Newsflash: NASCAR Causes Hearing Loss

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Here’s a shocking headline: live motorsports events can lead to irreversible hearing damage for spectators, drivers, and crew. While anyone who’s ever attended a race could easily have told you this, the feds are now sniffing around a few of the loudest NASCAR tracks, measuring decibels in an effort to prove it. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health is on a mission to quantify the adverse health effects of various recreational sporting events–they even commissioned a study on vuvuzelas (those obnoxious World Cup horns) a few weeks back. And now, just days ahead of the Nationwide and Sprint Cup races at the sport’s loudest track, amphitheater-like Bristol, they’ve dropped a bomb that lays out the real truth about motorsports and noise. While this not-news will likely necessitate a bunch of tiresome regulatory interference (they’ve already tried mufflers on the cars; it didn’t work), at the very least perhaps it’ll mean free earplugs for everyone at the track. That’d be nice. Sunscreen too!

Stay tuned for NIOSH’s groundbreaking report on brain-cell loss caused by alcohol consumption during sporting events. Full story at aol.

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Posted at 1:43 am in Jen Dunnaway, Motorsports, NASCAR

Comments

Oafman
Aug 20, 2010 at 8:35 pm

The noise at the track is the exact reason that my son has his own set of firing range rated ear protection. Complete with a Ferrari and Porsce sticker on each side.

Jnic815
Aug 20, 2010 at 7:56 pm

Anyone who goes to a race track not expecting it to be loud doesn’t deserve to hear anyway lol thats why i wear a scanner at the track lol

SouthernGuy8503
Aug 19, 2010 at 10:51 pm

drover2000 – Don’t worry, you’ll learn how to comprehend sentences sooner or later. Maybe if you actually read the first part, she’s saying the same thing as you and responding to it, she’s not just discovering it. She’s also being sarcastic when saying “Here’s a shocking headline”. Sorry that I can’t say it slow on here for you to understand, maybe you’ll understand if you read it slow.

I_Luv_Dusty
Aug 19, 2010 at 11:17 am

Now that’s a cushy government job I could go for–getting paid to go to sporting events with a decibel meter.

drover2000
Aug 18, 2010 at 12:00 pm

The most amazing thing about Jenn’s point is the NIOSH work she sites was accomplished and reported on over 10 years ago and Jen has just now discovered it!!! What other health effects research older than 10 years has Jenn uncovered? Thanks to her keen discovery of the work, we should all somehow consider her sour opinion on the results relevant? What next Jenn… your analysis of the upcoming 2000 presidential elections?