Remember the playoff season opener at Darlington? No Hendrick Motorsports driver, including Chase Elliott, William Byron, Kyle Larson, and Alex Bowman, finished in the top 16, marking the team’s worst collective outing at Darlington in the modern era, with an average finish of 22.0. Now, this was the fourth worst in a four-car shootout. And with the second race of the Round of 12 through, Rick Hendrick’s HMS has found some footing, if not all. But is it enough to satiate HMS VP Jeff Gordon?

Looking at Kansas, it was a sweet treat for the HMS drivers. Chase Elliott put up a really strong fight. In the final two-lap overtime shootout, he advanced from 10th to first, narrowly edging out Denny Hamlin by 0.069 seconds. With Elliott grabbing his second win of the 2025 season and three HMS drive

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