A recent Twitter post by a NASCAR insider confirms the latter story. “In the 60s, before he was governor or president, Jimmy Carter would trade peanuts for tickets to races at Atlanta Motor ...

Jimmy Carter won the presidency in 1976. To fulfill a campaign promise, in the summer of 1978, invitations went out to drivers and other NASCAR figures to visit the White House. As it turned out ...

Jimmy Carter, whose four years in the White House and lifetime of ... Wallace had won there in 1972 and had influential supporters including “Big” Bill France, the NASCAR founder who had served as ...

Jimmy Carter, 39th US president and noted humanitarian ... US presidents are living longer and longer How Jimmy Carter's NASCAR fandom collided with president's Middle East peace summit Here ...

Jimmy Carter was a fan of NASCAR, but the possibility of peace in the Middle East got in the way when several drivers came to the White House for ham and cornbread in 1978. Carter, the 39th president ...