Chase Elliott reacts to incident with Tyler Reddick that ended his day at Las Vegas

Chase Elliott had designs on running well at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, looking to start the Round of 8 off with a solid finish in Sin City.

It wasn’t meant to be for the sport’s most popular wheelman. Elliott was caught up in a wreck involving Tyler Reddick, Brad Keselowski, Austin Cindric and Ryan Blaney, leading to a P33 finish for the former NASCAR Cup Series champion.

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The aforementioned Reddick tried to make it three-wide with Martin Truex Jr. and Elliott on lap 89, and it simply wasn’t the time or place to make a move like that. Elliott made contact with the No. 45, and both drivers crashed, with Reddick’s car even flipping. Afterwards, Elliott tried to make sense of what went down.

“(Tyler Reddick) was coming with a really big run on the top. I don’t think Martin (Truex Jr.) knew that, and he was kind of running as if we were two-wide,” Elliott explained , via NBC Sports . “Once I recognized that there wasn’t going to be enough room, I bailed and there was just nowhere to bail. It was too late. I need to sit down and take a look at it.

“I was, personally, just trying to get out of the situation, and it was just a little too late at that point. It sucks. Our No. 9 Chevy was really, really good there at the start. It was the best we’ve been out here in this new car, so it was just a bad day for that.”

Alas, the wreck put Elliott in a pretty damning position as far as where he sits in the playoff standings at the moment. He’s in P8 out of the eight drivers he’s competing against, 53 points from the cut-line for the Championship 4. Basically, Elliott will have to win his way in over the next two weeks, barring a miracle.

It hasn’t been a strong playoffs for Elliott’s No. 9 team, regardless of what went down at Las Vegas. He only has only four top-10s and two top-fives in the seven playoff races thus far, which hasn’t been good enough when you consider the competition he’s working against.

Perhaps Chase Elliott can shock the motorsports world and go on a bit of a run over the next three races. It’s not out of the question for the former NASCAR Cup Series champion, but he’s going to have to show more than he’s done throughout the playoffs thus far moving forward.

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