Why NASCAR Really ROCKS!

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There was an article brought to the attention of a lot of the top NASCAR writers who are extremely passionate about our sport. This article was written by a foul mouthed male who apparently had nothing to do but scream his opinion in an article laced with profanity from start to finish. If you all don't mind I'm going to refute every one of his points and this may shock him...but I won't be using any profanity.

Imagine that.

Firstly, I don't understand why he chose to bring politics into his argument because just because a lot of NASCAR fans might be conservative enough not to vote for a bozo like Obama, doesn't make us terrible people. As far as it being the most boring, pointless, needless etc waste of time since the Titanic sequel, well I say you're misinformed. Just because YOU don't like NASCAR Miguel doesn't mean that the close to 100,000,000 people that follow the sport every week hate it.

My biggest problem with your temper tantrum is that you say NASCAR isn't a sport, which is absolutely not true. NASCAR drivers have some of the most grueling off season conditioning programs of any athletes in any major sport, and yes NASCAR is a major sport because it has the largest fan base in the United States and can seat about three times as many people at its "Super Bowl" than the actual Super Bowl does, so yea Miguel you're right NASCAR is pointless and boring and that's why the Daytona 50 draws the best ratings between major sporting events year in and year out.

NASCAR is more of a sport than any of the other 4 major professional sports because these sports all have something called a BENCH during the game. Football players who are involved in every play only are active for less than 10 minutes of the actual game because the other 50 minutes is spent waiting between plays. Baseball you stand around in the field 90% of the time. In the NHL you maxout at maybe 25 minutes of ice time in a 60 minute hockey game and in the NBA even the top players miss 6-8 minutes every game. What happens if a NASCAR driver parks it for 6-8 minutes? He goes about 10 laps down and ruins his entire day, that's what happens.

NASCAR drivers have the most tight knit teams to work with because everything has to work so carefully together or the entire weekend ends in disaster and the driver NEVER gets a break. Now I know you're going to be screaming "WHAT ABOUT CAUTION FLAGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Even during cautions the team is talking to the driver about what going on and if the driver "takes a break" he can't give the team proper information not to mention its about 140 degrees in those race cars so it's no picnic to be stuck in there for about four hours every Sunday.

It's an entire team effort to win a race, you're idea to shower the car in milk is just ridiculous. The driver muscles the car to victory lane, but he's able to do that because his team gave him a car that was capable enough to run up front and contend for the win.

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