{"id":9316,"date":"2022-10-31T20:07:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T20:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/random-nascar-driver-stuns-to-qualify-for-championship-with-gamecube-move\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T20:07:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T20:07:48","slug":"random-nascar-driver-stuns-to-qualify-for-championship-with-gamecube-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/random-nascar-driver-stuns-to-qualify-for-championship-with-gamecube-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: NASCAR Driver Stuns To Qualify For Championship With GameCube Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I never knew if it would actually work&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Video games and sports have <em>a lot<\/em> of overlap, and we&#8217;ve spent a lot of time trying to recreate our favourite stunts and moves in various sports games, but NASCAR racer Ross Chastain has done the opposite \u2014 he recreated a move he used to perform in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/nascar_2005_chase_for_the_cup\">NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup<\/a> on GameCube to secure <em>the final qualifying spot for the championship<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Shared on Twitter by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barstoolsports\/status\/1586836220176629760\">@barstoolsports<\/a> and <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenplin\/status\/1586845813434552321\">Steve Lin<\/a> from the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamehistory.org\/\">Video Game History Foundation<\/a>, this risky manoeuvre is known as a &#8216;wall ride&#8217; and involves literally driving right up against the wall to squeeze past the other cards.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/random-nascar-driver-stuns-to-qualify-for-championship-with-gamecube-move\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Random: NASCAR Driver Stuns To Qualify For Championship With GameCube Move<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I never knew if it would actually work&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Video games and sports have <em>a lot<\/em> of overlap, and we&#8217;ve spent a lot of time trying to recreate our favourite stunts and moves in various sports games, but NASCAR racer Ross Chastain has done the opposite \u2014 he recreated a move he used to perform in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/nascar_2005_chase_for_the_cup\">NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup<\/a> on GameCube to secure <em>the final qualifying spot for the championship<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Shared on Twitter by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barstoolsports\/status\/1586836220176629760\">@barstoolsports<\/a> and <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenplin\/status\/1586845813434552321\">Steve Lin<\/a> from the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamehistory.org\/\">Video Game History Foundation<\/a>, this risky manoeuvre is known as a &#8216;wall ride&#8217; and involves literally driving right up against the wall to squeeze past the other cards.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/random-nascar-driver-stuns-to-qualify-for-championship-with-gamecube-move\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}