Deadspin | Stubbs: When will Chase Elliott in finding Victory Lane once more?

Going into Sunday’s Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, Chase Elliott has no longer received a Cup Series race since successful at Texas Motor Speedway on April 14, 2024.

While he sits 5th within the Cup Series standings, there may be been a noticeable loss of race-winning pace from the No. 9 crew. With a 36-race winless streak recently on his again, listed below are the tracks at the time table within the close to long term the place Elliott may just ruin thru and snap the drought.

–Talladega Superspeedway, Sunday

Elliott has become some of the easiest superspeedway racers within the box lately, which is mirrored via his numbers at Talladega. Elliott is a two-time Talladega winner (spring 2019, fall 2022) and has 8 top-10 finishes on the 2.66-mile monitor in 18 begins. A 14.6 moderate end at a monitor as chaotic as Talladega is somewhat the accomplishment, and Elliott hasn’t crashed out of a race at Talladega since 2020. He has led laps in his remaining 5 races there, and a drafting-style race may well be what the Hendrick Motorsports driving force wishes to seek out his successful mojo once more.

–Texas Motor Speedway, May 4

Texas used to be the website online of Elliott’s remaining Cup Series win in addition to his first Nationwide (now Xfinity) Series win in 2014. It’s additionally been one in all his higher tracks all over his Cup Series profession. Over his first seven races at TMS, Elliott completed no worse than 13th. While the 1.5-mile venue hasn’t essentially been sort to Elliott lately when it comes to effects, the Next-Gen automotive has observed Elliott develop into a constant entrance runner once more at Texas. He led 44 laps in 2022 prior to crashing and completing 32nd, completed 11th in 2023 and received in 2024 after main 39 laps. Elliott might not be the odds-on favourite to win at Texas, however it will be unexpected if he isn’t no less than in rivalry for a top-five end.

–Nashville Superspeedway, June 1

In the 4 Cup Series races held at Nashville, Elliott has two top-five finishes, together with a win on the 1.33-mile monitor in 2022. He completed fourth at Nashville in 2023, and whilst his different finishes — 18th in 2024 and 39th in 2021 after a disqualification — are underwhelming, Elliott has proven loads of promise at a monitor many of the Cup Series box continues to be making an attempt to determine. If he’s nonetheless winless when NASCAR hits its summer time stretch, Nashville may well be simply where for the game’s most well liked driving force to damage thru because the canine days of summer time means.

–Atlanta Motor Speedway, June 28

As in the past discussed, Elliott has develop into some of the easiest superspeedway racers within the box, a useful characteristic on the reconfigured Atlanta Motor Speedway. In the six races Elliott has run on the reconfigured 1.5-mile monitor — he neglected Atlanta’s first date in 2023 because of a leg harm — he hasn’t completed worse than 20th. He received at Atlanta in July of 2022, and led 125 laps on the monitor between the 2 races held there that yr. He simplest has one top-10 over the past 4 Atlanta races, however he has been ready to convey his automotive house in a single piece, which is step one to successful a superspeedway race. Add in further motivation because of Atlanta being Elliott’s house monitor, and you’ve got a storybook win ready to occur must he nonetheless be at the schneid when the Cup Series rolls into the Peach State this summer time.

–Samuel Stubbs, Field Level Media