""What a crazy finish. Hope you all enjoyed that. I certainly did," NASCAR's most popular driver told the crowd after collecting the checkered flag."
""I wasn't going to lift, so I didn't know what was going to happen. I figured at the end of the day, it was what it was at that point," Elliott said. "Wherever I ended up, I ended up. At that point, we were all committed. Really cool just to be eighth on the restart and somehow win on a green-and-white checkered. Pretty neat.""
Chase Elliott drove from eighth to the checkered flag during a two-lap overtime sprint at Kansas Speedway to secure a spot in the third round of the NASCAR playoffs. Denny Hamlin led 159 laps and appeared poised for victory before late cautions and a slow pit stop dropped him from the lead to seventh. Bubba Wallace briefly held the lead and battled Christopher Bell before Wallace scraped the wall while defending. A red-flag stoppage occurred when Zane Smith flipped. Elliott made contact with Hamlin's door on the final restart to take the win.
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