NASCAR Driver Pulls Some Video Game Crap, Thanks GameCube In Interview After

“I played a lot of NASCAR 2005 on the GameCube which I had growing up,” said Chastain during a post-race interview shared on Twitter. “You could get away with it [in the game] and I never knew if it would actually work. I mean, I did that when I was eight years old.”

Chastain explained that he wasn’t sure who was in the lead and talked to his crew before making the decision to, in real life, recreate a maneuver he had previously only attempted in a video game back when he was eight. The driver says that once he got against the wall he “basically let go of the wheel” and hoped he didn’t catch anything sticking out of the barrier, like an access gate. Chastain said he was “willing to do it” to secure himself a position in the NASCAR Championship. (His sudden surge came at the expense of competitor Denny Hamlin, who had previously been on track to make the cut.)

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Soon after Chastain pulled off the wild wall slide, others online began recreating it in various video games. Fellow NASCAR driver Chase Briscoe shared a clip on Twitter of him trying and failing to do the same move in a game. Meanwhile, a professional sim-racer shared a clip of themself pulling off the dangerous move in iRacing, a hyper-realistic racing simulator.

As someone who was very bad at driving games for a very long time, it’s nice to know my “ride the wall in every track in Gran Turismo” strategy is not only smart but totally viable in professional racing.