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As someone who enjoys driving fast on a racetrack and occasionally watching racing, this comment is entirely nonsensical to me. How is "deliberately making it a game of human skill" in any way "taking the fun out of it?" Every sport ends up with its elite participants taking it very seriously and eking out tiny gains to win. That's just the nature of competition. This is orthogonal to it being fun.
There was a time when the competition was about who could build a better car. Eventually this was turned into yet another game of depending on the human element. With limits on engine output or other mechanical improvements, there's no way to have impressive gains, any more. It's just another way to pit one person's reflex against another's. You'll never see anything surprising from Nascar, because they literally rul…
Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks
#111The entire point is to make it a game of skill, yes. In spec racing, you can't just buy yourself a win by having more money to spend on a faster car. Thousands of amateur-level racers deliberately seek this type of competition out specifically because it's more fun to them to have a competition where it's all about skill rather than how good your equipment is. The idea that this is "taking the fun out" seems precisely backwards to me.