{"id":51529,"date":"2025-10-14T22:55:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/elliott-rallies-to-8th-and-wins-in-ot-in-kansas-nascar-playoffs-heating-up\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:55:37","slug":"elliott-rallies-to-8th-and-wins-in-ot-in-kansas-nascar-playoffs-heating-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/elliott-rallies-to-8th-and-wins-in-ot-in-kansas-nascar-playoffs-heating-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliott Rallies to 8th and Wins in OT in Kansas: NASCAR Playoffs Heating Up"},"content":{"rendered":"In a race full of emotions and unexpected twists at Kansas Speedway, Chase Elliott achieved a surprising victory, securing his place in the third round of the NASCAR playoffs. The driver, starting from the eighth position, starred in a spectacular comeback in the last two laps of extra time.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Domain and Challenges<\/h2>\n\n\nDenny Hamlin, who led the race for 159 laps, seemed destined for victory. However, a series of setbacks, including a slow pit stop, relegated him to seventh position. This change of fortune opened the doors for Bubba Wallace, in a close battle with Christopher Bell, to position himself for the victory.\n\nThe race was interrupted by red and yellow flags, including an incident with Zane Smith. In the final restart, Elliott took advantage of the situation and overtook Hamlin to secure his second victory of the season.\n\nWhat a crazy finish! I hope everyone enjoyed it. I certainly did.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0928%2Fr1552686_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Chase Elliott celebra su victoria en el Kansas Speedway.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Chase Elliott celebr\u00f3 su victoria en el Kansas Speedway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nElliott, along with Ryan Blaney, are already qualified for the third round of the playoffs. The atmosphere at the track was pure adrenaline, with each lap intensifying the excitement.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I wasn&#8217;t going to lift, so I didn&#8217;t know what was going to happen. At the end of the day, it was what it was in that moment. Wherever it ended, I ended up. It was really cool to be eighth on the restart and somehow win with a green and white flag. Pretty cool.<\/p><cite>Chase Elliott<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nHamlin, visibly disappointed, expressed his frustration at not achieving the 60th victory of his career. Despite the problems with the power steering in the last laps, the driver fought until the end.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Simply very disappointing. I wanted it a lot. It would have been 60 for me.<\/p><cite>Denny Hamlin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe race continued with his teammates, Bell and Chase Briscoe, in third and fourth place respectively. Bubba Wallace, who finished fifth, was satisfied with his performance, considering the difficulties his car faced at the beginning of the race.\n\nThe next race will be at the Charlotte Motor Speedway mixed circuit, where Kyle Larson took the victory last year. After this race, the number of drivers in the playoffs will be reduced from 12 to 8.\n\nThe drivers at risk of elimination are Ross Chastain, Austin Cindric, Reddick, and Wallace.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Obviously, there&#8217;s only one thing we can do in Charlotte (win), and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll focus on.<\/p><cite>Reddick<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a race full of emotions and unexpected twists at Kansas Speedway, Chase Elliott achieved a surprising victory, securing his place in the third round of the NASCAR playoffs. The driver, starting from the eighth position, starred in a spectacular comeback in the last two laps of extra time. Domain and Challenges Denny Hamlin, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4961,1591,182,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-51529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-chase-elliott","9":"tag-kansas-speedway","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-playoffs"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}