Chase Elliott makes a terrible start in top 5 finish

Christopher Bell survived William Byron and Tyler Reddick in intensive final 10 rounds to win the race of the Echopark Automotive Grand Prix Nascar Cup series in Cota on Sunday.

Bell drove to Kyle Busch on the lead with six rounds and held byon and Reddick over the last rounds with excellent defensive driving.

Bell has now won races in a row, and the victory on Sunday was his third career victory on a road course.

Busch led 42 laps, but his tires were used up in the last run and fell back to fifth place.

Here are the winners and losers of the Nascar Cup Series race on Sunday at Cota:

At some point in the future, everyone who looks at Elliott's season racing protocol 2025 will look up their fourth place in Cota and will not surprise themselves from the result for one of the best street racing drivers in the series.

But it wasn't nearly as easy and Elliott's Day was the most eventful in the field.

Elliott started third place and was reversed in the first round. Ross Chastain, who inexplicably dived into the corner in the opening round. Despite a toe-link problem in the left rear and bad track position, Elliott's team worked on the car all afternoon. During most of the first and second phase, Elliott ran before the top 25 (Elliott started level 2 well from the rear part of the field after he was not lifted after an additional pit stop.)

Elliott drove into the top 20 at the beginning of the third stage, but had shown ok speed. The head of the crew, Alan Gustafson, decided during the final caution of the top 20, so Elliott was unleashed with fresher tires.

Elliott moved to fourth place in the last 13 rounds of 23rd and made a good destination on a hard day.

Noah Gragson is not known for his ability to racing for road traffic. His best end in the Cup series on the Road Course, which came in Watkins Glen on Sunday last season.

But Gragson led a strong day for motorsport in the front row with an eighth place, one of two top 10 places for FRM.

After an up and off time, Todd Gilliland took 10th place, his third career-top 10 place on a road course and secured the top 10 on a load lobstups and pass from Ross Chastain.

The motorsports in the front row took a good day after some bad ends opened the season on the drawing routes, and they got them on Sunday.

“Loser” is perhaps too strong, but it will certainly be a bitter sweet view of what could have been for the four-car trackhouse racing team.

Shane van Gisbergen controlled the majority of the first two phases, showing strength at a long speed and decided before the end of the steps for a strategy and pit. For this reason, SVG and Team No. 88 decided against the resolution of points for the long -term point of view of the profit of the race.

Instead, SVG was stacked during a restart at the beginning of the third stage and slipped outside the top 5. He could not fully recover after he was traveling to older tires on the penultimate run in response to the track position and took sixth place. While the finish was solid, SVG only has four other road running races to secure a playoff place. For him, expectations are high for him with this type of racing, and the error rate is tightened with every street race that he does not win in 2025.

Back to the restart, in which Van Gisbergen slipped in front of the top 5: The restart occurred after the first non-level end of the day, in which the trackhouse drivers Daniel Suarez and Connor Zil were involved. Suarez turned around a corner, and Zilisch met Suarez in the right butt when Zil tried to avoid his teammate.

Zilisch's day started with a cutting tire of round 1 and ended with the accident of the round 50. In between, he was one of the fastest cars on the track and rose to top 15 in level 2. If he had kept himself away from difficulties, Zil would have started a dispute in his first start in the Cup series.

After a dive in round 1 in curve 1, in which Elliott was shot, Ross Chastain had an otherwise quiet 12th place.

So it wasn't all bad for Trackhouse. But it could have been much, much better.

Three former winners for the street course for Hendrick Motorsports were all involved in incidents that had a negative impact on their days, but only Kyle Larson could not recover.

Larson's day had a big setback with two rounds to go in level 2 when his right rank bike came out of the car immediately after a pit stop at the late stage. Larson had to serve a two-round penalty and never recovered and took 32nd place.

Chase Elliott (Spin 1) and Alex Bowman (several tracks and a spin) recovered from their problems for top 10 surfaces. Larson couldn't.

Chase Elliott makes a terrible start in top 5 finish

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