NASCAR's Chase Elliott has to slow down big time when he finds himself stuck in Atlanta traffic.
"Atlanta traffic is tough," Chase told 11Alive's Jennifer Leslie. "I try not to drive into Atlanta."
Born and raised north of Atlanta in Dawsonville, Chase was made to race.
"I've been around it for a day or two. I started when I was about to turn 8, so 7," he explained.
He learned from the best with dad Bill Elliott earning a place in NASCAR's Hall of Fame.
But Chase found his own footing.
"Do you just love this?" Jennifer asked him.
"I do. I do," he said.
Days before the start of the 2018 season, Chase took Jennifer for a spin around Atlanta Motor Speedway in a pace car.
"Oh, my gosh, we're so close to the wall," Jennifer said nervously.
"We're doing 100 right now," he told her.
"How do you not get nervous?" Jennifer asked.
"I don't know. We're so consumed with the competition side and trying to outrun somebody else that you're not so much thinking about what you're doing as you are thinking about how to beat the next guy," Chase explained.
He's hoping to beat them all at his home track when the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 comes to Atlanta Motor Speedway on February 25.