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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Elliott Adds Name to List of Winchester 400 Winners

The list of winners of the Winchester 400 is long and includes some the great names in motorsports, Rusty Wallace , Mark Martin, Kyle Busch just to name a few and now Chase Elliott, at 14 becomes the youngest to win and he did it in convincing fashion beating a strong field and driving away at the end.  Early it looked like Johnny VanDoorn was the man to beat taking off from the pole position to lead the first 104 laps.  Tj Reaid then took the lead but Donnie Wilson was moving up fast and took over the lead on lap 112.  Wilson, VanDoorn, Rick Turner traded the lead around until an accident on the 325 lap between Turner, Chuck Barnes, Jr. and Wilson gave the lead to Barnes.  Elliott took the lead and held it on lap 357. 
"It feels awesome to win the 400."  Elliott stated.  "We were just trying to be our best, and to join those names of winners feels great.  The plan was to try to get to the end the best we could.