NASCAR Executive Shoots Down Kyle Larson and Joey Logano’s Hopes of Banning Ross Chastain’s Insane Maneuver

Published 11/02/2022, 7:30 AM EDT

While everyone celebrates Ross Chastain’s video game move at Martinsville, there were a few drivers who had nothing but bitterness for the Florida man. Earlier, Joey Logano and Kyle Larson had hoped that NASCAR would go on to ban the move made by the watermelon man in the final lap of the race. However, later, Dave Moody of Sirius XM Radio shut their argument down.

Dave Moody said, “NASCAR’s Steve O’Donnell on @RossChastain final lap: “We’ve seen similar attempts, but never successfully. (It was) certainly within the rules.” No indication of any interest in outlawing similar moves. “We don’t think it’s right to change the rules after 35 races.”

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Larson had earlier stated that there should be a rule to prevent such maneuvers from ever taking place again. His main argument is that “It’s just a bad look.” Logano also reiterated Larson and called for a change of rules as he thought that drivers across Cup, Xfinity, and Truck might now choose to try the same move and that might be dangerous.

Fans agree with Dave Moody on talks of changing the rules

Fans agreed with what Moody had to say about not altering the rules with 35 races already over.

Fans stated,

"So stop crying."
— Michael Curry (@_michaelcurry_) November 1, 2022

Heck if I have a knock about Nascar over the yrs it's the changing of rules thru the year but I agree how can you ban a move like that! Besides it's gonna be far and few between that try and make it work, Ross honestly was very lucky to pull it off, awesome!
— randy 19d (@rsharp19d_1) November 1, 2022

Why do people want the rule changed anyway. Just enjoy it
— Sam Hall (@samh8876) November 1, 2022

Don’t change it at all! That was the most exciting thing to happen to @NASCAR in a long time!
— Josh (@j_douglas9) November 1, 2022

I still wonder how you would police a rule meant to prevent this. Haven’t heard any good theories…
— Chad H. (@TheChadian) November 1, 2022

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They JUST altered a rule for Byron
— Nick (6-1) 🦬 🍉 (@JoshAllenGOD) November 1, 2022

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But what can be said about NASCAR, just weeks ago did they alter the rules to help out Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron? The organization might pull off something similar and there is no policing in it too. Perhaps there could be a chance that this would be an exclusive one and only Ross Chastain’s big-brain move.

Moreover, the drivers calling for a ban also argue how they could not do such a thing earlier in the championship and hence called it unfair. Guess, if Larson or Logano did that stunt, they would not be calling for a ban!

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Srijan Mandal is a NASCAR author at EssentiallySports. He is currently pursuing his Master’s in Journalism and has been writing for his own blog as well, covering NASCAR, F1, F2, W Series, MotoGP, DTM, IndyCar, WRC, and WEC. Following motorsports for more than a decade, he has become a devout supporter of McLaren Racing, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Bubba Wallace, Sir Lewis Hamilton, and Ayrton Senna.

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Nizamul Haque Bhuyan