“Seas kind of parted and was just able to keep my momentum up. That was really it,” Chase Elliott said after his recent glory in Kansas. The No. 9 driver was determined to put his Chevrolet team at the top of the championship conversation. And he did so after taking advantage of an overtime finish, fetching his season’s second victory. But it was only possible after the ‘seas parted’ inside the Toyota bandwagon.

Denny Hamlin was in the spotlight before Chase Elliott’s last-lap stroke of luck. The JGR veteran led a race-high 159 laps and swept both stages of the Hollywood Casino 400. But instead of going through with that streak, Hamlin got caught in another internal controversy – and he pleaded his innocence this time as well.

Denny Hamlin brushes off targeted claim

After dominating fo

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