Chase Elliott recently answered a question about his battle with Kyle Larson for the regular season championship. Elliott is currently second in the standings behind teammate Larson, who is 10 points ahead of NASCAR’s most famous driver.
With just four races into the season, Elliott was asked if he was feeling the heat of competing with Larson for the regular season championship. The reporter wondered if the team would not. 9 was hiding information from team no. 5, as they are competing for the championship. “No, we have a system. Actually, we do. And we use this system every week.
This has never changed. Kyle and I competed for several championships against each other, if I am not mistaken, in 2021 and 2022. We have been in that position. “It hasn’t really changed,” Elliott replied. [2:20]
Consistent Chase Elliott can overtake Kyle Larson at Richmond
With only 10 points separating Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott, third-place finisher Tyler Reddick isn’t even that far off the top. The 23XI Racing driver is only 15 points behind Larson and is an integral part of the battle for the regular season championship. Because of such a close story in recent weeks, Kyle Larson was asked over the weekend at Pocono if he was paying attention to the regular season championship battle.
“Absolutely, I pay attention every week and I think everybody probably does — even the guys who say no. I paid a lot of attention to it, “said Larson, according to RACER. He said that the drivers missed the opportunities to earn points, as he expressed the desire to rematch Iowa and Chicago for better results in the hope of having ” a 60-point lead.”
Larson said it was frustrating for him. But at the same time, he said there were six games left in the regular season at that point and they just needed to regain their consistency to earn 15 bonus points. At the time Larson made these comments, he was hoping for a good result at Pocono. But he did not do so, as he finished in 13th place. However, Larson returned to racing before the Olympic break by winning the Brickyard 400.
But the situation is a little different for his teammate Chase Elliott, who, although he did not win from Texas in April, had more consistent races. Elliott followed up a top-5 finish at Sonoma with a third-place finish at Iowa, after finishing in the top 20 for two straight weeks. In Chicago, the No. 9 finished outside the top 20, but in the next two races he found his rhythm and finished in the top 10, while regular season championship leader Kyle Larson started from home 15th.
