Do you find that piloting games dating from the early 2000s lack realism? That’s not the opinion of Ross Chastain, the Nascar driver who shocked the world last weekend, by succeeding the most incredible move made in motorsport this year. Ranked 10th in a race in the United States, the pilot had a stroke of genius, and, a few hundred meters from the finish line, he surfs along the guardrail, pressing the mushroom. When the dust settled, Chastain was 5th in the race, and narrowly qualified. The sequence, completely out of the ordinary, fascinates the press around the world.
You had to be a gamer to try this move
After the race, Ross Chastain explains to the microphone of the journalists present on the spot that he was inspired by what he was doing on one of his favorite games; Nascar 2005.
In this game released on PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, it was indeed possible to use the wall to correct its trajectory without losing speed. But as you can imagine, the physics engine of a game dating from 2004 is much more permissive than real life…
Reproduce this move in a real race with real cars over 200 km / h, so it’s damn daring. And yet that is what Ross Chastain did.
A move hailed by Fernando Alonso
Legendary Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso is among those who hailed Chastain’s crazy gamble.
In his tweet, Alonso also echoes gaming, explaining that this kind of decision is in principle only taken in games… and by checking the option “impossibility of suffering damage”!
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