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NASCAR on Reddit: News from the track. A subreddit for everything NASCAR related! Founded 2009 · 1.5M members

1.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 44.1K upvotes, which works out to 29 per 1,000 members.

29peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.5Mmembers
44.1Kbest post
10.1Kmost comments
422posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

31% 25% 17% 12% 9%
Image 31% Link 25% Text 17% Question 12% Gallery 9% Video 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 8 Race Thread 3 Serious 2 Event 2 Mirror in comments 1 Serious condition/not life-threatening 1 Megathread 1 Update 1 Unofficial 1 AMA 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

NASCAR has banned the Confederate flag from all future races

↑ 44.1K 💬 3.7K link 2020

The FBI says the noose in the Bubba Wallace garage stall had been there since October 2019.

↑ 22.4K 💬 5.1K link 2020

Stop saying Nascar is getting too political, it’s been this way for years

↑ 18.4K 💬 1K image 2020

Bubba Wallace says people have the right to peacefully protest NASCAR’s ban of the Confederate flag. He adds: “You won’t see cops pepper spraying the…

↑ 13.4K 💬 1.4K link 2020

[Serious] NASCAR found a noose was left in Bubba Wallace's garage stall

↑ 12.2K 💬 2K link 2020

Donald J. Trump on Bubba...

↑ 11.8K 💬 3K link 2020

Kyle Larson says a racial slur in public chat by mistake during iRacing race.

↑ 10.7K 💬 4K link 2020

Brexton just updated his Facebook profile picture 💔

↑ 8.1K 💬 385 image 2026

A week ago I made comments defending the Confederate flag. I no longer stand by them

↑ 7.8K 💬 741 text 2020

NEWMAN HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL

↑ 7.1K 💬 1K link 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/NASCAR, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/NASCAR?
r/NASCAR ("NASCAR on Reddit: News from the track") describes itself this way: A subreddit for everything NASCAR related. It was founded in 2009 and has 1.5M members.
How many members does r/NASCAR have?
r/NASCAR has about 1.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 422 of its posts; the biggest reached 44.1K upvotes, which is 29 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/NASCAR?
"NASCAR has banned the Confederate flag from all future races" reached 44.1K upvotes and 3.7K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/NASCAR.
What subreddits are similar to r/NASCAR?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota.
What kind of posts do best on r/NASCAR?
Of the posts we hold, 31% are image posts and 25% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/NASCAR?
Across 422 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 18:00 UTC (5.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 18:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/NASCAR?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/NASCAR has 4.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 82 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/NASCAR, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.