ROUND-UP
Chase Elliott became the first driver in NASCAR Cup history to score two consecutive Daytona 500 pole positions last weekend. The Hendrick Motorsports driver – who replaced four-time champion Jeff Gordon in the #24 car in 2016 – beat team-mate Dale Earnhardt Jr by 0.002s… Indycar team KV Racing won’t return to the championship in 2017. Some of its assets have been bought by Indy Lights outfit Juncos Racing… Brit Jann Mardenborough has been promoted by Nissan and will race its new GT-R Nismo GT500 in Super GT in Japan in 2017. Mardenborough raced in the lower GT300 class last year and finished second in Japanese F3… Adam Carroll won’t dovetail Formula E with the World Endurance Championship. He competed in GTE Am with Gulf Racing UK last year but will concentrate fully on his first season in FE with Jaguar in 2017...