Tense Chase Elliott & Denny Hamlin-Led Meeting Labelled a “Festivus” by Two Unnamed NASCAR Drivers

If a situation has someone like Chase Elliott expressing their views vocally and unhingedly, the situation must be either really fun or really serious. Unfortunately, it’s the latter.

Because it’s not just the Hendrick Motorsports driver, but almost every driver on the NASCAR grid who is voicing their opinion against the Next Gen car’s safety.

Fortunately, NASCAR has heard their voice.

It was reported by journalist Kelly Crandall recently that for the second week in a row, NASCAR organized a meeting with the drivers. This one lasted for over an hour and drivers were “updated on things being worked on.”

Unsurprisingly, the reaction by the drivers in this private meeting was more or less the same as their comments in public.

According to one report, two unnamed drivers equated the meeting to be like a Seinfeld episode, using the words “airing of grievances” and “Festivus.”

Oh, and as if it wasn’t already obvious, the two most vocal names in that meeting were Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin.

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Chase Elliott demands the right to be done but insists expectations must be reasonable

In a recent interview, Chase Elliott opened up on the distant dream, which is the idea that NASCAR could fix the problems with the Next Gen car in the blink of an eye, which is to say, in this season itself.

“They wanna get together and talk this weekend, which is good. You hope that we can find a path forward. There’s still some racing left this year, so I think it’s a bit unreasonable to ask for a fix that can happen overnight in the closing month of our season,” the Hendrick Motorsports driver said. “That’s a tall ask.”

“Is that reasonable to do with all the logistics it would take to do at this point? Probably not,” Elliott continued.

He described how at this point of the year, it’s unreasonable to make an emergency change considering the logistics, something which is frustrating to him.

Having expressed his frustrations and what he feels is an unreasonable ask, Chase Elliott also confessed that they shouldn’t be in this position they find themselves in, in the first place.

“We should not have been in this position to have needed this type of change,” he said.

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