Letarte, Gordon explain how & why Ross Chastain chose the 'video game move' | Inside The Race
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- NASCAR takes you inside the race with Steve Letarte and Todd Gordon as the two former crew chiefs dive into the NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway and recap Ross Chastain's last ditch effort to make the playoffs and why Denny Hamlin's No. 11 team came up short.
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Ross just picked up a ton of new fans!
Nascar just picked up a ton of fans
@Greta Thunberg Show me on this doll where NASCAR hurt you. 😀
@Greta Thunberg Dear Greta... suck on some NASCAR exhaust.
I'm buying a shirt
Yeeep!
That Bewildered look on Hamlins Face, "PRICELESS".
it was perfect!
I like. how they credit "Gordon" in the discription. I was expect Jeff
I was wondering if it was Robbie.
@@TheNylter To be fair, Robbie would have made that move and drove up the side of Hamlin to get his car on two wheels. Then proceed to two wheel it around the track at least once.
Especially since LeTarte and Jeff Gordon were teamed together for do long.
I was there and it was amazing what Ross did and after that everyone was at the merch hauler for trackhouse and buying Ross merch like it was going out of style.
I'm only watching this because Ross Chastain brought more excitement to NASCAR 🍉❤
That may very well be the best Martinsville race I've ever seen.
Agreed!
I feel bad for Bell. When he screamed "hey mom and dad, we did it" they were probably busy watching replays of Ross's move.
@@chucklesthered2338 LOL
So much better than the first race!
How? The is the second worst Martinsville race ever, only behind the spring Martinsville race this year. Just because something amazing happened on the last lap doesn't mean the previous 499 laps weren't boring as all hell.
Hamlin leaning against his car after the race with his mouth wide open was priceless.
when I saw that I thought the same thing 🤣🤣that's what a state of shock looks like.
I can't get enough of that.🍉🤪
And to be beat by Ross was the salt in the wound!
i need to make that my screensaver. or, blow it up into a big poster for my wall even.
Twist and shout. Denny's out. ❤️👍👍
70mph faster than anyone else, wow
@Greta Thunberg it's past your bedtime Greta, get to bed you have a global warming speech in the morning!
@Greta Thunberg 🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
He was two seco dos faster than the “normal” fastest lap
@Greta Thunberg you are hilarious for the name and pfp lol
That was soooooo awesome to watch! The announcers reaction made it even better! 🤣😂
Ok...5th gear, foot to floor, take your hands off the wheel and close your eyes....RC is my new hero!
This played perfectly into Nascar's hands. Took the whole spotlight off of McBubbles.
I'm not a Nascar fan but I've watched this a 100 times it feels like. I may have to watch and see if he wins the chip. That was so freaking amazing 👏🏽
I laugh my balls off every time I watch him passing all those cars so fast.
same when you do it in a game lol. that shit puts me on the floor
this move by watermelon farmer Ross Chastain is now forever called the balls to the wall pass. Ross has balls the size of watermelons. amazing
This is the first time in forever that Nascar was actually exciting. Here's to the new meta
I'm no NASCAR fan but i'm here for it. 😂😂😂😂
A lot of factors were in play for Ross to pull that move off. His entry into the wall was spot on, no one was expecting the move to block him, and the fact that on the last corner and no one got spun out. Now that the cat's out of the bag, any one of those things can happen the next time someone tries to do the Chastain move.
I have no access to any nascar races where I live, but damn I want to go to one now! I’m a huge fan now! Go Ross!!!
Been to many races but Dayton was very fast, Charlotte 600 is very long and North Wilksboro free to get in if you jump the fence
Gonna take more than “video game” moves to win the championship. This was ridiculous but obviously smart of him.
A Video Game Move Wall at Martinsville was Really really Awesome for checkered Flag, and Ross Chastain join in for the Final Championship 4 at Phoenix is gonna Get FUEGOS!!!
I hate to say this that move was better than " pass in the grass
Why is there even a discussion about "rules"??!!??
That was a one in a million move, not something they can regularly do.
Totally agree 👍
this pretty much. Those who are fighting for top5 are now going to have to decide if they hug the track for the advantage or cover the outside to avoid getting a wall rider to slingshot past them.
Hopefully, the new rules won't be too strict on drivers trying to innovate. This move just brought in a ton of new fans into NASCAR.
they are absolute idiots if they now make rules to prevent this from happening again. sooo, nascar being nascar, i fully expect them to.
yeah but if every driver wallrides almost every race on white flag, something needs to be done on it
@@mercamia why? Who cares? If one chooses to damage their car, so what? That move is only even possible at a couple tracks. And, it wouldn't even work the majority of the times tried. It's not suddenly going to be everyone's last lap go-to move.
@@mercamia it screws up the steering.. they could literally only try it on the last lap last corner really
The last move anyone ever expected, at the last second that move could be used successfully in the race and it worked.
Denny in an interview about himself and Chastain incident earlier this year said, "Ross who?"
It was a great race hope chastine wins the championship
Edwards tried it and failed, Larson tried it and failed, both on tracks that the track prevents the move without a rule change but now that an underdog does it and wins we need to stop it. The tracks will determine when and where the move can be used, no rule needed.
Exactly.
@@zeke7634 I don’t understand when people say it would’ve just crumpled into the wall. I’m sure there would have been a lot more damage with the last gen but since he was carrying so much momentum and still flooring I feel like the car would just keep going no matter what
@@zeke7634 no I don’t. I also still can’t picture the car just crumpling up
Best last lap in nascar history!
The reason this worked at Martinsville, and wont work at other tracks, is the difference in corner speed vs straightaway speed. At Martinsville these cars are braking to at least 45% of their straightaway speed. No other tracks do this. Chastain was slowing as he scrubbed around the wall, but nowhere near the extent the others were braking. Numbers I would like to see is what percentage of Chastain's speed was lost when he got off the wall on the front stretch. At Bristol, if you lose 12 to 15 percent of your speed on the wall, but only lose 10 percent of your speed under normal braking, no advantage.
it would work at any short track with the finish line just past turn 4.
Awsome race 🏁
this dude is TEXTBOOK "Eff it, IM GETTIN IT!"
Here's an idea, lets make a rule to prevent the most exciting thing we have ever seen from happening again. No new rules please. Let us just enjoy the moment.
If everybody does this on the last lap it could be very problematic though. Same in quali.
@@Tarod5 Everybody can't do it, most tracks won't support it, and if someone does it again, why is that a problem anyway? This was the best move that stock car racing has seen in the last 25 years. More of it would not be a bad thing.
@@pilotguy-w2d It's among the best move I've ever seen in every motorsport. But gaining 2s on the last turn on the last lap on a shortrack like this one is too strong to not do it (any driver can do this not just Chastain). If I was a crew chief, I would talk to my drivers if they consider doing it. It's probably only worth it on this track but whatever it could become something stupid with half of the field chosing to wall ride.
I just don't want this great move becoming the start of a bad trend that would be a meme for sure.
I would love to hear the opinions of the panel about which is more important to the organization the driver's championship vs the owner's championship. They didn't mention that the 5 team advanced for the owner's championship and the 9 did not.
He did what he had to
I just became a Nascar fan. My god that was amazing.
Chastain's move has had me cackling like an idiot for days. 😂
Richard Petty talked about reenforcing the right side and riding the armco years ago.
Ross is my pick to win championship now
Doubt it, someone is going to get suspended the whole next season, but Chastain won't make it. Just as Ty gonna get it big. Hope not, but is the way it looks.
@@Punkgambitc that’s next season and no one is getting suspended, Ty Gibbs is xfinity and Ross is Cup. And Chastain already made it so idk what your talking about
@@ncrg_official i mean that if Chastain is in position for a championship win, he has a lot of drivers willing to take him out, and the way nascar is reaction to things the driver who does it is probably getting suspended. And i know ty is in Xfinity, he is behaiving like a spoiled brat, and probably will get his on next xfinity race.
I kinda hope Denny gets his payba k in Phoenix. Ross earned it and the title race would be the perfect time to do it.
Therapist: there is no plastic wall from trackmania, it can't hurt you
Me:
Ross is my favorite driver now after that move
That move will be tried
More now
"What makes sports great, there is no script"- Steve Letarte. WWE style wrestling is not a sport according to Steve & I couldn't agree more.
MarioKart move with a Star...100% Legend!
yup. someone needs to edit the video and put coins in front of chastain's car, all along it's path, and add the music of his car acquiring each coin as he hits them all. with a big star at the end.
Haven't paid any attention to NASCAR in years. I used to have season tickets to Kansas Speedway. I lost all interest. Today, I'm interested. I'll be watching the next race.
Steve is a busy man this week.
This must be one of the coolest moves in racing history!
Ross makes NASCAR relevant and exciting again. Way to go. I’m buying watermelon 🍉 all next year.
Greatest move I ever saw
"Have we ever seen this before?" Go back to Darlington in earlier days. To win at Darlington you used to have what was known as the "Darlington Stripe" that ran down the passenger side of the car because the fastest way around the track was to bounce that side off what used to be the turn 4 and is current!y turn 2.
It would be awesome if this happened more !!!
The stuff legends are made of!
Carl Edwards did it, Karl Larson did it, but know one executed it correctly and with full commitment like Ross Chastain. The Ross Chastain Maneuver will live in Infamy.
I've always been a HMS/JRM fan so I'm a big CE fan I love he's gonna fight for another title but Bell has the momentum at the right time I feel like he's gonna pull it off Sunday. Anybody but the 22 lol
No new rule. They just need to reconstruct final turn walls on a few racetracks....walls that will significantly bleed speed from a car that's grinding into it. I'm sure they can do testing and come up with the right material, etc..
"The Move" is what I've heard it called. Interesting technical analysis. And he did not steer at all?
Don't really need to when the wall's turning for you. In most racing, its recommended to take your hands off right before a hard impact due to how the wheels being jerked around is strong enough to break your hands.
It's the Martinsville lap record too isn't it
The Martinsville Paperclip Wall Whip - History was made.
This is one of those moves where the driver did nothing wrong - it was perfectly legal, and Chastain deserves credit for having the nerve to try it.
At the same time, NASCAR should never allow this to happen again. Though I agree that the correct answer is to do something about the design of the car so that it is no longer an *advantage* to do this, rather than trying to make rules against it which potentially would lead to messy judgement calls.
As some others have observed, now that everyone has seen this, the next time someone tries it, *someone* will defend against it. And that could end up making a really big mess. Better to take that possibility off the table.
Again, though, all credit to Chastain for doing it the first time. Finding loopholes in the rules is part of the great tradition of NASCAR.
But so is closing those loopholes once they're discovered.
Best part was how Chastain admitted that Hamlin schooled him during the race, which was the reason for the hail Mary move. Hamlin looked stunned. WTF
Best part of Bell's victory is some of the crew members were on bubbles team earlier in the year. Congrats to those crew members and Bell. Ross is the man, been a fan since he started a xfinity race and Harvick used him up for a win.
That was a great idea by Ross
This reminds me of watching dale years ago ! Whatever it takes🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
This literally only could have been done at Martinsville specifically. To my knowledge, it's one of the only tight turns that would actually give you the shorter distance to just take the turn along the wall. All other tracks it would be more efficient to just drive normally.
Ross you are my Hero 😎
I'm not a Ross Chastain fan but that was incredible and the reason it worked out for him is how tough these new cars is built and is the reason it is hurting drivers last year in the 6th gen car this wouldn't have worked the new car is built like a tank it's the only reason it worked for half of the track maybe one corner if that in the old cars
That move was crazy
I've always wondered why teams haven't put a pair of tires on the right side of the car at short tracks so they could just run around the wall like Ross. It'd be like rollers so the car doesn't get hurt or slow down.
You mean like perpendicular to the car?
@@bennybtw5084 Yeah, basically a tire that will roll along the wall that's between the car and the wall. Gonna need one tire near the front and one near the back on the wall side of the car.
It use to be the fastest way around a track was at the bottom, Ross Chastain proved that wrong!
he bowled Hamlin under and after the showing of Wallace? double good move...
Michael Waltrip would love to host the show with that one guy.
Great move, Ross! It can not be the norm for NASCAR racing, for many reasons, and they should ban it. But great move! Hope you win it all! And to all those people booing Denny Hamlin, get a life! He has handled himself perfectly this season, even with Ross and his own driver. Booing Denny is dead wrong! Ross smashed into him and took him out. All Denny did was pinch Ross. Perfect. And now Denny has cut Bubba's pay for his antics as an owner. And Denny was a consummate pro congratulating Ross after Martinsville. Denny has shown his class and professionalism all season long. Respect.
Don't need to change anything good enough rules leave it to the drivers it was an awesome move
This set is looking like a 90’s tech company doing a makeshift product release event…furnished by IKEA
one way you should make them stay off the wall is to lay spikes where the tires would be running the wall =)
I could see Dale Earnhardt doing this😂😂
7:10 it already isn’t a goal, it is an opportunity that presents itself in an incredibly small window and the cost is destroying a race car. Doing it for a cutoff spot or championship win would really be the only places to do it. Maybe if you were like a LaJoie trying to get a win mid season.
If nascar makes a rule for that move it will be just another reason to not watch nascar and to think they will start doing this every week is a dumb
It was a bananas move. I'd like to see mathematical odds of not wrecking it. The glory in making it is all deserved. But I wouldn't want to be him having to weigh trying it again
Kudos to him for having the Ballz to try it and it paid off big time . The best part is he eliminated Hamlin! NASCAR has been dieing for last 15+ years. This got people talking and even my friends who gave up on nascar.
one thing he did was lay the right side on the wall instead of slamming it.
And a lot of the negative comments fail to realize the reality of that.
Every time I see the name Gordon I think it's Jeff lol
Have the Daytona 500 at the beginning, and than the coke zero 400 at the end of the season. Like, honestly. That would be the best thing in this points system.
Ross has made non Nascar fans click on NASCAR contents. Greatest move in motorsports history.
Now question. What's NASCAR going to do about this move? If you ask me don't do anything! If anything do something to the car and race track to incorporate this😁.
Something exciting came from the chase? No way!
Will that move happen at every Martinsville race if your running second,third,fouth,fifth,or further back.
On top of Christopher Bell's walk-off win, which he needed due to Bubba's poor anger management skills, we have the most exciting move I've ever seen. If NASCAR doesn't come up with a rule about this, we'll see it again. While it was cool to watch, there are a lot of things that could have gone wrong, especially since nobody saw it coming. Carl Edwards tried the same thing at Kansas years ago, and it was pretty cool to see that, but it didn't work because the steel bodied cars crumple and tires blow. The composite bodies are strong enough (too strong, IMO) to let this work. It makes for exciting viewing, but it's just so dangerous.
I can’t wait in ten years to tell my kids about this move
So as an outsider looking in
I think nascar, as an industry, has an opportunity to either capitalize on here, or be forgotten by the masses once again. This one moment has more than 10 times the viewership of the Daytona 500. And it's only been a week
NASCAR can come out and say they're banning this, or they're changing the cars or the walls so that it just can't be done anymore. Perfectly reasonable. Also boring. And boredom is a killer for sport. Especially a sport that already has the masses looking at it as just a boring thing to do when you're drunk.
If they can figure a way to make it so much safe. This gives the finale of any race it's possible in, the ability to actually have an exciting finish. The thing that makes the NFL so interesting, is that genuinely the game can turn. Is it really can't do that. It's kind of always the same like little group of four people that you know are going to win by those 50 left.
I hope they figure out a way to capitalize on this, and use it to elevate the sport to a new level. I won't be surprised if they take the safe road and don't make any changes beyond UN not allowing this to happen anymore. But I will be disappointed
sick lol. i never feel good about doing this in games unless im just getting stomped. what a driver to think of that lol
Add ball bearings to the right side of every car so this is an option at all times. Go fast or go home.
Keep in mind, Hamlin had Kyle's crew. They might not have tried too hard, because they have seen what JGR has done to Kyle.
I thought this was going to be Jeff Gordon, the only Gordon in NASCAR.
GO ROSS!!!!!
Makes a good qualifying lap also
@Golden Auto
Just bolt rollerblades to the side, easy fix.
Letarte needs to get off commentary. So does Burton. Their high pitch talking over another and shouting for no reason, treating the viewers like they've never watched a race before, pontificating, and let's add all the clips of them missing obvious things and being wrong. Nascar is in a good place right now. I have 2 friends who are getting into it. They keep asking me why these guys are shouting and talking to fans like they are 5 years old
10 years with Jeff Gordon and Dale Jr and 15 wins.
Something they failed to mention in this working the way it did is the timing of it.
If Ross was a second further back and tried this while it would have been spectacular, he wouldn't have beat Hamlin to the finish line and would have just been the laughing stock of NASCAR.
If Ross was a second further ahead and tried this he would have slammed into the back of Keslowski going 70mph faster than him and due to Newtons 1st law would have likely lost all momentum propelling Keslowski through the finish line and wouldn't have beaten Hamlin.
"Will the real life Lightning McQueen please stand up"
Nobody is talking about what could happen if somebody did that and slammed into somebody with that precise reckless driving, yes it was awesome But I have a feeling they will outlaw this very quickly due to what could happen
I'd love to design this show a little set so the 3 shot doesn't look like it's a couple of flat screens in Gordon't garage. Intelligent commentary needs the equivalent setting.
Larson was the first to attempt it, thats why Ross did it
Can someone please explain what a "Walk Off Win" is as mentioned in this show and many other? I searched on the web for that term and did not get any answer as it pertain to auto racing.
A walk of win in this context is somebody needed a win to advance into the next round and got it.
@@bennybtw5084 Thanks for the definition.
Well I do not want to see the move done at every race, it will not be good. That’s my opinion thanks for the show.