Hendrick Motorsports has not had the playoff start that they hoped for this year. Darlington was a disaster for the team, with none of them finishing above Chase Elliott’s 17th. And though Gateway was some relief, where once again Elliott finished highest in the team, coming 2nd, the Bristol race turned into one that he would love to forget.

Chase Elliott couldn’t finish the race as he got caught up in a chain reaction on Lap 311 involving John Hunter Nemechek’s Toyota. Luckily, he still qualifies for the next round, sitting at 7th thanks to his accumulated playoff points. But recent insight from experts tell us how Elliott might have sabotaged his own run at Bristol, making his upcoming playoff chances look very fragile and uncertain.

What went wrong with Chase Elliott’s Bristol run?

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