[gusmahler]

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C'mon Dids, in every sport being the son of a great player or even a bad one gives you a huge advantage in terms of development, actual talent, and opportunities. It's not like any of the ones you mentioned don't deserve to be there anyway.

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Yeah, but its a ridiculously high percentage in NASCAR, which is actually more support for the "training plus experience" side, rather than the innate talent side. Baseball is probably played closer to "limits of human ability" and with enough people getting all that training and experience can provide, innate talent has a much bigger impact. Thus, you don't see nearly as many 'legacies,' more than what chance would suggest (due to good genes) but less than in NASCAR.

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But there are other factors in place. Racing is expensive and time consuming. If the parents aren't really into it, the kids won't be racing. Obviously the Andretti family, Petty family, etc. are really into racing and are willing to spend lots of money and lots of time on having their kids become racers.

But you have to start early. Which is why the average 20 year old has virtually no shot at becoming a NASCAR racer.