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Why is NASCAR popular?

posted 16 years ago by snakesonmyusername
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Now I'm not a huge motorsports nut and I appreciate that all the cars drive the same engine (unlike Formula 1 where there's a distinct advantage to certain teams) but I still just see cars driving in circles for hundreds and hundreds of laps. Is it a nostalgia/fun day out appeal? Or does it get genuinely tense? And I heard that the first race is the most important, which I never understood.

So yeah, as a European I understand I know next to nothing about the sport but was just wondering why its so big in the US. Great film by the way

[–] Royalcourtier 10 years ago

Because Americans are stupid, and have neither finesse nor style.

[–] kyussnz 10 years ago

well, motor racing is just not a sport

its just operating machinery.

like racing chainsaw tree felling , or electric drilling holes through the fastest

You dont propel the machine to make it go faster.

But; exception to every rule, is motorcycle racing , where you use your body weight to move the machine

End of Case : no machine "sports" in the Olympics.

[–] paul-glidewell 9 years ago

It's not anymore