The last time NASCAR Xfinity veteran Elliott Sadler raced at Daytona International Speedway he left somewhat deflated. After all, in that race in February Sadler lost to his JR Motorsports teammate Tyler Reddick in the closest finish in NASCAR history.
It’s a race that’s still in the front of Sadler’s thoughts nearly six months later.
“We came off turn 4, I was trying to figure out whether to side draft or not and then also try and figure out what the two Ryan’s were going to do behind me,” Sadler said Thursday at Daytona. “If they were going to push Tyler (Reddick) or push me or maybe try to make it three wide. There’s a lot going on in these restrictor plate races from the middle of turn 3 and 4, all the way back to the start-finish line. It’s a lot of ‘what-ifs’ and ‘could-ifs’ from my point of view that maybe I should have done different or played it out different in my head, but there was so much happening so quick you just got to kind of respond to what’s happening around you.”
“I mean that was close,” he added MORE>>>
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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