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A regularisation tweak has efficaciously ended immoderate anticipation of seeing a repetition of the determination dubbed the "greatest successful racing".

NASCAR operator Ross Chastain near greats speechless aft his last-lap wall-riding effort astatine the penultimate contention of the play past October saw him publication a spot successful the winner-takes-all finale.

With a thigh to go, Denny Hamlin was successful presumption to determination into the last 4 and the title race, earlier the Trackhouse Racing driver's effort saw him walk 5 cars and interruption the thigh grounds to virtually pip Hamlin astatine the post.

"Simply the Greatest Move successful Racing ... since Alex Zanardi made "the pass" [sic]," erstwhile Team proprietor Chip Ganassi - who's aged squad became Trackhouse - wrote connected Twitter.

In a memo to teams caput of this weekend's pre-season accumulation contention successful Los Angeles, NASCAR rulemakers said Chastain's determination is the precedent.

"To guarantee our competitors bash not employment strategies that whitethorn compromise the information of themselves, different competitors oregon fans, NASCAR volition contented a clip punishment to immoderate conveyance that attempts an unsafe manoeuvre specified arsenic the 1 performed astatine Martinsville," the memo read.

Speaking connected the determination aft the race, Chastain - a seventh-generation watermelon husbandman - said helium was inspired by a video game.

"I played a batch of NASCAR 2005 connected the GameCube with [my brother] Chad increasing up and you could get distant with it," said Chastain with a wry smile.

"I ne'er knew if it would work. I did that erstwhile I was 8 years old. I grabbed 5th gear. I asked [my unit chief] disconnected of [turn] 2 if we needed it and we did.

"I couldn't spot who was leading. I conscionable made the choice. I grabbed 5th cogwheel down the backmost and afloat committed.

"Once I got against the partition I fundamentally fto spell of the instrumentality and conscionable hoped it didn't drawback the crook 4 entree gross oregon thing crazy. But I was consenting to bash it."

Defending champion Joey Logano besides foreshadowed the regularisation tweak coming into spot past year.

"I mean, it was awesome, it was cool. It happened for the archetypal time," helium said.

"There's nary regularisation against it. There needs to beryllium a regularisation against this 1 due to the fact that I don't cognize if you privation the full tract riding the partition coming to the chequered flag.

"I don't cognize if it's the safest happening for the operator oregon the fans erstwhile you person a car close up astatine the partition hauling the message similar that. What if that fence, gate, wasn't closed each the way? What if it was bent and caught his car? That's a large hazard that Ross was consenting to take."

The different notable regularisation tweak would present let races to proceed successful airy rainfall connected immoderate ovals.

NASCAR has ne'er tally successful the bedewed connected ovals owed to information concerns regarding the banking astatine astir speedways.

The tracks that volition present perchance let moving successful the bedewed see respective of the smallest ovals with the slightest banking - including Martinsville.

The NASCAR play gets underway this play with the Busch Clash astatine the LA Memorial Coliseum.

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