Auto racing is not a sport. If it were, the car would be the athlete. Keeping a machine working well may require much skill and endurance, but so does brain surgery, and that's not a sport either.

Other things that, while perhaps skillful, perhaps challenging, perhaps beautiful, are not a sport:

* Horse racing (see above, but substitute "horse" for "car")

* Figure skating

* Synchronized swimming

* Skateboarding

* Weightlifting

* Anything else where the result is based on subjective judging rather than objective scoring (that means you, ballroom dancing and any boxing match where nobody is knocked unconscious....)

* Anything you can smoke a cigarette and drink a beer while doing (sorry bowling and golf....)

I'm glad we cleared that up.