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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 tempestn »

dotBen wrote: post #211
muraiki wrote: post #205

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Formula E has “attack mode” sections that temporarily boost the electric car’s power by 30kW: https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/championship/attack-mode

Yes, and if you are an actual motorsport fan creating a 'mario kart boost' mode makes your sport look dumb. At least the way F1 does KERS is more controlled and logical (maximum amount of charge = maximum amount of additional horsepower you can deploy per lap)

DRS is a bit more of a parallel since when you're allowed to use it is completely artificial to create competition. But still in that case it's at least all decided on the track. Having drivers get a boost based on fan voting is stupid and does indeed cost the sport credibility.

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Post by tempestn »

Moto7451 wrote: post #187
backtoyoujim wrote: post #142

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The sidewall of the track should have some way to impart boost.

That’s not too far off from how Darlington and a few other tracks work. If you “ride the cushion” of air between the car and the wall you can drive faster than being a few inches away from the wall or rubbing the wall.

I definitely don't think you want people doing this every race, but you could leave it alone for now and see if that becomes an issue before worrying about it too much. It's possible that now that people know it's a possibility, they'll simply defend the outside line out of the last corner, which could shut it down fairly effectively.

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Post by bmitc »

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?

This is definitely not the origin of the phrase, but the thing that brought it into my vernacular was Larry Enticer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSuLFvalhnQ

It was one of those things that after hearing it, it just made sense. I probably heard it elsewhere before that, but I just always remember Larry Enticer cementing it. (I'm not sure about the date on that video. I remember seeing it a long time ago.)

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

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Post by lostlogin »

musicale wrote: post #203
afarrell wrote: post #129

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A video game is a puzzle and it is fun to watch someone successfully manipulate a puzzle. Live sports are with people and people don't like watching others be manipulated.

> Live sports are with people and people don't like watching others be manipulated. I'm pretty sure I've seen lots of deceptive and misleading strategies and tactics in football and other sports, not to mention multiple forms of "faking." Also a core part of sports like football seems to be putting pressure on the person with the ball - up to and including physical tackling. Clock/time management also seems to be a t…

Much of reality tv is basically watching people be manipulated/manipulative too.

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Post by modeless »

ehnto wrote: post #145
SilasX wrote: post #99

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Okay but why didn’t anyone try this before? They just didn’t think of it? What made it a good idea this time but not any other time if it’s faster?

The obvious one is that it ruins the car, at the end of the video you see his car is stopped on the track, presumably he broke some control arms and can't drive it back to the pits. So it works once, then you're out, and you have to hope you pull it off safely. It was a massive risk, not all courses have a wall that wouldn't have wrecked the car. He mentions that part in the video.

He actually drove back to the pits OK, amazingly enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27S42Y5km4I

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Post by m463 »

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…

I have noticed other analogies between computer behavior and real life.

Basically security and similar attacks that were practical on computers have now become practical in real life.

Think of one person annoying a business. But now what the same person annoys a business repeatedly? Or someone and all his friends annoy a business repeatedly? attack, denial of service attack, distributed denial of service attack.

there are probably lots of other examples

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Post by Jarwain »

wodenokoto wrote: post #216

How does that move even work? He takes the longest path around the turn, while dragging along the side of the wall.

He's going significantly faster than the other cars, since he doesn't have to slow down to try and maintain traction on the turn

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Post by gonzo41 »

SonOfKyuss wrote: post #214
gonzo41 wrote: post #149

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So the next step is to remove the drivers and have a more exciting race. I feel like there's a missing league of F1 autonomous driving cars.

I don’t disagree that the racing itself could be more exciting in that scenario, but without the human element, I just don’t think people would stay interested

People like expensive crashes. Just look at Facebook:p

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Post by pclmulqdq »

thrtythreeforty wrote: post #198
lisper wrote: post #170

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When I was in high school a local science museum had an annual paper airplane contest. One of the events was duration of flight. The launch platform was a second-story landing. One year I won with a simple piece of paper the size of a dollar bill that was bent into a S-shape profile so that it would twirl as it fell. It turns out this is actually a legitimate way to produce lift, and actual human-carrying aircraft ha…

This is sort of similar to helicopter autorotation, isn't it?

Yes, this is basically how you are supposed to crash-land a helicopter if the engine fails.
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