10 Great Songs for NASCAR Fans: Tailgate at Your Favorite Race with These Songs

NASCAR fans are usually not casual fans. They are diehards for their sport and for their favorite drivers. Because NASCAR season lasts 10 months out of the year, fans have a chance to get to any of the race tracks on the NASCAR schedule to see a race. Many of those NASCAR enthusiasts will be tailgating for hours before the big race, and you need three things for a good tailgate; Delicious food and drinks and mood setting music! Here are 10 great songs for NASCAR fans.

I Can't Drive 55-Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar ripped this classic song back in 1984 and it is still a favorite of racing fans and NASCAR lovers. It sets the tone for you and your favorite driver; and we all know your favorite racer will be going much faster than 55 MPH on the track.

Fuel-Metallica

This hard charging 2006 song by Metallica starts out with, "Gimme Fuel, Gimme Fire, Gimme that which I desire, Ooh!" and it only gets more intense from there. If you are looking to get pumped up before your favorite NASCAR race, this is the song to do it.

Two Lane Blacktop-Rob Zombie

This song was released in 2003 and was used as a song for the Need For Speed racing game in 2005. This is metal music at it's best. The beat will get you jacked up for the NASCAR race. I dare you not to bob your head back and forth when you crank this up.

Black Betty-Spiderbait (cover song)

This cover song by Spiderbait is so fast paced it's hard to keep up with it. The same could be said for NASCAR cars going around Texas Motor Speedway at 200 MPH! This 2004 song/video has been watched on YouTube nearly 1.3 million times. NASCAR drivers have chosen this song as their intro music at races; it is made for the NASCAR fan.

White Knuckle Ride -Lynyrd Skynyrd

This song was written about dirt track racing, but that's where most NASCAR drivers got their start. Whether you're heading to your local dirt track or the big asphalt NASCAR race, this classic song works. "I had to wait all week for Sunday, but it never comes too fast..", race fans know that's the truth!

Speed -Billy Idol

Billy Idol says speed is what he needs, and that's what this song provides. It's typical Billy Idol, sounds a bit like White Wedding and Rebel Yell, but it works for the fan preparing to watch a race.

Life In The Fast Lane -The Eagles

This Eagles 1976 classic will definitely fit on your NASCAR playlist. It's a great song that almost any NASCAR fan should know and appreciate. The fast lane they are talking about isn't really racing, but it still works.

Sunday Money -Brooks & Dunn

This song was written specifically with NASCAR in mind, particularly Dale Earnhardt Sr. Every self-respecting NASCAR fan knows what Dale Sr. did for the sport before his death in 2001 on the last lap of the Daytona 500. This is a great song to honor the seven time NASCAR champion and it will remind you just how much these drivers love their sport.

Jerry Was A Race Car Driver -Primus

This 1991 song from Primus says, "Jerry was a race car driver, he drove so g-damned fast. He never did win no checkered flags, but he never did come in last." It's some sort of funky, but then so are us NASCAR fans. Add it to your NASCAR playlist, you won't be sorry.

The Distance -Cake

This is not a metal song, nor country or rock-n-roll. It's a 1996 song from alternative band Cake but it is all about race car driving. It begins with the lyrics, "Reluctantly crouched at the starting line, engines pumping and thumping in time. The green light flashes, the flags go up. Churning and burning, they yearn for the cup."

Source: Author's opinion, lyrics.com, YouTube, NASCAR.com