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| Chase Elliott won last fall at Kansas. |
“Kansas has become a cool place. I think as it has aged, that outside lane has really prevailed and I think that will continue to be that way. I think it’s going to be a top-lane-dominant racetrack as it continues to wear and age, and as time goes on even more than it already is. So, that makes it difficult. It’s hard to make a lot happen in a hurry when everybody is riding the wall and up in those top grooves. That’s the challenge of it is trying to pass and move forward. It’s a difficult thing to do when everybody is gripping the top.”
Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 9 NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, will be available to the media on Friday, May 10, at 3 p.m. local time in the media center at Kansas Speedway.
LAST SIX: Over the last six races, Chase Elliott has led a total of 312 laps – leading in five of the last six races after going the first five races of the season without leading a single lap. He has started from the pole position in two of the last six races (Bristol, Dover).
ON A ROLL: Since capturing his first career NASCAR Cup Series win in August 2018 at Watkins Glen, he is the only Chevrolet driver to have won a race. In his last 26 starts, the Dawsonville, Georgia, native has collected four wins, nine top-five finishes – including one runner-up result – 15 top-10s and 581 laps led.
DOVER REWIND: On Monday, Elliott started on the pole and led a career-high 145 laps at the “Monster Mile” in Dover, Delaware, on his way to his second consecutive top-five finish. The fifth-place finish is Elliott’s third top-five result of the 2019 season and 36th of his NASCAR Cup Series career.
LAST TIME AT KANSAS: Last October, Elliott and the No. 9 team captured their third victory of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season after leading the final 44 laps in the race at Kansas Speedway. His average running position during the event was 6.6. Although a Diet Mountain Dew/Dark Knight Rises car won with Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2012, Elliott's 2018 Kansas victory marked the first win for a Mountain Dew primary paint scheme since October 1982 with Darrell Waltrip.
HOME SWEET HOME: No. 9 team tire carrier/jackman T.J. Semke hails from Lee’s Summit, Missouri, less than 40 miles from Kansas Speedway. Before stepping on the football field at the University of Kansas in 2012, Semke was a part-time bounty hunter. The 25-year-old was a defensive lineman for the Kansas Jayhawks for three years, and in two of them, he earned Academic All-Big 12 Second Team honors. Semke signed with Hendrick Motorsports in October 2016.
NAPA BRAKES: Last weekend at Dover, Elliott’s NAPA Brakes paint schemepromoted NAPA AUTO PARTS’ brakes special that will run throughout the month of May. Customers can get up to $75 off a qualifying NAPA brake parts purchase of $250 at participating NAPA AUTO PARTS stores and NAPA AutoCare centers.
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