One of the fastest growing sports today is Nascar racing. While I am a huge sports fan, Nascar was not something I paid much attention to back in the day. However, with Danica Patrick making the switch from Indy car racing to Nascar, I may well become a huge Nascar fan after all. When I talk to other racing fans, they seem to indicate that having a favorite driver is what really keeps you interested in the sport, so I guess it’s the same as having a favorite baseball or football team in that sense. Just like some big football fans throw Super Bowl parties, Nascar fans throw racing parties. Of course, these Nascar parties, like all parties, require decorations. With lighting becoming such an important part of any occasion, could the Nascar party lights be far behind? Of course, no.
I would expect anyone decorating a racing party to start out the same as a fan of any other sport. Adorn your home with memorabilia from your favorite team in addition to the normal team logo items that are available. I’m also sure you use some Nascar imagery and logos throughout your ensemble so your guests won’t be too bummed out if they aren’t fans of the same driver and racing team as you.
When I thought about where to go to buy Nascar party lights, I started with an internet search and started at Amazon.com. What I found was a couple of generic string light deals that included lights depicting checkered flags and a red and white race car. These and the other string lights I found consist of a set of ten lights with alternating covers on a twelve foot light string. Like regular string Christmas lights, they’re built like an extension cord, so up to two additional sets of string lights can be added. Also available on Amazon are rope lights that are white covers with the driver’s number painted in black. These look pretty bland for a sport that likes to paint its cars in all sorts of flashy colors and schemes. On top of that, they don’t have the Danica Patrick model, so I decided to go ahead.
An additional internet search yielded some better results as far as finding light strings with covers that more authentically depict painted cars from some favorite drivers. However, the strings are not as long but contain the same number of lights. The cars I found in my initial search belonged to drivers like Matt Kenseth, Jimmy Johnson, and Carl Edwards. I’m sure a more thorough search will produce results that locate the cars of most of the most popular drivers. Since my search has yet to locate the Danica Patrick rope lights I’m looking for, I’ll continue to hold off buying my Nascar party lights until sometime in the future when Danica heads to the senior circuit and becomes more of a mainstream driver. main than just another pretty face.