NASCAR Has Lost its Goddamn Mind

[FaultyMario]

What kind of shit officiating is this, ARCA?

[FaultyMario]

Really gets under my skin that the “nascar racing line” on road courses is 30ft beyond normal track limits for real race cars.

Watching NASCAR at the “short course” weeny version of the Glen because Kimi

It’s got to be killing him that you are encouraged to ignore track limits.

Did it get going? I tuned out after like 15 mins of interviews.

[Tom Servo]

It did, finally started sometime around 2pm PDT.

[JoeW]

Kimi was up to 8th until he got run off the road into the wall after Stage 2 at the bus stop.

[XHawkeye]

Those Cup drivers better watch out, Kimi Raikkonen sounds confident for his debut <--- Open for video

[Phil_SS]

Fuckin wall riders.

https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2022/10...ross-chastain/

So fuckin brilliant and the incar videos from the other racers are hysterical. I can't stop laughing at it. I'm gonna guess that Nascar will outlaw this move because it will become a constant at this and other like tracks. Otherwise I can see a guy doing that to win a race.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Saw this on the news, I'm honestly surprised that it works... especially with those softer kinda wall...

[Tom Servo]

It seems really interesting, because it's not like you can outright ban touching the wall. I'm thinking you probably just have to count on it being too likely to cause too much damage to be useful and that this guy got away with it. Otherwise, it seems like a really hard one to codify.

What bums me out is that now people wallriding in online racing will claim "it's realistic, I can do it"

[Kchrpm]

The fact the car is so busted up (he said at least the brakes and steering were broken afterwards) would prevent people from doing it on anything other than the last corner of the last lap, but I do wonder if someone else will try it.

[Tom Servo]

Yeah, definitely not sustainable for a whole race or anything, but it does make me fear that suddenly we're going to see like 10 drivers try the same thing on the last lap and massive carnage will ensue.

Then again, maybe it'll end up like iRacing and the one guy who doesn't do that just watches everyone else crash and strolls across the line ahead of all of them.