Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

Post by recursive » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 4:07 PM UTC

aeneasmackenzie wrote: post #360

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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

1930s: going fast by leaning backward, banned 1990s: going fast by leaning forward, banned I look forward to 2100 when they will simply ban going faster than a specific speed.

Post by rrrrrrrrrrrryan » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 4:15 PM UTC

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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…

Interesting, why is it that it's "so obviously inspired by the tactics of videogame football"? It sounds like a pretty good (albeit annoying) tactic for a real game. In European football it's actually very common for players to use stall tactics, and they don't even gain as much because there's no hard limit on how long the game lasts.

Post by discardedrefuse » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 4:36 PM UTC

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> The incentive to pull off this kind of move, running the clock down a bit, that was already present. But there's a certain social expectation that you won't game the rules so blatantly, so that's a disincentive. Clock management is a pretty big aspect of (American) football strategy and very much expected. I don't think anyone considers it gaming the rules. Just off the top of my head: - Teams with comfortable lead…

You're obviously very familiar with football but the accuracy here is so high I just had to point out that I've never heard "freezing the kicker". The idiom I hear most often is "icing" the kicker.

Post by persona_reuse » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 5:00 PM UTC

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> 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. That's precisely why car races are boring these days. Everything is forbidden and over-regulated so there's no space for innovation anymore. Look at F1 and its bloat of regulations.

But in F1 it's exciting because you never know what rules they are gonna enforce this time and for whom. /s Edit: on a more serious note: The regulations are so tight to keep it exciting. Frustratingly, if the regulations are more open, one of the better funded teams will just run away with the best car. That already happened in some seasons, but would be even worse without tight regulations.

Post by pclmulqdq » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 5:13 PM UTC

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

Actually in this case he’s using an airfoil spinning on a horizontal axis perpendicular to the direction of flight. But yes, helicopters can be safely landed this way without power (not crash landed, but actually landed, though crashing is always an option lol) Also, gyrocopters use the same principle for all phases of controlled flight, by simply using a traction engine to move the aircraft foreword, with a free spi…