Briscoe hits the points jackpot in Las Vegas Chase win

LAS VEGAS —  Chase Briscoe nearly delivers a perfect points day as he hits the point-jackpot and wins the South Point Casino 400 at Las Vegas.

This is his second win of the season and his seventh of his NASCAR Cup Series career.

Las Vegas Motor Speedway has delivered the drama this weekend. For the second straight day the fans have been treated to a wall bouncing finish.

At the beginning of the day one of the only conclusions that were drawn was a victorious Joe Gibbs Racing driver due to the teams historic 1-2-3-4 start.

At the end of the day it was the driver who qualified the worst amongst them who got it done. It was Chase Briscoe who hit triple-sevens.

Briscoe only gained a single positions early in the day. But after the first caution of the day, he took the lead for the first time after leaping Denny Hamlin on pit road in the first stage.

From there he never truly conceded the front.

He went onto win the opening stage and further solidified his great race by sweeping the stages in the South Point Casino 400.

Surprisingly those were the first stage victories of his season. What was not surprising was how is day ended.

Only one week removed from his agonizing loss to Kyle Larson late at Kansas, the opportunity to right that wrong presented itself right away.

Briscoe held off early advances from Bubba Wallace and then Kyle Larson and Tyler Reddick to claim his first chase victory.

He led 175 of the 276 circuits in his dominating win which was good for a near perfect 75-point day. Now, the series turns their attention back home for the penultimate intermediate race of the season in Charlotte.

Check out the amazing finish below.

A WILD last lap in Vegas! Chase Briscoe holds off Kyle Larson and Tyler Reddick to take the Chase victory. pic.twitter.com/eCF8LO7izw

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The Top Ten

Kyle Larson comes up a few laps short of his second consecutive victory in the series. He was able to hold off Tyler Reddick for second-place and a further 14-point lead in the Chase to Denny Hamlin.

Reddick was able to gas it through the grass and crossed the start/finish line in the middle of the tri-oval infield for third.

Austin Cindric delivered his second career top five at an intermediate from fourth. Both great results have come in the previous two weekends.

Ryan Blaney made his move around William Byron on the final lap for a top five result from fifth.

William Byron now has strung four straight top ten results from sixth.

Chase Elliott finished one position higher than his previous intermediate track results from seventh.

Then Bubba Wallace went from battling Briscoe for the win with around 30 laps remaining to an eighth-placed finish. He tore through his tires in his efforts to return to victory lane but still wound up with a much needed top ten.

Shane van Gisbergen finished ninth for another tremendous top ten on an oval. He also claimed the best finish by a non-Chase driver.

Finally, Joey Logano recovered from a terrible starting position of 23rd to tenth in order to maintain in contention for his fourth straight even-year championship.

Notable Results

Carson Hocevar started the day off hot. Not hot as in fast, hot as in actually hot when his helmet air hose blew scorching hot air into his helmet before the green flag even dropped. He was able to fend off the heat and finish 12th.

Two other Chase drivers followed in the end. Chris Buescher and Daniel Suarez came across the finish line behind Hocevar in 13th and 14th.

Ryan Preece was last among the Chase drivers. He finished off the lead lap in 28th.

JGR Fumbles the Day

But the primary story of the day was how JGR’s super Saturday turned into an overall sour Sunday.

Polesitter Denny Hamlin led the opening 35 laps and even cycled out to the lead after the opening green flag pit cycle finished.

However, the team decided to pit Hamlin from the lead only a few laps later under the first caution period which altered his race for good.

The decision not only put him back to 15th place, but it critically allowed his biggest championship rival Kyle Larson a lifeline to catch back up to the leaders.

Hamlin clawed his way back inside the top five by the end of the second stage. He looked primed to take the green and white checkers but coming around to the two laps remaining in the stage trouble hit the No. 11.

He took an abnormally high line in turns three and four and found the rubber marbles. The loss of traction spun Hamlin while he ran third. He sustained minor splitter damage which hurt his pace for the rest of the race.

Hamlin wound up 16th on the day. He leaves Las Vegas in a deeper 40-point hole to the Chase leader as he failed to even score stage points today.

Meanwhile his other two teammates of Ty Gibbs and Christopher Bell also had their own problems.

Ty Gibbs went from the front of the field to the rear of the field after sustaining a pit road speeding penalty on his first stop of the day. He never recovered the track position from there to finish one spot lower than Hamlin in 17th.

Finally, Christopher Bell held steady inside the top five for most of the day, and gathered the second-most stage points, until his power steering gave out.

His crew failed to fix the issue for him. With a tight car and a sore wrist, Bell struggled all the way to a 23rd-placed finish.

Below are the full results of the South Point Casino 400 and the updated Chase standings after the fifth race of the postseason.

Full Results & Chase Standings

WINNER: Chase Briscoe

CHECKERED FLAG: Chase Briscoe holds off the advances of Larson and Reddick to win his second race of the year!

Cindric takes fourth and Blaney completes the top five. Byron, Elliott, Wallace, van Gisbergen, and Joey Logano complete the top ten.

WHITE FLAG: Briscoe takes the white over Larson and Reddick!

3 TO GO: Briscoe leads!

Wallace has now fallen into the clutches of Austin Cindric in fifth after using his tires up.

5 TO GO: Chase Briscoes leads with 5 to go. He holds the same lead over Larson and now Reddick.

7 TO GO: Reddick takes third from his teammate! Larson is now two car lengths behind the No. 19 for the race win!

8 TO GO: Briscoe maintains his lead over Larson by .350. Wallace and Reddick are fighting for third.

Carson Hocevar is the fastest on track. He has climbed to 12th.

10 TO GO: Here comes Larson on Briscoe! Will this be the same result as last week?

11 TO GO: Kyle Larson passes Bubba Wallace for second in lapped-traffic!

13 TO GO: All three leaders are within the same frame! They sit nearly nose to tail between lapped-traffic.

15 TO GO: No battles are as close as the lead inside the top ten. Briscoe still leads with Wallace and Larson now within .650 of a second to him.

Reddick is there! He is 1.5 seconds behind the lead.

18 TO GO: Second and third have closed closer to Briscoe who is parked behind battling lapped cars!

Hocevar passes Hamlin for 16th.

20 TO GO: Briscoe still leads by a second. The battle for second place is here. Wallace leads Larson by two car lengths.

Reddick is now 3.5 seconds behind in fourth.

25 TO GO: Lap traffic will play a part to this conclusion. Chase Briscoe is about to catch heavy lap traffic with Larson close to Wallace than Wallace is to the lead now!

27 TO GO: Larson closes a further half-second on the top two! Wallace is struggling to find a lane around Briscoe.

30 TO GO: Bubba Wallace is finding speed up top! He is searching for a way around the No. 19 as Larson continues to close on the battling duo. He sits 2.3 seconds behind!

33 TO GO: Wallace closes the gap once again! He is now under half a second behind the leader Briscoe.

Larson is still faster – He is three seconds behind those two. Reddick is a further two seconds behind Larson in fourth. Cindric is closing in on him in fifth.

Bell finally pits before he runs out of fuel.

39 TO GO: The front two finally get around Bell for the top spots. Meanwhile Larson is heating up. He is two-tenths faster than the leaders and sits fourth.

40 TO GO: Like last weekend at Kansas, Briscoe extends his lead over Wallace early in the run.

Bell stays out in the lead.

43 TO GO: Christopher Bell leads as the only driver who did not pit yet. Larson sits net-third as he and Reddick both leapfrog Cindric for the position.

The pit crew swap is working against the driver of the No. 2 once again.

46 TO GO: Ryan Blaney is running longer than the other leaders.

Wallace sits within a second of Briscoe for the net race lead! Could Briscoe lose another lead late for a second consecutive weekend at an intermediate?

50 TO GO: Briscoe exits the pits ahead of Wallace. Larson jumps Reddick on pit road for a potential spot inside the top five.

51 TO GO: Cindric’s turn to pit as Ryan Blaney takes the lead of the race.

52 TO GO: Chase Briscoe pits from the lead and brins Wallace with him! Reddick, Larson and more mirror the leaders and pit as well.

53 TO GO: Ty Gibbs kicks off what could be the final pit stops of the day.

55 TO GO: Bubba Wallace is running Briscoe down! He now sits under two seconds behind the leader.

60 TO GO: Wallace is hooked up right now! He has chewed two seconds off the leader Briscoe to sit 3.4 seconds behind.

65 TO GO: Larson passes teammate Elliott for sixth. This is the highest the No. 5 team has been since he qualified there yesterday.

Chase driver Ryan Preece is currently in the free pass position.

LAP 200: Bubba Wallace passes Ryan Blaney for second! Blaney is fading while Wallace is proving his top five here in the spring was no fluke.

Wallace and Larson are the fastest on the racetrack.

LAP 195: The lead is now four seconds for Briscoe as his fellow Chase, Chase Elliott, has fallen outside of the top five to sixth.

Briscoe is also the fastest on the track followed closely by Tyler Reddick who overtook Elliott for fifth with a recovered alternator.

LAP 190: Briscoe has extended his lead over Blaney by nearly three seconds. Wallace got around Elliott for third while Cindric held-serve in fifth.

Denny Hamlin has made slight progress and is up to 20th. Then, Bell has not. He still runs 25th.

LAP 177: Hamlin lost one place on the restart after losing 12 positions because of his loss of fuel pressure. He sits 24th only one position ahead of teammate Christopher Bell.

What a change of scenery for the JGR duo from earlier today.

LAP 175: The lead for Chase Briscoe sits at a second over Blaney. Elliott completed a bold three-wide move on Cindric and Wallace for third as those three complete the top five.

LAP 171: Briscoe leads Blaney back to the green.

Hamlin lost fuel pressure at the choose. He was able to regather it and continues in 23rd.

LAP 168: Chase Briscoe holds the lead after the end-of-stage pit stops.

He leads from Blaney, Cindric, Elliott, Wallace, Logano, Buescher, Byron, Larson, and Ty Gibbs for the ensuing restart.

LAP 166: Chrisopher Bell pits while the pits are closed to fix the power steering issue.

Stage Two Winner: Chase Briscoe

LAP: 165: Chase Briscoe sweeps the stages in the South Point Casino 400!

He earns the maximum 20 stage points on the day. He leads Cindric, Bell, Blaney, Wallace, Logano, Elliott, Byron, Buescher, and Kyle Larson to the stage end.

LAP 163: Chase Briscoe takes the lead from Cindric!

LAP 158: Briscoe only has Cindric to catch as he passes Byron and Elliott inside the top five for second place.

Briscoe radio: “It’s started feeling weird” regarding his left-side tire.

LAP 155: Here comes Briscoe! He passes Larson for fourth and is now five seconds behind Cindric and catching quickly.

LAP 153: Chase Briscoe has found the top five in his quest to rundown leader Austin Cindric for his second stage win on the day and the year.

Bell has completely lost power steering now.

LAP 145: 20 to go in the stage: Briscoe now resides in the top ten from seventh as the only driver who pit 15 laps ago to reclaim a top ten position.

Ross Chastain nearly wrecks as a tire fell flat. He is able to make it to pit road without spinning or damage. Hocevar also had a tire cording.

LAP 141: Cindric now leads Elliott by 2.3 seconds. Hocevar falls to 25th after the pit stop that also saw his teammate Suarez join him.

LAP 139: Despite the fuel numbers, Carson Hocevar pits from second!

LAP 136: Chase Briscoe cycles to 13th after the stops. Buescher gains a spot on Logano in the net top five battle.

LAP 135: Everyone who has pitted on lap 95 is good to finish the stage on fuel. Austin Cindric leads Carson Hocevar.

Then Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, and William Byron conclude the top five. Kyle Larson, Ross Chastain, Alex Bowman, AJ Allmendinger, and Noah Gragson round out the current top ten.

LAP 134: Christopher Bell is losing his power steering! A terrible issues for a near 100-degree day out in Las Vegas, Nevada.

LAP 130: 35 to go in the stage as Bell pits. Nearly everyone who stopped near lap 83 has gone into pit.

LAP 129: Leader Chase Briscoe hands the lead to Bell and pits.

LAP 127: Green flag pit stops have commenced. Joey Logano leads the field down.

LAP 122: Carson Hocevar is the leading driver of the previous group who pitted under the debris caution. He runs 10th.

LAP 120: Chris Buescher passes van Gisbergen for fifth.

Chase Elliott has reclimbed back inside the top 15. He runs 14th.

LAP 116: Chase Briscoe has new eclipsed 70 laps led today. He maintains a two second lead over Bell. Then, Blaney has taken third from teammate Joey Logano. Finally, SVG rounds out the top five with an impressive stage for the New Zealander!

LAP 110: Briscoe leads from now Christopher Bell by two seconds.

Denny Hamlin is not happy with his car. He is going backwards after choosing to stay out on older tires. He runs in 20th only two positions in front of Larson now.

Hamlin radio: “We are really tight… we are awful.”

LAP 100: Chase Briscoe leads Logano after the fourth restart of the day. Suarez is already up in the top ten to 9th.

LAP 97: After the pit stops here is what the top ten currently looks like:

Chase Briscoe leads from Joey Logano, Christopher Bell, Ryan Blaney, Chris Buescher, Shane van Gisbergen, Brad Keselowski, Riley Herbst, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., and Austin Hill.

Suarez is the highest restarting driver who came down pit road in 15th.

LAP 95: Another strategy split has occurred – Briscoe stays out while Suarez pits. 15 lead laps cars stay out.

LAP 93: CAUTION! Debris has been spotted on the apron of turn four as the field will restack once more.

Briscoe in the lead still. Suarez, Bowman, Logano, and now Bell in the top five. Blaney, Hocevar, Buescher, Gibbs, and Shane van Gisbergen run inside the top ten.

LAP 90: Briscoe leads Suarez by a few car lengths. Bowman takes third while Joey Logano cracks the top five for the first time this afternoon in fourth. Blaney slides from third to fifth.

LAP 87: Chase Briscoe leads Daniel Suarez, Ryan Blaney, Alex Bowman, and Carson Hocevar to green.

LAP 84: Troubles for Austin Cindric on pit road! He nearly runs over a crew member as he loses many positions.

Meanwhile, Tyler Reddick pits thrice to fix his alternator and his crew seem positive on their fixes. His teammate Bubba Wallace is penalized for equipment interference.

Stage One Winner: Chase Briscoe

LAP 80: Chase Briscoe wins the opening stage. He is followed by Christopher Bell, Ryan Blaney, Tyler Reddick, Daniel Suarez, Austin Cindric, Bubba Wallace, Carson Hocevar, Alex Bowman, and Michael McDowell.

LAP 78: Around goes Hamlin! He was about to fight for the win of the stage when the car went around in turn four!

No Caution!

LAP 70: Ten to go in the stage: Briscoe leads from Bell, Blaney, Hamlin, Suarez, Reddick, Wallace, Hocevar, Cindric, and McDowell

LAP 65: Briscoe continues to lead and the gap out front is growing. He is the fastest on track and leads by around 2 seconds.

Another Hendrick driver is struggling. Chase Elliott restarted from third and now races in 11th with teammate William Byron looking to pass from 12th.

LAP 60: 20 laps remaining in the stage. Kyle Larson has made little progress through the field. He currently runs 26th.

LAP 55: Briscoe continues to lead Bell. Tyler Reddick has made the furthest progress as he passes Chase Elliott for a spot in the top five from fifth.

Reddick also reported a potential alternator issue under the yellow.

LAP 49: Chase Briscoe holds off teammate Bell to lead the first lap after the restart.

LAP 48: Just after the midpoint mark of the opening stage now. The top ten for the first restart of the race is as follows:

Chase Briscoe will lead Christopher Bell. Then its Elliott, Blaney, Hocevar, Suarez, McDowell, Custer, Hamlin, and Tyler Reddick to round out the top ten.

LAP 46: There is a split strategy as half of the field pits.

Larson and Nemechek get their laps back with the pitting leader of Denny Hamlin. Briscoe and Bell opted to stay out

LAP 45: CAUTION! Zane Smith spins off turn four after a flat tire results in him backing into the outside wall. He is able to continue from 2 laps down in 36th.

Noah Gragson will get the free pass as Kyle Larson remains a lap down.

LAP 42: Ryan Blaney now pits which brings Hocevar and Suarez down with him as Denny Hamlin returns to the lead of the race.

LAP 40: Penalty! Birthday boy Ty Gibbs gets caught speeding on pit road and he will have a pass-through penalty.

Blaney leads Hocevar as the top nine have yet to pit.

LAP 36: Both leaders pit as Hamlin will retain the lead from each of his teammates.

LAP 35: Green flag pit stops have kicked off.

Kyle Larson makes sweeping changes as he pits from 14th. He has an incredibly slow stop which might cost him a lap.

LAP 30: Chase Elliott is up four positions from his starting spot. The Hendrick Motorsports driver passes Austin Cindric for ninth.

Hamlin continues to lead by 1.443 seconds over Gibbs.

LAP 25: Chase Briscoe passes Christopher Bell for third as Joe Gibbs Racing maintains their all-top-four positioning.

Larson continues to fall. He now sits 12th.

LAP 20: Hamlin is extending his lead on Gibbs. He leads by nearly a second now.

LAP 18: Larson is fading in the middle of the run. He has fallen beneath his teammate William Byron and now Austin Cindric to ninth.

LAP 15: Denny Hamlin maintains his lead over Ty Gibbs by under a half second.

Carson Hocevar is reporting a broken helmet hose. It’s blowing hot air on his head.

LAP 13: Joey Logano has made little progress through the field compared to his teammate Ryan Blaney. He is only up two positions from 23rd to 21st.

LAP 10: Ryan Blaney has been the biggest mover so far. He is up five positions from 20th to 15th.

Bubba Wallace is also flying. He is up four positions from ninth top fifth and around his teammate and Kyle Larson.

LAP 8: The fans salute the late and great Kyle Busch at his home track of Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Hamlin Continues to lead Gibbs with Chase leader Kyle Larson is up one position to fifth.

LAP 1: Denny Hamlin leads teammate Ty Gibbs back around to lead lap one! Cody Ware spins in the rear of the field from Noah Gragson… No Caution!

Drivers are already starting to report personal overheating. It’s going to be a long and hot day!

Race Information/Start

Chase leader Kyle Larson returns to Sin City looking to continue to stretch his championship lead out. But twice-defending Las Vegas Motor Speedway winner Denny Hamlin, and Larson’s nearest foe in the Chase, has the pole to help turn the tides back in his direction.

If Larson wants a chance to add a third win this season and in the Chase he will have to beat a fast Toyota group.

Toyota will be the manufacturer to beat today. For the first time in Joe Gibbs Racing history they’ve locked out the first four starting positions.

Ty Gibbs starts alongside his teammate Hamlin with Christopher Bell and Chase Briscoe in the second row behind them. Then, Tyler Reddick rounds out the top five qualifiers from fifth to make it an all-Toyota top five.

Chase drivers comprise the top 14 starting positions. Alex Bowman is the highest non-Chase driver in 15th.

The Penske duo of Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano have the most ground to make up of the bunch. They start 20th and 23rd respectively.

All 36 entries qualified into the event. Josh Berry and Noah Gragson will go to the rear after they had to make repairs from their respective practice wrecks.

Below is additional information for the fifth Chase race, the South Point Casino 400.

• Broadcast: USA Network, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
• Previous Winner: Denny Hamlin
• 267 laps / 400.5 miles
  • Stages: 80 / 165 / 267
• Average time of race: 2:54:56
• Pit road speed: 45 mph
• Caution car speed: 55 mph
• Fuel Window: 70 laps

Starting Lineup