NASCAR Nationwide Series Live on ESPN2

Darlington "Track To Tough To Tame!"

The Famous Darlington Stripe - A bunch of Cup drivers in tonight's race

Tear yourself away from the Royals game - you can watch both :D

Looks like Chase's daddy taught him how to race! He gave up the lead to Harvick. I'm impressed - Kid was running down on the bottom.

1. Kevin Harvick
2. Chase Elliott
3. Kyle Busch
4. Kyle Larson
5. Matt Kenseth

Caution, Caution is out

Wow....Damage to quite a few cars

Edit: Chase back to the lead - so far, leading 34 of 70 laps.

These guys are racing 4-wide

Edit: Caution #4 is out

Edit: Caution

edit: Caution

Hell of a race!!

1. Kyle Busch
2. Chase Elliott
3. Kyle Larson
4. Kevin Harvick
5. Joey Logano

you're missing a great race.

32 laps to go

Chase and Larson are putting on a clinic at DARLINGTON!


Edit: Caution with 7 laps to go (15 cars on the lead lap)

1. Kyle Busch
2. Chase Elliott
3. Matt Kenseth
4. Kevin Harvick
5. Kyle Larson

Edit: Leaders coming in for 4-tires. Sadler wins race out of the pits. Larson and Chase take just two tires.

2 laps to go

WOW, CHASE ELLIOTT WINS THE RACE!

This kid has some serous racing skills - He came from fifth to first on the restart to win in dramatic finish -

Unbelievable - This is his first time at Darlington and wins "The Track Too Tough to Tame!” Scores second Nationwide victory in a row.

His dad won here a lot.


Top 10 Race Leaders:
1. Chase Elliott
2. Elliott Sadler
3. Matt Kenseth
4. Kyle Busch
5. Joey Logano
6. Kyle Larson (his crew messed him up on the last pit stop)
7. Kevin Harvick
8. Regan Smith
9. Trevor Bayne
10. Ty Dillon

Final Laps: Elliott makes Darlington History with the first last lap pass for the win

The Lady in Black – a.k.a. Darlington Raceway – hates almost everybody. That’s why so many of NASCAR’s best over the last five decades have been brought to their knees by her icy demeanor. But at the same time, she has been known to have her favorites, just like she did with young Chase Elliott in Friday’s Nationwide Series race.

Kyle Busch led by 1.5 seconds and was seemingly cruising to victory until Tanner Berryhill's spin forced a final restart and sent the field diving into the pits for a final shootout. Elliott Sadler moved from eighth to first after the stop by taking just two tires while Elliott was among the competitors who changed four tires.

Elliott charged hard on the restart and was right in back of Sadler on the final lap. When Sadler got loose — Sadler said the two didn't touch, although they surely came close — Elliott was able to move past him and take the checkered flag.

"Man, that was crazy," Elliott said.

Then again, it's been a crazy time for latest Elliott to conquer the track "Too Tough To Tame."

His father won here five times and earned the nickname "Million Dollar Bill" when his Southern 500 win earned him the Winston Million bonus in 1985.


Source: NBC Motor Sports

Did he touch him before that final pass or just get him aero-loose?

Aero loose

From the video above - The last two laps:
High Line .... Low Line
#11 Elliott Sadler .... #42 Kyle Larson
#20 Matt Kenseth .... #54 Kyle Busch
#9 Chase Elliott .... #5 Kevin Harvick
#22 Joey Logano .... #7 Regan Smith

0:24 - Amazing move Elliott puts on Busch to second coming to the white flag
0:49 - Unbelievable pass Elliott puts on Sadler to win the race - He was making moves like that all night on NASCAR's Cup drivers.


An excerpt from Ed Hinton, reporter covering NASCAR for ESPN.com:
http://espn.go.com/racing/blog/_/nam...gton-first-try


NASCAR Cup Series in Darlington: Bojangles' Southern 500, Saturday, (6:30 p.m. ET, FOX)

Should be back around 7:00 p.m.

Chase is the real deal. I've watched a lot of his races down south here, when he was being groomed. In december he raced in the snowball derby in pensacola florida. This race is like the superbowl of short track racing. Champions from many race divisions from across the country come to this race. In the 20+ years of going to this race, I have never seen anyone put on a clinic on the field like he did.

Then that's good news for the sport. Many of us folks saw Jeff change the sport, then brought Jimmy into it, and Jimmy's better than Jeff ever way, and with the talent that's out there now, this sport has a lot of up-side...

And we're off.

One has to wonder if Jeff "I Only Race in Cup Races (but don't know why I can't win anymore)" Gordon has a chance.

danny, that had to be exciting to see.

Watching Chase race in Darlington last night, did it for me. To be able to race as he did at this track was shocking - This kid is going to be a superstar. (God willing)

Someone here was a huge Bill Elliott fan - I cannot remember who said it, because this would be the perfect time to start following his son.

FYI: Chase missed his high school prom Friday night to race in Darlington. LOL

My older son has his "own" prom tonight. Checking out soon to test my photography skills! LOL, his 4th Prom, but finally HIS!!

How sweet! Congrats to both you and your son! ... :thumb:

Good father, GOOD COOK - what do you think that I don't read those threads? I love them ...LOL

One has to wonder if this could be used to keep JG from crying about the sun???!!

http://img.alibaba.com/img/pb/262/18...186262_609.jpg

Yeah, I'm a JG fan, but above all in my life I HATE excuses!