Chase Elliott called the Daytona 500, “a spectacle,” yet knows the 63rd edition will be a much more subdued affair due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Attendance will be restricted to around 30,000 fans at an event that typically attracts a race day crowd of more than 200,000 people in the grandstands and infield area at Daytona International Speedway.
“Being a part of it, just the energy here is unlike anywhere else that we go ... I hate that,” Elliott said. “We need to get back on track somehow and get the people to the track because they ultimately make it what it is.