Is Nascar a real sport?
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Yes, auto racing is a physically and mentally grueling sport. It requires great skill trying to find the optimum line and maintain control at high speeds. You get jostled around quite a bit which can result in strains, bruises, and bodily injury.  It is physically and mentally draining to race.  You'll sweat up a storm. And, as with any sport, it is competition.\n\nI've just done kart racing myself and experienced all of those physical and mental things.\n\n"Going Faster" by Skip Barber is available as both a book and a DVD and provides information on the aspects and skills of race car driving.\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Going+Faster+Skip+Barber&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-wdgt&x=wrt\n\nI don't know of any books per se on the topic of Nascar athletes, however, there are lots of web articles on the topic:\nnascar athletes\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv1-wdgt&p=nascar%20athletes\n\nYou could always go to Amazon.com and search for nascar athletes there.
408949
LUV NASCAR. I can't believe nobody said "its just a bunch of cars driving in a circle" yet. As many times as this question has been asked on here, there has always been at least one answer like that...
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I "draw the line" where success depends on the participant being in better physical condition than the opponent or not.  Thus, NASCAR is a sport, board games not.  Juggling?  Well, you could make an argument that conditioning is a factor, but geez...
1155557
Nascar! Watching it now.
911017
A better question: why is golf considered a sport? After all, all they do is hitting a ball with a club! Oh wait another one: is NASCAR really a sport? I can't believe some people enjoy watching 20+ cars making LEFT TURNS ONLY for 4 hours! How about football? First there are at most two kickers in each team; next, most of them don't seem to come in contact with ball (kinda frustrating for a BALL game). \n\nThe truth is when you don't know about something, try to understand it instead of bashing it because every existing sport is subject to criticism. \n\nTwo last words: GO BEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nascar will never shut down. It's fan base is huge, it's interest by driver's, owner's, manufacturer's, and sponser's is waaaay to big. \nIt will only grow bigger and bigger. As the generation the grew up on it ages the numbers might shrink some, but you'll see a surge shortly therafter.
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Your true friends like you and respect you for the person that you are, and that includes your likes and dislikes.  It's OK for your friends to think NASCAR is stupid.  They don't have to agree with your likes, just as you don't have to agree with theirs.  The problem is if they can't respect your choice because you made it.  If this happens, it's no longer about the choice.  It's then you who are being mocked, and then they are clearly then not your friends.  \n\nYou are who are are.  Respect yourself, stand up for yourself, and enjoy yourself (morally).  Watch NASCAR.  Root for your favorite driver.  Your friends don't have to get it.  But they should respect your choice if they are your friends and respect you.
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I used to be a fan until they have changed the sport.  Use to be an all American sport, not anymore.  I am not sure what you would like to know because there is a lot to the sport.  I would suggest watching it on tv because the do a really good job explaining everthing from the cars to the points and more.
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wow, now that would be great to be in the drivers seat, If I were a driver I would say Talladega. Yes many drivers complain that this track as well as Daytona is just a place waiting for accidents. True, but the excitement of driving 4 wide coming out of turn 3 into the sunset and then bump drafting down the back stretch would make even the non believers believe that NASCAR is a sport that takes a special kind of athlete to drive that car.
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excellent ? nascar should have a categorey all its own just like football. do u suppose there is some form we can fill out to put the ? to yahoo. if so let us know we'll b in.
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I race an equivalent to NASCAR trucks in Mexico, Many people said me what they most hate are yellow flags, it´s so boring to see race cars going too slow behind a pace car (also is boring for the racer). \nFor others it´s boring to see cars just passing no matter the speed they said that is the same that sitting in front of a freeway to see cars and trucks passing.\nFor the ones that likes racing (like me) every part of the race is amazing even looking how a tire is changed or setting a suspension, or just looking an spark plug to see how the engine is doing or smelling tire smoke, etc, just imagine what  we feel when an eight cilinder engine starts up or when our prefered driver is winning. For many people all this is very trivial \nI don´t like other sports like golf, bowling, shooting, etc. I feel they do not give as much of the adrenaline I like and I get when driving or seeing a race.  \nI feel that like or hate a sport depends on every person and how their parents showed him (or hers) to like or dislike a sport or activity. My parents did not like racing but when I asked them to see a race on a speedway, they just said yes and gave  a pair of Pit tickets and from there I got into sport racing. I am the only one in my family that likes racing.
1000995
Nascars a huge sport. I think you'd do a lot of business, personally I hate nascar so I wouldn't go but other people would probable love it.
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Football, Nascar, Baseball, Basketball
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i think because a large majority of nascar fans are considered "hicks".  even though far more many types of people enjoy nascar.  and i'd have to say that it certainly is a sport.  the kind of endurance it takes to handle and drive a car at such high speeds is a talent.  \nmy friends and i used to think it was a joke too.  until a friend introduced it to us.  we all picked a driver and cheered him on and since then we've become pretty hooked on it.  i think most people just need the opportunity to enjoy it.  or at least just open up their minds to it.
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In Nascar cars just go around,around,around,around\naround,around,around,around,around\n,around,around,around\naround,around,around\naround,around,around\naround,around,around\naround,around,around\naround,around,around\naround,around,around\n\nfind some real sport like F1
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Football, followed by NASCAR, Baseball, Basketball.
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Well, first of all about 5 years ago I thought it was really boring until I started watching it. Now I am total addicted to it, I watch all 3 series of the racing, from the trucks, Busch and Nextel! Once you pick a driver and have friends that watch it, it is alot of fun. It is a very competitive sport actually. Also it is a total adrenaline rush when your driver takes over the lead in turn 3 on the final lap...nothing better to get the blood totally pumping. \nYou have to think of it another way though too, why do so many people watch football? Where with football it is not just one person doing all the work...he has alot of help out there. Where in Nascar if the drivers car is total junk...he has no one else that he can rely on other than himself and his crew to make it better. And if he gets loose and crashes they can't blame anyone else. Where in football...if one player is off that day, they have many more to rely on.\nI say the people that don't know why people watch nascar, probably haven't watched it much and probably haven't given it a chance.\nMy suggestion is to pick a driver (just not Jr. to join that ban wagon) but someone that you can connect with and start watching and than maybe you will understand why people watch.