Elliott will be sharing Circulate Explicit Racing’s #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R with three of potentially the most efficient IMSA Prototype drivers – Felipe Nasr, Pipo Derani and Mike Conway – and the 2020 NASCAR champ is protecting his bear ambitions modest.
He prompt IMSA.com: “I reflect as you step into a anguish fancy that, the supreme thing is correct to now no longer mess it up for them. That’s my mindset. I after all feel fancy they’d have a colossal shot to gain without me.
“It’s doable with three drivers, it makes it refined, though, so having four, I reflect gives the drivers a little bit more of a gamble to relaxation and to additionally, if any individual isn’t feeling wisely, it makes the approach better to have four.
“So my mindset is correct to study out to be taught as much as I will from these other guys and now no longer mess the relaxation up for them…
“I end awake for it’s going to be a enviornment; I don’t reflect it’s going to be easy. Those guys that enact that stuff your complete time are very correct at it, and they use all 300 and sixty five days prolonged growing and working on the abilities to head speedily in these particular vehicles.
“A lot of us that don’t pressure these vehicles all 300 and sixty five days prolonged, leaping in there in their supreme tournament of the 300 and sixty five days is a now no longer easy thing. I’m correct going to study out to be taught and to be taught speedily and hope we are able to kind it to the terminate.’’
Elliott stated that racing the Rolex 24 Hours change into as soon as “no doubt one thing I’ve had an interest in for a truly prolonged time and had hopes a likelihood would attain up at some cloak enact it. I didn’t after all end awake for it’d be this like a flash.”
No matter five of his 11 Cup wins approaching aspect street classes, the 25-300 and sixty five days-ragged from Dawsonville, GA, stated that he didn’t reflect himself a pure aspect street racer but that he’d walked into the trusty surroundings to be taught at Hendrick Motorsports.
“I correct after all roughly got right here into a correct anguish,” he stated. “Jeff [Gordon] change into as soon as a after all correct aspect street direction racer and he and Alan [Gustafson, crew chief] had a after all good foundation and centered on quite so much of things that I reflect are after all important on the aspect street racing front.
“Whereas you step into a correct anguish fancy that… it without a doubt helps you now no longer most efficient be taught faster, but additionally be taught the trusty design and be taught the trusty things.”
AXR crew supervisor Gary Nelson has professed amazement at how snappily Elliott change into as soon as on the tear in the simulator and the usual of his feedback, however the NASCAR champ’s first laps in the Caddy received’t attain until the Jan. 22-24 Bawl Ahead of the Rolex 24.
