Chase Elliott
Vorlage:Infobox NASCAR driver William Clyde Elliott II, known as Chase Elliott (born November 28, 1995 in Dawsonville, Georgia), is an American stock car racing driver. A development driver for Hendrick Motorsports, he currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, driving the No. 9 NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet Camaro for JR Motorsports. He is the son of 1988 Winston Cup Series champion Bill Elliott.
Elliott won the 2014 NASCAR Nationwide Series championship, the first rookie to win a NASCAR national series championship.
Chase
Elliott raced in 40 races in various series in 2010, winning twelve events over the course of the year and finishing in the top ten 38 times.[1] It was the third season of his racing career, and he won the Blizzard Series, Miller Lite and Gulf Coast championship en route to being named the Georgia Asphalt Pro Late Model Series Rookie of the Year.[1] He ended the season by winning the Winchester 400.[1]
Elliott signed a three-year driver development contract with Hendrick Motorsports in February 2011.[1][2] Sports Illustrated named Elliott as the high school player of the week on the week of April 2011.[1] He competed in the K&N Pro Series East in 2011, finishing 9th in series points; in addition, he competed in the Champion Racing Association, winning the series' National Super Late Model championship.[3] Later that year, just after his sixteenth birthday, he won the Snowball Derby and became the race's youngest winner.[4] He beat the second place driver, DJ Vanderley, by a record 0.229 seconds.[5]
Elliott returned to the K&N Pro Series East in 2012,[3] winning his first career race in the series at Iowa Speedway in May.[6] He finished fourth in series points. After the year he won the Alan Turner Snowflake 100, prelude to the prestigious Snowball Derby, for the second time in three years.[7]
In January 2013, it was announced that Elliott would compete in five ARCA Racing Series and nine NASCAR Camping World Truck Series events for Hendrick Motorsports during the 2013 racing season, driving in the latter series using trucks prepared by Turner Scott Motorsports.[8] On June 8, 2013, Elliott became the youngest winner in ARCA history following his Pocono Raceway victory.[9] In qualifying for the UNOH 200 Truck race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Elliott won his first career NASCAR pole position with a lap speed of Vorlage:Convert, and became the youngest pole-sitter in Truck Series history.[10] Elliott would win his first race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, in the first road course truck race outside the US; he was at the time the youngest winner in Truck Series history, at the age of 17 years, 9 months, and 4 days.[11][N 1] The win was however controversial as Elliott made contact with leader Ty Dillon in the last corner. Dillon hit the tire barrier while Elliott went into the grass though recovered enough to be able to coast to the finish line ahead of Kyle Busch Motorsports driver Chad Hackenbracht.[13] Dillon afterwards stated that the next time they raced each other "he won't finish the race";[13] later Elliott stated he had attempted to apologize to Dillon but without any response.[14] The following week at Iowa Speedway, Elliott cut down a tire early in the race and crashed without involvement from Dillon.[15]
In November 2013, Elliott won the All American 400, becoming the first driver to win all four of the country's largest short-track races: the All American 400, the Snowball Derby, the World Crown 300 and the Winchester 400.[16] In December, it appeared as though Elliott had become the first driver to sweep the Snowball Derby and Snowflake 100 in the same weekend. Upon post-race inspection, however, a piece of tungsten was found in Elliott's car, which was prohibited by the Derby rulebook. Elliott was accordingly disqualified and the victory awarded to Erik Jones.[17]
In January 2014, it was announced that Elliott would be competing full-time in the Nationwide Series in 2014, driving the No. 9 Chevrolet for JR Motorsports, with sponsorship from NAPA Auto Parts.[18] On April 4, 2014, Elliott won the O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Texas Motor Speedway, holding Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch off after taking the lead with 16 laps to go.[19] On April 11, 2014, Elliott won the VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 at Darlington Raceway by passing Elliott Sadler on the last lap after restarting sixth with two laps to go.[20] Elliott won the EnjoyIllinois.com 300 at Chicagoland Speedway after holding off Trevor Bayne.[21] At Phoenix, Elliott clinched the Nationwide Series championship with a 53-point lead over teammate Regan Smith, becoming the first rookie and youngest driver to win a NASCAR national series title.[22]
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(key) (Bold - Pole position awarded by time. Italics - Pole position earned by points standings. * – Most laps led.)
Nationwide Series
| NASCAR Nationwide Series results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | Vorlage:Tooltip | Points | |||
| 2014 | JR Motorsports | 9 | Chevy | DAY 15 |
PHO 9 |
LVS 5 |
BRI 9 |
CAL 6 |
TEX 1 |
DAR 1 |
RCH 2 |
TAL 19 |
IOW 4 |
CLT 37 |
DOV 5 |
MCH 6 |
ROA 4 |
KEN 12 |
DAY 20 |
NHA 8 |
CHI 1 |
IND 12 |
IOW 8 |
GLN 6 |
MOH 4 |
BRI 3 |
ATL 5 |
RCH 2 |
CHI 10 |
KEN 4 |
DOV 3 |
KAN 10 |
CLT 8* |
TEX 4 |
PHO 5 |
HOM |
1st* | 1185* | |||
Camping World Truck Series
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| Season | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | Pos | Points | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Hendrick Motorsports | 94 | Chevy | DAY | MAR 6 |
CAR 5 |
KAN | CLT | DOV 4 |
TEX | KEN | IOW 5 |
ELD | POC | MCH | BRI 5 |
MSP 1 |
IOW 31 |
CHI | LVS | TAL | MAR 20 |
TEX | PHO 10 |
HOM | 22nd | 315 | |||||||||||||||||
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Vorlage:Sup Ineligible for series points
References
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External links
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- ↑ a b c d e Ben Glickman: Chase Elliott follows path of race car driver father In: Sports Illustrated, April 28, 2011. Abgerufen im 19 November 2011
- ↑ Son of NASCAR's Bill Elliott signs multi-year deal. WAGA-TV, abgerufen am 19. November 2011.
- ↑ a b Jeff Owens: Chase Elliott Takes After Dad. In: SPEEDtv.com. Fox Sports, 11. Februar 2012, abgerufen am 12. Februar 2012.
- ↑ Chase Elliott wins Snowball Derby. In: Pensacola News Journal. Abgerufen am 6. Dezember 2011.
- ↑ Elliott wins prestigious Snowball Derby. Fox Sports, abgerufen am 6. Dezember 2011.
- ↑ Andy Hamilton: K&N Pro Series: Chase Elliott capitalizes on Brett Moffitt's bad luck. In: The Indianapolis Star. 19. Mai 2012, abgerufen am 23. Mai 2012.
- ↑ Chuck Corder: Snowball Derby: Chase Elliott rolls to Snowflake victory. In: Pensacola News Journal. 1. Dezember 2012, abgerufen am 2. Dezember 2012.
- ↑ Rea White: Chase Elliott to run Trucks races. Fox Sports, 23. Januar 2013, abgerufen am 24. Januar 2013.
- ↑ Kenny Bruce: Elliott focuses on present, not 2014 uncertainty. NASCAR, 19. Juni 2013, abgerufen am 20. Juni 2013.
- ↑ Zack Albert: Elliott becomes youngest Truck pole winner. NASCAR, 21. August 2013, abgerufen am 21. August 2013.
- ↑ Elliott wrecks Dillon to win Truck race. In: U.S. News & World Report. 1. September 2013, abgerufen am 3. September 2013.
- ↑ 16-year-old Cole Custer becomes youngest to win Truck Series race. In: Sporting News. 20. September 2014, abgerufen am 20. September 2014.
- ↑ a b Chase Elliott wins road-course race. Fox Sports, 1. September 2013, abgerufen am 1. September 2013.
- ↑ Andy Hamilton: NASCAR Trucks: Dillon vows retaliation after crash with Elliott. In: The Des Moines Register. 7. September 2013, abgerufen am 9. Oktober 2013.
- ↑ Tire issue shortens Elliott’s day in Iowa. Chase Elliott official site, 10. September 2013, abgerufen am 9. Oktober 2013.
- ↑ Nick Cole: Chase Elliott wins at Fairgrounds Speedway. In: The Tennessean. 2. November 2013, abgerufen am 3. Oktober 2013.
- ↑ Mark Inabinett: Erik Jones gets second straight Snowball Derby victory after Chase Elliott disqualified. In: Press-Register. 8. Dezember 2013, abgerufen am 9. Dezember 2013.
- ↑ Nate Ryan: NAPA will back Chase Elliott at JR Motorsports In: USA Today, January 6, 2014. Abgerufen am 6. Januar 2014
- ↑ Tom Jensen: Besting the boss: Chase Elliott, 18, tops Dale Jr., all comers in NNS race. Foxsports.com, 4. April 2014, abgerufen am 4. April 2014.
- ↑ Mike Hembree: Rookie Chase Elliott wins second straight at Darlington. In: USA Today. 11. April 2014, abgerufen am 12. April 2014.
- ↑ Associated Press: Chase Elliott holds off Trevor Bayne for Nationwide win. Sporting News, 20. Juli 2014, abgerufen am 21. Juli 2014.
- ↑ Nate Ryan: Chase Elliott clinches Nationwide championship, makes history In: USA Today, November 8, 2014. Abgerufen am 8. November 2014
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