*Chase Briscoe has turned in a personal best season in his first year driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, claiming a series-high six pole positions (including the Daytona 500), winning at Pocono Raceway this summer and eclipsing all his season-best marks in top-five (10) and top-10 (12) finishes with 10 races remaining.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was telling my wife, this is really the first time I have legitimately thought I could win a Cup championship,\u201d Briscoe said. \u201cIn the past I could make the Playoffs, and that was exciting, but down deep you kind of know the odds of you winning are pretty slim.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, not to say I\u2019m the favorite by any means, but I feel like I have a legitimate chance to go do it. \u2026 definitely feels different this time around just knowing you have a shot. I would say this Playoffs just feels different because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
*A year ago. 23XI Racing\u2019s Tyler Reddick headed into the Playoffs as the Regular Season Champion and advanced all the way to the Championship 4 Round. This go-round, the two-time NASCAR Xfinity Series champion is ranked 14th among the 16 drivers and has yet to score a race win.<\/p>\n
Although he safely \u201cpointed\u201d his way into the championship chase, Reddick conceded Wednesday his No. 45 Toyota team needs to step it up for the Playoff run.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was on the good side of it last year,\u201d Reddick acknowledged, \u201cIt\u2019s just all experience. Last year was a little nicer one because we were able to have those Playoff points to fall back on. \u2026 This year we\u2019ve got to be much more on top of it. We don\u2019t have a lot of room for error. But that\u2019s OK, there\u2019s some good tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"*Chase Briscoe has turned in a personal best season in his first year driving for Joe Gibbs Racing,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,10660,925,19546,12101,634,50562,582,721,82,926,723],"class_list":{"0":"post-102235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-chase","11":"tag-daytona","12":"tag-daytona-500","13":"tag-joe-gibbs-racing","14":"tag-nascar","15":"tag-pocono-raceway","16":"tag-racing","17":"tag-series","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-toyota","20":"tag-xfinity-series"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}