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Originally Posted by GatorB
He said Nascar AND all other forms of racing. You also need to include the fuel used by the fans to get to the races. They get what 100,000 maybe up to 200,000 per race? Some drive hundreds of miles to go to the race. And they use gas guzzling vehicles like RVs. Still a drop in the bucket but much more than 175,000 gallons.
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I think the OP was talking about doing away with motor sports because of the fuel consumption required to participate
and as someone pointed out it's not as much as you would think.
It's unfair to factor in the fuel consumed by spectators coming to the race and if you do you should get rid of Football
and Baseball first. At the top level NASCAR has ONE race per weekend with an average of 100,000 in attendance. In the NFL
there is about SIXTEEN different games at SIXTEEN different stadiums that hold 70,000 plus spectators per weekend. Do the math.
NASCAR is a multi billion dollar industry that pours much needed money into the local economy of each venue. It creates jobs
from Race team owners to the kid selling sodas at the track. The positive rewards far outreach the relatively small fuel consumption.
The major auto manufactures support NASCAR and use it for research and development as the innovative race teams seek new
ways to be safer and more efficient. The improvements then become part of the cars we drive.
NASCAR always has it's eyes on the future and is already exploring the possibilities of alternative fuels. Even if they had to move
to racing electric powered cars it wouldn't matter because in the end it's still all about racing, competition and the need to find a way
to go a little bit faster than the rest