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Chase Elliott makes hard contact with the outside wall during practice at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after a right-rear tire failure.
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00:00 >> Into the wall is chase Elliott. So right side damage to the 9. And the red flag has
00:08 come out on this practice session. There's still 11 minutes to go.
00:13 >> We know the teams find speed in running low air pressure in the back. Getting the
00:18 rear down, getting the diffuser closer to the ground to create down force. Maybe they
00:25 are in an area pressure wise that they feel comfortable with, that they've ran at multiple
00:30 tracks. But with this early practice, extra speeds, extra loads, maybe shooting beyond
00:37 that target point in loads that the tire is seeing that created this problem. If that's
00:42 exactly what's going on between Larson picking up on that problem before he has a failure
00:48 and what we're seeing with the 9 car immediately after.

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