What's the second most popular sport in your country?

[Dell19]

Last time I checked, there was no such thing as boxing on ice.

There is no driving in circles sport either.

 

[willemvanoranje]

now some nitwit will probably say there is no running after a ball sport either.. and he's right.

In football for example, you don't run after the ball, you get it passed in your feet or on your head and deliver it either into the opponents goal or to the feet or on the head of a teamplayer of yours. That this very same teamplayer might point out to you that he wants the ball 10 meters in front of him, is just a detail.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

There is no driving in circles sport either.

I know that. I never said NASCAR was a sport.

 

[Irish Caesar]

NASCAR doesn't involve circles.

 

[SoCalian]

they're more like ovals

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Ovals with straight sides.

 

[SoCalian]

but you can still only turn left. NASCAR is so pussifiedand dumbed down compared to formula 1, this seems to be the trend in American spots sadly. Just look at American football, then look at Rugby. there is no comparison which is the better sport.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Bah. There are two road courses on the NASCAR circuit.

And NASCAR favors good driving over good equipment, while F1 does the opposite. It all depends what you're watching for.

 

[SoCalian]

yeah, but F1 can turn right, which mackes it at least twice as good.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Bah. There are two road courses on the NASCAR circuit.

Let me guess, those ones are all right turns?

 

[SoCalian]

look, a formula 1 track, is much more eciting than a NASCAR one. especailly the some of the European ones, that go trough narrow city streats.

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NASCAR has to bee one of the lowest forms of profesional auto racing. I just don't get why Americans tend to go with the worse/dumbed down of two comprable sports.

 

[aaglo]

Football is a game, where you kick a round ball around.
Handmelon is a game, where you carry around a melon-shaped object.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Las Vegas was the track you picked to illustrate this?

Bah.

There's your first problem...

 

[SoCalian]

can you find one thats better?

 

[Irish Caesar]

Talladega:

Bristol:

and Watkins Glen, your follow-the-leader, boring road course:

 

[The Great Apple]

and Watkins Glen, your follow-the-leader, boring road course:

I think you'll find that this isn't an F1 track...

 

[NeverMind]

Football is "number one" in Russia for sure, but hockey is very close to it.

 

[SoCalian]

Bristol:

yeah, so, it's still just a big oval.

 

[Irish Caesar]

I think you'll find that this isn't an F1 track...

I think you'll notice I never said it was.

yeah, so, it's still just a big oval.

Ah, but it's a half mile track with 36 degrees of banking!

NASCAR has to bee one of the lowest forms of profesional auto racing. I just don't get why Americans tend to go with the worse/dumbed down of two comprable sports.

Americans (I speak for us all ) like things to be big and fast and powered and etc. With Formula One, drivers drive technologically advanced race cars fast, and then they slow down at every corner. The race cars aren't even really recognizable as cars. With NASCAR, the cars more resemble what average people drive. True, they're not really Monte Carlos and Chargers, but they look close. These cars speed up...and then don't tend to slow down. The idea is to go as fast as is possible.

Other popular forms of American auto racing are Indy Racing League, in which unrecognizable cars zoom around ovals at 240 mph, and drag racing, in which cars (either stock or dragsters, or even motorbikes) accelerate as fast as is possible on a short amount of distance. The idea is just to go faster than the other guy.

Screw finesse. I want raw speed! Mash that gas!

 

[phoenix_night]

I think football comes in at number two here, behind rugby.