Is Nascar a sport?

[MajorMike]

Why is it that Americans eat up NASCAR by the droves but don't watch open wheel racing? I never understood that - they're basically the same concept.

NASCAR grew out of stock cars - cars you could actually recognize on the track as cars you could drive yourself. With the American passion, especially in the 60s and 70s, with hod rod street cars, NASCAR was the logical outlet for car enthusiasts to watch 'the pros'.

Open wheel cars were alien looking contraptions conceived with the sole purpose of racing. Times have changed and you would be hard pressed to say a stock car on the track looks like anything you could buy or drive yourself, but the concept remains the same.

[cornbread]

Sort of reminds one of this special soccer fan pic:

Also, I don't remember the last time there was a riot at a NASCAR race that people have been killed in.

Somebody's jealous of the world's most popular real sport.

And seriously Mike. Are you trying to tell me that you've never heard of "race riots"?