Chase Briscoe claims his Gateway pole ‘is a testament to’ how good his No:14 team were in 2022 as he hopes for ‘same result as Phoenix’
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NASCAR will hit the World-Wide Technology Raceway A.K.A Gateway for the inaugural Enjoy Illinois 300 on Sunday. The race is expected to produce fireworks in the 1.25 mile as the shifting factor and the tightness of the corners will be a huge challenge to overcome for the drivers. The race will also mark the Next-Gen car’s track debut in Gateway which went without any major incidents during qualifying.
No:14 Stewart Hass Racing Ford Mustang of Chase Briscoe will start at the front this Sunday alongside the No:2 Mustang of Team Penske driver Austin Cindric upfront. The SHR driver grabbed the pole with his 138.274 mph (32.544 seconds) lap run which is now the official track pole record. The Mustang Duo will be followed by the top Toyota of qualifying Christopher Bell’s JGR car. Tyler Reddick is the top Chevy of the day and will start racing at P4 followed by Ryan Blaney at P5.
The Ford Mustangs were the dominant cars on the track the driver in the car was able to secure six places out of the top 10 places while the Chevy and Toyota cars secured 2 places each. Among the top drivers are Austin Dillon, Brad Keselowski, Alex Bowman, and William Byron who found themselves out of the top 20.
Find out what Chase Briscoe said on securing the pole
Chase Briscoe talking about his pole acknowledged that he finds it funny as he underdrove in the first round, which went extremely bad for him, while he overdrove in round two of qualifying as he found himself getting really loose in turn 3 giving him the scare of losing the advantage, he had on the first two turns.
“It’s funny – the first round I felt like I underdrove it extremely bad and in the second round I overdrove. I got really loose getting into [Turn] 3 and felt like I gave away what advantage I had in [Turns] 1 and 2,” Chase Briscoe said.
Chase Briscoe went on to say that the maiden Gateway Cup Race pole win is a testament to the really good job the team has been able to put forth in bringing in the best cars to the grid. He went on to say that they were obviously really good at Phoenix and said that he hopes that having a pretty close package as to Phoenix will get him a similar result on Sunday. He added that he is looking forward to tomorrow with the best starting spot he has for Gateway.
“It’s a testament to these HighPoint.com guys, they did a really good job of bringing a really good race car. We were obviously really good at Phoenix and have a pretty close package to that, so we’ll see if we can have the same result as Phoenix,” Chase Briscoe added.
“We’ve got the best starting spot for that. I’m looking forward to tomorrow,” says Chase Briscoe.
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