It seemed like just another road course race on the calendar. Watkins Glen was packed with fans on a hot summer afternoon when a young Chase Elliott was raring to go at the 2018 Go Bowling at The Glen. Driving the No. 9 Chevy for Hendrick Motorsports, he started the race in third place, won Stage 2, and held off reigning champ Martin Truex Jr. to win by a staggering 7.560 seconds. The win sent shockwaves in the NASCAR community, as it signaled the start of a new era and the arrival of a new road course king on the block.

From that Sunday onwards, Elliott became road-course ‘royalty’. Between 2018 and 2021, he won on such tracks seven times, including back-to-back triumphs at ‘The Glen’. He also entered Victory Lane at the Charlotte Roval, Road America, Circuit of the Americas, and made a

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