Reply #15: Actually I've done more than that,

[MadHound]

I've driven stock cars at high speeds, and if you don't think muscling a two ton machine around a track at high speed, in high heat, for a few hours isn't athletic, well. . .

That aside, I find NASCAR in the stands and on television to be boring as hell, a bunch of cars going around the track while the fans in the stands wait with baited breath for a crash. Rather creepy and morbid if you ask me. If I were to do NASCAR again, it would only be down in the pit. I've always liked automotive mechanics.

Plus I'm having increasing ethical problems with the amount of gas used surrounding this sport, and the amount of pollution created. Originally, the track and the races weren't for entertaining the masses, they were to test out new car designs, new engines, etc. etc. But now they've just become entertainment fodder and no incentive for improving the cars. I would love to see NASCAR start going in for non-gas powered races, using hybrids, electric, fuel cells, biofuels, etc. etc. Start using NASCAR and other automotive races for the purpose that they were originally created for, to advance automotive science.

But simply sitting, either in the stands or at home, and watching cars run around an oval, sorry, but that's boring as hell to me and the less airtime devoted to it, the better.