LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) – To be clear, Chase Elliott will take a victory anywhere he can get one.
But not long after lifting the celebratory guitar he earned for winning at Nashville Superspeedway, Elliott couldn’t help but wonder if NASCAR is still at the wrong race track.
NASCAR’s most popular driver is partial to the track at the Nashville Fairgrounds. When he heard the Cup Series would return to the area in 2021 – but at the D-shaped oval in Lebanon, some 40 minutes from the downtown hot spots – he was not pleased.
“One snooze fest at that joint will put the nail in the coffin of the fairgrounds, bummer,” Elliott tweeted in 2020.
He has now raced two consecutive years at the superspeedway, collected a win and the guitar late Sunday night, and his opinion hasn’t changed. Elliott wants to race at the fairgrounds, where his Hall of Fame father often did and the two went head-to-head last summer in the Superstar Racing Experience. Chase won the race.