Chase Elliott addresses long active NASCAR winless streak in 2025

Chase Elliott’s winless streak has officially reached over one season’s worth of races. After finishing in 16th place at Texas Motor Speedway, Elliott’s winless streak has reached 37 races in the NASCAR Cup Series. The driver of the No. 9 car won the 2025 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray; however, it doesn’t count as a points race toward the official standings.

Therefore, Elliott has the eighth-longest active NASCAR winless streak behind Daniel Suarez and ahead of Brad Keselowski. Ahead of the race weekend in Texas, Elliott went into detail about his current winless streak to FOX Sports’ Bob Pockrass.

“Obviously, I would have loved to have had more points wins,” Elliott said. “Certainly the Clash was a great weekend for us. And while it wasn’t a points win, and I’m very much aware of that, it wasn’t like nobody was trying. For us, that was a great way to start the season, and we just have to keep building on it. No different than anyone else on our team. We want more. We’re capable of more, and we just have high expectations of ourselves, and we know what we’re capable of. That’s where we are proud of those good runs that we’ve had. But we know that there’s more in the tank and that we can extract more out of our team and race results and lead some more laps and get ourselves in good position.”

We’ve had a couple opportunities at [wins] this year, but certainly not the amount of opportunities that I think we need to have, or that we should have, or that we should give ourselves. The season is still very early…I’ve seen enough high spots to kind of give me hope. There’s been enough high spots in there for me to have confidence in some of the things that we’re doing and keep going to work each week. All you can do when you’re in this fight is just keep showing up, continue to put the right amount of effort throughout the weekend to make sure you’re prepared to show up on any given weekend, and put together a solid day. But it’s all got to go together. It all has to come together at the right time. I have to do my job. We’ve got to call good races on the box. We have to have good pit stops. It’s all there. Obviously, we want more and we expect more.”

Elliott hasn’t possessed the race-winning speed his teammates have shown throughout the 2025 NASCAR season. The driver of the No. 9 car has been consistent, but has only led 45 laps, with 42 of those laps coming at Martinsville Speedway. Elliott is still searching for a much-needed victory, but the No. 9 car needs more speed overall.