WATCH: Chase Briscoe breaks silence on Christopher Bell slip-up ruining his JGR announcement

Chase Briscoe sees only the funny side of the slip up from Christopher Bell.

WATCH: Chase Briscoe breaks silence on Christopher Bell slip-up ruining his JGR announcement

Christopher Bell and Chase Briscoe (Via IMAGO)

Since Martin Truex Jr. Announced his retirement at Iowa Speedway, the biggest question in the NASCAR garage has been who would replace the veteran in the No:19 Toyota Camry. Many drivers were considered to the seat, with Stewart Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe as the front runner. The rumours were confirmed by Christopher Bell at New Hampshire.

Ahead of this weeks Cup qualifying at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Christopher Bell was asked about his leadership role at JGR. While answering the question he made huge slip up and accidently revealed that Chase Briscoe will be joining the No:19 team in the 2025 season running the marketing possibilities an official driver announcement holds.

Now Chase Briscoe has responded to the mistake made by his new teammate. He took the Kyle Larson route answering the question and joked about Chase Elliott joining JGR in the 2024 season. Briscoe continued the joke saying he would enquire to Rick Hendrick about potentially taking over the No:9 Chevy.

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It changed a lot of things, I think in the Silly Season. I need to call Rick now that the 9 [Chase Elliott’s car] has opened up and changed a lot of things that was a domino nobody saw coming, so. Yeah I just kind of laughed at it I thought it was pretty good. Typical Christopher, so yeah, it was pretty funny.
Chase Briscoe said at NHMS.

Chase Briscoe claims everyone knew about his JGR move

The Ford driver isn’t sad because his official announcement was ruined by Christopher Bell. He pointed out that even before the slip up most knew where he was going in 2025 and were just waiting for the final announcement.

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Chase Briscoe (Via IMAGO)
I mean, I felt like everybody kinda knows what’s going on, right? So, I don’t know. I think the official announcement whenever that is, hopefully, we can have something official soon. I wasn’t mad at him, it was kinda funny, I thought.
Chase Briscoe said.

The JGR announcement will come sooner than later now as there is no secrecy left. But at the same time JGR can use the slip up to their advantage as they can make some viral memes or content out of Bell and use it for the announcement.

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