Chase Elliott pinpoints 3 things needed to end | Sports News

Chase Elliott is having fun with a strong 2025 NASCAR season, with three top-fives and 6 top-10s, which means that he’s at present fourth within the Cup Series standings by means of 11 races. But that is not enough for Elliott as he desires to end a 37-race win drought, and the Hendrick Motorsports driver has come up with a easy, however efficient strategy.

Elliott hoped to end his drought at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, the final monitor he triumphed at within the Cup Series. However, Elliott completed sixteenth and apologized to crew chief Alan Gustafson, as Joey Logano ended up sealing an unlikely victory.

Speaking solely to Express U.S. Sports after the latest one-week break within the Cup Series schedule earlier than Talladega, Elliott outlined his emotions on the season thus far. 

Two races on, Elliott continues to be hopeful to end his winless streak within the close to future – and is aware of three elements can maintain the important thing for his No.9 staff. 

Elliott is trying to get the fundamentals proper, and believes that if they’ll nail three elements concurrently, victory will comply with.

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“All you can do when you’re in this fight is just keep showing up,” Elliott stated. “Continue to put the right amount of effort throughout the weekend to make sure you’re prepared to show up on any given weekend and put together a solid day.

“But it is all obtained to go collectively. It all has to come collectively on the proper time. I’ve to do my job. We’ve obtained to call good races on the box. We have to have good pit stops. It’s all there. Obviously, we wish more and we count on more.”

Though his position in the NASCAR standings is extremely positive, Elliott has also failed to win a single race stage this season. Failure to be first throughout this season has led to fans criticizing Gustafson, but Elliott defended his crew chief to Express U.S. Sports on April 27.

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“I imply, I believe that’s in all probability some of it comes with the territory, I assume, a little bit,” Elliott said when asked about criticism of Gustafson. “Look, he’s a professional. I really like Alan. I believe he’s so good at what he does, and I imagine in him.

“At the end of the day, that’s really all that matters is kind of how I look at it. I think we have a good relationship and we both helped each other grow quite a lot in the course of our time together, coming up to ten years. We just enjoy going to battle each week.”

Elliott and Gustafson are locked-in for this season on the very least, and the whole No. 9 staff desires more from Sunday’s. At this price, Elliott can be firmly within the NASCAR Playoffs dialog even with out successful a race, however he is aware of that he ought to be performing higher.

“No different than anyone else on our team. We want more,” Elliott stated prior to Sunday’s race. “We’re capable of more, and we just have high expectations of ourselves and we know what we’re capable of.

“That’s the place we’re proud of these good runs that we have had. But we all know that there is more within the tank and that we are able to extract more out of our staff and race outcomes and lead some more laps and get ourselves in good place.

“The season is still very early. … I’ve seen enough high spots to kind of give me hope. There’s been enough high spots in there for me to have confidence in some of the things that we’re doing and keep going to work each week.”