Martinsville Speedway is the final race weekend of the Round of 8 for both the NASCAR Cup Series and the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Everyone in the playoffs is going to race their hardest to get into the Championship 4, not to mention the other drivers, who are out there to do their best. Of course, there’s no shortage of crazy things that can happen as well. That can make for good television.
Xfinity 500
Rarely do you get two races in the same weekend where the very end of the race is the only thing that you’re going to remember. That’s what you got in Martinsville.
Sunday’s race will be remembered for Ross Chastain’s move on the final lap of the race to lock himself into the Championship 4.
UNBELIEVABLE!@RossChastain floors it along the wall to go from 10th to 5th and advance to the CHAMPIONSHIP! #NASCARPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/9qX3eq7T6h
— NASCAR on NBC (@NASCARonNBC) October 30, 2022
It’s a good thing that it will be because you might not like the actual truth about that race. NASCAR needs to go back to the drawing board.
Back to Chastain’s move. I didn’t even notice what he was doing on the final lap. It was like someone hit the fast-forward button. Rick Allen was able to catch up with Chastain just as he crossed the start-finish line. I only saw a bunch of smoke out of the corner of my eye and had no idea what was happening.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is always the most observant of the booth commentators and made out exactly what Chastain was doing. After the race, Chastain claimed that it was a move that he had tried out on NASCAR 2005: Chase For The Cup with his brother Chad.
I fully admit that I did stuff like what Chastain did Sunday on video games when I was younger. It never worked at Martinsville.
Chastain’s video game move has probably given NASCAR the most positive viral publicity in quite a while. Our former colleague Davey Segal (now with SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) put together this collage of reaction tweets.
A look at just some of the reaction from the motorsports world to @RossChastain‘s move yesterday.
It’s been one of the biggest stories in all of sports today 🤯 #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/ikSTmTpHPE
— Davey Segal (@DaveyCenter) October 31, 2022
The move made No. 1 on SportsCenter’s Top 10 and trended for hours on Twitter in the United States. If anything, this move will garner Chastain more respect from his peers than anything else he’s ever done in Cup. Given how 2022 has gone for Chastain, he could…
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