4 | Great One Sustainer
ID: 053272014 Fri, Feb 08, 2008, 10:39
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Compiling the above sends me off on a tangent... It was coming across comments like this drive me crazy.
People are so ignorant about the sport its incredible. They have no idea how difficult it is. I think part of the reason is that there isn't a way to understand it cause we can't "play racing" in high school like you can play football or whatever. From the lower levels of racing that I participated in, I can firmly tell you that it was the most physically demanding sport I participated in. Teachers though I was abused when I would come to school on a Monday moring covered head to toe in bruises and 10 pounds lighter.
Comments like "well I drive fast in traffic so I could be a Nascar driver" are hilarious. Really? So because I shoot hoops with my nephew means I could play in the NBA? People have never driven that fast and understood how physically draining G-forces are and how much intelligence it takes to build and set up a car. As well as the in race strategy.
Comments I did appreciate that are in line with my experiences.
"BTW if you go to a live event it will blow mind the people that go to these races (the Women are phenomenal) Its kind of difficult for your typical trailer park redneck to foot the 250 dollar a ticket (Daytona) tab. Give it a try and keep an open mind, you may like it."
"Personally for me, the drivers are athletes...some may not be as fit or athletic as some, but being strapped into a car, during the middle of the summer, at temperatures sometimes 125-130 degrees, endurance is something you must have....I have drove before at Nascar training school, and it's not as easy as it looks. During a long race, with high temperatures, drivers can loose as much as 11 pounds in a single race, that topped off to pulling g's most of us will never endure, factoring in driving 190mph 3-4 wide, takes talent.......As far as being a fan, it's just something you have experience. Television does not do the race justice, and actually attending a race, is absolutely an experience like none other......ONE huge party. You see people from all walks of life...from your "rednecks", to doctors, lawyers, white collar, blue collar.......you see it all."
and the best of the worst idiots "They are not athletes and it is entertainment, not a sport. I speed in traffic every day, but do not consider that to be my excercise or athletic activity for the day. If anything, the cars would be the athletes, not the drivers. If the drivers would be considered athletes, they would be running aroung the track, not operating a machine. Operating a bulldozer is hard and tiring and youcan perspire while doing it, but it is not a sport, and heavy equipment operators arenot considered athletes. Nascar is for hooisers and rednecks, that is why the majority of fans defand it as a sport, because they do not know any better. If it was not for rednecks, then every other person would like it instead of busch beer drinkin, cut off jorts, sleveless t-shirt, and thongs wearing, cooler toting, truckdrivin, trailer drivin and livin, rednecks. Racing is big in the south, right. I rest my case."
Right - its big in the south. So why is it proportionally just as big everywhere else in the country you moron? look at the stats! Why does a Talladega RAINOUT get higher ratings than the NBA or NHL in NYC on a random weekend? NY Times Ratings "Talladega Laps the NBA"
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