The thrilling, as well as the shivering aspect of motorsports, is the fine line between spectacle and serious injury, potentially a tragedy. For Chase Elliott, the spectacle has been there, yes, but not without the scary bit too in the last year.

However, it’s worth mentioning that his scary moments came outside of a stock car, which is to say, not in his day job at NASCAR.

Earlier this year, it was Elliott’s scary incident at Chili Bowl, that left his fans pretty scared for the #9 driver after his flip left him hanging in the air, slamming the fence, and then landing upside down.

More recently, the 2020 Cup Series champion came face to face with the ‘what if’ aspect of his second foray into a seemingly similar but different Nitro Cross Rally campaign.

During a preliminary run, Elliott faced some technical issues, which in the worst-case scenario could’ve meant his car bailing on him during one of the jumps, a scary possibility.

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Chase Elliott was “kind of scared” to jump in his electric racecar

Speaking about this incident later, Chase Elliott opened up on what went wrong in his opinion, how inapt he felt about dealing with the electric racecar he simply wasn’t all too familiar with in the first place.

“It was losing power throughout that last run,” he said. “It had lost a bunch, it was hardly running there toward the end. I was kind of scared to go over the jumps. I didn’t know how far I was going to be able to jump, I was wide open.”

In the end, the NASCAR star was able to avoid any serious possibility as he felt the car “seemed fast enough” to make it across. Elliott also remarked that he was getting “all kinds of messages” on the dashboard of his electric racecar, something he was left confused by.

“I didn’t know what they meant. I don’t know anything about electric cars but hopefully it’s alright,” he added.

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