NASCAR CUP SERIES: VIVA MEXICO 250

June 15, 2025

Chase Elliott

Pit Lane Interview

Q. What a strong final run of the day for Chase Elliott, winds up third. It seemed chaotic from our seat. How was it from behind the wheel?

CHASE ELLIOTT: The restart was for sure, and yeah, I felt like we were in a really good spot. I was super excited about having tires and getting ourselves to -- we got in front of the 54 and I thought, to be honest, that was going to be the race for the win there initially.

Yeah, got clear of the 1 and the 42, I think, and started settling in, and I didn't have anything left. I was kind of cooked after that.

Yeah, I think we just pressed so hard to try to get through traffic that we -- yeah, when it got singled out, I didn't have a lot of pace left. I felt like I gained on him there for a little while, but it was pretty tough sledding to get to that point. We pressed on. Really proud of our LLumar Chevy group for sticking with it.

We were kind of up and down all day and finally got going there a few runs from the end and Al made us a good call to get us on tires. Finally had a restart go halfway decent and got a decent top 3 out of it.

Q. What would you say about this track and how it raced today and all the conditions you guys had to work through, the rain and dry and everything?

CHASE ELLIOTT: Yeah, I mean, there was a lot going on for sure. Certainly from the restarts. But once it singled out, it really became a normal road course, I thought.

But the restarts were crazy. You get in those situations and it's just so tough because it's like you don't want to be the one to run in there and kind of gouge people out of the way, and as soon as you don't, you get gouged from behind.

I don't love that, but that's kind of what we got now, these bumpers are so strong. It's kind of just chaos there for a few laps until we can get single filed out and then it gets pretty fun.