Nascar. How is this sport?

Question

You can go to any park in the U.S. and get a pickup game of Football, baseball, basketball, softball etc. These SPORTS are available to eveyone always. Not just privlidged rich men. When and Where can you get behind the wheel of a 300k car and make left turns all day? How is this a sport? I live in a city in Ca. that gave us both Harvick and Mears. I just don't get it?

Money alienates 98% of the population. How does that legitimize itself as a sport?

Are you not getting the simple point???? You can not do it? Very few people have the privledge to try it? I know it it hard for you to grasp this. But you can play any other sport everyday of your life if you want. You can't and will not drive a Nascar!

You bunch of clowns can not read. Have one of you been behind the wheel? Is it a high school sport? College? is it teaching your kid how to exersice? Or sit on his fat ***. Yea guys you go watch other people drive cars around a track. Wow fast. Brilliant.

I can go play football for free, and get some atletic ability.

Answer 1

I am far from rich and I race a stock car every weekend. Granted it's not a Nextel Cup car, but it is still racing. That is how drivers such a Harvick and Mears were discovered nobody said "oh you have a lot of money, here is your Cup car!" The people that argue that racing isn't a sport have never done it before. Take a ride to your local short track and experience see what you've been missing.

Answer 2

I am really sorry that you feel this way. When all this started beck in the 50's, it was just a bunch of good old boys out to see who could outrace the other. Slowly it got growing and the car manufacturers got into it in the 60's by providing cars, engines etc to the drivers. Then NASCAR started to assert themselves, maybe more than they should, and with all the safety features and making all the cars as close to run as closely to each other as possible, it started to create a monetary draw on the teams. The drivers, however, are real athletes. They have to work out all the time to keep their bodys in shape to be able to run the distances that they do. You and I would be lucky to just go a fourth of the distance that they do, and it is not just driving either. There is the emotional stress of being in extreme close quarters almost all of the time. Unlike the sports that are available to everyone, they have no half time and cannot call time out whenever they feel like it. Yeah, you can say that they have the caution laps. Not the same. They have got ato get that car in the pit stall, and that is not an easy task. Leaving pit row is not easy either. The congestion is grueling. And what about the races that have gone all the way without any cautions. 4 hours without any relief. Yes, the cars are owned by wealthy men, but then again, so are your baseball, football, basketball teams. It is not the owners that are the stars. It is the athletes, whether they play ball or drive a race car. Hope this gives you a better insight on racing.

Answer 3

NASCAR Is a sport. You see if you ever listen to a basketball player or Football player or even a baseball player who has gotten to drive a racecar around the track many will say the NASCAR drivers are better athletes then they are. I have herd many of them say that if they were a race car driver they wouldn't be able to go about 200 mph around a track for 300 or more laps. Also the drivers put up with hot temeratures in the car Were they are like cooking in the car is what I will put it. You go and try to race 42 other cars on a track going almost 200 mph I bet it would be difficult to do. Plus a drivers heart rate is that of a marathon runner when they are running in the race car. Plus you have lots of g-forces pushing on your body. It is physicall work to do what NASCAR Drivers do. I would know I have gotten to do the Richard Petty's Driving Experience. I was hard work and was hard on my body. I am be a girl but I know what it feels like to drive a racecar. Plus it is not just a car going around In a circle. You have team work too along with stratigies. You have your pit crew change four some time two tires and the gas man filling the race car in 14 seconds sometimes you will see a 11 or 12 second stop when changing four tires. You have your crew chief who decides on adjustments for the car. You have your spotter to help you know what is going on around the track and lead you through troubles and wrecks on the track. You even have the people at the shops work on your car, build the engines , make the chassies. You have team work through out the race. So it is considered a sport. But Maybe it is not a sport but a way of life. I have noticed one thing about race car drivers and that they seem to have there money when they retire and don't seem to blow it like other athletes all they give random drug tests and that and you hardly hear the use or drug enhancers and that in racing because what would be the use of steriods it wouldn't help any drivers performance. Because you could be taken out of a race at any time. Sorry for my spelling too it is 3 am in the morning and I need some sleep.

Answer 4

I hate answering this question because its a stupid question. NASCAR is a sport for many reasons. You think all you do is sit in a car and drive around in circles, I'm sorry but newsflash, it is. I will ask you this one question, could you sit in a car in a firsuit with gloves, helmet, and strapped into a seat so you don't move an inch, not use the bathroom for hours at time, andnot be able to strech for hours, and have hardly anything to drink and posibly get dehydrated, or drive while sick or injured, in 120 heat? I don't think so. Tell me one of those things that does not require athletic ability. They have to work out in the gym just as much as any football player, because its what it looks like. They have personal trainers and everything it is a sport and always will be. Its one of my favorite sports.

Answer 5

They go over 200 m/h sometimes and have to drive a very heavy car. They sometimes need to think what to do with the car under green fleg racing while there are long green green fleg racing. They have to race when it is very hot outside. The car dose not want to work sometimes. They crash out when they are lose or a blown tire.
Lets take Kasey for instance Last week he was running good untill his car got tight and could not drive it untill they found out it was a tire going down. He was 2 laps down and raced alot of cars untill he got his laps back when everyone is pitting under green and a caution came out. Kasey was in the back of the pack and finally got laped by Havick. Then a coution came out and Kasey got the lucky dog. He started going to the frount. Then at the end he was in the top 10 untill his car gets tight and finished 16. Kasey was probly tired after that. and don't say this is not a sport.
They have to workout like everyother sport. There is alot of teams competing. So Nascar is a sport.

Answer 6

I believe NASCAR is now the #1 spectatar sport in America!!! It is my one and only!! I know a lot of race car drivers & know how grueling it can be. We just need to get you in a car or even better, like most race car drivers,let's put you first in a Go-kart, on a dirt track, and believe it, one lap around that bumpy ol track, your already sore and let you go around the track literally inches away from one other, in full gear( racesuit, gloves,neck brace, helmet) it's 95 degrees, so if you have a dry track you have dust encasing you, dirt clumps and or rocks hitting you, or maybe they wet the track, now your sliding all over the track.BUT don't forget that next guy is literally 1" away from you,now your gonna get hit, & hard or even run over.Find a go kart track & try this.Your mind will be forever changed!!! One last note,I just don't get why so many people get off on watching a couple of grown men play with a ball.

Answer 7

Don't go there, you're going to get people all fired up. I think NASCAR is a sport. It requires a lot of athletic ability for these drivers to do what they do. I understand you can't go to a park for a pick up game, but it is still a sport. Look at the money involved in the NFL or NBA, it's not just NASCAR. Just give it a rest. NASCAR is a sport, deal with it.

Answer 8

why is'nt it a sport it takes a lot of energy stamina and guts you go around a track at almost 300 miles and hour you are also forgeting about the g forces that it exerts on the body racing is a work out and yes you can get in a nascar they even have schools for it. racing has always been in my blood and in my family matter of fact my husband has a race car that he races on the local curcit so yes it is a sport and a hobby like all the rest, oh you can get nascar game my son has a handheld dale ernhardt nascar game

Answer 9

Okay, look you loser. If you can't deal, just GO, got it? I mean, HOW many people have asked this question? Many! Go look in resolved questions and find answers to your heart's desire. Of course, the people who gave you good answers are the ones you won't pay attention to...you'll just pick a person who feels the same way as you about the subject. I think it's pretty stupid of you to waste your time asking dumb questions like this.

Also, a lot of the NASCAR drivers weren't even close to rich when they were young and started racing. Their parents had to do all they could to stay financially stable AND let their kids race. How mindless are you?

I'll let the answers of other people explain the reasons why NASCAR is a sport, because I have answered these questions WAY to much giving them long thoughtful answers. Instead, I'll just make my point this time...

Answer 10

NASCAR is a sport because of the physical aspects.Most of the current drivers started out in Go-carts.Then they move up to the next level, and the next, until they find themselves in a full-sized car on a local track.