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NASCAR Most Popular driver Chase Elliott and the #9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team will have a new spotter for the first time in his full-time NASCAR Cup Series career. Trey Poole, a cousin of Elliott, has replaced Eddie D’Hondt, a long-time spotter of HMS.Chase Elliott reflected on the decision to change his spotter, Eddie D’Hondt during FOX Sports preseason production days on Thursday. The #9 HMS driver admitted that changing his spotter for the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season was a collective effort by the team. He also said that making a change in the spotter position was necessary, and he felt it was the right time to do so.
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It was a group effort. We just got to a point where we felt like if we were going to make a change, now was the right time to do it.”
“This is year nine, right? It’s like if you’re going to make a transition or try something different, it just kind of felt like now was the time to do it,”
D’ Hondt has spent seven seasons with Elliott since the driver started full-time Cup career at HMS in 2016. Elliott’s former crew chief spotted him to 18 wins and part of his 2020 Cup championship campaign. The championship-winning crew chief D’ Hondt will spot for Josh Berry, who replaced retired Kevin Harvick in the #4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford in 2024.
