It’s Nashville. And it’s hot. Like really, really hot. As NASCAR is set to make its comeback after a week that seemed like a year, drivers are faced with the challenge of intense heat, something the Next Gen car makes worse. But that problem, if you want to call it that, differs from driver to driver. Say, for instance, Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson, both have different takes and ways to deal with the heat.

The #9 driver revealed his mantra when it comes to the intense heat situation- “Enjoy the heat, embrace heat, be the heat, tell yourself it’s cold.”

“These next few months are gonna be physical. I think that’s what it’s gonna be, I don’t think anybody’s immune to it. I think we all need to be mindful of it. And I think we are coming into this thing, coming into these hot months with this car for the first time,” he said.

“So I think we need to be, as an industry, be mindful of the temperatures and I don’t think they need to be hotter than they’ve been in years prior.”

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Kyle Larson has his own fix for the heat problem

Contrary to his teammate, Kyle Larson isn’t feeling the sun as much. And that’s not just natural, because the #5 driver has a fix, which is something that’s available to all the drivers.

That something is a cooling system that’s called ‘Chill Out’. Larson revealed that he has been using it and it works “extremely good.”

“It’s honestly cold,” he described.

The defending champion went on to add how last year’s cooling mechanisms worked well, but now that they have the new Next Gen cars which are significantly hotter inside, they need “more out of it.” 

Having said that, Kyle Larson isn’t worried about the heat. He feels good with his car; he feels great with himself.

One can even say, he is ‘chilling out’ in the heat of Nashville.

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