Chase Elliott and Ryan Blaney have both triumphed in must-win situations at Martinsville and will try to do it again Sunday.

One of NASCAR’s steadiest hands, Chase Elliott, endured a rough Sunday at Talladega as his playoff hopes took a heavy hit. Now, heading into Martinsville,

The No. 19 Toyota of Joe Gibbs Racing had fallen out of the fast lane as Martin Truex eyeballed retirement. With Chase Briscoe aboard, it's reborn.

On Sunday, it was good enough for a runner-up finish after giving eventual-winner and road-course ace, Shane van Gisbergen, all he could handle. Larson led on four occasions for a total of 27 laps and went back and forth with SVG throughout stage three.

In an overtime restart where only the right moves in the draft separated playoff contenders from the chance to race for a NASCAR Cup championship, Chase Briscoe found his way to the lead on the final lap to win the YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.

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With the playoff field being whittled down from eight to the Championship 4 after 500 laps at the paperclip, Larson is still alive if a new, third winner in the Round emerge as well. He would only need to gain a couple of points on Christopher Bell, who is 37 points above the elimination point.

Elliott was on par for a top-5 finish at Las Vegas, before he endured a pit stop penalty that set him back. He began on the second row and recorded a fifth-place result in Stage 1, while his HMS teammates William Byron and Kyle Larson finished in tandem at the top.