Reply #22: In a Nascar stock car, the drivers have to be in very fit shape. [View All]

They are sitting in a seat that the temps range anywhere from 100 to above 115 degrees, inside that car. Studies have shown that the can lose about 10 pounds of fluid in a race. They take in fluids throughout the race and have a cooling unit that blows in their helmets, but the rest of their body is not being cooled and has a pretty hot fire suit on.

Now turning left looks easy, but those cars have to be set up, so that they are just a step away from crashing. To make that car as fast as possible you have to be able to control a car that is almost out of control. Takes a lot of muscle control to do this when you are almost sliding all over the place and you are racing with 43 other drivers doing the same thing. As well as being only inches from other vehicles and walls. The worst for the drivers is Watkins Glen raceway. It is a road course and that means they turn right too.

I know some people still think it is just driving a car, but it takes a lot out of you to try and make that car as fast as it could be without wrecking it.