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Michael McCollum, the Twitter user who witnessed the possum-toting fan, said the fan left his seat with the live marsupial but never returned during the race. 

You never know what you are going to witness at Talladega, it’s the South’s hallowed ground for craziness and debauchery, but this might take the cake. Maybe he was just paying his respects to Possum Jones, a NASCAR driver in the 1950s and ’60s.