Chase Briscoe survives the wild ROVAL race, knocked out defending champion Kyle Larson out of the championship chase


Chase Briscoe survives the wild ROVAL race, knocked out defending champion Kyle Larson out of the championship chase

Chase Briscoe

Chase Briscoe finished P9 at ROVAL to secure a Round of 8 entry. The playoff rookie took out defending cup champion Kyle Larson out of the chase to earn the spot. He progressed to the penultimate playoff round after Larson finished P35. Just two points separate Larson and Briscoe.

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Briscoe’s progress in the post-season was just as wild as the Charlotte race. The No:14 Mustang driver benefited from the poor day Kyle Larson and Daniel Suarez had. He also had his teammate Cole Custer blocking the backstretch on chicane which allowed him to get into the top 10 in the final laps.

Chase Briscoe is one of the three Ford drivers to make it out of the second playoff round. He will join team Penske piolets Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney in the 8-driver grid. He and Ross Chastain of Trackhouse are the only playoff rookies reaming in the championship chase.

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Chase Briscoe opens up about his playoff entry

Chase Briscoe
Chase Briscoe

Chase Briscoe said it was a wild day at ROVAL and pointed out that his ‘never giving up attitude helped’ him at the track to succeed. He said, “What a wild day. I told my guys before we took the initial green in the race, there’s a difference between thinking we could move on and knowing we could move on. This team never gives up. I told them I was never going to give up,”.

Briscoe said that it took him everything to progress in the playoff and pointed out that it was a crazy end to the road course race. He said, “It took every bit of it there at the end. To be easily in, then that debris caution comes out, still I thought we had a really good shot of making it in. Get wrecked on the backstretch. Crazy at the end of these races, especially the road-course race, how much can change so quickly,”.

Chase Briscoe said that he was clueless towards the end of the race that whether they had a chance to move on in the playoff. He added at one point he was even convinced that he was out of the playoff. Briscoe pointed out that the fresher tire helped him to gain ground over his rivals at the track.  

I had no idea we were even going to have a shot. Truthfully, I knew we were probably out. I saw the 2 (Austin Cindric) wreck, I thought maybe there’s still a chance. We had so much fresher tires than anybody. Johnny (Klausmeier, crew chief) pumped them way up to qualifying pressures, let me go attack, have the ball in my hands,” Chase Briscoe said.

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The playoff rookie pointed out that it’s pretty cool to make it to the Round of 8 and added that he got a good chance in the coming tracks. He said, “Super proud of this race team. Pretty cool day for Ford Performance Racing. Looking forward to the Round of 8. A lot of really, really good racetracks for me. If we can get to Phoenix, we know we’ve got a good car there, too,”.

Chase Briscoe pointed out that it was good to see a print car racer (Christopher Bell) on the victory lane. He said, “The sprint car background helps when you come to a place like this. Cool to see a sprint car guy win and another one move on in the playoffs,”.

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