NASCAR CUP SERIES: SOUTH POINT 400

September 26, 2021

Chase Elliott

Pit Lane

An Interview with:

Q. Chase, a strong night for sure, but second place. I know that's not where you wanted to be. Tell us about the final five laps.

CHASE ELLIOTT: We were really close, just not quite close enough. Denny did a good job of controlling the gap to me. He was having a hard time with the 21. I think he was doing a good job of giving himself enough room to him to be able to work the lanes, kind of control the gap back to me.

Super close. Really proud of our NAPA team. Feel like we've been performing at a really nice level the last three or four weeks, we just haven't had great results to show for it. Proud of the effort tonight. Looking forward to the next two. Going to be wild. Looking forward to it.

Q. How were you able to make your car the best at the end?

CHASE ELLIOTT: That's a really good question. Obviously circumstances kind of went our way. We were able to get back on the lead lap when that cycle stopped. We were there in the middle with those guys making it on fuel. We were on the fortunate end because we got back on the lead lap, didn't have to wave or get the Lucky Dog.

We just kept tuning on it, felt like we really needed a little track position.

Q. Make it any easier for you going to Talladega next week?

CHASE ELLIOTT: I don't know that it ever gets easy going there. The last Daytona race, I felt like that's the best we've been at a speedway since I've been at HMS. I'm really proud of that.

Hopefully we can have that type of pace and car when we go to Talladega. If that's the case, it will be a lot more fun, doesn't mean you won't crash, but could be more fun so I'm excited.