Chase Elliott’s Saturday evening at Daytona did not finish the way in which his hoped.
The No. 9 group left the Coke Zero Sugar 400 with a twenty third place end. A late wreck by Carson Hocevar despatched the race into extra time, and Elliott was merely caught too far again within the pack to make a run through the two-lap shootout to the end.
After the race, Elliott expressed disappointment within the end, as he had been hoping to enhance his spot within the factors standings heading into the Chase.
“Sadly, that went worse than I sort of thought it was going to go. I hoped to get a pair factors right here. It might have been good.”
However whereas Elliott was unable to maneuver up the standings — he’ll begin the postseason in eighth place — he was adamant that what issues going ahead within the Chase shouldn’t be the place you begin, however the way you end.
“I feel for us, we have clearly had a horrible stretch. We have had one good run over the course of the final variety of months,” Elliott mentioned. “The seeding is irrelevant when you do not run nicely.”
Elliott has had only one top-10 end since late June, however the factors reset that comes with the Chase provides the No. 9 group a considerably contemporary begin. Whereas they’re nonetheless behind within the standings, it solely takes a couple of good races to flip the script in the correct course.
“Whether or not you are on the entrance facet of it, in first or second, when you do not run nicely, that is not going to work. Identical for us. You have to carry out at a excessive degree,” he mentioned. “I feel when you carry out at a excessive degree your seeding… It will probably make it tougher for positive, however performing and executing, working like we have to run, placing ourselves in higher positions, that will probably be rewarded if we will exit and do this. So that is the purpose.”+
The primary race of the Chase is ready for subsequent weekend at Darlington.
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