{"id":152400,"date":"2025-09-18T09:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152400\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:55:24","slug":"chase-elliott-says-weve-got-to-make-something-happen-in-next-round-of-cup-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152400\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Elliott says ‘we’ve got to make something happen’ in next round of Cup playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Chase Elliott says \u201cwe really deserved to be knocked out\u201d of the playoffs after his crash last weekend at Bristol, the former champion notes that this second chance gives he and his team the opportunity to excel, beginning with Sunday\u2019s race at New Hampshire (2 p.m. ET on USA Network).<\/p>\n

Elliott made his comments Wednesday on \u201cSirius Speedway\u201d on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.<\/p>\n

Elliott faced the threat of elimination after he crashed in last weekend\u2019s race at Bristol when he tried to move from the top lane to the bottom.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just felt the urgency to get to the bottom and try to do what I could to save some tire,\u201d Elliott said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. \u201c \u2026 It was a high risk, but I felt like it was a risk that I needed to try to take at that point in time in my head. Unfortunately, didn\u2019t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elliott came down the track in front of John Hunter Nemechek and the contact with Nemechek\u2019s car sent Elliott into the wall and out of the race. Elliott finished 38th \u2014 his sixth finish outside the top 10 in the last eight races.<\/p>\n

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Joe Gibbs Racing has dominated the playoffs and its drivers will be among the favorites this weekend.<\/p>\n

Elliott was not going to lose enough points to be passed by teammate Alex Bowman, the first driver below the cutline, but Bowman ran toward the front and a win would have given him a spot in the next round and possibly eliminate Elliott.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that time, I thought our night, I thought our season was over, to be honest,\u201d Elliott said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a good grasp on where some of the other competitors below the cutline were running. <\/p>\n

\u201cHad a brief conversation with (crew chief) Alan (Gustafson) right when I got out of the car. I was like, \u2018Man is that going to knock us out?\u2019 He said, \u2018Yeah, I think so.\u2019 At that point, obviously, we\u2019re just bummed. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt took some time to kind of realize the situation and what it was going to take to knock us out. I got to watch it on TV with everybody else. It wasn\u2019t the most pleasant hour and a half or so of my life watching, but it worked out, fortunately. Got really lucky with that, no question.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ryan Blaney\u2019s 4-year-old nephew provided an unexpected pep talk in the final stage at Bristol.<\/p>\n

Elliott advanced to the first round despite the result at Bristol and a 17th-place finish at Darlington. He was third at Gateway, providing the cushion he needed to advance to the next round.<\/p>\n

New Hampshire has not been the best track for Elliott and Hendrick Motorsports. The organization last won at New Hampshire in July 2012. Elliott has only three top-10 finishes in 11 Cup start at the 1-mile track in the Northeast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just feel like, yeah, you\u2019re kind of in a spot where, \u2018Man, we really didn\u2019t deserve to be here based on the week before, let\u2019s go and make the very most of it,\u2019\u201d he said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. <\/p>\n

\u201cI just feel like there\u2019s nothing to lose for us at this point. We\u2019ve got to make something happen, get some life and get our heads down and just grind it out these next three weeks. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of been one of those years in general, just trying, some of those days taking what was there. I was really encouraged by our Gateway, to be frank, and I thought there was a lot of really good stuff that went on there throughout the course of the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think New Hampshire has some similarities to Gateway, so I\u2019m looking forward to see how we stack up in that regard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Chase Elliott says \u201cwe really deserved to be knocked out\u201d of the playoffs after his crash last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-152400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}