Cole Custer reveals how his teammate Chase Briscoe’s dirt track expertise helped him to secure the pole for Food City Dirt race at Bristol

Cole Custer reveals how his teammate Chase Briscoe’s dirt track expertise helped him to secure the pole for Food City Dirt race at Bristol

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Cole Custer secured his first NASCAR Cup Series Pole in his career at Bristol Motor Speedway as he will line up upfront alongside Christopher Bell for the Food City Dirt race in Tennessee. The No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford Mustang driver will be hoping to revive his 2022 season with a good outing at Bristol.

Cole Custer’s pole win at Bristol surprised many at the track as he has no major experience in dirt racing with his few dirt track outings coming in his teenage years. But it is important to note that his SHR teammate Chase Briscoe, who won Ruoff Mortgage 500 at Phoenix Raceway, is a week experience and resourceful driver when it comes to dirt races. He definitely had a role to play in Custers’ amazing run.

Now in the post-qualifying interview, Cole Custer has confirmed and revealed the involvement Chase Briscoe has had in his heat race.

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Cole Custer after winning the Fontana Xfinity Series Race

Cole Custer revealed that after the practice the first stop he makes is at his teammate Chase Briscoe’s No:14 hauler to get his thoughts on the run. He went on to add that Chase Briscoe has been a huge asset to the team as he has a better understanding of how the car will run on the track which gives the team ahead starts for the weekend.  Cole Custer went on to say that he uses Chase Briscoe as a baseline for identifying where to put the car or how to adjust it o harder track conditions saying 

“Oh, yeah. I mean, after practice the first stop I make is the 14 haulers just trying to see what Chase thinks. We made our cars extremely similar trying to just have something baseline off of, honestly, because he probably knows a little bit better where the track is gonna go and just what to look for, so he’s definitely been a huge asset to our team and just kind of getting a head start on the weekend and being able to adapt a little faster,” Cole Custer said.

“Honestly, I think just knowing where the track is gonna go and just knowing how to adjust your car. I think at times you can get a little bit lost just because so many different things are happening and you don’t know where the track is gonna go and you start adjusting your car, where when you have him you kind of baseline off him and you can kind of know, ‘OK, this is where we probably need to put our car.’ This is what he thinks and we can just go with that,” Cole Custer added.  

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