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Anyone who thinks Nascar isn't a sport and the drivers aren't athletes has never paid any attention to Nascar. Granted, it is professional, probably more professional than any other sport but it is definitely sport. Watch a pit crew perform its orchestrated magic - you'll never see a Super Bowl offense work together as well as these guys do and, they never really know what to expect when called upon to do their thing. If you think drivers aren't athletes try keeping up with one of them for a day. Put your average pampered pro quarterback in Nomex and stick him into a car for three hours and see how well he holds up. Then there's the coach - Watch Tony Eury make more split-second decisions in three minutes that the Tuna and his forty assistants makes in an entire Sunday and most of those decisions can become matters of life or death in a split-second. Not a sport, if this isn't sport then it is life - speeded up several thousand times.
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