What MAKES Nascar a sport? I don't want to hear about them losing weight or how fast they go.?

Question

Losing weight is also what a Diet is for, okay? Just because someone goes 200 miles an hour, doesn't mean they're doing a sport. Is horse racing a sport? Other than ride and steer, what work does the jockey do? Same thing with a Nascar driver. All they do is sit in a car for a while, sweat a lot, talk in a microphone, and steer. I'm sure you all have heard this before but is a road trip on the highway from say, Boston to Reno a sport? If you drive nonstop and sweat, does that make it a sport? If you don't crash, does that make it a sport?

Answer 1

I am a fan of nascar and i DO NOT CALL IT A SPORT.It is a event,to be a "sport"it needs a BALL ,no ball no sport.I do not get why other fans get so uptight about it,i guess thay feel left out of something.I have followed it for 20 years and it just is not a sport,so what the big deal about it being called one.I think that's the fans of ball sports feeling intimidated about something thay don't care about so why do thay care what its called,you got me.

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Answer 3

No NASCAR isn't ur traditional sport, but don't kid yourself that it isn't a sport. It is physically demanding and no I don't mean in terms of running or blocking shots. A driver's body is subjected to these G forces that a normal person driving would never feel. Just imagine being on a jet and how that can cause people to black out or vomit. Just because they're drivers doesn't mean they don't work out cause hey they still gotta be able to fit into the race car. It's the reason Tony Stewart went on a diet cause if the car were to go up in flames all that would be left is smoke and ash. Not everyone has to agree, but if you want a taste of what its really like then try the Richard Petty driving experience. After going that fast and getting close to walls you tell me if it isn't a sport.

Answer 4

If you don't think NASCAR is a sport, why are you on this page? Lets see a basketball player or a baseball player sit in a 140 degree race car for 3 or 4 hours and come out the same. I have all the respect in the world for drivers because they put their life on the line every week in cars going 180 mph for our entertain ment. if that ain't a sport ,I don't know what is. You must be a golf fan!

Answer 5

The definition of sport is this: An interesting diversion; a particular game or physical activity with set rules; a person who leads a fast life.
The definition of sporting is this:Of or relating to risk taking or gambling; displaying sportsmanship.
Have you ever put your foot down on a gas pedal and maybe gotten your vehicle up to 100, 120 or even 140? I'm sure you have if you have the balls to ask this question. Take that adrenaline and double it. These guys are the very definition of sport. A person who leads a fast life...relating to risk. They drive at speeds of 200 plus MPH for 2 to 3 hours within inches of each other experiencing more g-forces than the astronauts in the space shuttle. There stamina and unbreakable concentration is unmatched by any sport...please name one that can match it. Football? 60 minutes...sure but they get time outs...TV commercial time-outs....sit why the defense is on the field and make substitutions. Nascar runs 10 months...they race, test and travel from track to track across the country...yeah for 10 months...I believe football is 5 months. Spare me the whole sarcasm...Is bowling a sport?Golf? Millions of people play it but I dont see a 100,000 spectators at a golfing event. Racing is a sport....it always has been from Rome til now...Instead or Chariots they are fine tuned racing machines.

Answer 6

Heck, what makes Baseball a sport? It's just a bunch of guys running around in circles. The fastest speeds in baseball are less than 100mph and it's not even the people going that fast.

And all they do is sit in a cramped car for 4 hours in sweltering heat, talk in a microphone over the sound of 43 engines and thousands of spectators, if their microphone is working, and steer a 2-ton car through turns at 200 mph and 20 degree banking (they stopped a Volkswagon Beetle on one of those turns and it rolled down to the bottom of the track) surrounded by 42 other 2-ton cars whose drivers all want to either be in front or stay in front of them. And if they're really lucky they get to hit the wall at the same speeds and flip a few times, set their cars on fire and be knocked unconcious. And they are dependant on other people and their cars; their cars that they won't break, and their spotters to know what's going on on the racetrack (no rear view mirrors) and their crew chiefs to make the right calls. Plus imagine a 4-5 hour car trip without a restroom break. That liquid on the track? Not always oil.

Answer 7

Competition is what makes it a sport and can't just any yahoo handle that kind of power on a straight stretch let alone try'n to make the steep turns and degreed banks without hitting another driver or wall and during all this making strategic maneuvers at split second time frames . I'd say tracks all over the U.S. having sold out season tickets makes it a sport. Tens of thousands of a million fans makes it a sport. Enough said!

Answer 8

Other that standing in a field for 9 innings hopping a ball comes your way or swinging at a ball once every couple of innings makes baseball a sport. I would be willing to bet money our NASCAR guys get more of a work out in a days work. A sport is about competition. Who's the best at there skill. Not how much they sweat.

Answer 9

Racing is the pinnacle of sports. All games aspire to the devotion, dedication and sacrifice from their participants as racing enjoys. How many games routinely ask the players to possibly surrender their life and how many players would happily take the chance?

All other sports, when compared to racing, are are merely children's games.

Racing has never been a game but it has always been a sport.

Now I love most sports, except for soccer, and long touchdowns or spectacular dunks or splendid jump shooting bring me great joy.

However, nothing is more exciting than seeing a Cup car scream through a turn at 190 mph, seemingly on a rail.

Closer observation into the cockpit at the driver's hands and what they are doing to keep the car on line is illustrative of the skill involved.

If it looks easy to do it is simply due to the fact that the drivers are so skilled at what they do. You see, its not the driver's job to keep control of the car...that is just not fast enough. The trick is to take the car to out of control and back again in the blink of an eye.

Now consider that the car below you is out of control and the car above you, the car in front of you, behind you...all around you. You are sweating profusely, breathing is heavy and labored but you're too busy to notice. Vision is difficult due to the horrendous vibrations and bumps. Steering and countersteering to keep the car straight and away from disaster. Trail-braking, throttle- steering, compensating continuously just to gain 10 thousands of a second on the other guy. You are always thinking about the next 1000 yds and instinctively reacting to what you see 10 feet away.

You see, golfers for example, require absolute quiet in order to concentrate enough to put a little ball in a hole that is 4 times a big as the ball. Racers can put a 3,400 lbs race car in a hole, barely big enough for it to fit, at 200 thunderous mph.

As for, why race on an oval?

Because it is difficult to do. Most road racers are never able to fully master it. They find they are turning the wheel more often than they have ever had to before.

Most NASCAR racers like the road races they do becuse they are fun to run. They say it is difficult because it is. They are not driving light cars with lots of downforce and ground effects, so its a lot of work but they sure have fun.

Fun, the reason they race. Isn't that what sports is all about?

Answer 10

Like everyone else has just told you, you just don't sit and a car and steer...Any one can sit in a race car and go 180 mph. But it narrows way down going into a banked turn at the same speed, and pull more g's than astronauts do on take off..and do that for 3 hours every week....losing weight is a diet to you...these drivers lose 8 to 10 lbs. a race....every week...

Answer 11

If you don't want to hear about them losing weight or how fast they go don't listen to it. What are you some idiot? Do you need your mommy to change the channel on the TV for you? Do you still poop in your diapers? Do all the other kids at school make fun of you? Is that why you're a pathetic little whiner?