NASCAR recently announced that Kane Brown will be serving as the grand marshal for the Cup Series race at Nashville Superspeedway. The 28-year-old musician has won several awards for his work including Favorite Country Album at the American Music Awards in 2018.

“As Middle Tennessee’s home for NASCAR racing and entertainment, we are thrilled to be able to host America’s top drivers and top entertainers at the same time. We look forward to ensuring that Kane experiences the best that #NASCAR has to offer this June,” Erik Moses, the Nashville Superspeedway president said.

However, NASCAR fans were far from thrilled about Brown’s inclusion in the Nashville race.

“Country star? Far from it. He doesn’t even know what country music is,” one fan reacted, while another wrote, “Better make sure they put a radio to give him
directions so he doesn’t try to take a right.”

One fan didn’t hold back as they said, “Why do they need a so-called country music star he plays hip-hop wouldn’t walk out the front door or back door to see him he’s a joke.”

“Another nobody to most NASCAR fans. They always try to appeal to non-fans with bringing these outsiders in for waving the flag,” another fan reacted.

“Who? Definitely not a country singer.”

NASCAR rising star raises voice against the decision-makers in the sport

Hailie Deegan, one of the sport’s biggest stars on the rise, recently slammed the All-Star race format in a recent interview on the Door Bumper Clear podcast.

The NASCAR Truck Series driver raised some questions almost all the fans are having at the moment.

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She said, “I wanna know, at NASCAR, because there’s a lot of situations like this that come up, who’s making these decisions? I feel like they need to put a name on the spot of it, like who is the face of these decisions?

“How are you gonna get the fans to understand it?”

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