Off-Road Racing vs. NASCAR
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) racing is a sport that attracts millions of fans everywhere with cars flying past at more than 200mph across the track bringing more fans as well as billions in revenue and continues to be the leader in sports revenue each year.
NASCAR actually started from alcohol smugglers trying to cross the borders of the US without getting caught by the authorities. Then the smugglers began to form rivalries and challenged each other to see who the fastest and best driver among them was and after a few short years it evolved into what we know it now as a nationwide sport called NASCAR racing.
Unlike NASCAR, Off-Road Racing is still relatively new to the racing industry. But it still delivers as much adrenaline as you would feel on a NASCAR race. The difference between NASCAR and Off-Road racing can be obviously seen by their names. NASCAR racing uses stock cars and sticks to the race track while Off-Road racing uses specially modified vehicles which include cars, trucks, motorcycles and even buggies on an off-road environment.
Just imagine the the experience of driving 140mph through large desert plain and coming up to cliff sides in the southern tip of Baja in the well-known Baja 1000 race will definitely get adrenaline coursing through your veins and the thrill of knowing a wrong turn can send you to your doom isn’t a feeling in the world that can compare this sensation.
So can this sport take on NASCAR?
Although NASCAR has head start and is renowned worldwide, off-road truck races have even estimated values of up to $500,000 which is great considering that off-road racing has only been here for a couple of years. A lot more people are getting into off-road racing because of its high stakes and real life racing environments such as deserts which you won’t typically see in a NASCAR race. And many of those people believe that the off-road sport will take off into a whole new world which can’t be matched by NASCAR. But as you know only time can tell what will happen to both sports. But some drivers of NASCAR are switching to off-road racing as the sport gets bigger and bigger.