Elliott William Barnes Sadler (born April 30, 1975) is an American former professional stock car racing driver.

His accomplishments include over 200 total wins, the 1983–84 Virginia State Karting Championship, and the North Carolina Gold Cup in 1991–92.

Despite finding success in late model racing, Sadler was having a hard time catching the eye of NASCAR team owners.

A race at Hickory Motor Speedway in early 1996 formed a connection between Sadler and Diamond Ridge Motorsports, the team he would drive for in late 1996 and all of 1997 and 1998 in the Busch Series.

He also returned to the Busch Series on a part-time basis, filling in for the injured Andy Santerre for Innovative Motorsports, his best finish being fifth at California Speedway.

The season also featured a chaotic crash at Michigan during practice that saw the car take flight after blowing a tire going into turn one, barrel rolling several times before coming to a rest on its wheels.

He elaborated that the footage of the crash has only been seen sparingly since then because NASCAR has redacted the external camera video as to not fully reveal the nature of the incident.

In 2003, his first season of competition with Robert Yates, Sadler won the pole at both Darlington Raceway and Talladega Superspeedway and finished 22nd in points.

That fall, he had a vicious crash at Talladega after near-contact with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and touched the right-front fender of Kurt Busch.

Sadler started the 2004 season with a Top 10 finish in the Daytona 500 and six races later, he won at Texas Motor Speedway for his second career win.

He stayed in the Top 10 in points all season and won at California Speedway, beating Kasey Kahne and Mark Martin.

He had another flip-crash at Talladega on the final lap after he spun out and blew over onto his roof and landed on all 4 wheels and crossed the finish line in 22nd just in front of his brother, Hermie.

Kurt Busch was hit from behind by Jimmie Johnson causing him to spin into Clint Bowyer who received little damage but still finished 12th.

He was proud of his team back home that had built a safe car and of the pit crew and of all of the hard work they had put into the race thus far.

By the persuasion of former teammate Dale Jarrett, Sadler stepped down from the Cup Series to try to make a living in the lower-divisions.

[8] At the end of the 2011 season, KHI's Nationwide Series operations were absorbed by Richard Childress Racing and Sadler moved to RCR for 2012, remaining in the No.

[9] On March 3, 2012, Sadler won the Nationwide Series Bashas' Supermarkets 200 at Phoenix, his first win since October 31, 1998 at North Carolina Motor Speedway, a span of 91 races.

[16] After medical issues forced Brian Vickers to sit out the end of the 2013 racing season, Sadler was named to drive the No.

This marked Sadler's reunion with former owner and engine builder Doug Yates, and his fourth stint with manufacturer Ford.

Sadler would return to Victory lane at Darlington in the VFW Sport Clips Help A Hero 200, beating out Denny Hamlin.

He ended up qualifying for the next 2 plate races at Talladega in May and then Daytona in July and was going to drive in the Coca-Cola 600, but gave the ride to J. J. Yeley for an unknown reason.

[24] In his 800th NASCAR start at Iowa's American Ethanol E15 250, Sadler came back from the rear of the field and ended up having a great night, but was still unable to get his first win of the season.

Sadler clinched the first NASCAR Xfinity Series Regular Season Championship with a fifth-place finish in the Go Bowling 250 at Richmond Raceway.

[25] Sadler entered the night with a 91-point edge over JR Motorsports teammate William Byron and needed to come out of the race ahead by at least 61 points in the standings.

Sadler was officially awarded the championship trophy and the 15 bonus points towards the NASCAR playoffs the following weekend at Chicagoland Speedway; the final race of the regular season.

Sadler entered the playoffs as the third seed behind William Byron and Justin Allgaier[26] and scored his 4th runner-up finish in the championship despite going winless.

[citation needed] On August 15, 2018, Sadler announced that he would retire from full-time competition at the end of the 2018 Xfinity Series season.

[27] He transitioned to a part-time schedule in NASCAR in 2019, joining Kaulig Racing for a two-race Xfinity slate in 2019 at Richmond and Las Vegas.

[30] Sadler was a six-sport athlete in high school at Brunswick Academy, participating in football, basketball, baseball, cross country, soccer, and golf.

However, he injured his knee before his freshman season and needed two surgeries, eventually quitting college to focus on racing.