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Am I just too high or does the quoted actually not make sense mathematically?
Something amazing actually happened in NASCAR. This is legitimately insane. Dude had to beat the #11 car straight up which he does by the nose of a car.
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Sick
That’s insane, in an interview he said he used to do it as a kid in NASCAR 2005 in GameCube and he always wondered if it would work in real life.
Didn’t do as much damage as you would think.
I wonder if this opens up a can of worms where a handful of guys are trying this at the next Martinsville races. I’d assume it probably isn’t worthwhile to try at Bristol or some of the other short tracks b/c they’re more banked than M’ville so you aren’t practically stopped in corners.
Yah opening up the Pandora’s box for kamikaze crash tactics seems potentially troubling, but in the other hand who cares let the carnage rain from above.
Yah, let’s say you’re leading the race by a second, what’s your strategy entering the final turn?
- Run your normal line down at the bottom?
- Do the kamikaze yourself?
- Run a little higher than normal so you can try to block if opponent tries the kamikaze, but this opens up the possibility of opponent beating you on the inside b/c he’ll now have the optimal race line.
I have a feeling they’re going to end up having to change the rules somehow for that reason. I mean, isn’t the GTO move now for everyone to slam their car into the wall on the last lap at Martinsville?
Or build a mad max car that can slam THE WHOLE TIME.
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Need some spears sticking out from the wall for the last turn.
I’m like 90% sure they’ll just come out with a rule that says “wall riding” is a penalty before the next season starts.
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It should be legal only in the final race of the season.
It looks like Hamlin sees what’s happening and tries to move over to block, but it’s too late. In retrospect if he gunned it around the lead car to the left, maybe he edges out Chastain when Chastain bumps into the back of the lead car.
“I guess we just lost on that”
“Well, I’ve never seen anything like it…”
The view from the second car is cool.
Some more great views:
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They just held the first NASCAR street race in downtown Chicago. The winner was a New Zealand supercar driver making his first ever NASCAR start. Same team (Trackhouse which is co-owned by Pitbull) as the guy who did the video game move. Maybe they’re starting to realize that video game moves and street racing might be more appealing than driving in circles for hours.
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Van Gisbergen is a bit of a legend around here (I don’t watch much Supercars anymore but used to in the 90s/00s.
Pretty sick to have one practice session and come out and win.
I remember they used to have 1 non oval race per year at Watkins Glen and Ron Fellows only raced that course and won it a couple times.
Yeah and Sonoma starting in 1989. Boris Said is another of those guys who specialized in road coarses, which in my opinion are far more interesting. I’ll never understand the appeal of watching cars drive in circles for 4 hours. I’ve been to a few races in person and was bored out of my mind. Also went to the Indy 500 and felt the same way, although the historical aspect of it was big enough that I’m glad I did it once. Probably wouldn’t do it again though.