Chase Elliott’s 2025 Playoff campaign has been a wild ride of highs and wrenching lows. After clinching a win at Kansas Speedway to lock his Round of 8 spot, he showed grit at New Hampshire, clawing from 27th to 5th for crucial stage points. But Talladega Superspeedway flipped the script.

A massive Stage 1 crash torched his No. 9, landing a 40th-place finish and shoving him into a do-or-die corner. With rivals circling, Elliott’s playoff path now hangs in a must-win, the kind of pressure cooker only ‘Dega can crank. Post-crash, he let loose to the press, his three-word response summing up the sting of a track that spares no one.

Three words torch Talladega’s chaos

Chase Elliott didn’t mince words after the wreck : “Unless we won today, we were likely going to be a very similar posit

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