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Originally posted by lions20
NACSAR probably puts the body through more punishment than any other sport.
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No way. Rally racing puts you through WAY more hell than NASCAR. You're doing everything the NASCAR drivers are doing except you're driving over rough, boulder-strewn dirt or ice tracks that you've probably never seen before and are a hair away from crashing throughout the race. You're also taking huge jumps at 130+mph and dealing with the resulting crash back to earth. You're going faster on rough bumpy roads than most people ever go on pavement, and on top of all that, you don't HAVE power steering.
Then there's F1, which is as punishing as NASCAR, only you have to learn how to turn right AND your speeds are a good deal higher, meaning all the forces on your body are higher. Added to the fact that if you're a fatass you can't even fit in your car.
Oh and by the way, ever seen a Baja race? "Ironman" Stewart is getting up there in years but he's in better shape than most young guys. You try driving a bouncing, jumping truck at over 100 mph for 1,000 miles (that's more than 10 hours when you count pitstops, etc) on a narrow dirt barely-there track, taking a huge jump around every 3 minutes and in general getting the living hell beat out of you by your own truck, and then tell me how punishing NASCAR is
