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Trackhouse Racing driver Ross Chastain will not compete for the prestigious NASCAR Cup Series championship this year as he failed to qualify for the playoffs in the Sunday’s regular-season finale race at Darlington Raceway. After the race, Chastain shed light on what went wrong that he couldn’t make the playoffs this year.
n the post-race interview, Chastain, who scored a P5 finish at Darlington’s challenging track, was disappointed with the performance of his #1 Chevrolet, as he believes that his car needed more improvements throughout the season to be competitive.Speaking to Frontstretch’s Stephen Stumpf about his outing at Darlington and narrowly missing the NASCAR playoffs, Chastain said:
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“It needed a lot. It needed more throughout the season. Here tonight, we got it better and continued to work on it. We had some great strategy that kept us out of wrecks and had us on older tires, newer tires. Hopefully we need better balance to do what Dave did. He drove it a little bit harder than I could have, so I couldn’t have done that if I had been in his position. still too tight in the end.” [1:20]
Ross Chastain, who has been associated with Trackhouse Racing since 2022, had made the playoff appearance in back-to-back years. He ended the 2022 season as championship runner-up and was ninth last year in the final championship standings.
Ross Chastain was in contention to win during final stage at Darlington
The #1 Trackhouse Racing Chevy driver started the Southern 500 from the 22nd position and worked the entire night battling for the 16th and the final spot in the playoffs.
