It is typically mentioned that stress is a privilege. You may discover no larger proponent of that phrase than NASCAR Cup Collection driver Chase Briscoe.
Over the course of his five-year Cup Collection profession, Briscoe has risen to the event a number of occasions. That was the case on Sunday night at Darlington Raceway, the place he led 309 laps en path to his second consecutive win within the Southern 500.
One other crown jewel win? Test. A ticket to the subsequent spherical of the Cup Collection playoffs? Test.
When the brilliant lights that encompass Darlington Raceway had been turned on, Briscoe turned in the very best efficiency of his NASCAR profession.
“I’ve all the time simply liked high-pressure conditions,” Briscoe mentioned in his post-race information convention. “I really feel like I simply carry out higher for no matter motive.
I really feel like my entire profession has all the time been a high-pressure state of affairs, proper? There was no backup plan. You would possibly solely get one race, you bought to go carry out, present your value. I’ve all the time felt like each week I’m nonetheless auditioning to show that I belong right here. Definitely the upper the stress, the higher I really feel like I do for no matter motive.”
That is a useful trait for a driver within the fashionable NASCAR panorama, which hinges on the very best drivers with the ability to carry out over the course of the 10-race stretch that makes up the NASCAR playoffs.
A primary-round win and a berth in Spherical of 12 definitely is not the specified finish sport for Briscoe and the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing workforce. There’s an expectation at JGR for all of its drivers to compete for championships on a yearly foundation.
With two victories in his first season with Joe Gibbs Racing, Briscoe is wanting like a title favourite and doing precisely what he was employed by Joe Gibbs to do – even when Gibbs was initially not sure of what Briscoe and crew chief James Small might accomplish collectively.
“You come to a brand new workforce. You bought to kind a relationship along with your crew chief and everyone, your pit crew, the engineering group, everyone that works on the automobile,” Gibbs mentioned in a post-race information convention. “That’s actually exhausting to do.
I acquired to inform you, it’s a credit score to James and everyone, to Chase, the best way they’ve approached this in a really fast approach and put that automobile up entrance. It’s been extraordinarily quick. Had nice finishes. To get our second win with it, I don’t assume any of us would most likely have felt that that may have been attainable.”
With excessive expectations being realized by Briscoe, the one factor left to do is go chase a championship.
For an evening, no less than, Briscoe and the No. 19 should have a good time a win in one in every of NASCAR’s crown jewel occasions. So too does Briscoe’s son, Brooks.
“I mentioned, Daddy, you gained a giant race,” Brooks defined when requested to doc how he celebrated along with his father. “It went tremendous, tremendous quick, the pit cease. Simply preserve going and going and going and going and going. Then he gained the race.”
“There you’ve got it,” Briscoe mentioned.
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