Even though the air around the whole Chase Elliott-Kyle Larson incident is cool, it’s worth speculating that the air itself doesn’t seem to be cool because of natural conditions. Rather, it’s more like air conditioning.

This is to say that while every Hendrick entity, including the two main characters, is admitting ‘all is okay’, something seems off.

Something that many lip readers theorized after looking at a post-race video of Elliott with his two bosses, Rick Hendrick, and Jeff Gordon, in which he was apparently venting out his frustrations about things becoming ‘unfixable.’

And now ahead of the final race in the regular season at Daytona, the #9 driver has more or less admitted that those who read between the lines were right with their observations.

“I would just say that there’s nothing to be fixed,” Elliott said of whether something needs to be fixed between him and Larson. “Really, at the end of the day, when you look at the reality of the situation … we finished fourth and we weren’t good enough to win.”

“For me, I don’t see where there’s anything that needs to be fixed.”

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Chase Elliott shares his opinion on how teammates should race ideally

Of course, you would think that Chase Elliott would now have an opinion on how teammates should race each other. After all, it’s been on two occasions that his teammate has ‘ruined’ his race.

However, in reality, the #9 driver doesn’t have as radical of an opinion on this subject as one would imagine. “I think that’s a tough one,” Elliott said. “It’s kind of above me, I feel like. I’m not really the one to make those kind of calls.”

Elliott argued that it’s Rick Hendrick who spends all the money to race, and it’s up to him how in his team, his four drivers race each other.

“If all four of us make it to Phoenix, that would be a great problem to have and one any organization would be happy to be in,” he added.

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