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NASCAR racing has emerged as one of the most exciting professional sporting events available to the sports fan.  For those who continue to hold that NASCAR is a fringe sport or has not watched racing, consider the following: (1)    NASCAR is the most dangerous sporteven with the best of automotive safety and technology 43 drivers risk serious injury or death at every race.  Certainly NFL and NHL has the potential for head and spine injury but the stats don’t lie, per event racing has the most risk for serious injury.  It goes without saying, fans don’t want to see a serious injury in any sport, especially one that could be life threatening, but let’s face itthe common denominator of all contact sports such as NFL and NHL is the violence, the big hit and the raw emotions of the athlete guitar strap locks s.  It is something that we as fans can identify with.  Similar to the big hit, the wreck in racing is a big factor in the excitement of going live to a NASCAR event.  The real excitement isn’t the wreck; it is the potential for the wreck.  In most events the racing is side by side at speeds up to 200 mph.  Although admittedly not as exciting as going live, today’s television broadcasts of NASCAR do an excellent job of capturing the excitement and intensity of the sport.      (2)    We have players and teams we cheer for and players and teams we cheer againstthe good guys versus the bad guyshometown versus the rival town.  The same thing is true in NASCAR racing.  It won’t take long to identify who you like and don’t like either by car, sponsor, color, number but especially by driver.