NASCAR star Chase Elliott raves about Talladega, discusses keys to getting back in winner's circle

Chase Elliott has taken location 2 checkered flags astatine Talladega successful his vocation - this past play helium came up conscionable short. 

However, helium has had a batch of occurrence there. In fact, successful his precise archetypal contention there, helium finished successful fifth, and successful 18 races since then, helium has 8 top-10 finishes astatine the Alabama racetrack.

"I look guardant to going down there. Talladega's ever benignant of been a small spot of a location race. It's conscionable truly adjacent to wherever we live, truthful that's ever ace nice," Elliott, the Dawsonville, Georgia, autochthonal said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital. "A contention you tin thrust to easily, the fans person ever been truly bully to maine implicit there, which makes it amusive and benignant of consciousness similar home."

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Chase Elliott looks connected during operator introductions earlier the NASCAR Daytona 500 car contention astatine Daytona International Speedway connected Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023 successful Daytona Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Talladega is 1 of the premier NASCAR spots, understandably so.

"The craziness and chaos that is the infield is highly good known for sure, conscionable the enactment and the destination that it is," Elliott said. "I don't truly deliberation radical needfully attraction if the contention is bully oregon atrocious - I deliberation radical are conscionable much determination for the environment."

"A batch of radical bash attraction astir what the contention is, but I deliberation radical spell for the acquisition a batch of times and instrumentality astir for hopefully a bully contention connected Sunday too. And fortunately, that truly hasn't been an contented astatine Talladega. A batch of times, the contention connected Sunday delivers and everybody comes successful for an entertaining play with their friends, and a cherry connected apical is simply a bully decorativeness connected Sunday afternoon. It's a bully spot to get a small spot of both."

A fifth-place decorativeness is hardly thing to disregard - it was his 3rd top-five this season, and helium besides has six top-10s.

Chase Elliott greets fans during operator introductions earlier the NASCAR Daytona 500 car contention astatine Daytona International Speedway connected Feb. 19, 2023 successful Daytona Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Terry Renna, File)

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However, helium besides has 2 15th-place finishes and a 20th spot connected the grounds this twelvemonth and is inactive without a triumph this year. So, contempt being successful 4th spot successful the Cup Series standings close now, Elliott thinks his play has been conscionable "OK."

"There's been immoderate precocious spots, bully finishes connected weeks we didn't merit them, and atrocious finishes connected weeks wherever we astir apt deserved to person better. There's been level retired atrocious weeks, and level retired bully weeks, too. Unfortunately, not bully capable to win, but determination person been a mates scenarios wherever we were successful the mix," Elliott said.

"We've been each implicit the board, surely not the level of consistency I'd similar to see. But a batch of country for improvement. That archetypal agelong was a warmup, and present we spell consecutive each the mode to the title successful November. A batch of races ahead, a batch of clip to get it unneurotic oregon not. It depends connected however we execute the adjacent fewer months."

Elliott won the Cup Series title, his lone championship, successful 2020 - his champion decorativeness since past is fourth, which helium had some successful 2021 and 2022 earlier pursuing up with a 17th-place decorativeness successful 2023, and past seventh past year.

Of course, it's not casual to travel retired connected apical each year, but successful bid to bash it, "we request to find immoderate consistency."

Chase Elliott, operator of the #9 NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet, celebrates successful triumph lane aft winning the NASCAR Cup Series Ally 400 astatine Nashville Superspeedway connected June 26, 2022 successful Lebanon, Tennessee. (Meg Oliphant/Getty Images)

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"We had a morganatic changeable to triumph the contention successful Martinsville, spell to Bristol and precise overmuch not successful the mix," Elliott said (he finished 4th and 15th successful those races, respectively). "Just trying to beryllium much accordant crossed the committee and person that benignant of show erstwhile we are susceptible of winning much often and bash it astatine antithetic racetrack types and sizes and venues and conscionable get the momentum going successful the close direction. It's been a small spotty, truthful we got to get it going here. I deliberation we can, conscionable gotta support trucking."

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