A chance for redemption? Chase Elliott has one this weekend. And maybe – just maybe – the 18-year-old Dawsonville, Georgia native can be the one standing in victory lane at Richmond International Raceway rather than his JR Motorsports teammate, Kevin Harvick, who won the April 25 race in front of Elliott, the runner-up finisher.
For Elliott, that race was as memorable as any of his three victories, as second-place finishes usually stick in the craw of a racer. Elliott entered that April weekend on a high, as he had just become the series points leader on the heels of back-to-back wins at Texas Motor Speedway and Darlington Raceway.
Since running second to Harvick at Richmond, Elliott has notched six top-five finishes, including a win at Chicagoland Speedway. His three wins tie him with Harvick, Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski as the most by any driver in 2014. Then there is this: with three wins each, both Harvick and Elliott are one win shy of equaling Brad Keselowski’s mark of most wins by a JRM driver in a single season (Keselowski scored four wins in 2009).
As he did in the spring, Elliott enters the weekend as the series points leader, this time with a 15-point advantage over teammate Regan Smith with nine races to go. Elliott also leads Ty Dillon by 53 points in the Sunoco Rookie of the Year standings.
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