Killing another NASCAR conspiracy after Chase Elliott wins Martinsville race

Another week , another conspiracy opportunity, and this one is much more familiar to the veterans of such things. A week ago, in the wake of utter dominance from Tyler Reddick’s 23XI team at Darlington, residents from the dark web told us it’s all part of the legal settlement between NASCAR and 23XI (i. e.

Michael Jordan, who’d been bouncing around like Richard Simmons this season). But Sunday at Martinsville, Reddick ho-hummed his way to a 15th-place finish and … wait, this just in from the dark web: “It’s just a deflection to turn down the heat! ” Regardless, we now turn to old reliable, the famous French arbiter of fair play, at least the way he sees it — Jacques Debris , who this time spotted the exploded brake rotor from Ty Dillon’s car and mandated the caution flag that was perfectly timed for NASCAR’s Favorite Son, William Clyde “Chase” Elliott.

And Billy Clyde didn’t waste the good fortune, given how it’s apparently still too damned hard to catch and pass the leader on the shorter tracks, and they come no shorter than Martinsville. First Gear: Chase Elliott gamble pays off It’s called short-pitting, and like the “short-sellers” of Wall Street, there’s a gamble involved. Alan Gustafson, Chase Elliott’s longtime crew chief (and graduate of Daytona Beach’s Seabreeze High, by the way), must’ve gotten fed up with seeing the No.

9 car camped out around 10th place for lap after lap after lap. In other sports, an outmanned opponent has a few options to get back in the game and perhaps even win it (fake a punt, pull the goalie, kidnap their pitcher, etc. ), but in racing, gambles are relegated to pit strategy, and among those strategies is the “short pit,” which means you’re gonna pit short of the pit window, a certain number of laps before what’s been ordained (unofficially) as the point in the the race when cars will need to fill those tanks one last time.