said<\/a>, \u201cThe biggest strength that NASCAR has over any sport is that all the top drivers compete at the same time at the same track. Without a question, it is the number one thing about our sport.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\nTop players like Stephen Curry and LeBron James only play in a handful of fixtures in the NBA. The same applies to the NFL. Keselowski used these examples to make his case and added, \u201cIn NASCAR, every week, top drivers compete against each other. Bar none. That\u2019s the best thing going on for our sport.\u201d Not stopping there, he also went on to speak about what\u2019s misunderstood about NASCAR<\/p>\n
The biggest misconception in his eyes is the athletic performance it takes to be a race car driver. This is something that many drivers before and after him have pointed out. The world generally doesn\u2019t see race car drivers as athletes, despite their craft demanding the most severe physical toughness out of them.<\/p>\n
Asked what drivers and their pit crews go through, Keselowski said, \u201cWell, besides the element of danger and the willingness to risk your life, the physical training and sustained G-forces that punish your body, and the acceptance of injury that could cause fatality. Beyond that, the ability to sustain a heart rate in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cup Series champion doesn\u2019t take this lightly. He further went on to explain that the amount of blood a driver\u2019s heart pumps during a race is even higher than the fuel consumed by his car\u2019s engine and that the sustained heart rate is on par with what is endured when running the Boston marathon. <\/p>\n
This view is slowly but surely changing with time as drivers continue their pursuit of fitness to improve their on-track performance, a mantra seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson also swore by.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comparisons with stick and ball sports have not done much good for NASCAR over the past few years.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[16600,49,48,634,8354,32392,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-423451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-brad-keselowski","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-nascar-cup-series","13":"tag-rfk-racing","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}