I met Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart.. (one disappointed me)

At one of the Atlanta races, Carl Edwards had just sat down to have a hot dog and some chips with some of the people who had garage passes. Then a guy in a wheelchair (also with a garage pass) approaches the fence, but can't go through door in the fence because there are two stair steps on either side of the wire fence door. Carl sees this, gets up from his seat at their picnic table, goes over and helps carry the guy's wheelchair over the steps, then carries the guy, himself, sets him back in his wheelchair and pushes it over to their picnic table so the guy could have a hot dog with his favorite driver. You would never see this level of care and love for fans in the NFL or NBA.

Richard Petty is truly a class act. He made a several appearances for the company I worked for and was so nice to all of our employees and our guests. He did a short, unscripted video endorsement for us and nailed it perfectly in one take. What a professional; The King, indeed!

Never met Tony, but I did meet Jimmy after a Daytona win and he was great. I bet the same could be said about any of us. I bet some people think I'm OK amd some think I'm an A hole - depending on the day lol.

Took my son to meet Tony Stewart at an autograph session when he was eight. Tony was super nice to my son and they chatted for a bit.

I've gotten to meet The King a coupl eof times. Class act of a guy. He set the standard of fan relations for nascar.

I met Dale sr at Talladega in 96 , he was talking to one of his crew members about how he thought they needed to change the intake manifold because he didn’t like they way it felt going through the rpm range . He was very nice to us. He finished 3rd to sterling

I’ve met all of them. More than once. One thing I’ve learned is they have good days and bad days they have moods just depends on when you catch them but when you meet them one time for a little while and you try to make a judgment call on them, you’re probably not being really fair. Tony can be easily annoyed. No question about it.

I have gotten to meet Tony on multiple occasions, he was the nicest guy to meet at an autograph session, he would have a full on conversation with you at the track while signing an autograph which most wouldn’t do, which is something that will always standout for me

The driver for stewart may have been his dad. I know his dad and he's a good dude. He used to work for a guy who sells trailers here in Indiana. I've been around Tony many times when i worked on sprint cars. Most of the time he's friendly and humorous and other times he could be kind of arrogant. I do know he has been very generous and giving so I've kind of always look past the negative side of him. He's done a lot for people under the radar that you would never know about because he never let it be known. But if you met him here in Indiana the driver may have been his father.

I worked at Lowe's, those buckets came in handy when working as a cashier in garden

I met Tony at a gas station once while he was fueling up a hauler and we bullshit for 15-20 minutes. He was nice as could be in my short experience.

The first hand accounts of Stewart being a douchebag in person are plentiful.

I met Earnhardt Sr, Earnhardt Jr, Richard Childress, Kyle petty. And many others all were very nice guys just down to earth kinda guys.

Who cares. Maybe one of them was having a terrible day and didn't feel like talking much that day.

We "met" mr excitement Jimmy Spencer in the clubhouse at Thompson International Speedway in CT after a modified race. We were about 15 yrs old and giving him the business untill he turned on us and we took off running! 😂

Junior Johnson was a very humble down to earth guy who treated everyone like they were a good friend. He would cook breakfast at his shop in Rhonda, N.C. for his farm hands before they started work first thing in the morning and it grew to where fans he didn't even know would show up at his shop and he would invite them to pull up a chair and eat with everyone asking them how they liked their coffee as he served them coffee and treated them like friends. The worst celebrity sports star I ever met and spoke to lived up to his on court reputation. John McEnroe was a total jerk off the court as well. Also met and talked to Jimmy Connors about 3 minutes later for about 20 seconds and he autographed a World Tennis magazine for me and was very pleasant. At the same tournaments intermission I went to the concession stand and standing in line in front of me was the comic CarrotTop. Spoke with him and he was very nice. Three out of four nice celebrities and one jerkhole a decent average.

the biggest driver that I've talked too was Steve kinser an Scott bloomquist. kinser was cool sat there smoking a cigar talking to everyone but bloomquist which I used to watch at his home track was a dick

I've met a large portion of the drivers, crew chiefs and crew and honestly Tony was one of the coolest to my wife and I, Jimmy was a snob to us

Tony was too busy for a picture when we ran into him at Eldora. We didnt bother him, we just seen him walking. Too busy for 5 seconds. I bet the owner of one of the successful nascar teams would have taken a second. Bill Elliott did.

Sad part about Tony is that until fairly recently, like after his retirement, all he basically did was racing. He had no wife or gf, never really went on vacations etc. His whole life revolved around racing.