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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 770521" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>Yeah, I was kinda taking the **** to be honest mate, and my comment was intentionally targeting the superficial aspects of motor sport because it just seems weird that anyone involved in motorsport could see top level rugby, where guys are belting the crap out of each other to exhaustion in what is effectively a more civilised simulation of an old world battle field exercise and say "that's not a sport."</p><p></p><p>I get that motor sport is pretty tough in reality, and that F1 drivers themsleves are all pretty bloody fit blokes that engage in tour-de-france like training, but it just struck me as a pretty odd for someone to only consider things involving machines "real" sports. I'm pretty sure ultra-marathoners and iron men athletes would argue their sports are tougher on your body than any motor sport, but wouldn't just dismiss motor sport because of it. </p><p></p><p>As for moving balls not being worth watching, I think there's a reason that ball sports get bigger global audiences than any motorsport and it's a fairly innately human one: tribalism. Watching a race can be fun, but team sports generate very tribal attachments in ways than non form of racing has ever been able to replicate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 770521, member: 12207"] Yeah, I was kinda taking the **** to be honest mate, and my comment was intentionally targeting the superficial aspects of motor sport because it just seems weird that anyone involved in motorsport could see top level rugby, where guys are belting the crap out of each other to exhaustion in what is effectively a more civilised simulation of an old world battle field exercise and say "that's not a sport." I get that motor sport is pretty tough in reality, and that F1 drivers themsleves are all pretty bloody fit blokes that engage in tour-de-france like training, but it just struck me as a pretty odd for someone to only consider things involving machines "real" sports. I'm pretty sure ultra-marathoners and iron men athletes would argue their sports are tougher on your body than any motor sport, but wouldn't just dismiss motor sport because of it. As for moving balls not being worth watching, I think there's a reason that ball sports get bigger global audiences than any motorsport and it's a fairly innately human one: tribalism. Watching a race can be fun, but team sports generate very tribal attachments in ways than non form of racing has ever been able to replicate. [/QUOTE]
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