An athlete is defined as a person possessing the natural or acquired traits, such as, strength, agility and endurance. These are necessary for physical excercise or sports, especially those performed in competitive context.
I'm pretty neutral on this subject, considering that NASCAR drivers meet the strength and endurance traits. However, an 18-wheeler driver possesses the same traits. NASCAR drivers do possess an incredible amount of endurance. While driving in a constant circle for 500 laps, sometimes more a race, at blistering speeds. NASCAR drivers are, in my opinion, to be in a completely different set, or should I say, category of athletes. When I think of an athlete I think of someone like, Lebron James, or Peyton Manning. They fit every trait listed in the definition, therefore they are the epitome of an athlete. Every sport contains strategy, some higher than others. I used to think NASCAR was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen, but all that changed October 24, 2010. I went to the Martinsville race with my father-in-law, now I had been to the Watkins Glen race, but this was much more interesting. To actually see the strategies they talk about on tv actually happen in front of your own eyes, gave me a completely different view on NASCAR. I can now appreciate the passion of NASCAR fans a lot more than I did before.
I'm still not ready to call it a sport. I still call NASCAR races, events and the drivers, contestants. NASCAR drivers again, are in a different class of athletes. You can't compare it to any other sport, well, because it's not a sport, it's an event.
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