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He needed to gain 2 spots to qualify for the next race. The team he was driving for wasn't that well off so his car wasn't as good as the others but he made it work. The move was so effective that it was banned.
gadlen
That was fucking epic!
madsander
“Rubbin is racin!”
OddlyPacific
He can’t even turn the one direction he has to turn. NASCAR sucks.
qtRaven
"The Hail Melon" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Chastain
TheMayorOfTittyCity
Knowing nothing about NASCAR but a fair amount about things that are insanely dangerous for everyone involved, I would speculate that the effectiveness of this maneuver was not the primary driver for its banning.
largo33
TacoFox
no freebird?
GriffinMann41
Me when I endanger everyone else on the track to an insane degree because I suck and SOMEHOW people hail this as a good thing
guardianzero
I've done that in GT3 a bunch.
MrFancyPanzer
Ah that brings me back.
ChrisCorona
Sorry, but some dude using this move to advance in a "qualifying race" cannot by definition be amongst the greatest moments in sports.
Pseudosim
Coming up with a maneuver that requires a rule be made to make that move illegal is absolutely one way to be memorialized.
manystripes
It definitely makes it a better folk story if the maneuver is never done again
Mr21782Man
Banned because one slight dent or imperfection could turn this into a Dale Earnhardt. He should have suspended for pulling a stunt like that.
rbudrick
He literally said it worked in games ,so he went for it irl.
elbowdeepinawhateverthatis
I was with it until you sped the footage up and put in cringe music.
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
That’s how I win every racing video game.
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
and then I notice the car I thought I was playing was really in the next window over
squelcheswetly
I wedge myself between two cars in turns and push them into the wall or grass at the exit.
TheElicitor
Well that's where it came from, he mentioned in an interview
somethingstupidandclever
On GT 2 that came with playstation 2.
RacecarIsRacecarBackwards
I was gonna say, he stole my trick from Need for Speed Underground!
BlueAngel3141
LEEROYYYYYY JENKINNNSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
hetriedtokillmewithaforklift
Valid tactic! Once won an f1 race by causing a massive pileup at the starting line
Freak0zoid
Thorax48
Effectively known as the “I’m still learning to play Gran Turismo”
GuysJustWannaFish
SOO many hours sunk in that save file... Only to erase my brothers game and start over lol!! Hehehe.
vcgetdown
Or the I upgraded my dodge viper to the max and bought the high speed low turning tires now let's get this bread
SkynetWithAPoopKnife
Or, it's the "my controller disconnected"
torillatavataan
"I'ma try this neat trick from Trackmania"
Hurro
Or the I need money in Gran Tourismo so I am going to do the endurance races with my Escudo and put an elastic band on the gas and walk away
Noahbalboa82
God I remember when I learned that hack. I was like...."I can remap the right stick to be the gas pedal?" I'd set that up, walk away, make a sandwich. Pit stop half way thru, then walk away again till I got the checkered flag.
Welliguessillgogetpants
Gran tursimso 3Aspex Suzuki rally car, tuned to the max picked the circle speedway endurance track. Selected no pit stops car drove around the track like that. Walk away, come back in 2 hours, easy money, repeat as necessary.
Welliguessillgogetpants
Aspec**
ChicksDigTrucks
I'm glad there was music over all the talking
KleptoKea
Especially emotionally charged music that tries to hijack the steering wheel for my feelings
fendeele
Adele take the wheel
manystripes
Just grinding them right against the wall at speed
Patters2
so nice to hear the radio instead of a song edit
/s
sass aside, yes that was an incredible move on his part, not necessarily a good or smart one, but an incredible one none-the-less.
DidItForScience
IT SHOULD BE BANNED. THAT'S FUCKING DANGEROUS! Even if he didn't hit anyone, shit is flying off the car.
Sanguinius4893
It was banned very soon after this race.
DidItForScience
Yeah I was directing that comment to OP who seems to think it shouldn't have been banned.
CoffeeDaemon
Does kinda give Sky King vibes
IdRatherBeOnThePlaystation
That title, no, it isn't. In American sports maybe.
jakedafish
NASCAR is not a sport.
wadatahmydamie
I’m not a racing fan by any means, but I struggle to define “sport” in a way that includes traditional sports but excludes driving really fast. It’s not like E-sports where you don’t actually have to be physically fit to do it
Volpe42
Greatest moments in sports?
3Davideo
An overhead/infographic diagram format would be much easier to follow than trying to piece it together from all this ground level footage. I just can't tell what's going on.
Sanguinius4893
Dude floored it heading into the last turn on the last lap and passed a bunch of cars right at the finish line. He needed that to qualify for the next race (at the end of the season only the top cars are racing for the championship and every few races a few more get cut, kind of like playoffs in other sports).
TheBlueMuppet
To add a little extra to it: This is a very risky, controlled, prolonged car accident at full throttle in a 800hp, 3500lb car. The setup for this was risky at best, and even after engagement, a misaligned concrete section of the wall couldve grabbed the tire or part of the frame, and destroyed the car, or flung him down into the other cars. The car is also not drivable after this.
BallsLikeWatermelonsPeckerLikeAThimble
He’s crazy in a sport that’s filled with crazy.
DALLASLAVOWNER
Crazy is relative, check out the the isle of mann motorcycle race - 200 mph with stone walls and manhole covers
Cutwail
Only one death in 24 !
Bystandr
Its an impressive testament 2 the tires on the car-I would have thought the car would have disintigrated from the friction against the wall.
hergurh
that's why nobody had got away with this before. It's not like Nascar drivers were any less crazy X years ago. The next gen cars have a more stretched tire profile and more metal than rubber touches the wall. Classic stock tires slow the car down or even suck you into the wall.
Bystandr
Even with another x-layers of steel belt on the sidewall I wouldnt be thinking it was enough, but thanks forpointing it out I didnt know that !
WellThatsOriginal
I can't believe that nobody had ever thought of doing that before.
unluckyandbored
It's the kind of thing that common sense would tell you shouldn't work. Bashing up against the barrier like that SHOULD slow you down immensely from all hte extra friction. Not to mention you'd seriously damage the car and put other people at risk.
famousbymorning
Kyle Larsen had done something similar at Darlington prior to this. The way most tracks are this wouldn't work. Martinsville and bristol are about the only places this would have worked.
discotheque42
Look up the "Darlington Stripe". It's not exactly the same, but there's dangerous creativity in all of motorsports.
NacLac
They have and it's banned now because no one would try it.
The problem with turning at high speed is that the faster you go, the more the car wants to keep moving out of the turn. So if you have a way to force the car to maintain the turn, you can go faster, theoretically, because you are no longer worries about the car gripping the track and not sliding.
However, this means any issue with the wall becomes deadly and can cause major debris on the track.
It's like driving in the opposite lane
CgnCalling
Why? Pieces come off then too?
NacLac
When there's no traffic and yours is backed up. Yes, it gets you there faster but the risks are very high you will cause an accident.
Bobcats
"ill just put my foot down and not gonna lift it until I see God or checkered flag" is a hell of a commitment ngl.
ButteryBiscuitBass
Shit or bust!
Lachwen
Definitely speaks to the roots of stock car racing.
TheBlueMuppet
There was another saying about cornering that was like that... Something like "Keep your foot down until you see God, count to three, then brake."
lurkerevolutioncomplete
Freak0zoid
Neurisko
And a stupid and reckless one.
Snezko
reckless yes, not stupid though for the scenario he was in...
millsy1
Ain't stupid if it works. Reckless sureasfuck.
dyerzeve
#DoItForDale
Burntpubes
Raise hell
YuffieK
Banned because it ENDANGERED EVERYONE ELSE ON THE TRACK
Bytencoder
Driver should have been banned for life.
EchoDelta141
One and done. This is how rules are made. Lucky it wasnt written in blood like most rules.
PrudentJourneyman
J0hnnyMemeonic
I remember a great quote from a car chief in NASCAR: “you’re not competing against the other drivers…you’re competing against the rule book.”
TheStreetForce
If you aint winnin, you aint cheatin. XD
RenegadeSci
And it endangered people in the stands! (Still epic)
Ultratoxic
They are there BECAUSE of the danger. The way they figure it: best case: you see some cool shit go down up close and personal, worst case: you get got with a chunk of wreckage and don't have to live in the south any more. Win-win.
reichstein
If you aren't there for the danger why even come at all?
/s
MisterLemons
That's the veil they chose to use. Racing used to be all about the driver AND the car, now if your rear left wheel is sitting on a pebble the car will get disqualified for being a few millimeters out of spec.
They deliberately took the fun out of racing.
crypresthesia
It used to be all about which rumrunner had the fastest car! But then they took the illegal alcohol out of the equation and ruined all the fun!
LoPhatJoe
They should start a drunk driving league. Everyone racing needs a BAC of at least .15 to start
crypresthesia
As if racing at high speeds wasn't dangerous enough, lets add a tiara, I mean, alcohol!
MechanicalRomance
I mean the real issue is that we made cars too fast. You used to be able to say "make a car as fast as you can get it" and they could run those cars around a track with some degree of safety. Nowadays if we said that you'd have cars moving so fast human fractions could keep up to anything. They had to slow the cars down somehow.
Honestly I think a league where cars can go as fast as we want and we have the drivers drive remotely would be a cool league but that's just not the direction we went.
LeekofLegend
SO ARE ALL THE OTHER CARS ON THE TRACK
Mercurybird
Not wrong 👆🏽
LordHosk
You see all those parts flying off his car?
he is lucky that more didn't fly off, lucky that none of those parts went spearing into another car, lucky that his car didn't explode or catch fire.
those are not normal risks you have while driving normally in a nascar race, yes accidents happen, but you also can't intentionally cause accidents.
GWJYonder
Yeah, I feel like once the name "accident" becomes ironic that's a red flag.
aThingWithAKeyboard
But did it? Did it really?
GorillaPowers
No
Lachwen
Yes. Those pieces coming off his car had the potential to cause other cars to lose control, creating a big pile-up crash. Or HE could have lost control and gone careening into the rest of the pack. It was effective yes, it looked really cool yes, but it was also dangerous.
suntoucher
Oh no, danger in my high speed racing.
Lachwen
It may surprise you that there is such a thing as "too much risk" even in high-risk sports.
ConsumerGradeLove
They literally spin each other intentionally.
Noahbalboa82