Race car drivers are held to a ridiculous double standard

So many fallacies

If race car drivers aren’t athletes, other athletes aren’t, either. If racing isn’t a sport, no other “sport” is, either. Yet people who know nothing about racing still believe their fallacy-based opinions that race car driver are not athletes and that racing is not a sport.

They make these claims while ignoring the fact that everything that they believe makes race car drivers not athletes and makes racing not a sport could also be used to discuss why basketball, football, hockey and baseball players are not athletes and why basketball, football, hockey and baseball are not sports.

But as stated in the previous slide of this article, these concepts of why race car drivers are athletes and why racing is a sport are discussed in more depth in two separate Beyond the Flag articles here and here, respectively. Let’s get to the main point of this article.

As also referenced on the previous slide of this article, there are several misconceptions that people have about race car drivers and racing in general. There is also a separate article about that on Beyond the Flag as well, which you can read here.

There is one misconception that really stands out and is the true double standard that will be discussed in this article. Even if this misconception were true, it still does not provide any reason for criticism of race car drivers and racing in general.