Race car drivers are held to a ridiculous double standard

Race car drivers are held to a ridiculous double standard and criticized far too often for many reasons while other athletes are not for similar reasons.

There is a ridiculous double standard that race car drivers and racing face in general from the public, particularly non-racing fans who feel the need to inject their opinions on a subject they know nothing about.

These people ignore the fact that the same reasons they use to criticize race car drivers and racing in general are the reasons they could use to criticize other athletes and other sports in general to an even greater extent, yet they do not do so. Here is an overview of what I am referring to.

There are plenty of misconceptions that these people have about race car drivers and racing in general. Among those misconceptions are the ideas that race car drivers are somehow not athletes and that racing is somehow not a sport.

Previous fact-based analyses published on Beyond the Flag prove that both of those ideas are fallacies in far more ways than one. You can read about why race car drivers are undoubtedly athletes here, and you can read about why racing is undoubtedly a sport here.