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Last month, Eddie D’Hondt, the long-time spotter of Chase Elliott and Hendrick Motorsports announced that he will not return as Elliott’s spotter for the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series. It ended a relationship that began when Elliott joined Hendrick Motorsports full-time in 2016.
On Tuesday, January 02, NASCAR journalist Bob Pockrass reported that Trey Poole, a cousin of Elliott, will take over the full-time role of spotter for the upcoming 2024 Cup season.
Poole has served as an additional spotter for Elliott and #9 Hendrick Motorsports at the road course and fulfilled the primary role on a part-time basis in 2021.
On X, Pockrass reported
Eddie D’Hondt and Chase Elliott have worked together in eight consecutive full-time seasons. Elliott won the 2020 Cup championship and earned 18 career wins.
D’Hondt will move to Stewart-Haas Racing as a spotter in the 2024 season to work with Cup rookie Josh Berry and the #4 team. Berry and D’Hondt worked together in five races during the 2023 Cup Series season as Berry filled in for the then-injured Elliott.
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The 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion went winless for the first time since 2017 and missed out on the Cup playoffs for the first time in his eight-year-long Cup career in the 2023 season.
Chase Elliott missed a total of seven races in 2023, six due to a broken left leg suffered in a snowboarding accident and one due to suspension.
The 28-year-old driver has scored seven top-5s and 15 top-10s and led 195 laps in his 29-race schedule. He finished the season in 17th place in the points table
