Chase Elliott scores first Top-5 of 2024 at Richmond
For the first time this year, Chase Elliott is among the Top-5 finishers in a NASCAR Cup Series race.
After starting on the front row with Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson Sunday, Elliott collected stage points and picked up a fifth-place finish in the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway.
“It was a solid night,” Elliott said. “Obviously looking forward to getting to Martinsville (Speedway) and trying to be a little better.”
In the opening seven races of the year, Elliott has posted one Top-5 finish, two Top-10 finishes, and has led 23 laps.
Prior to the Easter Richmond race, Elliott’s last Top-5 finish came at Daytona in August of 2023.
Leaving Richmond, the 2020 series champion moved up one spot to eighth in driver’s points with a 53-point cushion over the playoff cutline.
Entering Martinsville, the site of the next race weekend, Elliott is riding a 41-race winless streak. Elliott’s last victory came at Talladega Superspeedway in October 2022.
Elliott has one victory at Martinsville, coming in his championship-winning season (2020).
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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