No worries, everyone—this is simply my driving style!

Ricky Bobby nooooo!

Ka-chow!

I think there was someone who did something like this (obviously not at that crazy level) but intentionally ignored braking and just throttled past the competition by using the wall. I think it was NASCAR. When he did it it wasn’t technically against the rules but they changed them soon after.

Yeah, it was the last curve, and the driver hugged the wall (but on all 4 tires flat instead) with higher speed to use it to take the turn faster than without it. It worked so well that they had to ban it for obvious reasons.

Pff, I’d been doing that since Gran Turismo 1

IIRC the guy said he’d done it in a sim and wanted to know if would work IRL.

It does, he gained a lot of spots right before the finish. Other drivers weren’t even mad, just impressed, but they did ban it after I’m pretty sure. It kind of only works on the last corner because you fuck up the car.

Not a sim, he specifically said GameCube.

Are there not racing sim games on GameCube? Sim doesn’t necessarily mean ‘high grade professional simulator’ is a genre of video game as well.

I can’t think of a single game on GameCube that would meet any of the criteria to be called a Sim. Even the Gran Turismos of the time are firmly Simcade, and they’re the gold standard. It also doesn’t matter because he didn’t say he “did it in a simulator” he specifically said “played a lot of NASCAR 2005 on the GameCube”

Okay you win the pedant award for the day

His brother used to do that move playing nascar video games growing up

They should have made this mainstream. Would have been dope

[Here’s the clip](https://youtu.be/sOY9p5gFa5Q?si=bJLcVCRzsplyTNHR). 10th to 5th.

well that was lame af. where’s the video game move? I thought all 4 wheel on the wall, going so fast that centripetal keeps you from falling.

Right? just put little caster wheels on the side of the cars, then start adding crazy S bends and stuff.

Ross Chastain a few years ago. They called it the Hail Melon (Chastain is a generational watermelon farmer when not racing). It was one of the coolest things I’d ever seen in NASCAR, though also very dangerous which is why NASCAR banned the move. The incident above happened this weekend when another driver bumped/ran into the driver of the green car (for the life of me I can’t remember his name. . .think he’s one of the young ones). Anyway, the bump was just enough that the car went perpendicular and rode the wall. Eventually it came off the wall and flipped a couple of times.

Green car on the wall is Zane Smith. A darker green car (John Hunter Nemechek) pushes him up because he was too close to Zane in the turn, getting them both loose and into the wall. JHN couldn’t turn down and his car kept pushing Zane up into the wall until he started going up the wall. In the clip, you see that dark green car move down, as JHN finally gets off Zane and starts properly wrecking, taking out 2 other cars in the process as he’s completely lost control of the car (you see a red/white car start to lose it in the clip). Been awhile since NASCAR’s had a car ride up the wall like this.

Zane Smith! Thank you. I knew it was JHN who wrecked him but couldn’t remember which rookie it was that rode the wall. At least it wasn’t poor Ryan Preece.

Nah, he just likes to go flying at the summer Daytona races

When NASCAR was like “These next gen cars are safer and far less likely to go airborn” Ryan said “Here, hold my beer”

Not only that, drivers had only successfully done that move in the simulator as a joke. Dude went, “hope the physics were close enough in the game…” and floored it into the wall.

“Simulatior” is a fancy word for video game in this case. And I’m pretty sure we’ve all done that at one point or another.

Think about a fighter pilot in training. Their simulators are obviously not really a video game. It’s how they learn controls without risk of crashing. There are many simulation programs for all kinds of driving and racing, which can be similarly dangerous. They’re somewhat distinct from a game – the focus is realism, not entertainment.

Its a genre of video game…..

Ross Chastain at Martinsville a few years ago. Pretty wild to watch.

I used to do this trick in gran turismo twenty four hour races. Just rubberbamd the joysticks together ans let it ride.

Go fast enough and it just might work out? Idk, I’m I’m not a physics major.

He’s basically going straight while the car is build to turn to the left. It’s game over.

Saving those right-side tires for that final push. Smart.