Chase Elliott will begin on the rear of the sphere Sunday at Kansas Speedway due to an engine problem together with his No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.
Elliott felt he was doubtlessly down a cylinder throughout Saturday’s follow and his staff did what they might beneath the hood on pit highway. He ran 19 laps in follow and wound up fifteenth quickest total.
“We’re undecided,” Elliott advised NBC Sports activities of the difficulty. “We threw all of the issues [at it] which you could test on pit highway. Clearly, when you have got an engine problem like that, it may be tough to establish what precisely is damaged. For me, I got here off Flip 2 and mainly felt prefer it went down a cylinder; audible change, and misplaced quite a lot of energy, so I knew one thing was mistaken and got here in as fast as I might simply to attempt to preserve from messing it up any worse.”
In qualifying, Elliott did make a lap to the very best of the automotive’s skill and to scuff the tires that carry over into the race, however then drove straight to the storage. Elliott was thirty eighth of 38 drivers together with his qualifying lap however would have began within the rear regardless, because the staff will make an engine change forward of the Hollywood On line casino 400.
Kansas Speedway (3 p.m. ET, Sunday) is the primary race within the Spherical of 12 within the playoffs.
Elliott begins the spherical sitting seventh on the playoff grid, six factors above the cutline. He’s a former winner at Kansas Speedway in 2018 and completed third on the monitor within the spring race.
“Such a bummer; what a horrible time to have one thing go mistaken,” Elliott mentioned. “The Hendrick engine store has been so good all through my profession. I don’t even suppose I’ve stuffed up a hand of engine points that we’ve had over the course of my total profession. I hate it, however I’d a lot relatively have it occur as we speak than tomorrow.”
