What's Your Opinion On Whether NASCAR Is A Sport

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What’s your opinion on NASCAR? Do you believe it’s a sport? People have many different viewpoints on whether NASCAR is a sport. In America, 85% of people do believe that NASCAR is a sport, but the remaining 15% of people believe that it is not a sport. The late Ernest Hemingway once said, “There are only three sports: Bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering: all the rest are merely games.” I believe that there is a lot of truth to this statement, considering all three take serious courage, endurance, and strategy to accomplish. The definition of a sport is this; an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. So there is hardly any argument on whether …show more content…

A NASCAR driver during a race sweats around nine pounds of their body weight out on average. In 2009 NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson won the male athlete of the year award over Albert Pujols, Tiger Woods, and Kobe Bryant. All NASCAR drivers workout on a regular basis to keep up with their physically and mentally straining job. Johnson works out every day doing a mixture of things such as doing pull-ups with an extra 100 pounds strapped to him and running up to six miles a day. This shows how good of shape these NASCAR drivers are really in considering “athletes” of other sports such as baseball players like, David Ortiz or Prince Fielder. Many others argue that NASCAR requires no skill. To be a successful NASCAR driver it takes a huge amount of skill. Not just anyone can go out and drive a car 200 miles per hour, while inches from another car, lap after lap for up to five hours. It takes years of training to get to the level of professional NASCAR drivers. All NASCAR drivers have to be on the edge of their seat at all times. Any little jerk or a slight movement of the wheel can send the driver hurling into the wall or even another car. It takes a serious amount of focus and skill to be able to endure the conditions that drivers do for hours on

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