Chase Briscoe adds strong Dover finish to career-best NASCAR Cup year
DOVER, Del. — For the first time in his NASCAR Cup Series career, Chase Briscoe has scored back-to-back second-place finishes.
Briscoe finished second for the second week in a row – this time at Dover Motor Speedway Sunday to teammate Denny Hamlin.
Briscoe found himself in a familiar position in double overtime for the AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400 – side-by-side on the final restart on the front row. Despite Briscoe’s No. 19 Toyota having fresher tires, Hamlin’s No. 11 Toyota proved the victor in their side-by-side battle for the lead.
“I thought I was going to win the race,” Briscoe said. “I was able to stay just beside him into [Turn] 1, I thought we were going to have a good shot coming into [Turns] 1 and 2, I didn’t think he was going to be able to do that.”
Hamlin used the momentum from the outside lane to get alongside Briscoe going down the backstretch.
“I almost cleared him off of [Turn] 2. I thought I timed it right, so I was going to clear him going into [Turn] 3, just because I had the lane you typically want to be in. He was able to hang right there. Another two or three inches and I thought I was going to win the race,” Briscoe said.
Through the first 21 races of 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, Briscoe has set personal-bests in a single Cup season with four poles, eight Top-5 finishes and an average finish of 14.1. He has matched other personal-bests, including a win and 10 top-10 finishes.
“Glad that we were able to have a good finish,” Briscoe said. “Obviously would have loved to win the race, but we had a fifth-to-10th place car and we ended up second, so a lot to be proud of with our Bass Pro Shops Toyota. I’m looking forward to going home next week.”
With five races before the start of the playoffs in the Cup Series, Briscoe is ranked eighth in the championship points standings. He has six playoff points from claiming stage two and winning at Pocono. If he can finish the regular season in eighth in points, he will earn three more playoff points.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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