Bob Pockrass
Fox Motorsports Insider
Hampton, VE. – Chase Elliott shows no emotion, but euph
Elliott was the only excited.
Having grown and still living 85 miles on the track, Elliott is still the most popular driver of Nascar and one of Georgia’s favorite children when it comes to athletes.
Chase Elliott celebrates after the execution of the Nascar Quaker State 400 series
That was more evident in the roar of the crowd while they cheered their triumph.
“Seeing them so excited after the race for me was crazy,” Elliott said. “He was surreal. I really don’t know how to describe it. It’s just one of those moments you would like to be able to say and relive it.”
Elliott has not had much opportunity to experience victory celebrations in recent years.
The 2020 Cup champion broke a streak of 44 races without victories with the victory. Not only did he have a race this year, but not only he had won a stage. In his 99 previous openings, Elliott had achieved only one victory.
Then, although he had five and nine top 10 in 17 races on Sunday night, the solid season of Elliott-but no trophy had the most suitor atmosphere than a contender.
Chase Elliott celebrates after winning the Nascar Cup Series State 400
The victory on Saturday night may change all that. He won a wild race in which only 21 pilots ended up in the return of the initiative and 12 of the 40 cars were eliminated by accidents.
It is assumed that the races in Atlanta, a track of 1.54 miles of high quality, is the same as Daytona and Talladega. But drivers could or make races even without help. Now, when they had help, the execution was unstoppable virtual.
The races at the end were furious, and one of the best in this style of races, Brad Keselowski, was in front of the final laps. But Elliott, with the help of a thrust of his Hendrick Alex Bowman teammate, went to the front and then Keselowski had no help, since Bowman was certainly not going to push Keselowski fits his teammate.
“All cards fell into the right places there those last two laps,” Elliott said. “What a crazy race … was a savage from my seat. I am so slippery that we have to run that thing until the end.”
Elliott would probably not won without the thrust in which he could trust a teammate like Bowman.
“Really not a choice there in the last lap of what I was going to do,” Bowman said. “Unfortunately, there was an opportunity to win the race. The way the race would expel the leader every handful of turns, I just drove very little there.
For Bowman, making Elliott win the race was better than the other pilots, since Bowman is in the bubble to reach the playoffs at points. Elliott was a pilot without victories, but seemed to be in a comfortable position in terms of points.
But the rest of the pilots compromising the victory: Brad Keselowski was second, followed by Bowman, Tyler Reddick, Erik Jones, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Zane Smith, could have affected Bowman’s hopes to reach the playoffs.
“I didn’t think about that, but you are not wrong,” Bowman said about Elliott’s victory as good for him personally. “Obviously, it’s a team of us [Hendrick drivers] Here, so having a Hendrick car in Victory Lane is always a good thing.
Alex Bowman puts heat shields before the execution of Nascar Cup Series Quaker State 400
Obviously, it was a good thing for Elliott, who could proud to win the wild races, but as he pointed out, he will obtain victories in any way that he can obtain them.
“Just to win a race is pleasant in general,” Elliott said. I will not be bkey with white, it is wild or boring. It was nice to go over. One of five or six of us could have the leg at the end.
“For me, fortunately, the races were really scheduled at the perfect time, and we could do something with them.”
Elliott has had up and down results in Atlanta, with only a first end of the first 10 in its four openings from a victory in July 2022. It has not run well when it has worn a brightness of paint designed by a patient from a Prichcare of Fundren or Heelda-Hanfais Healad or healad or healad or healad or healad or healad or healad or healada healad or healad or healad or healada healada or healada or healad or healad or healada healada or healad or healad or healada healad or healad or healad or healad or healada Eda-healada.
So that has just made an extra special night.
It was a special night in process in recent months. A bad stop in Kansas ruined his chance in that race in early May. In the previous two weeks, he finished third in Mexico City and the fifth in Pocono, where he showed more speed.
Elliott is not so absorbed so much in the results as well as the process and the way they run, regardless of what happens with the results.
“Were we relevant? We have a chance? I believe in this sport, if you are doing all those right things, that is something to be proud or,” Elliott said. “And if you are doing them regularly, you will get your turn. The last three or four weeks have been an example of that.”
And how will Elliott be held in the hours of Sunday morning after he satisfied his media obligations? He planned to take home.
“It’s not so far,” said Elliott, who should be able to make the trip in approximately two hours. “I’m going to sleep in my bed.”
Bob Pockrass covers Nascar and Indycar for Fox Sports. Decades have passed engine sports, including more than 30 Daytona 500s, with periods in ESPN, Sporting News, Nascar Scene Magazine and The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow it on Twitter @Bobpock.
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