Chase Elliott recalls the last time he raced with his father Bill Elliott: “It was a really good event” 

NASCAR driver Chase Elliott recently looked back at a wholesome moment in his racing career, where he competed against his father and former Cup Series champion, Bill Elliott. Bill and Chase Elliott are the third father-son duo to have won a Cup Series championship, alongside Richard and Lee Petty, and Ned and Dale Jarrett.

Chase Elliott competes full-time in the Cup Series, piloting the #9 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. In his decade-long career, Elliott has achieved 19 Cup Series victories and claimed the 2020 Cup Series championship. He also won the Xfinity Series title in 2014 and was named the Cup Series regular-season champion in 2022, further cementing his place among NASCAR’s elite.

In a recent interview with Llumar Racing, Elliott answered a few questions from his fans via a 'Quick Questions' session. A curious fan inquired whether Elliott would want to race his father 'Awesome Bill from Dawsonville'. The fan asked (via Llumar Racing on X):

"If you could race your dad in one race, which one would it be and why?"

Responding to the question, the #9 driver said:

"I actually got to race my dad at Nashville Fairgrounds a couple years ago. And, it wasn't a NASCAR race, but I thought it was pretty cool. I thought the venue was great, I thought the crowd was awesome. Everybody was super into it, so that one kind of checked the box for me, I thought it was a lot of fun. Given our age difference, I thought it was a really good event, so I enjoyed that," Chase Elliot said [00:41].

The race Elliott mentions racing his father in was the final race of the Camping World Superstar Racing Experience Series' first season in 2021 (also known as SRX Racing), where Chase Elliott bested his father among other NASCAR legends such as Tony Stewart, Bobby Labonte, and Michael Waltrip.

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Denny Hamlin names Chase Elliott feud from 2017 as one of the "big defining moments" of his NASCAR career

Denny Hamlin was recently asked which NASCAR moment in his career would he want to relive again. Hamlin chose a moment with fellow Cup Series driver Chase Elliott as his pick.

Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, has built a reputation as one of NASCAR's most accomplished competitors. However, when reflecting on his favorite career moment, Hamlin didn’t choose one of his many victories. On a recent episode of the Dirty Mo Media podcast, Hamlin shared an unexpected pick:

"The way fans feel about me probably changed in 2017, that was probably at Martinsville with Chase Elliott, that was probably one of the big defining moments for sure. I wish I could do that all over again. Certainly I feel like I would've made a lot of different choices in that moment, it'd be the one I'd like to have back, on the controversy and the track side," Hamlin said.

"When someone becomes a fan of something, they're going to see things from a different lens and not a subjective lens forever from that point on whether it is Hendrick fans or Chase Elliott fans ... certainly had a feeling towards me in some kind of way since then," he added.