRA memberships because the NRA sponsored the race.
“We probably have the two youngest NRA members out at the speedway,” he said