{"id":155307,"date":"2025-08-18T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155307\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:52:11","slug":"nascar-insider-details-anger-of-chase-elliott-fans-in-wake-of-alan-gustafson-defense-they-wanted-my-scalp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155307\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR insider details anger of Chase Elliott fans in wake of Alan Gustafson defense: ‘They wanted my scalp’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A NASCAR insider realized that Chase Elliott <\/strong>fans are very passionate and will defend him at any chance they get. On The Teardown <\/a>podcast, Jeff Gluck of The Athletic detailed the anger he received from fans for defending Elliott\u2019s crew chief, Alan Gustafson. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis week, because I defended Alan Gustafson, the Chase Elliott fans this week started yelling at me for everything bad that happens to Chase Elliott,\u201d Gluck said. \u201cEvery single thing that they think that Alan Gustafson did in the race, Elliott fans were tweeting at me like I was Alan Gustafson. They wanted my scalp. These people are very, very angry because I defended Alan Gustafson.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gluck then said that Gustafson \u201cmade the right call\u201d at Richmond. The insider then talked about how Elliott fans were mad because Elliott fell back in Stage 1 to save a set of tires. They used the extra set of tires in Stage 2, but Elliott was involved in a wreck<\/a> that took him out of the race. <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause Kyle Busch randomly wrecked Chase Elliott after he made it through the wreck, that was Alan Gustafson\u2019s fault for getting the strategy, what I thought was correct,\u201d Gluck added. \u201cThis is intense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chase Elliott talks about the wreck at Richmond<\/p>\n

Chase Elliott, who has been named NASCAR Cup Series\u2019 Most Popular Driver for the last seven sesaons, has been one of the more consistent drivers thisyear. His DNF at Richmond was his first of the year, and it was the second time he didn\u2019t finish inside the top 20. <\/p>\n

Elliott is heading to the playoffs, as he won the second Atlanta Cup Series race of the year in June. He was in the running to potentially win the Cup Series regular season title, but the wreck helped William Byron <\/strong>clinch the championship. <\/p>\n

After the Richmond race, Elliott talked about the wreck. \u201cI have no idea what happened,\u201d he said, per Nate Ryan of NBC Sports. <\/a>\u201cObviously, I saw them crashing, and we were all just stacking up trying to get stopped, and then after the wreck was over, I thought we were done wrecking. I was just trying to squeak by, and I guess Kyle (Busch) just didn\u2019t know I was to his left, and we were, so I hate that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NASCAR insider realized that Chase Elliott fans are very passionate and will defend him at any chance…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[4422,1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-155307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-chase-elliott","9":"tag-nascar","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115048922714851280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}