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Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

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Re: Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

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Post by daguava »

This is one of those events that I'm of several minds about: 1) This is what keeps people outside the scene interested and taking note - NASCAR absolutely should publicize and play up this moment, it brings a lot of folks to the sport. It was incredibly awesome.

2) A lot of times something like this is how you form some new regulations - it's truly one of those "You know, this was excellent but we can't do it again" situations.

3) The best course forward is to leave it alone and legal in this moment, publicize it, but also treat it as the formation of some new rules.

Side note, Nascar 2005, which he referenced as one of his inspirations for this, is one of my favorite gamecube games. I remember picking it up and playing it for hours on end, the soundtrack was awesome, and it didn't feel like an EA cash-grab at the time. Man how times have changed...

Edit: Extra info - the 11 of Hamlin has previously made it into the chase for the champion ship by _intentionally wrecking drivers_ , so by and large a huge part of the fan base believes he got what was coming to him.

Re: Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

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Post by jayofdoom »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #77
carabiner wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> went full send with the wall How did the term "full send" come about? Why is everyone saying it these days?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelk > Nelk is known for popularizing and later trademarking the slang term "Full Send" (stylized as FULL SEND) which Forgeard defined as meaning "any activity you do, give it your absolute best".

This term was used well before 2010... that person might have the trademark but it was used in extreme sports (e.g. skateboarding type events) since the 1990s.

Re: Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

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Post by acrump »

eCa wrote: post #37
QuadmasterXLII wrote: post #2

Of all the forms of immortality, my favorite is participating in a competition in such a brilliant, incorrect way that a rule is permanently added just for you.

My favourite of these is probably Graeme Obree[1] who managed to get not one, but two very different bike positions banned in the ’90s after setting the hour record using one of them and winning the world championship using the other. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Obree

Graeme Obree tested in a wind tunnel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ9H0INZ2_s

Re: Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

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Post by Godel_unicode »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #77
carabiner wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> went full send with the wall How did the term "full send" come about? Why is everyone saying it these days?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelk > Nelk is known for popularizing and later trademarking the slang term "Full Send" (stylized as FULL SEND) which Forgeard defined as meaning "any activity you do, give it your absolute best".

Full Send predates them by at least a decade. It’s a very short walk from “send it”, as in I’m going to send it, which has been part of that culture since at least 2000.

Re: Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

skrtskrt wrote: post #59

Funny enough I feel like only older “less realistic” driving games would let this be an advantage, Forza for instance realllly slows you down from the friction of hugging a wall

A realistic game would model the aero advantages from hugging the wall.

Re: Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

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Post by jahlove »

jefftk wrote: post #56

Reminds me of another example of video-game inspired tactics: Just before he reached the end zone, with 17 seconds remaining, Stokley cut right at 90 degrees and ran across the field. Six seconds drained off the clock before, at last, he meandered across the goal line to score the winning touchdown. For certain football fans, the excitement of a last-minute comeback now commingled with the shock of the familiar: It's…

https://youtu.be/9fPamV6LsV8

Re: Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

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Post by Fezzik »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #77
carabiner wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> went full send with the wall How did the term "full send" come about? Why is everyone saying it these days?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelk > Nelk is known for popularizing and later trademarking the slang term "Full Send" (stylized as FULL SEND) which Forgeard defined as meaning "any activity you do, give it your absolute best".

A point of note: the phrase was popular in the climbing/skiing/snowboarding/mountain biking communities years and years before the frat boys appropriated it for activities mostly pertaining to drinking a lot and being a degenerate.

Re: Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

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Post by tmh88j »

londons_explore wrote: post #34
mcv wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this means you can take the corner faster, why not just do it all the time and make sure the side of your car is strong enough to withstand it?

You could even put two little extra wheels on the door handles...

I know you're joking, but Nascar actually uses some cool tech [1] to make a 3D model of each car on-site to ensure they're in spec with regulations for size, aero, etc... Here [2] it is in action at the last Daytona 500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-X_eujF8Z8 [1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laet8W8pn_k [2]

Re: Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

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Post by SkyPuncher »

z9znz wrote: post #26

That's cute, but I suspect that kind of boldly foolish move would not be the kind of thing a team would appreciate, since it implies they can never count on what their driver will do. It was basically a Happy Gilmore hockey golf swing (which outperforms a regular golf swing when it works, but unfortunately is enough less reliable that it's not worth doing).

Sounds like the can count on their driver to understand a bit a damage to their car is well worth the championship points and press that comes from such a bold move.

Re: Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

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Post by yxwvut »

carabiner wrote: post #65
w-ll wrote: post #15

This is also the shortest short track NASCAR races, its in Martinsville, VA. Known as "The paperclip". This was a lot fun to watch. #1 Ross Chastain had to get more points than #11 Denny Hamlin to qualify. He was in 10th I think when he went full send with the wall, putting an arms length in front of Denny at the very last second to finish #5th. Short track races are fun because the do have a lot of rubbing, but they…

> went full send with the wall How did the term "full send" come about? Why is everyone saying it these days?

I'm 99% sure that it originated in climbing - it's been a term since the 80s at least (short for ascend - to 'send' a climbing route is to climb it successfully without falling or weighting the rope). Outside climbing I first noticed its use in the mid/late '00s in mountain biking (which has a fair bit of overlapping user base), and then in other extreme sports. In the jump from climbing to other extreme sports it became a shorthand for 'commit and do something difficult/risky successfully' (similar in spirit to its meaning in climbing if not literally given the etymology).
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