The world watches in awe as drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series speed around ovals at speeds greater than 200 miles per hour. Pushing a car to such speeds is the biggest dream that an enthusiast can have. It is fun, and dangerous, and delivers a strong shot of adrenaline. But what if someone said that even the professionals, who race for a living, lose the thrill of speed over time?<\/p>\n
Chase Elliott explained in a recent conversation on the MeatEater Podcast Network\u00a0that drivers with experience aren\u2019t always extremely excited about blind-old speed. They all cross that initial stage of infatuation and move on to become more mature individuals who focus on the little things that push the car to be better.<\/p>\n
Elliott said, \u201cI can say there\u2019s really no thrill anymore about going at 200 miles per hour\u2026 The thrill factor of it goes away after a time and you start focusing on the small fine details of how can I push the car little further. It becomes so much more competition-based.\u201d The mindset that the best drivers on the field have does not take joy in the idea of going fast.<\/p>\n
That, Elliott, believes is the difference between what makes a driver good or great. \u201cThe details that can make someone great versus someone that\u2019s good are the most minuscule things that you could ever\u2026 I can\u2019t even hardly sit here and describe them to you because a lot of it\u2019s just tiny little feel things in the car,\u201d\u00a0he continued<\/a>.<\/p>\n Drivers need to get past speed and process the little things right to juice the maximum out of their machines. For someone of Elliott\u2019s caliber and experience, this only comes too well.<\/p>\n Chase Elliott wins the Cup Series race in Atlanta<\/p>\n The Hendrick Motorsports icon broke a 44-race winless streak in front of a packed home crowd at the EchoPark Speedway in Atlanta on Saturday night. It was Elliott\u2019s first win of the season and has fixed him a spot in the playoffs. He survived an action-packed race that ended with a dramatic last-lap pass over Brad Keselowski.<\/p>\n Elliott took the lead with a huge inside pass on the entry into Turn 1. His teammate, Alex Bowman, then made sure that Keselowski couldn\u2019t fight back and helped Elliott reach Victory Lane. \u201cWhat a crazy race,\u201d he told<\/a> the press. Keselowski came home in second place and Bowman finished third. Tyler Reddick finished fourth and Erik Jones rounded off the top-five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world watches in awe as drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series speed around ovals at speeds greater…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-23802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114765209681244465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23802","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=23802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}