‘Let’s Go Brandon’ NASCAR driver speaks out, asks for sponsors to return amid Presidential election

Brandon Brown, who last competed in NASCAR in 2022 and is known for the “Let’s Go Brandon” chant, is ready to get back on the track. On Tuesday, Brown went to X to ask for sponsors since it’s Election Day.

“So I guess after today the phrase dies and y’all can sponsor me again, thanks!!!” Brown wrote.

In October 2021, Brown was interviewed by NBC Sports reporter Kelli Stavast at Talladega Superspeedway after winning a NASCAR Xfinity Series race. During the interview, fans were chanting “F*** Joe Biden,” but Stavast, who was wearing a headset, stated, “You can hear the chants from the crowd, ‘Let’s go, Brandon!’

Brown’s initial reaction was positive as he went to social media and wrote, “To all the other Brandons out there, You’re welcome! Let’s go us.” However, he was concerned about sponsors leaving his team since they didn’t like the controversy. Brown went on to ignore the phrase, but it gained more action as the months went by.

In an interview with the New York Times in December 2021, Brown talked about how the phrase overshadowed his win at Talladega. “This whole Talladega race win was supposed to be a celebration, and then it was supposed to be something that I was able to use to move up, and I really wanted to capitalize on that,” Brown told the Times, per CBS News. “But with this meme going viral, it was more of, I had to stay more silent, because everybody wanted it to go on to the political side. I’m about the racing side.”

Brandon Brown speaks out on ‘Let’s go Brandon’ chant

In an op-ed for Newsweek, Brown wrote about his political stance. “I race cars. I am not going to endorse anyone, and I am certainly not going to tell anyone how to vote,” he wrote. “But I’m also no longer going to be silent about the situation I find myself in, and why millions of Americans are chanting my name. I hear them, even if Washington does not.”  

Brown has competed in 150 NASCAR Xfinity Series races in his career and has one win with 20 top-10 finishes. He also drove in the Truck Series from 2014 to 2017 and earned one top-10 finish in 22 races.

Biden is not running for President again as he announced earlier this year that he’s not running for a second term. The 2024 United States presidential election is a battle between Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, but Biden will remain president until the new president is sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025.