Chase Elliott’s 2022 NASCAR Cup Series championship hopes pretty much evaporated long before the race ended, thanks to contact with fellow title contender Ross Chastain.
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And instead of getting on-track revenge or fueling a feud in post-race interviews, Elliott seemingly opted for the high road. Racing for what would have been his second career title, Elliott was running in the top-10 for much of the first two stages of the. But his day went sideways, quite literally, with a little more than 100 laps left at the one-mile desert track.
On a Lap 200 restart, Elliott, in the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, was running in the inside lane with Chastain in the No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet behind him. They both dove down the track to capitalize on the dogleg shortcut after the start-finish line, but the nose of the No. 1 car made contact with the back of the No. 9, sending Elliott spinning and slamming into the inside wall, damaging his car.
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