It mostly because of the way it's scored. If you're being judged, it's not a sport.

 

Boxing? Wrestling? Any Martial Arts...

 

toyota is more american than chevy now, but i'm sure it'll take the rednecks another 50 years to catch onto that.

 

did you guys read the "are you gay?" thread.. NASCAR is gay..

 

I say if Toyota goes Nascar we all rent Corollas for the Daytona 500. and park in the infield and taunt the Rednecks. whoever gets pelted with a Budweiser can or hit with a folding metal chair first wins a prize.

 

The Toyota powered Elises are getting rave reviews over here, they seem to be better than I thought they would be - the K-series Rover engine is pretty capable (even if it does blow head gaskets at 80,000 miles)



Mark

 

All can also have a definitive winner. They can go to judges, and look how well that works out these days.



A KO or pinfall is hard for the French and Russian judges to lie about. The only way to score a definitive win in figure skating is if you break everyones knee cap before the start.

 

The reason why NASCAR won't allow a Japanese car company into the Nextel Series is because they've learned their lesson with the Craftsman Truck Series. The Japs are starting to take over the pick-up market with the Tundra and Titan and it seems that the Tundra's present development is conected with what Toyota puts into the race truck.



NASCAR knows that a Toyota engine, and Soloara chassis is already years ahead of anything else from Ford, Dodge, Pontiac and Chevy so they try to keep the Japs from showing that to the rest of the Motorsports world by not allowing them to compete.

 

Anyone who believes production cars share even one component with what you see at NASCAR is insane.

 

I don't know, seems that everybody uses their Motorsports backgrounds to further street car development. BMW's SMG gearbox, Ferrari's F1 gearbox, the McLaren F1 is a racecar in disguise, the F50 is what Ferrari intended for a street F1 car but got messed up with emissions. The Focus RS is basically a rally car for the street, so why should it be any different from NASCAR, afterall, it's the only thing American car manufacturers have.