{"id":180917,"date":"2025-09-30T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180917\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:03:07","slug":"chase-elliott-singles-out-crucial-race-in-nascar-championship-battle-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180917\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Elliott singles out crucial race in NASCAR championship battle – Motorsport – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh off his second win of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> season, this time at Kansas Speedway in the Hollywood Casino 400<\/a>, Chase Elliott<\/a> believes one race in particular could play a crucial role in his run for a second championship.<\/p>\n

The 2020 champion dove down the inside past a battling Denny Hamlin and Bubba Wallace on the final lap<\/a> of double overtime in Kansas on Sunday to secure his spot alongside Ryan Blaney in the Round of 8, which is set to start after the upcoming race at Charlotte\u2019s Roval.<\/p>\n

Previewing the next round, which will see the series head for Las Vegas, Talladega, and Martinsville, Elliott told 2014 champion Kevin Harvick<\/a> that, as far as he is concerned, his Round of 8 push will already get going in Charlotte.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to get five more points and that would be the first goal that I have in mind,\u201d Elliott said on the \u2018Harvick\u2019s Happy Hour<\/a>\u2019 podcast. \u201cYou probably know me well enough to know I’m a week-to-week person. And my mindset right now is, how can I position our team to get five more points this week? And that’s going to do nothing but just help us when we get to Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Vegas having previously \u201cbeen a little bit of a struggle for us,\u201d Elliott seemed somewhat confident this time around following \u201ca really respectable run going there last fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnother step in the right direction of improvement this past spring. And certainly I think with our performance at Kansas this weekend, I think some of that can translate to Vegas too,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The same, however, could not be said of the notoriously unpredictable Talladega, with Elliott saying, \u201cThat deal’s going to be about who doesn’t crash, I think, at the end of the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if you can luck up and get a win at that deal, then fantastic,\u201d he went on to admit. \u201cBut certainly going to have to do your very best there to be smart and keep yourself in a good spot. And I feel very confident we can go to Martinsville and have a shot to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ultimately, Elliott believes \u201cthe big one\u2019s just Talladega and what\u2019s going to happen there, and whether or not we can get through the mess. And I feel like if we can do that, we have a real shot to make it to Phoenix.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this late stage in the season, Elliott believes the focus is on \u201cbuying yourself and your team more time,\u201d as the further down the line you get, \u201cThe more opportunities you have and you just never know what can happen. And anybody in that top eight can get hot for a couple of weeks. And I think we’re capable of doing that too.\u201d<\/p>\n

A two-time winner at the Roval, Elliott could yet finish the Round of 12 on a high note ahead of the push to reach the Championship 4 at Phoenix on November 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off his second win of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, this time at Kansas Speedway in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,91585,4387,2332,634,8354,82,63751],"class_list":["post-180917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charlotte-roval","tag-chase-elliott","tag-motorsport-section","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-sports","tag-talladega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180917","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=180917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}