What Sets Chase Elliott Apart

NASCAR’s most successful owner, Rick Hendrick, has the instincts of a film director. No matter the plot twists, Hendrick Motorsports moves its narrative along.This is Jeff Gordon’s final full season. The four-time Cup champion has one more shot at a fifth, and then Chase Elliott, who by this time next year will be 20, will attempt to fill the No. 24 seat in which Gordon has taken the checkered flag 92 times, third best in the sport’s history.Perhaps this is madness. Gordon contended for a fifth Sprint Cup championship last year, though he has wound up sixth in the standings the past two seasons. He has finished in the top 10 nine seasons in a row. Elliott has a Hall of Fame father—Bill was recently inducted into the ...

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