DOVER, Del. — For more than a fourth of Sunday’s Gander RV 400 at Dover International Speedway, Chase Elliott seemed destined to win his second straight race.
Starting from the pole, Elliott led the first 107 laps, but two-tire calls by Joey Logano and William Byron near the end of Stage 1 dropped him to third.
And though Elliott regained the top spot in the second stage of the race, he surrendered it to teammate Alex Bowman on Lap 224 and was never a factor for the win after that.
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“Yeah, we just fell off there at the end of that second stage,” Elliott said. “That was the time of the race that we needed to be controlling it and not falling back.
“Just a bad time to have a bad half of a run and that is kind of what happened. So, we were fast, just not fast enough when it really mattered.”