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Ross Chastain pit crew member trolls Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott hard

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Ross Chastain
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A pit crew member for Ross Chastain‘s No. 1 team had some fun with Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott during the NASCAR All-Star Race. Trackhouse Racing shared a video of the pit crew member dropping a notepad in front of Blaney and Elliott, and they would pick it up. When they did that, the crew member would sign his name on the notepad, assuming he was asking for his autograph.

It was all in good fun before the drivers competed in the exhibition race. However, all 23 drivers who raced in the event wanted to win since $1 million was on the line. Ross Chastain came up short in the race as Christopher Bell crossed the finish line first. Chastain finished third in the All-Star race.

Through the first 12 races of the 2025 season, Chastain has earned six top-10 finishes and two top-five finishes, including a second-place finish at Texas. He’s looking for his first victory since September of last year, when he won the race at Kansas.

Ross Chastain talks about his second-place finish at Texas

After the Texas race earlier this month, Ross Chastain talked about working through the field to get a second-place finish. “Yeah, that’s a working-class day,” Chastain said. “That’s enough reason to go to Tootsie’s next time I’m in Nashville. I want to head straight there. Gosh, that’s a working day. Just no confidence in the car yesterday. Y’all saw that. Just the speed of the Trackhouse cars on Saturdays is just terrible. We’re just not confident, all three drivers.

“So there was one pit stop today that Phil Surgen and the group — it takes a ton of people back at Trackhouse and on the box here in GM at Chevrolet. They made me a confident driver all of a sudden with one adjustment. It was small stuff. It doesn’t even make sense, but after that I was a confident driver. We still had a jacked brake, so hats off to Shane to quickly recover and get that other jack out there.”

Chastain has won five NASCAR Cup Series races and earned 61 top-10 finishes in 230 starts. His best season was in 2022 when he finished second in the standings after finishing the season with five top-five finishes in the last six races.