Motor racing is "not a real sport".

[Dave Lobster]

How about.. If a dog can do it, it's not sport.. ball kicking.. etc.

[Boob Johnson]

If it has the possibility of sudden violent death whilst participating and demands performance at or near limits which can cause this, it's a sport!

Didn't Ernest Hemingway say, that Motor racing and Bullfighting were the only 2 true sports on the planet....?

Indeed he did. Who the hell is the clown that even suggested motor racing isn't a sport? Would HAVE to be a women married to an armchair bandit no doubt

Only one true sprot I know of without a referee or judge,called Bullrush,but the mamby pamby's banned it from school grounds.

A school up north just last week as reinstated it

[musicman]

If you are not allowed machines or teams then almost every human endeavour is out. If you can't allow technology to come into it, then every racquet sport is out, ball sports are out (balls have evolved and gotten better through technology), sports with bats and sticks are out. Archery, Shooting, Fishing, Skiing - all out. Sports where athletes wear boots are out, rugby, soccer, sprinting etc. So nothing left then. Shit, sport just vanished. BUGGER.

Nope, still got weightlifting/powerlifting. All you need is some heavy weights, no technology needed!

[Big Dave]

Indeed he did.

And indeed he was a cock for saying it. Go the Bull.

[mud boy]

pftt motor sport is not a sport then way do they call it motor sport
it is a fuckin sport lol

ome dum people out there

[humphrt]

Didn't Ernest Hemingway say, that Motor racing and Bullfighting were the only 2 true sports on the planet....?

wasn't there three? motor racing, bullfighting and skydiving.

yeh sports involve risk, and not to your pride but to life. they involve pushing the limits as far as you can and further in order to win and split second decisions. anything else is just a game.

[MarkH]

Now bridge and poker could be argued to be the same.

I play poker - not a sport in my opinion.

Poker, Bridge, Chess, etc
These are competitive games but they lack the physical skill requirement that I think makes a game qualify as a sport. I made $170 last Saturday playing poker, but I didn't need to work up a sweat to do it.

Motor racing of all forms DOES require physical skill - there is a lot of work involved in F1, WRC, MotoGP and all other Motor racing, many drivers work out heaps to keep strong & fit (Michael Schumacher was well known for his strength & fitness). Controlling a tennis racquet or controlling a fast vehicle - either takes a lot of skill & effort to beat the worlds best.

[MacD]

And indeed he was a cock for saying it. Go the Bull.

But wasn't that his point, that the bull could (however unlikely) win? At the time motorsport was a very dangerous sport and often resulted in death. The same could be said of mountaineering.

[Big Dave]

But wasn't that his point, that the bull could (however unlikely) win? At the time motorsport was a very dangerous sport and often resulted in death. The same could be said of mountaineering.

Any endorsement of torturing dumb animals for entertainment deserves condemnation - however tacit it may be.

[Pixie]

“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”

Ernest Hemingway quotes (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)

[Pixie]

Generally I agree, but although the word motorsport seems to infer it is a sport, you don't actually need an athlete. You could in fact get a 50 kg weekling driving in a race. He may not be any good (as many motorsport drivers/racers need to build a little muscle for endurance & strength), however he could refer to himself as a sportsman.

Horse racing is deemed as a sport, is the jockey an athlete? (or is the horse?)

Is pie eating a sport (you get a winner & loser in the pie eating competitions!)

What a crock.
By your definition any fat wanker rugby player is a sportsman.

I recall an episode of The Krypton Factor where Aaron Slight and Andrew Mertens were running the obstacle course.
Well the mighty NZ sportsman/All Black barely finished the course and promptly vomited on the grass from the exertion.The motorcycle racer came first and was not even breathing hard.

[Big Dave]

“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”

Ernest Hemingway quotes (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)

Couldn't think of anything not already quoted huh, pix? :-)

[MarkH]

I recall an episode of The Krypton Factor where Aaron Slight and Andrew Mertens were running the obstacle course.
Well the mighty NZ sportsman/All Black barely finished the course and promptly vomited on the grass from the exertion.The motorcycle racer came first and was not even breathing hard.

I think that people that don't think that motor racing is a sport obviously have never ridden/driven a serious race in their lives.

What's that quote? I prefer a sport that requires TWO balls!