Ratings revealed for NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway

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Chase Elliott snaps 42-race winless streak at Texas

Those who tuned into Sunday’s affair at Texas saw Chase Elliott, NASCAR’s most popular driver, snap a 42-race winless streak. Elliott, who hadn’t won since October 2022 at Talladega Superspeedway, outlasted Brad Keselowski, William Byron and others during overtime to win his 19th career race in the Cup Series.

“I think just our performance over the last month or maybe two has done more than anything,” Elliott said in the post-race press conference. “I mean, I think obviously these races are hard to win. They seem like they get harder, at least for me. They continuously get harder over time. One, I’ve just been really proud of our group for sticking together ’cause I’m sure a lot of you guys have been around the sport long enough to understand and know that when you have a couple bad years, a period of time that things aren’t going well, it is so easy to jump ship and to start bailing out on one another.

“I think that the win’s great, all that stuff is fantastic, but I’m truthfully most proud of the journey and the group of people that we have climbed back up together with. We’ve made each other better. They push me to be a better driver and a better person. I just feel like we’re all in a really good place, and we have been. It’s nice to see all the hard work pay off. Those guys really deserve to win. They’ve been busting it for a while, have been doing a really good job. That’s what I’m most proud of, is the journey and all of us sticking together at the 9 team.”