So many questions ask why is NASCAR a sport?

May be...

Wow, I agree with Bestanswer! :-) Sport knitting. We should petition the IOC to include that in the Winter Olympics! My great grandmother would have taken the gold!

I agree Nascar is a great sport. I think the boneheads who question if Nascar is a sport are either gravely uneducated and lacking in simple cognitive skills, or trolls. Hey! That's a great definition of troll!

Anyhow, theres a lot of different varieties. Team sports, like you described: football, baseball, soccer, volleyball.
One on one sports: Tennis, boxing, wrestling, bowling. Racing sports: F1, bicycle racing, marathons. They are all different, but still considered sports.

But there only one Ultimate sport. I get to watch it every weekend!

NASCAR's a sport, the rest are games.

No one ever asks how a basketball player uses the restroom while running up and down the court..

I read this a long time ago and have used it often but tell me how accurate is this article?

Let's play a game.....

In this hypothetical game, the outfielder's team is batting first so he sits on a bench waiting for his turn. He's batting sixth and the team makes three straight outs so after about 5-10 minutes of sitting watching his teammates make outs, he has to get up and trot out to the outfield. His pitcher is throwing great today so the other team gets three straight outs and the outfielder doesn't have to move a step once he's trotted out there. So he trots back into the dugout and sits down, waiting another five minutes for his turn to bat. Since the other team's pitcher is just as hot today, he strikes out, making the third out of the inning. He heads back to the outfield to stand around and wait for a ball to come his way. After nine innings, this outfielder has trotted out to his position nine times, taken 3 or 4 times at bat and if he goes hitless, does nothing else during the game but sit on the bench in the dugout and stand around out in the outfield. A total of maybe ten minutes of exertion in a 2 1/2 hour game is all it takes to make a baseball player an athlete.

Now your average offensive linesman in football is a little easier to figure out total exertion time. The average NFL football team runs 62 offensive plays per game. The average play lasts 7-10 seconds. A little figuring tells us the offensive linesman is actually playing for a total of 7-10 minutes in a three and a half hour game. The rest of the time he is watching his defensive teammates play while standing around on the sidelines, standing around on the field in a huddle or waiting for play to resume. So once again it only takes exertion time of 7-10 minutes in over three hours to make an athlete.

Your typical NASCAR race lasts 3-4 hours. The driver is performing for all 3-4 hours except for a few 15-second pit stops when he can grab a quick drink of water. There is no sitting on a bench watching his teammates play or standing in the field hoping a ball comes his way (or hoping not). There is no standing around on a sideline or in a huddle waiting for a seven second period of activity. The NASCAR driver climbs in his car and goes through three to four hours straight of physical activity with 2-3 minutes of total rest time during the average pit stops per race. So your average ball player has 7-10 minutes of activity in his three-hour game while the average driver has two hours and 57 minutes of exertion.


Tell me is this THE ultimate sport or what?????

I love NASCAR.

I've said before that to me a sport is anything you do with a goal of winning. It could be professional knitting for all I care, but if the goal is to win, and there's competition, I'd consider it a sport.

Very well said bestanswer. I agree. Nascar is the Ultimate sport and always will be.

The old saying in the Bud Dry commercial "why ask why?"
Have a great weekend Nascar Nation!

Not to be a party pooper, but, those analogies are correct and Nascar is THE ultimate sport. It just isn't as grueling as a four plus hour singles tennis match.

It is The ultimate Sport! And who cares what other people think! They don't know what they are missing!
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I love all racing.. It is the ultimate reality sport.. You see people do extraordinary things.. Alex Zanardi in the "corkscrew", at Lagoona, driving the car over a cliff to pass Brian Herta on the last lap, and getting away with it.. Over a cliff.. Wow.. Anyway..
NASCAR is the best.. Four wide off a corner, door to, door.. And I'd like to see Dan Weldon do a back flip off an Indy car (not sure about Helio), that wouldn't do.. I haven't seen a Indy driver yet who tried snow angels..
Back to NASCAR where cars go to one track that has fifteen second laps, at ninety mph, and another where they do two hundred, and the laps are fifty seconds.. Where anyone can win.. And often does..

You and Fluffy and bestAnswer and a few others...absolutely got it right. Sometimes those questions "why is NASCAR a Sport" get me down because the people asking don't really want to know...they just want to see us defend our sport and if we get defensive...they laugh. I don't answer them anymore...but look at these great answers here and I am sooo proud to be a fan of NASCAR!!!
If we get that question again...and we will...lol....we should incorprate some of these answers.

Oh and BestAnswer...you should see me knit...I can knit like the wind. Let me know when the next tournament comes up will you???

You also need to mention that the object of play (a race car vs. a ball) is a highly technical piece of equipment designed from hundreds of scientific components working in unison, as opposed to pieces of leather stitched together inflated with air or stuffed. There is a ton of competition just getting "the object of play" to be utilized for it's performance in any form of motorsports. I always thought the ball games were boring and NASCAR was 100% intense action. Even when they "pit" it's non-stop action. Like I always say, "NASCAR is as intense as a NASA space launch, and it lasts a whole lot longer"

Nascar IS the ULTIMATE sport because a normal race lasts 3-4 hours and the drivers have to endure the heat from the engine and not going to bathroom for 4 hours and drinking very little so in one race they can lose about 5-10 pounds....so i think nascar is not just A sport but THE sport!xbox lve