Mike Bianchi: Ryan Newman's toughness reinforces why we should all watch more NASCAR
Watch more NASCAR.
Turn on the TV Sunday at 3:30 p.m. and watch the race out in Vegas. And the week after that, watch ’em run SoCal. And the week after that, they’ll be in Phoenix.
Watch them. Applaud them. Admire them.
These awesome, audacious athletes deserve your attention and your eyeballs.
And, yes, I said “athletes.” I hope seeing Newman walk out of the hospital with his pair of adorable young daughters in tow just two days after his unnerving crash that you now realize how courageous, skilled and incredibly tough these athletes are. Anybody who continues to denigrate NASCAR drivers by saying “all they have to do is get behind the wheel and turn left” is just being an intentional knucklehead.
As Ernest Hemingway once so eloquently wrote, “Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports; the rest are merely games.”
Hunter S. Thompson once explained the mentality of race car drivers when he wrote, “Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”