{"id":1719561,"date":"2022-11-01T07:51:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1719561"},"modified":"2022-11-01T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:21:00","slug":"ross-chastain-rides-wall-to-reach-nascar-championship-in-stunning-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ross-chastain-rides-wall-to-reach-nascar-championship-in-stunning-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Chastain Rides Wall to Reach NASCAR Championship in Stunning Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fross-chastain-rides-wall-to-reach-nascar-championship-in-stunning-finish%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1719561&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ross Chastain\u2019s aggressive style hasn\u2019t made a lot of friends in NASCAR\u2019s top series. Now, he\u2019ll be contending for a championship because of that approach.<\/p>\n<p>Chastain pinned his Chevrolet against the outside wall of the 0.526-mile Martinsville Speedway and was sailing at some 70 mph faster than the rest of the field, careening from 10th place to fifth on the final lap to give Trackhouse Racing its first championship appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Bell won his way into NASCAR\u2019s championship race while Chastain used a move more suited for a video game to also advance in Sunday\u2019s thrilling regular-season finale.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Chastain credited his video game playing for the dramatic move on the final lap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, played a lot of NASCAR 2005 on the GameCube with (younger brother) Chad growing up,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can get away with it. I never knew if it would actually work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I did that when I was eight years old. I grabbed fifth gear, asked off of two on the last lap if we needed it, and we did. I couldn\u2019t tell who was leading. I made the choice, grabbed fifth gear down the back. Full committed. Basically let go of the wheel, hoping I didn\u2019t catch the turn four access gate or something crazy. But I was willing to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell had to win to advance to the final four next week at Phoenix Raceway and he pulled it off to give Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota one spot in the finale. Bell also won on the Charlotte Motor Speedway road course in the final race of the second round of the playoffs, so has now twice advanced with victories.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/chastain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/chastain.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Chastain rides the wall at Martinsville\" class=\"wp-image-24465323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/chastain.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/chastain.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Ross Chastain rides the wall at Martinsville<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But this win was different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan, I say it all the time, but the driver is just a small piece of the puzzle for these races,\u201d Bell said. \u201cThe reason why this car won today is because it was the best car on the racetrack. Adam Stevens, Tyler William, this entire 20 group, they just never give up. When our back is against the wall, looks like it\u2019s over, they show up and give me the fastest car out here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, man. Words can\u2019t describe this feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final four drivers in the Cup Series winner-take-all finale are Bell, Joey Logano, Chase Elliott, and Chastain, who bumped foe Denny Hamlin from the championship with his spectacular last-lap scramble.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/chastain2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/chastain2.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Chastain talks to the media\" class=\"wp-image-24465322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/chastain2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/chastain2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/chastain2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/chastain2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Ross Chastain talks to the media<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs spectacular as it was, now the box is open. \u2026 There needs to be a rule against this one. I don\u2019t know if you want the whole field riding the wall coming to the checkered flag,\u201d driver Joey Logano said, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KellyCrandall\/status\/1586842122275409920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to RACER Magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hamlin, while disappointed, was impressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat move. Brilliant. Certainly a great move,\u201d he said of Chastain\u2019s tactic. \u201cWhen you have no other choice, it certainly is easy to do that. But well executed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bell passed Chase Briscoe, who also needed to win to advance to the championship, with five laps to go to earn the automatic berth into the championship race. It was Bell who was caught in Bubba Wallace\u2019s retaliation of Kyle Larson at Las Vegas and Bell being collected in that crash dropped him to last of the eight drivers.<\/p>\n<p>He knew since then it would take a victory for Bell to race for his first Cup title, and he pulled it off on NASCAR\u2019s oldest track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Chastain\u2019s aggressive style hasn\u2019t made a lot of friends in NASCAR\u2019s top series. Now, he\u2019ll be contending for a championship because of that approach. 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