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Ross Chastain’s “Hail Melon” maneuver at Martinsville Speedway on October 30, 2022, is the kind of wild, heart-pounding ...
October 30, 2022—Martinsville Speedway, where Ross Chastain unleashed the “Hail Melon” and flipped the script on racing ...
Massive melon-size hail could be a Texas record. The brick-size chunks of ice surpass the DVD-size hail that fell last week. June 3, 2024 More than ...
With NASCAR's intervention, that will no longer be the case. With that, Chastain's "Hail Melon" will be remembered as a one-of-a-kind move in the history of the NASCAR Cup Series.
NASCAR has essentially banned the "Hail Melon" video-game move driver Ross Chastain used at Martinsville Speedway to race his way into the championship finale.. Chastain last year mashed the gas ...
Though the move is no longer legal, the “Hail Melon” still resonates for Ross Chastain. The Trackhouse Racing driver’s world-famous wall ride at Martinsville Speedway catapulted him into the ...
The second is “Hail-Melon-ed,” which Hamlin’s crew chief, Chris Gabehart, used to describe the move that knocked Hamlin out of the playoffs, as in his driver “got Hail-Melon-ed. ...
Chastain visited the historic 0.526-mile paperclip-shaped short track on Tuesday, climbed into a Kubota forklift and helped remove part of the SAFER barrier in Turns 3 and 4, the site of his famed ...
The NASCAR driver talks us through the 'Hail Melon' pass that earned him a spot in this weekend’s championship runoff. By Elana Scherr Published: Nov 5, 2022. Save Article.
Hail Melon, part deux? NASCAR says no. Christopher Bell appeared to get a final spot needed to pass William Byron in the playoff points standings in the final turn on the final turn of Sunday's ...