AUTO RACING?!?
What the hell is in the water down there?
Auto racing is great!
Seriously, if you would go back to the late 90's and the great Canadian driver Jacques Villeneuve VS Micheal Schumacher F1 rivalry (before Ferrari started dominating everyone), I'm sure you could find a lot of Canadians who would put Auto Racing as their favorite sport. The races were tense and amazingly competitive.
I've also been for a week-end in Montreal to the NAPA 200 (the only major Nascar race outside the US) and it was a great show. Nascar is not just one race of people doing laps, it's 5 different races during the week-end of many different types of driving series, risky passing, awesomely destructive accidents, the cool high-tech cars..... it's really an experience. It's much more then what you might see on TV.
And anyways, kinda like everyone who has played street hockey with friends dreamed to be Patrick Roy, Bobby Or or Wayne Gretzky, who has never daydreamed when driving on the highway to put the pedal to the metal and do crazy stunts at mad speeds?