For the seventh consecutive season, Chase Elliott was named NASCAR Cup Series Most Popular Driver, an award voted on by the NASCAR fans. Here is a breakdown of all of the awards handed out at the 2024 NASCAR Awards Ceremony.
At the NASCAR Awards Ceremony on Friday evening, a lot of awards were handed out. The grand daddy of them all was the NASCAR Cup Series National Motorsports Press Association Most Popular Driver Award,. This is the seventh consecutive season that the 28-year-old has been voted by the NASCAR fanbase as the Most Popular Driver.
Throughout the entirety of the season, Elliott was among the most consistent in the NASCAR Cup Series garage as he amassed 11 top-five finishes, and 19 top-10s through the 36-race season. Elliott only recorded two DNFs on the year, one was a crash in the September Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
The 33rd-place finish at Vegas put Elliott in a must-win situation heading into the next-to-last race of the NASCAR Cup Series season, if he wanted to battle for the championship at Phoenix, at Martinsville. Elliott, who led 129 laps in that event, came home just short of the win with a runner-up finish. Elliott would go on to finish seventh in the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series championship standings.for the fifth time in his 14-year career.
22-year-old Rajah Caruth, who recorded his first career win this season driving for Spire Motorsports in the No. 71 Chevrolet Silverado,Here is a full rundown of all of the awards that were handed out on Thursday and Friday evening in the ceremonies in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina:Toby Christie is the Editor-in-Chief of Racing America. He has 15 years of experience as a motorsports journalist and has been with Racing America since 2023.
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