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| Chase Elliott finished second at Martinville with 750 HP package. |
“I really enjoy racing at Bristol. I think it’s one of the coolest places we go to just environment-wise and then racetrack-wise. Just a lot of fun. Short-track racing in general is fun. I’ve enjoyed it. We’ve had some OK runs there. Feel like we had a really good car there last fall and had a realistic shot that I didn’t do a very good job of capitalizing on. I think it’s been kind of hit-or-miss. I remember the spring race of, I think, ’16 being really good and then this past fall race being pretty fast and kind of in-between I feel like has just been mediocre. So, it’s hard to get right. You can just be off a little bit one way or the other and it makes a big difference there.”
Elliott on speed at Bristol:
“It was already really fast before. I don’t know. I’m excited. Bristol is a fun place. I am not sure what they are going to do with the grip stuff on the bottom. That has been a big deal in the past as to how the racetrack evolves and how the day can change and how the racetrack groove can change. I think it has been a fun dynamic. I think they are down the right path there, so hopefully they keep going that direction and they can just make that a little better. I feel like that has been a nice mix of bottom to top there the last couple of races.”
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SHORT-TRACK PROWESS: In Chase Elliott’s last five short-track finishes, he collected top-10 finishes at all five events, four of which were top-five finishes including two runner-up results. In those last five races, Elliott holds the best average finish of all active drivers (3.6). His current streak of five top-10 finishes on a short track is currently the second longest active streak. Elliott led a total of 195 laps at the last five races at tracks less than one mile in length (Martinsville, Richmond, Bristol). He will make his 22nd NASCAR Cup Series short-track start this weekend. In the 21 previous starts, he has led 354 laps and garnered nine top-10 finishes.
2019, SO FAR: Seven races into the 2019 season, Elliott has collected one top-five finish, two top-10s and a total of 84 laps led. He averages a starting position of 10.3 and finishing position of 12.1. In the first seven races of the season, the driver of the No. 9 Chevy has spent more than 500 laps inside the top five. Elliott’s runner-up result at Martinsville is currently the highest finish of the season for any Chevrolet driver.
GREAT PERFORMANCE: Throughout last season and so far in 2019, Elliott has had strong performances on non-aero tracks (ISM, Martinsville, Bristol, Richmond, Sonoma, New Hampshire, Watkins Glen). The 23-year-old driver has finished inside the top five in eight of the last 13 non-aero track races – five were top-three finishes.
ELLIOTT AT BRISTOL: Elliott is set to make his seventh career NASCAR Cup Series start at Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend. In his previous six starts at the track, he has led 128 laps and collected two top-five finishes and three top-10s. He averages a starting position of 8.2 and finishing position of 12.7. In Elliott’s five NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at the track, he earned one top-five finish and finished in the top 10 in all five events.
LAST TIME AT BRISTOL: The driver of the No. 9 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 led a season-high 112 laps en route to a third-place finish in the 500-lap Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Aug. 2018. The result gave Elliott his fifth top-three finish of the season.
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