Alvin Kamara is a special guest at NASCAR’s Homestead-Miami race

New Orleans Saints star and Bubba Wallace fan Alvin Kamara is attending the Dixie Vodka 400 at Homestead-Miami, his first live NASCAR race.

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Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway always draws a lot of attention, and for good reason: it’s the season finale in normal years. But in 2020, with NASCAR’s schedule modified due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the high-profile Miami venue was moved up to midseason with a mid-afternoon time slot.

And New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara will be in attendance, for his very first live NASCAR race. The three-time Pro Bowler has become a fan of Bubba Wallace, a prominent driver for Richard Petty Motorsports who has used his platform to rally against social inequality. Kamara live-tweeted Wallace’s performance in last week’s 500-lap race at Martsinville Speedway in Virginia. The result of that was Kamara being gifted a swag bag of Wallace merch from Checkered Flag Sports, which he wore proudly in Miami on Sunday:

Kamara trains in Miami during the offseason, so it was easy for him to accept NASCAR’s invitation and drive across town to attend Sunday’s double-header. He took time to congratulate the winner of the Contender Boats 250, Chase Briscoe of Stewart Haas Racing, while gearing up for the headline event: the Dixie Vodka 400, which starts at 2:30 p.m. CT on Fox. This is also one of the few NASCAR events with fans in attendance, with select members of the military invited to (carefully) crowd the stands in light of the pandemic.

Kamara knew going in that the speedway covered one-and-a-half miles, and that’s a distance he’s run before (plus some). But seeing the full distance of asphalt laid out in front of him made him reconsider every trying to cover it by foot.

However, what really captured Kamara’s attention was the methodical science that goes into a NASCAR pit stop. At one point, one of the crews experienced their version of a fumble — a loose tier flying around during a change. Kamara was quick to offer some advice:

But the efficiency at work when crews conducted their rapid-fire pit stops impressed the Saints superstar, with a helpful fan explaining how it all works:

So be sure to tune in, if you aren’t already. There’s a good chance the Saints superstar might cameo here and there during Sunday afternoon’s headliner.

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