AUTO RACING INSIDER

Chase Elliott, whose Camping World Truck Series win Sunday at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park made him the youngest winner of a major NASCAR race — at 17 years, nine months and four days — likely set some other records, too.

He’s probably the first winner of a big-time NASCAR race to have his high school senior pictures made (in a tuxedo) before he left for the races. And he’s likely the first to have to be back in class at high school the following week.

“It was the same when I won the Snowball Derby,” Elliott said of his victory in the 2011 running of the nation’s biggest asphalt short-track Late Model race.

Elliott broke the NASCAR record held for nearly a year by Ryan Blaney, who won a truck race last fall at Iowa Speedway at 18 years, 8 months and 15 days old.

Elliott’s winner’s celebration was low-key, a Labor Day spent at home with his family. But he did get a hero’s welcome when his plane landed in Dawsonville late Sunday night.

“There was a big group there to meet us,” he said. “That was neat.”

And Gordon Pirkle, who owns the Dawsonville Pool Room where young Elliott once worked part-time in the kitchen washing dishes and preparing salads, sounded the siren out front, just as he did for all of Bill Elliott’s major NASCAR wins.

“I heard that he wore that thing out,” Chase Elliott said.

But the victory story wasn’t all feel-good. Elliott’s last-lap pass of Ty Dillon came after contact between the two that sent Dillon’s No. 3 Chevrolet crashing into the wall, and Dillon, the grandson of team owner Richard Childress, vowed revenge this weekend at Iowa Speedway.

Elliott said he will deal with that when and if it happens.

“We’ll find out,” he said.

Elliott’s victory had parallels to his father’s career as Bill Elliott’s first NASCAR win came on the road course at Riverside International Raceway in 1983, and his only Nationwide Series victory was on the road course at Watkins Glen in 1993.

And his father had his troubles with a driver of a No. 3 Chevrolet from Richard Childress’ stable. In the 1987 Winston all-star race, Dale Earnhardt, in Childress’ No. 3, had a legendary fender-banging battle with Elliott and his No. 9 Ford, with Earnhardt winning the all-star race in a move that has become known as the “Pass in the Grass” — even though Earnhardt never actually lost the lead.

Chase Elliott’s victory actually was a pass in the grass. And now the question is whether Elliott’s first win will be remembered for how young he was when he got it or for how it came about.

Nationwide fines: Two Nationwide Series teams have been fined for violations discovered last weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

The No. 30 car driven by Nelson Piquet Jr. and the No. 32 of Kyle Larson were found to be too low during a postrace inspection.

Crew chiefs Pat Tryson of the No. 30 and Trent Owens of the No. 32 each were fined $10,000. Piquet and Larson were docked six points apiece, while team owner Harry Scott Jr. was docked six owners points per car.

Smoke-free seats: Atlanta Motor Speedway officials announced this week that all grandstand and suite seating areas will be smoke-free for all events beginning with the 2014 season.

Smoking still will be permitted in designated areas on the concourse levels in each grandstand and within the outdoor areas including the infield and fan zone, according to track officials.

There have been some smoke-free areas at the track in the past.

Sorenson at Richmond: Peachtree City's Reed Sorenson will take over the No. 95 Leavine Family Racing Ford this weekend at Richmond International Raceway.

Sorenson also is expected to make several more starts in the car that had been driven by Scott Speed, with the exception of the races at Dover International Speedway and Phoenix International Raceway.