LUKE honorary pace car driver 4 tonight's Sprint All Star race

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Pretty ignorant there bud. What if I told you the guy that just completed a triathlon today has won 6 of the last 8 championships? You gotta be fit to drive a race car, trust me.

 

This guy and his wing tips disagree....

 

 

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Pretty ignorant there bud. What if I told you the guy that just completed a triathlon today has won 6 of the last 8 championships? You gotta be fit to drive a race car, trust me.

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[Rise of The Hive]

What a boss!

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God Bless you sir.

[CollegePanther]

I just drove from Wilmington to Charlotte today with my two kids without my wife. I only made one stop in Rockingham to get them each a milk shake. I changed the DVD player twice while going 78mph. Got to Charlotte in 3 1/2 hours. I worked out before I left.

lol you wouldn't last 1 lap. It's not a Sunday drive. It's 150+ degrees in the car while going up to 210 mph. Even if you don't have to look like Luke you still need endurance

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lol you wouldn't last 1 lap. It's not a Sunday drive. It's 150+ degrees in the car while going up to 210 mph. Even if you don't have to look like Luke you still need endurance

Look dude. I understand it gets hot but you don't have to be an athlete to drive a car. Are some of the drivers in shape? Sure. Do they need to hydrate? Yes. But NASCAR and the drivers play up the "athlete" tag way too much to the point it's laughable. You could smoke 4 packs of heaters a day and still drive a race car. NASCAR sucks nowadays. That broadcast team for the all star race was almost unlistenable. They have ruined it. It's not even a real sport. They can't fill the stands. NASCAR does itself no favors by adding two hours of pure bull poo on the front end of its "All Star" event. My sons had to stay up until 10pm just to see the pace laps after some lame ass country pop driver intros which followed like a 4th round of qualifying. I used to be a fan. I've been to a ton of races at Darlington, Charlotte, Daytona, and Miami. But I'm done with it. I'll turn it on if nothing else is on TV but I'd rather set up a lawn chair on an embankment next to I485 and watch "athletes" drive home during rush hour in 98 degree summer heat.

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lol you wouldn't last 1 lap. It's not a Sunday drive. It's 150+ degrees in the car while going up to 210 mph. Even if you don't have to look like Luke you still need endurance

And they don't go 210 mph. Dale Waltrip kept saying that poo. Maybe when he drove back in the day, but on Saturday night they didn't top 176 mph. Those dumbasses in the broadcast booth kept saying "4 wide at 200 miles per arr!!!!" Bullshit, I say. If they are going to feed us that line of crap at least put up false speedometer readings on the TV screen to sell me on it.

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For the love of God, McMurray and his crew members even put on ski goggles before they sprayed the champagne! Man up bros. Even the celebrations are staged.

[Zod]

Golf is much more of a sport than Nascar.

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[Spaceballs83]

Golf is much more of a sport than Nascar.

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Even though i have stopped watching Nascar since #3 Died, but do you think you could hold your line on a racetrack when cars are 4 wide going over 180mph without crashing your car? Yeah didn't think so.

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And they don't go 210 mph. Dale Waltrip kept saying that poo. Maybe when he drove back in the day, but on Saturday night they didn't top 176 mph. Those dumbasses in the broadcast booth kept saying "4 wide at 200 miles per arr!!!!" Bullshit, I say. If they are going to feed us that line of crap at least put up false speedometer readings on the TV screen to sell me on it.

Hate to rain on your hate parade but they definitely were going way faster than 178 mph.

Your right about the tv announcers though, they aren't that great.

I understand you saying a driver isn't an athlete because they don't run around or throw a ball but you can't say the pit crew members aren't athletes.

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Even though i have stopped watching Nascar since #3 Died, but do you think you could hold your line on a racetrack when cars are 4 wide going over 180mph without crashing your car? Yeah didn't think so.

 

What is doing more work, the person or the car? Hell, horse racing is more physically demanding than nascar.

[AppStatePanther]

Look I respect NASCAR for much more than the drivers. The people who put in the engineering work and the crews that have to make sure the cars are perfect before each practice, qualifying, and race. Maybe they aren't considered athletes. Who cares, I see it as an awesome accomplishment to put 43 cars on a track and have them run there cars literally on the edge with other cars a few feet from them. I went to the all star race and took my wife for the first time. She had a blast and we didn't get drunk or party just enjoyed it. If you don't like it anymore don't watch it. No harm no foul its still fun for me.

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Hate to rain on your hate parade but they definitely were going way faster than 178 mph.

Your right about the tv announcers though, they aren't that great.

I understand you saying a driver isn't an athlete because they don't run around or throw a ball but you can't say the pit crew members aren't athletes.

Not a hate parade because I used to be a fan but any sport where the announcers, participants, and executives have to constantly justify, remind, and emphasize to the audience that the participants are athletes tells me something. Just go race and shut the fug up. Quit changing the rules every week. Quit messing with the equipment. Quit switching start times. Quit with the 2 hours of pre-race bullshit. Quit canceling races at the tracks that made NASCAR what it was in the early 90's. Hey NASCAR, you are not and will never be the NFL so just race and forget all the bullshit you try to do for the casual fan. The casual fan has long gone. Return to your roots or suffer the consequences and keep trying to blow smoke about your drivers being amazing athletes.