The Teardown<\/a> podcast. \u201cI genuinely feel like it\u2019s going to bite them in the butt at some point.\u201d<\/p>\nElliott spent much of the 70-lap opening stage clawing his way through the field. He got up to 16th, but that meant he missed out on valuable stage points. He finished seventh in Stage 2 thanks to two-tire call by crew chief Alan Gustafson, earning him four stage points. Elliott complimented his team after the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought everybody on pit road did a great job with a terrible stall,\u201d Elliott said. \u201cHats off to our pit crew, really everybody across the board on our NAPA team just executed a good race. Alan called a good race obviously staying out there at the end. We made our bed there with running long at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chase Elliott sitting near the playoff cutline after New Hampshire<\/p>\n
Elliott will head into this Sunday\u2019s race at Kansas Speedway seventh in the playoff standings, +14 above the cutline. Bianchi wants to see Elliott and the No. 9 team \u201cup their game\u201d in qualifying.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn a track that\u2019s really hard to pass, though I thought today\u2019s race was competitive, track position is important. At a time where we talk about how close the competition is and how everybody is running just fractions of a second apart from each other, the difference between starting toward the back and the front is everything,\u201d Bianchi said. \u201cYou go back to Dover this year where he started on the pole, and they talked about how it\u2019s so different up here and how you run your race and how you manage your race, and you can be in control of it. Instead of being in control of the race, they\u2019re having to spend all of Stage 1 having to play catch up and you can never get into a rhythm. <\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, he finished fifth today \u2014 great. If you can keep knocking out fifth-place finishes, that\u2019s gonna get you to Phoenix. But you\u2019re not gonna be able to do that every week because things are going to happen. These points are so valuable, especially starting this round. The first round, you can get away with it a little bit more, but it\u2019s starting this round, it\u2019s really about upping your game. They, to me, in qualifying, need to up their game.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chase Elliott and the No. 9 team have done a lot of things well this season. What they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-163177","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\/163177","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=163177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}