Chase Elliott didn’t have the day he wanted in the Daytona 500, but it’s nothing a trip home to Atlanta Motor Speedway can’t make better.

HAMPTON, Ga. — As NASCAR’s most popular driver, Chase Elliott always has a lot of people cheering for him at the track – and that’s especially true at his home track: Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Like President Donald Trump, NASCAR driver Chase Elliott also attended the Super Bowl last weekend ahead of Sunday's Daytona 500.

The No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports driver and NASCAR’s reigning Most Popular Driver will be starting the Daytona 500 from the 17th position in row nine. The 2025 Daytona 500 is set for Sunday, February 16 at 1:30 p.m. ET on Fox. The race was originally scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET but was moved up because of weather.

The drivers used the event to see who had the car to beat in the 500. Elliott’s own father did that in 1987 when “Awesome Bill from Dawsonville” won the Clash, then won the 500 from the pole seven days later for his second victory in “The Great American Race.”

As for his Daytona 500 resume, Elliott has yet to win the big race but he made history when, at 20 years old, he became the youngest ever to score a pole position in the “ Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing” in 2015. This time around, though, Elliott will be starting 17th in the 67th running of the Daytona 500.

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