Other Sports: Part the Fifth - Car Racing

What we all came to see

Though 'Other Sports' is by far the least popular series in AMSL's history, I'm obliged to forge on if only to remind myself why my ten month addiction to one sport is in fact, healthy, and to be encouraged among young people and the infirm.

So with that I go to the car racing games, Indy, NASCAR, Formulas 1 through 10. Unless you're drunk at four in the morning and sitting in front of a Super Nintendo with Mario Kart jammed in its maw, racing is to be avoided at all costs. As Guardian Sport's Sean Ingle recently admitted: "F1 leaves me utterly cold. There's the race to the 1st corner ... and then 90 minutes of whiny tedium. The dullest sport of all?"

Which is to say, yes, yes it is. But it's a common mistake to leave off at F1. We had an Indy car race here in Toronto this weekend. I managed to avoid the sound of a giant bee hive buzzing through my brain for forty eight hours by taking a trip to the country side. For those left to watch the exciting finish with everyone's boyhood hero, Dario Franchitti, winning the Indy Car Hubcap or whatever they award they give out for driving someone else's machine the fastest, I believe this CBC Online comment sums up the city's general feeling to motor sport:

"Good it's over. Now hopefully they will re-open the Exhibition grounds and roads that were closed."

This should be the event's slogan next year.