We probably wouldn't admit that we learned anything from the game. Most of the people aren't NASCAR drivers.
The driver who was lagging behind was Ross Chastain. He blasted himself all the way up to 5th after throwing his car along the track's walls. The Hail Mary heroics made him a well-earned spot in the next stage of the Championship, with people amusingly explaining the move in video game terms or trying to recreate it in a game.
Where did he get that idea? He played video games as a child.
"I used to play a lot of NASCAR 2005 on the GameCube when I was a kid," he said in the post race interview. I didn't know it would work.
The "wall ride" is a game-breaking bug that can only be pulled off at the site of the race. The slingshotting is especially dramatic because it is only half a mile long and the corners are a short distance.
It looks like it was just hacking or an unfair speed boost. The crowd is in this video and it's amazing.
The other racers could not believe it.
"That's the best thing I've ever done in my life," said the driver. It was a video game.
It's not easy to duplicate on a computer. Chase Briscoe, a NASCAR driver who finished in 9th place, uploaded a clip of himself trying to pull of a wall ride in the NASCAR Heat video game, only for his car to clip into a random piece of geometry.
iRacing is an online racing simulation.
I was banned from iracing for doing it a decade ago. It works on that place.
The good news is that you can learn from video games. Scientists say that screen time could make you a little smarter.
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