It's hard to believe sometimes that Chase Elliott is still just a rookie.
The Hendrick Motorsports driver is still just in his first season of full-time Sprint Cup racing, taking over Jeff Gordon's ride after Gordon retired at the end of last season. Now, Elliott finds himself in the Chase for the Sprint Cup's Round of 12 and in decent shape heading into Charlotte for Saturday night's Bank of America 500.
Elliott wasn't flashy last week at Dover but he finished third in the race, backing up a third-place run at Chicagoland and a 13th-place run at New Hampshire to wind up sixth in points in the Round of 16.