Being the son of a yesteryear racing superstar and still making a name for yourself can be a pretty daunting task in the NASCAR Cup Series. Chase Elliott faced an uphill climb when he picked motorsports as his professional route. His father Bill Elliott was a driver loved by the masses and celebrated like there was no tomorrow in the 1980s and early 1990s.<\/p>\n
Like a hot knife through butter, Chase<\/a> managed the expectations and has emerged as one of the top stars of the sport in the current generation. In a recent interview with Lindsay Czarniak, he credited his parents for giving him the space and the freedom to make his own career choices.<\/p>\n He said<\/a>, \u201cThe way they kind of brought me up and allowed me to live my life and to do the things that I wanted to do, it was always my choice. Racing was always my choice. If I went home, whether I was 10th, 15th, or 20th, if I went home and said, \u2018Hey, mom and dad. I don\u2019t want to do this anymore,\u2019 it would have been totally fine. They always made that really apparent to me.\u201d<\/p>\n The awareness that he was going down a path that he had set for himself helped him a lot in not looking at what his father had achieved and comparing his work to it. However, he clarified that he personally wants to be as great as his old man was. Safe to say, he is getting there pretty quickly.<\/p>\n How involved is Bill Elliott in his son\u2019s career today?<\/p>\n