💬 Quoted…​​ “I played a lot of NASCAR 2005 on the GameCube… I never knew if it would actually work. I did that when I was 8 years old."

Heading into NASCAR’s Xfinity 500 on Sunday, driver Ross Chastain knew he needed a top-8 finish to qualify for the championship race this week. When the final lap rolled around, he found himself sitting in 10th, needing a miracle to jump two spots – until he pulled a trick straight out of a video game.

• With his gas pedal on the floorboard, Chastain executed an unprecedented wall-riding maneuver that propelled him to a 5th-place finish and set a record for fastest lap in the track’s history. (Here’s a video, with other drivers’ reactions included.)

💊 Stat of the Day: Abortions have declined roughly 2% in the US since late June, when Roe v. Wade was overturned, including people who traveled across state lines or ordered pills online, per a NY Times analysis of two new studies.

• One of the studies found a nearly 120% increase in online abortion pill orders in July and August compared to previous months.

🤯 Did You Know?... The names of 24 US states are derived from Indigenous languages of the Americas.

📖 Worth a Read: Of Course Instant Groceries Don’t Work → (The Atlantic)