Is NASCAR a sport?

[BobTheCow]

Golf - game
Baseball - game

Soccer - sport
Hockey - sport

Nascar - racing.

I would love to hear your "baseball is not a sport" explanation.

[billybob_81067]

Yes it's a sport.

it does take physical strength, talent and skill. I would love to see you even try to go a full race and not be dead tired. There is also more skill and talent involved in nascar and racing period that most other "sports".

QFT

[rkjunior303]

Non Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks.

Now, I'll watch it but I'm not a huge fan -- I don't folllow the drivers or know anything about standings but this is kinda a funny comment.... An average driver loses something like 10lbs from being in that car, during the course of a race from dehydration. Take that, along with the fact you're forcing a car with I believe NO power steering -- it's most definitely a sport. Albiet, it's an unorthodox sport from "normal" standards, but it still is.

[sbpyro]

On the same note is drifting a sport??

[bofh]

On the same note is drifting a sport??

As much as floor gymnastics are.

So I'll say no. Mainly because your judged on points, and not a direct competition with the opponent.

[bofh]

On the same note is drifting a sport??

On a side note, I've always thought of Drifting as automotive Ice Dancing.

[Thordic]

Baseball is a pastime, not a sport.

[kosmo]

It is my opinion* that nascar is not a sport. In order for something to qualify as a sport, the following must be true:

1. Opposing people/teams compete physically to reach an objective
2. The rules allow/encourage the regular and frequent infliction of physical pain and/or injury upon ones opponents
3. The infliction of pain and/or injury upon ones opponents is not the ultimate objective. This puts it into a different category, albeit a good one.
4. There is a level of skill required by the activity that most people cannot achieve
5. The activity being performed is not gay and/or retarded

For example, football and hockey are sports. Teams in those games compete for an objective, points, and in doing so are allowed/encouraged by the rules to beat the crap out of each other, but the beating of each other is not the ultimate goal. There is also a great deal of skill and technique involved in those sports. Boxing and UFC are not sports, they are just scheduled beatings (Which is cool. Well, mostly. Boxing has gotten pretty gay/retarded). Baseball is not a sport because the only two ways that people hurt each other as part of the game are bean balls, which are against the rules, and running into the catcher, which doesnt happen often enough. Golf is not a sport because the only qualification it meets is #4. Nascar is not a sport because it fails to meet #2, #4, and #5. It barely qualifies for #1, but pit crews work their butts off.


*disclaimer: My opinion is not actually an opinion, but is scientific fact

[tropical_fishy]

2. The rules allow/encourage the regular and frequent infliction of physical pain and/or injury upon ones opponents

Yessssssss.

Hockey wouuld be better if you could beat other players with your stick. Just sayin'.

NASCAR: not a sport. Sure, it may be mentally and physically draining, but at the end of the day, you're still just driving a car around in circles.

[Thordic]

In order to be considered a sport, IMO, there much be fairly consistant motion and contact between players. Anything else is just a game.

NASCAR has little/none physical motion. Moving your arms doesn't count. Driving all day may be tiring, but that doesnt make truckers atheletes.

Baseball has very little motion, 90% of the game has only two players in "motion", and even then they are practically standing still. Plus, barely any contact. Every once in a while you get a collision, but its not really part of the game.

Golf? No motion, no contact. Forget it.

These are games/pastimes, etc. Not sports.

Hockey has motion and contact. Sport.

Football has motion and contact. Sport.

Basketball has motion and contact. Sport.

Soccer has motion and contact. Sport.

Get the picture?

[Glickman]

In order to be considered a sport, IMO, there much be fairly consistant motion and contact between players. Anything else is just a game.

NASCAR has little/none physical motion. Moving your arms doesn't count. Driving all day may be tiring, but that doesnt make truckers atheletes.

Baseball has very little motion, 90% of the game has only two players in "motion", and even then they are practically standing still. Plus, barely any contact. Every once in a while you get a collision, but its not really part of the game.

Golf? No motion, no contact. Forget it.

These are games/pastimes, etc. Not sports.

Hockey has motion and contact. Sport.

Football has motion and contact. Sport.

Basketball has motion and contact. Sport.

Soccer has motion and contact. Sport.

Get the picture?

Chess..

Motion

Contact

Sport!


and still more interesting then watching left turns


so personally i dont think so

[Skittle]

I hate nascar as much as the next guy, the problem with a lot of these arguments could kick paintball out of the "sport" category.

Many times you hear people getting pissed because noone wants to think of paintball as a sport. Many of these lists or reasons why nascar isint a sport can be applied to paintball. I love paintball, hate nascar sports or not.

[Jeffy-CanCon]

I hate nascar as much as the next guy, the problem with a lot of these arguments could kick paintball out of the "sport" category.

Many times you hear people getting pissed because noone wants to think of paintball as a sport. Many of these lists or reasons why nascar isint a sport can be applied to paintball. I love paintball, hate nascar sports or not.

Paintball isn't a real sport, it's a business.

NASCAR is a sport. The cars are essentially identical, so the difference is in the skill of the drivers and the pit crews. And the strategy of knowing when to refuel, when you can push the tires a little longer, and when you should make your move to overtake someone.

And there is contact, lots of it. Those crashes don't come from icy road conditions.

[MagMan5446]

There are road courses, also. And there's no way anybody here could do anything that a nascar driver could do, even if they were alone on the course.

Racing is no joke and it requires much more than nerve. Gotta have skill to compete and talent to win.

[RapidTransit]

In order to be considered a sport, IMO, there much be fairly consistant motion and contact between players. Anything else is just a game.

NASCAR has little/none physical motion. Moving your arms doesn't count. Driving all day may be tiring, but that doesnt make truckers atheletes.

Baseball has very little motion, 90% of the game has only two players in "motion", and even then they are practically standing still. Plus, barely any contact. Every once in a while you get a collision, but its not really part of the game.

Golf? No motion, no contact. Forget it.

These are games/pastimes, etc. Not sports.

Hockey has motion and contact. Sport.

Football has motion and contact. Sport.

Basketball has motion and contact. Sport.

Soccer has motion and contact. Sport.

Get the picture?

Truckers arn't in a cab with 110+ degree temps going over what 200mph? Inches away from other racers with no mirrors, maybe FOV loss from the helmet and probably have to deal with tunnel vision all the while trying to concentrate and create strategies. Oh and nascar is a contact sport other cars tend to tap eachother on purpose. You are not cruising at all. Nascar is the worst on the individual than any sport I can think of. I don't think any of us would literally survive one race there are no line changes and every second you can be serously injured or killed.