NASCAR Race Mom: Chase Briscoe Is Having A Great Month

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Chase Briscoe Is Having A Great Month

Topped Off By an Electrifying Last Lap Battle with Teammate for the #NCWTS Win

NASCAR Xfinity Series

On June 30th, in his first NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) start at Chicagoland Speedway, Chase Briscoe drove his Nutri Chomps Ford to a ninth-place finish scoring his first career NXS top-10 finish Saturday afternoon. Briscoe has competed in eight of the seventeen 2018 Xfinity races in the books.

“We really weren’t great at the beginning of the race,” Briscoe said. “We had a little track position in the beginning of the second stage. The yellow came out and everybody pitted and we decided to stay out because we knew we weren’t going to win the race as it was so we felt like we needed to do something. We were pretty good with 15 lap older tires and held our own and at the end it felt like we were a top-three car. We just didn’t have track position. I am proud of the guys. It was a hot weekend and to continue to work this hard and fight this hard all weekend long shows how hard these guys work.”

When the caution flag waved on lap 114, crew chief Mike Kelley made a strategy call to stay out to gain track position and save a set of tires for later in the 200-lap race. Briscoe led the field to green but gradually fell to cars with fresher tires.

Briscoe led the field to green but gradually fell to cars with fresher tires.

The Nutri Chomps Ford was really strong on the long runs allowing Briscoe to work his way just outside the top-10 before green flag pit-stops. After making his final pit-stop, Briscoe was running similar lap times as the leader with 20 laps remaining. The rookie was able to pick up four positions in the closing lap to earn his first career NXS top-10 finish.

MOWA Winged Sprint

On July 14th, Chase Briscoe “mopped up” the competition after a 2 1/2 hour rain delay at Tri-State Speedway. The rains and lightning came at the scheduled start time in Haubstadt (6pm), but the skies cleared up and racing was not going to be denied at the 1/4 mile dirt track.

Briscoe prevailed in winning the MOWA Winged Sprint feature. The Mitchell, IN, driver finished ahead of Cory Bruns and Carson Short. Critter Malone was fourth and Justin Peck was next to round out the top five. The 3 MOWA heat races were victories for Carson Short, Kody Kinser, and Chase Briscoe.

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

Wow... Unbelievable night! So thankful that @FordPerformance let me run this race! Winning at Eldora means so much to me! Even better was winning in front of my three racing heroes... My Dad, Jack Hewitt, and this guy @TonyStewart. Thank you everyone for the tweets! pic.twitter.com/ErRjXA5EO9
— Chase Briscoe (@ChaseBriscoe5) July 19, 2018

Last night, on a rare Wednesday Night Truck Race on the dirt track of Eldora, Chase Briscoe won again.

With dirt slinging, doors banging and the checkered flag waving, Chase Briscoe edged ThorSport Racing teammate Grant Enfinger to earn his second career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) victory in the sixth annual race at the historic Eldora Speedway.

In a one-off race with ThorSport, Briscoe, on newer tires, took advantage of a Lap 145 restart to pass leader and Toyota Racing Development protégé Logan Seavey, but the event’s final caution within three laps of the finish set the tone for the exciting finish in NASCAR overtime.

For Briscoe, a Ford Performance development driver, it was his second straight win after earning his first career victory last November in the Truck Series season finale at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway with Brad Keselowski Racing.

"I know (Enfinger) is running for a championship and he's our teammate," said Briscoe. "I wasn’t going to wear him out. I wasn't going to just wreck him for the win. We rubbed, and I definitely let it float on the way to the wall and I'm sorry for that, it's not how I race. "I'm so thankful that Ford allowed me to do this race. I was begging them about three weeks ago to let me do it and it came together at the last minute. It's awesome to be in Victory Lane."

WHAT A FINISH!!! Wow.

Retweet to congratulate Chase Briscoe on his #EldoraDirtDerby WIN!

Full results: https://t.co/PotJFnjYrd pic.twitter.com/I39chX1OHF
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) July 19, 2018