2014 NASCAR Driver Review: Chase Elliott
Many would select Chase Elliott’s first win at Texas or winning the championship as the highlight of his season, but how about Darlington?
Many would select Chase Elliott’s first win at Texas or winning the championship as the highlight of his season, but how about Darlington?
Racing in Mexico and winning the NASCAR Toyota Series championship paid off immensely for German Quiroga when the Truck Series arrived at the Canadian Tire Motorsports Park.
It was a rather quiet year for the No. 17 team, but Talladega was the perfect setting for Timothy Peters’s lone win.
Ty Dillon’s only win of the season came at the most famous racetrack on the planet. To make it even sweeter, he only led once, for the final 24 laps of the race.
For the first time since 2010, Johnny Sauter did not score multiple wins in a season. That made the race he did capture – at Michigan International Speedway in August – all the sweeter.
Bubba Wallace didn’t come through the ranks known as a dirt-track racer. Generally, in the case of drivers like Kyle Larson, you hear about that sort of thing.
Brendan Gaughan, a former full-timer in each of NASCAR’s top-three series, had never earned a victory on a road course.
Ride: No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota Crew Chief: Chris Gayle Points finish: Third Stats: 33 starts, one win, seven top 5s, 25 top 10s, …
Brian Scott was the most consistent of Richard Childress Racing’s three full-time drivers throughout the season.
Trevor Bayne had a busy 2015 season. While racing full-time in the Nationwide Series for RFR, Bayne also ran 12 NSCS races for Wood Brothers Racing.