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Friends who follow motorsports may know that the 2023 season of National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing Motor Racing (NASCAR, also known as the National modified car Race) will begin this month. The organizers of the event recently announced the adjustment of the rules for the new season, which impressively wrote a new rule: there will be a penalty for rubbing against the wall and crossing the corner.

The new rule is clearly aimed at the "must-kill" performed by Trackhouse driver Ross Chastain at the end of last season. I still remember the relevant reports I saw at that time. The English media used the word "wall-riding", while the Japanese media in Secondary two used the word "skill", "wall walk" and "four steps" to describe the operation of Charleston. At that moment, a line that had already been engraved into DNA appeared in my mind: go to triangle arrow!

Although the actual situation is not so exaggerated, but for the real racing sports, the operation of Charston is already very incredible.

Isn't this the only operation in the game? Here is a review for those who do not know the situation. The Martinsville race in October 2022 was so intense that Charston was only tenth in the final lap. If you cross the line with this ranking, then Charston will miss the championship race in Phoenix, Arizona next month. It was then that the magic operation that stunned the whole audience appeared.

There are still two corners 3 and 4 to pass before reaching the finish line, and the normal operation is, of course, to decelerate into the corner and accelerate out of the corner, but the best corner line has been occupied by the vehicles in front of them. Charston chose to put all his eggs in one basket, turning without loosening the throttle at the same time, the car understeered at high speed, was inertia thrown into the outer circle of the track, and the guardrail of the track crossed the group of cars that decelerated in front of them.

With this operation that no one thought of, Charston, who finished 10th a few seconds ago, crossed the line with the fifth place a few seconds later and successfully qualified for the championship. For a while, the members of the Trackhouse team, the live audience and the commentators of the race were all boiling. Most people's reaction is: is there still this kind of operation?

The media have called it "racing game-like operation" (video game move), and racing journalist Jeff Gluck has also named it Hail Melon. There is a melon in his name because Charston grows dried watermelons in his hometown, and when he became a race car driver, he was sponsored by watermelon-related companies, and his own signature celebration was smashing watermelons.

Fernando Alonso, a famous Formula one driver named Charlton, the destroyer of Ross watermelons, was also stunned by Chaston's operation. "this is the best in motorsport in 2022," he said. "We've all done this in video games, but we never thought it would come true."

Indeed, players who have played racing games must have tried this in the virtual world. And in the post-match interview, Charston also revealed that his inspiration is indeed the game. He said he grew up playing NASCAR 2005 on Nintendo GameCube, a common skill in the game, adding, "I did it when I was eight."

But as the excitement and excitement cooled, the controversy over Hail Melon began to surface. The most obvious controversy is-is this a foul?

Some people think that this is a suspected dangerous driving operation. Prior to the new rules, NASCAR's penalty rules did not explicitly prohibit driving like Hail Melon, but there was a discretionary rule that "operations that violate safety regulations can be punished." Many drivers have begun to call on organizers to amend the rules to prevent such behavior from happening again, after all, it is a matter of their own safety.

"violation of safety regulations" may be punished, and some people think that this move is "cheating". If this is allowed, then similar operations will be seen in every race in the future. Some netizens joked that "on the last lap of next year's race, all the fences on the field will be washed out."

From the point of view of the volume, in fact, most people do not approve of punishment or even prohibit this move. The audience who watched the fun needless to say, and Larry McReynolds, a special commentator of the media, also spoke out after the game in support of Charston's behavior.

McReynolds publicly supported Charston McReynolds in the interview, saying that Chaston did not take shortcuts, malicious collisions and other fouls, but only showed his blood as a race car driver, and if the organizers changed the rules in response to this move, that would be "shameful". Like many viewers, why should he forbid such creative behavior without breaking the rules?

But now we all know that the organizers decided to impose time penalties for similar acts.

In fact, this trick is more effective in reality. I think the most wonderful thing is that Charston is described as a "racing game", but the reality is that it is not as slippery as Charston most of the time in the game world.

After Chaston's stunning move, Justin Melillo, editor of foreign media Traxion, tried 12 different racing games and found that there were only two games in which the Hail Melon could cross corners faster than normal, one of which was Nazca Racing 21 Ignition (NASCAR 21: Ignition) released in 2021, and the other was iRacing, which may be closer to a professional simulator than the game.

NASCAR 21 Ignition Fox Channel 8 host Kevin Connolly also used "iRacing" to reproduce, and used a full set of professional simulation equipment. Although it is not easy to operate, it can be done, and the corner against the wall is faster than the normal corner.

It is worth mentioning that "iRacing", as a racing simulator with strict rules, explicitly forbids the operation of "iRacing" because it is considered to be a running method that real drivers will not use, and it is unfair for players to use it. Other racing games may be for similar reasons, changing ways to make it harder to rub against the wall.

Chase Briscoe, one of the drivers eliminated by Charston at the time, tried to repeat that trick in the 2020 NASCAR Heat 5, but failed, and the car ran out of control after a few seconds of driving close to the fence. In fact, this is an anti-cheating mechanism deliberately set by the development team.

Brisco himself filmed the verification process (overexposed), while in the overlooking racing game Circuit Superstars, players can rub against the wall and cross the corner faster than normal, but the development team added a penalty rule. Players can overtake, but the final result will be penalized.

Ring Road superstars in the more popular racing games, the operation of rubbing against the wall and crossing the corner can be achieved mostly. For example, "Need for Speed unruly", which was just released at the end of last year, can be done, not to mention the torpedo-ridden "Ultimate Speed Horizon 5", not to mention the relatively higher fidelity of "GT Racing 7".

It is one thing to rub against a corner in GT Racing 7, but it is another to see how practical it is. In most works, racing against the wall can cause a very serious stall, which may be used against low-and middle-end AI or budding players, but it may not work against players who are slightly good at playing.

In reality, car accidents can kill people, and not many people will be as crazy as Charston, but the game is different, and there is no cost for players to play casually. As a result, in most racing games, the development team will add different forms of restrictions, some like "Thermal NASCAR 5" will make you rub against the wall and get out of control, some like "GT Racing 7" will cause serious stall of cars that rub against the wall, and some will add time penalties like "Ring Road Stars" just to make the game look as much like a real car race as possible.

This is why Hail Melon works well in "iRacing", because "iRacing" is a more realistic professional simulator than most racing games, while the development team chooses to limit the rules of the race, and the game itself is as realistic as possible.

Conclusion after the new rules issued by the organizers of the NASCAR event, the debate over whether similar operations should be considered illegal continues.

There is no doubt that this move is likely to cause a serious accident, what if Charston loses control and crashes into the front row of the team when he goes out of the corner? But there are also some viewers who are worried about whether the new rules will affect some of the previously compliant overtaking methods. For example, overtaking from the outer circle close to the edge of the track weakens the appreciation of the race.

It can be expected that the opinions of all parties will continue to argue. The only thing that is certain is that Charston's "turning against the wall" has gone down in the annals of NASCAR and the whole sport, while his car, which still looks like it after the race, has been collected by the Trackhouse team as an exhibit. The damage marks on the right side of the vehicle will continue to remind you that there has been such a magical scene in this sport.

Reference:

All over the world, the formula forbids the use of NASCAR formula. Please tell me about the latest information about you. Com (famitsu.com)

How well does Ross Chastain's' video game move' work? | Traxion

[Pockrass] NASCAR says there will be a time penalty for a "Chastain move" at all tracks. : NASCAR (reddit.com)

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: UCGmedia (ID:UCG_Media), author: FJ

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