Stewart-Haas Racing tweeted to try to make a point about the fan experience given by NASCAR being the best, but IndyCar fans instantly made them regret it.
Stewart-Haas Racing, one of the top teams in the NASCAR Cup Series, tweeted about the fan experience provided by NASCAR and classified it as the “best experience in all of sports” before asking their 415,000+ followers to “prove them wrong”, which has become a common practice on social media and is basically another way of saying that there is “no way to prove us wrong”.
Four pictures of NASCAR fans in various garage areas are featured in Stewart-Haas Racing’s tweet. But likely going against their expectations, as they also asked their followers to retweet their tweet if they agreed, several fans, including many IndyCar fans, roasted their tweet with a variety of pictures of their own.
Here is Stewart-Haas Racing’s tweet.
NASCAR gives fans the best experience in all of sports... Prove us wrong.
— Stewart-Haas Racing (@StewartHaasRcng) July 7, 2018
RT if you agree. pic.twitter.com/i2EqMWhdGO
Here are several of the responses to this tweet, which you can see were primarily shared by IndyCar fans who could not possibly disagree with Stewart-Haas Racing’s tweet any more than they already do.
My son had a sweet encounter with @indycar driver @BourdaisOnTrack at @roadamerica - didn’t pay more than GA. We waved hi to @Hinchtown and @charliekimball the night before the race in the campground. I have 100’s of more stories I could tell. Now THAT is a fan experience. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/6n0jSxyuRg
— Kate Scheidt (@katescheidt) July 8, 2018
@IndyCarNation and @IndyCar is going to win this debate every time. I've waved a green flag in qualifying, had my picture made with the winner of the Indy 500, watched Indy 500 from suite in Pagoda, gone on pace car and 2 seater rides, and peed next to a 3 time 500 winner
— Justin Smith (@justinsmith13) July 8, 2018
Sweet I waved the green flag at Iowa this weekend for IndyCar qualifying! pic.twitter.com/7ZR453nsQo
— Elena Davis (@elena_davis91) July 8, 2018
Clearly you have never been to an @Indycar race... no bulletproof glass for autographs, you know the little things
— Not Arie Luyendyk (@LyinLesbian) July 8, 2018
Yep, we don't enlist the Secret Service to guard our #IndyCar fan zones.
— Malarkey Miles (@MilesofMalarkey) July 10, 2018
— James Hunchcliffe (@Hunchcliffe) July 9, 2018
#FakeNews from #NASCAR . The below photo is from this weekend's #INDYCAR #IowaCorn300 @iowaspeedway. This is real fan engagement. pic.twitter.com/xpoQmJmdzu
— Malarkey Miles (@MilesofMalarkey) July 8, 2018
IndyCar is spectacular. I am a nobody, just a fan. Had a chat about parenthood with Will Power last year at MidO. Stood next to Juan Pablo Montoya at the 2017 IndyGP. Also have heard crazy good things about NHRA. pic.twitter.com/upbRWnlmSP
— Zachary Burcham (@92dakotahd) July 10, 2018
You are absolutely wrong.
— Korey Long (@KoreyL_ME28) July 8, 2018
I mean I was literally standing in an IndyCar team's garage stall beside the car...
what did I pay? $15
what do you have to pay to get close to a car in the NASCAR garage?
lol $1000+ pic.twitter.com/NxJzx6jZDY
I, for one, am grateful for all of these NASCAR drivers who’ve taken time with my grandson. Oh, wait. @ConorDaly22 @GabbyChaves @h3lio @PippaMann @charliekimball @TonyKanaan @IndyCar #indycardriversarethebest pic.twitter.com/FfTEodWbSZ
— Pat Bremer (@roadmaven) July 10, 2018
hello id like to open a checking account pic.twitter.com/ez0wjlXAvM
— Michael Miller (@MadMike294) July 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/elena_davis91/status/1016090148310781952
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There were plenty more tweets from where those came from, not just from IndyCar fans but also from IMSA fans and even Formula 1 fans.
Perhaps the best part about Stewart-Haas Racing’s tweet is that they thought they could get their point across about NASCAR given the best fan experience in all of sports by providing four pictures with a grand total of zero drivers.
As you can see from the numerous replies, many of which containing actual pictures of drivers with fans, that did not exactly go over well. Stewart-Haas Racing asked wanted to be proven wrong, and proven wrong they were — multiple times over.
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Which racing series do you believe provides the best experiences for fans? Are you on Stewart-Haas Racing’s side that NASCAR does so, or are you on the side of literally everyone who replied to their tweet that another series, particularly IndyCar, does so?