How Can You Watch People Drive Around And They Just Make 500 Left Turns?

Question

Really, all you're watching is dudes turning left 500 times. Don't you get bored?

Answer 1

I actually have to be doing something else while watching, as I do with baseball as well.  I find football and hockey exciting enough I can just watch them...though I often do something between plays when watching football.

What it comes down to is, "If you don't like it, don't watch."  Surly you can find more important causes to sway people's opinions on, other than watching NASCAR, especially with the up coming elections.  But since you believe there is only one crash a year, you are truly showing you have no clue what you are talking about,  There is at least one crash (not just caution...but you probably don't know what a caution is anyway) a week.  Often there is "the big one" involving many cars.

Answer 2

I like a wide variety of sports, including your beloved football. NASCAR has shot to the top of my list for a variety of reasons (none of which I expect you to appreciate).

1) Pure speed.

2) Strategy and athleticism on pit road. Many pit crew guys are ex-college football players.

3) It takes endurance. If NASCAR is not a sport, then marathoning isn't either.

4) Side-by-side racing like what we had at the end of last night is not boring.

You don't have to agree with me, but at least have the common courtesy to leave this section alone. On the other hand, if you're really interested in learning about why people like the sport, let's talk! My email is listed on my profile.

Answer 3

its not a bunch of rednecks driving around. You should learn more about a sport before you trash it.

Theres a crash like once a year!!???

you should prob close this question before you sound really uninformed........opps too late

Answer 4

You must be bored if you are posting this question.

Answer 5

No, I don't get bored but since you do then stop watching. It's a free country...

Answer 6

If I got bored, do you think I'd still watch? Obviously not!!

Answer 7

dont you get bored of watching grown men throw a ball aaround and play grab *** in piles

Answer 8

Penn State sucks

Answer 9

How can you watch a bunch of grown men jump each other for a stupid odd shaped ball and run around for points?

EVERY sport sounds stupid when you simplify the crud out of it.

EDIT: What do we like about it? The excitment, and strategy that is played every second. Everytime a caution comes out the pit road becomes "make-it-or-break-it" time.

Do you come in for four tires or two? Or perhaps not at all?

What are other people doing?

There are so many complex aspects to the sport it's impossible to not get excited (well....apparently it can me XP)

Answer 10

NOT AT ALL, It's the speeds that got me hooked!!!

Plus it's a big family oriented sport, fathers and sons , brothers against each other. If you cant see beyond all the left turns and the commodity between the drivers,

THEN DON'T WATCH IT!!!

Answer 11

Unlike you, we don't watch hamsters run on a wheel and stand there and cheer.

Don't like it don't watch it. Only smart people can keep up with NASCAR.

You just got major loose in the tunnel turn and slammed the wall like a ton of bricks. Good job there, should have added some wedge.

Answer 12

no, and whoever said there is one crash a year is wrong, there are like, at least 3 cautions per race, and, if u hate it soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much, why would u take the time to ask a stupid question, isnt that a waste of ur precious time, in evry ones mind, a certain sport is stupid, and i personally HATE  football, i hope the team u like loses a lot of games, i mean really, all football is is a whole bunch of guys with fake shoulders running around throwing a football and kicking it and like bodyslamming other people, oooooooooooooooh, sooooooooooooo interesting, plus in NASCAR, there are such thing as ROAD COURSES, which is a track with turns both ways, to give them a change, so u need to study some more before u criticise a sport u dont know squat about!!!

Answer 13

I enjoy NASCAR because it is a exciting type of racing to watch.  It lasts more than 6-7 seconds, like a drag race does.  The drivers are, for the most part, good role models.  It is one of the last sporting events in this country where a person can honor the flag and our maker without a lawsuit breaking out.  The drivers don't get arrested, molest females, commit crimes in the off season, or insult our country.  But, back to the sport itself.  It's exciting to watch drivers vie for position and pass.  And, nowadays, the wrecks are even exciting due to the new safety features.  A driver can slide sidways down the track, go to the pits, get the dings pulled out and go back out.  If an Indy car hits anything, it's over for the day.  NASCAR has it's roots in the old lawless days of bootlegging and it is a true American sport.  No, I don't get bored!!!

Answer 14

i think i speak for all my fellow NASCAR fans when i say, go fornicate yourself. if you don't like it or don't get, here's a simple solution for ya. don't watch it.

Answer 15

Well, at least it is allot more exciting than watching golf or as I call it "Paint drying."

Answer 16

Ha ha ha... Coming from a family of race fans, I've heard this one before. Actually, that's what I thought of racing until I got into it.

First of all, you have to pick a favorite driver, because it's a lot more fun if you're rooting for someone, (GO TONY STEWERT! lol, sorry, I had to...) and watching them get closer and closer to the front, then just watching 43 cars make a bunch of left turns (lol).

I think another thing that got me more into it was actually being there. It's much, much more exciting than staring at the TV for a few hours, especially when people wreck right in front of you...

Anyway, I'll be quiet, before I start boring you...

Hope this helped you understand it a little better. =)

Answer 17

That's 1,000 left turns for a 500 lap race.

Answer 18

Racing takes a lot of specialty people, most with a masters in Engineering. Bet you can't ride in a car that pulls up to 5Gs for 500 laps, they have to be in great shape to do that. They also have to have great concentration, in football you can be dumb as a rock as long as you can hit someone. What's so exciting about men taking a ball back & forth, back & forth, back & forth for an hour? Don't you get bored?

Answer 19

Danger That's it...

Answer 20

You hate NASCAR just because there isn't any big buff black men you can drool over...

Answer 21

And yet you dislike it so much that you actually took the time to find the NASCAR section of YA to post your stupid, idiotic question.  Get a life.

Answer 22

Great way to kill time while drinking beer. Also if you fall  asleep you can see the good part on Sportscenter.

Answer 23

sounds like p***s envey to me, watching a bunch of hairy as$es 250 pound men slapping @sses and chasing balls sounds a little g*y to me.  And they cant decide wether they want to kick the balls, throw the balls of hold on to the balls.  Definatly sounds a little, no alot of a homosexual fantasy to me.  And for your information there arent 500 turns in each race. We count all four turns, except in road courses where there is anywhere from 12 to 15 turns.  Plus in football you only go up and down the field, NASCAR goes all the way around it!!! So they do it in a longer distance, faster, and hotter than any other sport.  Keep in mind in a race each driver gets the same amount of force on them in a turn, as if they were getting hit by a 500 pound gorilla.  NOW TAKE THAT MONKEY BOY!!!!!!

Answer 24

Don't you get bored watching guys throw balls?

Yeah that sounds real cool.

We like what we like. If we like NASCAR we can like it. Your entitled to what you like and thats that. NASCAR is the best d**n sport ever. If you are smart enough and get this through your idiotic skull why are you asking this? You already know the outcome of the answer. NASCAR RULES!!!

Whats Exciting? Whats Exciting? Get your facts straight they run 200 mph inches away from massive carnage with sweat and glory hanging on to their rear ends.  They sit in 140 degrees heat and have firesuits on. All the emotions running through their minds. That is the excitement.

Footballs excitement? OMG 5 yds!! GO GO oh 2 more yards!! He is on fire!! Touch him come on grab that ball!!

Yeah thats exciting