An Open Letter To People Who Say Racing Isn’t A Sport
photo by RPM 360
by Lindsey Hammar
Lets start this article off with the actual definition of a ‘sport’. According to Dictionary.com, a sport is “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, asracing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.” Everyone may have their own definition of what a sport really is, but how does saying that racing isn’t a sport make you feel better?
Growing up around racing and having to talk about it to other people, I was constantly hit with the comment that racing isn’t a sport. “All they do is turn left”, “how hard can it really be?”, “they only go around in circles…how is that a sport?”. These comments have followed me around since my brother first started racing cars in New England and I’m done not voicing my opinion about it.