Chase Elliott fumes at repeat offender Bubba | Sports News

Chase Elliott voiced his frustration with Bubba Wallace over the group radio within the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

In a race the place many anticipated high tire put on, a repeat of final yr’s fall race chaos which Goodyear and NASCAR have by no means been in a position to clarify, the expected fall off by no means got here.

Only one car wore their tires out in Stage 1, which was received by Kyle Larson to proceed Hendrick Motorsports’ current dominance, whereas he additionally stormed to the checkered flag in Stage 2.

But his teammate Elliott within the No.9 car was working additional down the pack – and felt exhausting achieved by as he failed to seek out a well past 23XI Racing star Bubba Wallace.

“The damn 23 [Wallace] mirror drives us every week,” Elliott stated, suggesting that Wallace is a repeat offender in relation to blocking his makes an attempt to cross.

“I think the last couple of weeks probably were a little bit frustrating for them. I think (Homestead) is probably going to be a little bit frustrating for them, too. But they’re a really solid team. Just a lot of depth and a lot of belief in one another.

“You know, you’ve got to get through the rocky times. … Again, it’s a high standard at Hendrick, what everybody brings, like (Kyle Larson’s) team did (winning Homestead). And so a lot of times you’re really measuring yourself against the best that there are out there, and a lot of times that’s right in your own stable.

“So if you’re not achieving what you want to achieve, then you know you’ve got to go to work, and you know that you’re not meeting expectations. So those guys have high expectations, Alan (Gustafson), Chase. It’s not unusual for them to get down a little bit on, ‘Hey, this isn’t good enough,’ but I’ve seen them react really well and positively to that too.”