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thefool_wa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-15-07 07:11 PM
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4. OF COURSE!
I drove a 1/4 scale indy car around a scale road track for about an hour once and could barely move my arms afterwards. This car genreated almost no Gs and topped out at about 35-40 miles per hour. It was EXHAUSTING! (and its not like I am in terribly bad shape)

Driving a full scale stock car in the kind of conditions that exist on a NASCAR track is both physically and mentally exhausting and requires nerves of steel and a body to match. There have been the old AND the outrageously overweight that *have* done it, but usually not with any degree of continuing success.

Make no mistake about it, driving ANY racecar requires the talent of a professional athlete. An athlete on the scale of a football player - no - but I gaurantee you have to be tougher than a Baseball player to do it (and - yes - I include Danika Patrick in that statement, she could kick A-Rods ass any day of the week!)
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