Nascar: using the wall to make you faster

[Prak]

Thought this might interest some on here ...

https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/nascar-ross-chastai...

https://sports.yahoo.com/long-ross-chastain-frenzi...

"Chastain was two points behind Denny Hamlin for the final transfer spot to next week’s championship race on the last lap. Chastain was too far behind to gain those two positions so he put his car into fifth gear on the backstretch, planted his Chevrolet against the wall, took his hands off the wheel and let the wall guide his vehicle around the final quarter mile while he floored the throttle."

[Smiljan]

https://twitter.com/NASCAR/status/1586837853924773...

That's the in car view, nuts. I thought the other cars were slowing but nope, he was doing 50mph more than usual in that corner and managed to set a new lap record!

[TGCOTF-dewey]

That's got to see a rule change surely?

Must a lot of potential for that to go badly wrong.

Wonder if the rules prevent modifications to cars allowing them to do that without the damage.

Ballsy and clever move though.

[Sandpit Steve]

That’s very cool, a last corner banzai that trashes the car, but allows a considerable amount of extra speed before it falls to bits completely.

Yes, there will have to be a rule change, or at least a change to how it’s policed. If they’d thrown a yellow as soon as he hit the wall…

[Prak]

TGCOTF-dewey said:

That's got to see a rule change surely?

Must a lot of potential for that to go badly wrong.

Wonder if the rules prevent modifications to cars allowing them to do that without the damage.

Ballsy and clever move though.

Yeah, it's the "badly wrong" bit that spoils it. Very cool move, since it worked, but the scope for injuring or killing someone else is pretty wide.

If this becomes a thing then maybe the answer is to have horizontally mounted wheels on the right hand side of the car

[996Keef]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1586846744490516480

That's insane, look at the speed he carries round the barrier

[The Wookie]

Got to hand it to him for ingenuity and commitment!

[TO73074E]

I saw this last night and I'm still amazed with every view of it. This is the stuff you see in computer games and even then it doesn't always work. Fair play!

I'd love to know if he planned this in advance. Maybe did a track walk to see the condition of the wall before hand, or just thought fk it lets go for it! I'm not sure which is bigger, his brain or his bks?

[lufbramatt]

Reminds me of the "cheat" in an early Gran Turismo game where you'd get a fast car, enter a 1 hour race on the oval track, put an elastic band round the controller to hold it on full throttle and let it run round the wall for an easy $100000

[ambuletz]

The Wookie said:

Got to hand it to him for ingenuity and commitment!

not sure bout ingenuity.. plenty of us were doing this on gran turismo. got a little harder in the latter ones as you got a time/speed penalty so you had to angle it just right

[ajprice]

Definitely a Gran Turismo move

[LukeBrown66]

This awesome for anyone who has played racing games.

Cant beat a bit of wall riding!!

[ZedLeg]

TO73074E said:

I saw this last night and I'm still amazed with every view of it. This is the stuff you see in computer games and even then it doesn't always work. Fair play!

I'd love to know if he planned this in advance. Maybe did a track walk to see the condition of the wall before hand, or just thought fk it lets go for it! I'm not sure which is bigger, his brain or his bks?

I'd put money on it being a spur of the moment thing, Nascar drivers are lunatics. Watch this from about 42 mins in to see an example of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCVRHrP0ndg

[williamp]

Would it pass parc ferme? Thats the risk for tge driver anticiapting this move. It might work, but if the car is too damaged to pass scrutineering thsn its out.

[Zarco]

Mental.

Wall-riding is a video game thing (the ones with no damage!).

[Blib]

A genius move! What a way to advance. I bet Hamlin could not believe what happened in front of his eyes.

[Blib]

yesterjay said:

williamp said:

Would it pass parc ferme? Thats the risk for tge driver anticiapting this move. It might work, but if the car is too damaged to pass scrutineering thsn its out.

Why does it need to pass anything?

It's one and done no?

Shirley, in NASCAR even if you cross the line upside down, in flames and with only one wheel attached your result stands?

[Driver101]

Funny, but that isn't a fair way of gaining positions in a race.

[FourGears]

Ballsy as fk that

[williamp]

Blib said:

yesterjay said:

williamp said:

Would it pass parc ferme? Thats the risk for tge driver anticiapting this move. It might work, but if the car is too damaged to pass scrutineering thsn its out.

Why does it need to pass anything?

It's one and done no?

Shirley, in NASCAR even if you cross the line upside down, in flames and with only one wheel attached your result stands?

Of ourse not. Otherwise youd have bodywork weighing 100kg held on sticky tape, which falls off early on. You run the race underweight and at a massive advantage. This happened in btcc a few years back..