| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 5/1/2006 4:29:07 PM | Thanks for those mental images, dragracer, that is funny.....!
Ridiculous, but funny.....
Now, let's go ask the fishin' boys what's athletic about puttin' lure on the hook.... | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 5/8/2006 3:41:40 PM | Unless the activity can kill you its not a sport. Its mearly a game. 
so i would say as much as i dislike nascar I would have to consider it a sport...
Yes i understand that the cars are stock weight with gobs of power and making that much weight go that fast is really hard to do reliably and then make it a competition to the end. Then add in the in car temps they must endour(sp?)
I just cant get over most of the races being a bunch of left hand turns. I am one of those people that only watch it to see good crashes.
Now watching other sports like MotoGP, were you can see the guy at work on the bike. Or Formula1 were the turns are more than left. Now thats appealing to me.
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 5/9/2006 7:53:28 PM | A sport consists of a physical and mentally competitive activity carried out with a recreational purpose for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these. A sport has physical activity, side by side competition, self-motivation and a scoring system. The difference of purpose is what characterises sport, combined with the notion of individual (or team) skill or prowess.
So that would be a yes.
But i'll always see it as accelerate, left turn, repeat ad nauseum. | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 5/9/2006 8:07:34 PM | | ^^^^don't let all the technical aspects regarding car set up, strategy, and the RIGHT hand turns on the road courses cloud your judgement, but at least you recognize it as a sport. | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 5/10/2006 2:58:25 AM |
^^^^don't let all the technical aspects regarding car set up, strategy, and the RIGHT hand turns on the road courses cloud your judgement, but at least you recognize it as a sport.
Actually I recognise that it meets the definition of a sport, My personal opinion is that its a dull as hell. You want to talk strategy, If I want to see strategy I'd watch a chess match, not some guy fill a gas tank and change tires. (I'd go to a garage for that)
Im not sure what the technical set up for driving an oval would be, but Im pretty sure the F1 guys would lose any sleep over it. | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 5/10/2006 5:37:42 PM | F1 cars are easy to drive compared to nascar. In F1 you have enough downforce to drive upside down in a tunel. Try driving a car with less than half the downforce making the same amount of power and no traction control or anti lock brakes and see if you can keep it from spinning in a turn.
F1 may be very high tech compared to nascar, but its the most boring for of motorsports I have seen. Just a big game of follow the leader.
If I want to see cars go left and right, I will watch the 2 cup races on the road coarses, or watch Assie V8 supercars. Thats some real road course action. | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 5/24/2006 3:10:42 AM | Okay still pondering this question if Nascar is a sport or not! Well just what about Motorcross riders,and or bike racing in general,the differance bettween them, and Nascar is only two wheels(3 if you count steering).Yes it's a Sport, a team sport at that! And it's also an event like......baceball,football,hockey,socker,and arena football,and what ever else you can lump in thier! Just because you don't use your feet on the ground doesn't make you not an athaleate!(Damn Chicago public schools) The perhaps a skier isn't an athaleat nor is sking a sport!?!? Watching a game of golf on t.v. is perhaps the most totally boring of all sports! Ask Arnold Palmer if he is a pro athaleate or not!?????Or Tiger Woods for that matter! And abiltiy and toget well paid for said abilty is a sport weather you belive it's an event or not! If they sell tickets and people watch it! Then it's a sport! Ask Don King or Evil Knevil?! Sport is what sport does! Is Archery a sport??????? | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 5/24/2006 7:23:16 PM | Hey Drag, Maybe he needs to try the Richard Petty driving school challenge. They have it all the time at Gateway International Raceway. It defines sport like no other. Try taking a 3500 pound vehicle around an oval track at 190-200 miles per hour and see how close you get to the wall or worse yet, feet in the air syndrome. You cannot move in a car going that fast. Your head and neck are plastered to the restraints in the seat and it is all you can do to keep the car going straight without spinning and turning your motor around, let alone your guts. After all that, Yes, NASCAR is a sport. It is more dangerous than bullfighting, football etc. It is considered a contact sport. Need I say more? Drag, feel free to take over any time.
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 7/15/2007 12:54:48 AM | Straight from the Wikepedia Dictionary:
Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Used by itself, sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determiner of the outcome (winning or losing), but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor sports where mental acuity or equipment quality are major factors. Sports are used as entertainment for the player and the viewer. It has also been proven by experiments that daily exercise increases mental strength and power to study. | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 7/15/2007 9:10:28 AM | ^ It annoys me to no end when bastardization of the language is given validity by dictionary publishers.
A dictionary from a few decades ago (which didn't also include "ain't" as a valid word) would have told you that "sport" denotes a competition in which physicalities are pitted with a specific set of parameters.
While I do recognize that drivers have to have a certain level of endurance, as they are not pitting physical skills against one another , I don't think it's fair to call it a sport... anymore than eating competitions are sports.
Competition? sure. Sport? NO, not in the unaltered sense of the word.
For the record, I don't consider poker, competition beer swilling, fishing, beauty pageants, canasta, or even competition shooting sports (and I'm a marksman). If you can do it sucessfully while you are 50 lbs. overweight, and out of shape, it's NOT a sport ...that's my opinion.
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 7/15/2007 9:43:36 AM | I suppose i think of NASCAR as a competition mainly, however i suppose it could be viewed as sport due to certain physical skills needed (fast reflexes, good forward vision and peripheral, also stamina to hold the steering will for such a long time)...but the cars are also competing of course...engines motors, car body styles...etc...
I suppose it is mix of sport and car competition....? Is very popular these days... | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 7/15/2007 10:56:21 AM |
they are not pitting physical skills against one another
There is physical skill in operating a racecar as a driver and there is physical skill for crewman of each team servicing the racecar. There are 43 teams racing and they are competeing with each other and they have to use physical skills to do that. | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 7/15/2007 11:22:47 AM |
It annoys me to no end when **stardization of the language is given validity by dictionary publishers.
A dictionary from a few decades ago (which didn't also include "ain't" as a valid word) would have told you that "sport" denotes a competition in which physicalities are pitted with a specific set of parameters.
While I do recognize that drivers have to have a certain level of endurance, as they are not pitting physical skills against one another , I don't think it's fair to call it a sport... anymore than eating competitions are sports.
Competition? sure. Sport? NO, not in the unaltered sense of the word.
For the record, I don't consider poker, competiotion beer swilling, fishing, beauty pageants, canasta, or even competition shooting sports. If you can do it sucessfully
while you are 50 lbs. overweight, and out of shape, it's NOT a sport ...that's my opinion.
So because you believe that NASCAR isn't a sport...you go and lock down the "Nascar friends, too" thread ??? Sheeeeeesh....  | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 7/15/2007 11:28:20 AM | Yes, that is correct.
The problem with most people is that they expect to see these teams on the same level playing field,or in the same arena, etc. This is not the case in NASCAR. The teams are spread out in a wiiiiiiide area over the speedway. Some can't handle that concept I guess.
There is physical activity all around, really.Endurance is paramount.
ps If you don't like it spend your time doing something else and leave the real fans alone | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 7/15/2007 11:33:34 AM | if you can do it sucessfully while you are 50 lbs. overweight....., it's NOT a sport
what does weight have to do with it being a sport or not?
There are lots of sports where weight is of importance to be successful....example an offensive lineman on a football team.
thats an offensive thing to say. | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 7/15/2007 11:59:23 AM | Yes Nascar is a sport, a majority of these drivers are very fit compared to other sports ,the average hockey games is about 2-2 1/2 hrs long three periods except overtime rest between periods, multi lines for each team between two teams ,football has four quarters brief break between quarters and tv timeouts and half time break average football game 2- 2 1/2 hours between two teams.
F1 race average race about 1 & 1/2 hours long brief pit stops .
IRL race average time about 1 & 1/2 - 2 hours long brief pit stops.
Nascar race average time around 3 hrs long brief rest during yellow flag and pit stops average time on pit rd 12-14 seconds , teams in each race 43 , no tv time outs to rest , no half time in nascar to rest . | |
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| Do you think Nascar can be considered a Sport?
Posted: 7/15/2007 12:07:38 PM | | i am 50 lbs overweight and have competed in such sports as basketball and swimming. i can not think of any NASCAR driver that carries an extra 50. in all honesty, pit crews are sportsmen/ athletes too, i doubt any one of us can do the physical activity they do with anywhere near the speed. now golf, however, i can see where that would be way more of a sport. | |
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