But no significant physical activity. When a machine does the work for you I wouldn't call it a direct sport... I will accept 'motor sport' tho!
The Gladiators were fit, not a sport though !! Nah, I reckon it's a sport - combination of skill, fitness, physical & phsycological exsertion.
I just don't class car racing as a sport... there has to be a cutoff somewhere and I think that is it. As I said it is a motor sport, but not a sport in the way that athletics or team sports are
F1 drivers train 4-5 hours per day (in season). I wonder if football players do that much? I quote... Fitness is also major contributing factor for the drivers and Giancarlo is no exception. He works very hard on his neck, arms, shoulders and legs by jogging, cycling, and swimming, Throughout the 2002 season he will have to do four to five hours per day, minimum. But all this will help toward the ultimate goal, which for any driver, is victory. For Fisichella it would be his first, but out of the seventeen races scheduled, where would it come?
What's the diffrence? If you were saying that golf or snooker are not real sport then i'd agree but racing F1 cars is just as physically demanding as football or athletics.
I accept they have to be fit, but fitness doesn't make a sport (darts anyone?), the fact is a machine does the majority of the work for you, and yes it is very skillful and entertaining but its not going to be in the olympics is it?
Nope. Most train for 3hrs a day, 9-12. The top players like Becks will go back in after lunch and practice free kicks etc.
I think this is an 'agree to disagree' one. I take your point, but I still don't class motor sport as a conventional sport, but yes golf and snooker are also dubious sports!