Elliott Sadler fitting right in at JR Motorsports

The NASCAR XFINITY Series points leader heading into the second race of the season has a familiar face, if not exactly a familiar home.

After years of bouncing from team to team, Elliott Sadler hopes he’s found the right landing place at JR Motorsports, reuniting with team principals Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kelley Earnhardt Miller in their No. 1 Chevrolet. After finishing fourth behind JRM team driver Chase Elliott in the series’ opening round at Daytona last weekend, he enters Saturday’s Heads Up Georgia 250 (1:30 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1, PRN, SiriusXM) with a possible springboard into the rest of the 33-race schedule.

“Momentum is the main thing,” Sadler said after last weekend’s top-five effort at Daytona. “Look, guys, I’m in a great situation. A lot of people don’t know the history of Dale Jr. and Kelley and myself. We’ve known each other since we were teenagers. For our relationship to come full circle and be at this race team, to see how much effort they have put into the program this winter. Showed today, three of the top four were JR Motorsports cars. I feel like we have some good stuff coming down the road.”

Though his agreement with JRM was made public only last October, Elliott said he’s already become enamored with the team’s preparation. But it isn’t the only factor that’s won him over.

“I’ve been very impressed on the family atmosphere,” Sadler said. “There’s a lot of racers over there that do it for the fun of it, do it for the love of the sport. That seems to have impressed me the most so far.”

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