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fuck someone retweeted it and saw it xD

Another angle.

i'd love to see the reaction by iRacing stewards department or simpro officials tower to that chastain move



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Given the shitshow that NASCAR is nowadays, I think the move was amazing, and hilarious. Fits with everything else nowadays.


I also tried wall-riding in an NR2002 online league race qualifying session at Nazareth years ago. Time got disallowed.

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This is one of those "moments" that NASCAR has been trying 8 years to produce with this stupid Chase. The fact it's going unpenalised just about sums it up.

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Why would they penalize what they were desperate to create?

Good thing he didn't try that on NASCAR Heat.

I fully admit that was interesting, and I don't begrudge Chastain for throwing that unhinged hail mary (circumstances being what they are). But come on, that just cannot be permitted any more. Even by NASCAR's rapidly plummeting standards, that's some dangerous and low-brow shit. I'm amazed at how many quasi-respectable and reputable voices in the sport are on Twitter who can't (or stubbornly and dishonestly refuse to) understand that, and are acting all indignant and perplexed that there are people who don't think that move is a Good Thing in the long run.

Part of me almost wants to just let go of my values/beliefs/desires (whatever word or expression that's not coming to me at the moment) and just enjoy the reptile-brain idiocy that is modern NASCAR, because there's absolutely no reason to believe that will ever be meaningfully good on the merits of competition and legitimacy again. But the problem is that the product is still just drab, weak bullshit 90% of the time. The rest is small pockets of intense, full-bore, caveman bullshit chaos. And maybe about 1% honest-to-goodness Good Racing without controversy or conflict remaining in the end. Whatever balance we had among all those elements in whichever bygone era you prefer is long gone. The recipe is fucked.

it's not like he's the first one to do it. larson (which is hilarious considering his comments about the move today) tried this at darlington last year but denny was able to block the high lane for the win. it's a gimmicky move, but fair in my opinion. martinsville is probably the perfect place to do it, i just wish it was someone other than chastain. for a guy who's been doing dumb shit all year to qualify for the championship with a dumb-shit move just makes it kinda annoying. if he goes on the win it all, for me it'll diminish the feel of what has been a fairly great year of racing with the new cars (minus the concussions of course [and too much downforce on short tracks]).

I give him credit for having the balls to even try that. It was a crazy, desperate, hail Mary that worked. Just when you thought you've seen it all, Ross Chastain does something like this.

Yeah let's be honest, the move was cheap and gimmicky, but the fact that he had the guts to try it and it somehow worked perfectly gets him a one time pass and that's it. Nascar can change the rules from here on out. Stuff like this seriously can't become the norm.

It would be fine if they had gravel there.

But to be honest, that was just amazing. Derpy and crazy, but amazing. Love watching reactions of it right now

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This chaistain guy who on indy also took a shortcut move on the last lap?

And while the whole year drivers are complaining about how stiff/dangerous the car is and so fort.
Here we have Chastain who says in a interview after the roadvall race that some drivers need to speak for themself about safety of this car.
To drive it in the wall & banzai himself in the final playoffs.

Look at cartmans picture. The car has barely a dent.
I dont think he could pulled this move with last gen's car.
Larson did it last year at Darlington but somehow his move didnt look so violent as this one.

I thought it was an amazing move, but only as a one time thing. It's going to get old very quickly if anyone tries it again, and NASCAR probably need to come up with a rule immediately to prevent anyone trying it at Phoenix. You can't penalise Chastain for this one though, it's not even in the rule book - this is one of those things they probably didn't think they needed a rule for.

What sets this above the usual playoff bullshit for me is that it didn't involve any other cars. He found a way to get himself in without taking anyone else out so it's fair game imo.

Like everyone else here I've been watching racing a looong time - takes a lot to surprise me nowadays but this certainly did. Love it.

I'm not even sure it needs policing, it's the kind of move that works as a surprise as a one off moment but next time they race here, everyone will be wise to it and they'll all be doing it to either attack or defend and it'll become a moot point.

Either that or NASCAR will sightly change the wall angle so it causes more damage/airtime and won't work I guess

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What the everloving fuck did I just watch. Glad I got wind of some crazy Nascar finish and checked it out unspoiled.

Such a weird feeling, being amazed and appaled at the same time.

If they don’t do something, the championship might be decided by this kind of move, Phoenix has a a similar radius and length final corner too, and earlier this year in one of our NR2k3 league races, a guy did the exact same thing as Chastain and went from something like 10th to 4th.

We knew it could be done at Martinsville and shut that shit down years ago with creative track building techniques, but it was quiet a surprise to see it done at Phoenix….