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DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA – AUGUST 31: Chase Briscoe, driver of the #19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota, celebrates with his son Brooks Briscoe after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on August 31, 2025 in Darlington, South Carolina. (Photo by Logan Riely\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> driver Chase Briscoe has an \u201cintense\u201d relationship with crew chief James Small.<\/p>\n The dominant winner of Sunday\u2019s Cook Out Southern 500<\/a> at Darlington Raceway, Briscoe earned the playoff-opening event by leading for 309 laps. In his first season piloting the No. 19 Toyota, the crown jewel title marked the second trip to Victory Lane for Briscoe and Small.<\/p>\n It was their most dominant, though.<\/p>\n Evolving into a championship contender during the second half of the season, Briscoe posted five top-five finishes during his past eight outings.<\/p>\n Small worked with Briscoe\u2019s predecessor, Martin Truex Jr., for five seasons before the 2017 circuit champ retired. Briscoe credits Small for his recent rise in the drivers\u2019 standings.<\/p>\n \u201cJames is just a super-to-the-point guy, just very short and blunt, truthfully,\u201d Briscoe said on \u201cKevin Harvick\u2019s Happy Hour\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cAnd it\u2019s definitely something, I mean, you know me, I do need somebody that kind of pushes me. I\u2019m a very laid-back and just nonchalant kind of about everything in my life.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen it comes to the competition side, I think it\u2019s helped both of us, truthfully, like I\u2019m so laid back and easy going, I think it helps James kind of come down off some of that high emotion sometimes. And that\u2019s something that I think is important, at least for me, like those are just buttons that have always been what I needed.\u201d<\/p>\n Entering Sunday\u2019s event at World Wide Technology Raceway<\/a>, Briscoe paces the playoff standings. Denny Hamlin (plus-43), Kyle Larson (plus-38), Tyler Reddick (plus-35) and Bubba Wallace (plus-25) round out the top five.<\/p>\n NASCAR Cup Series Enjoy Illinois 300 Entry List<\/p>\n NASCAR Cup Series officials released the entry list for Sunday\u2019s Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway:<\/p>\n Entry, Driver, Car No.<\/p>\n 1, Ross Chastain, No. 1 Chevrolet Here is the weekend schedule for the NASCAR National Series events at World Wide Technology Raceway. All times are ET:<\/p>\n Friday<\/p>\n Xfinity Series practice, 5:05 p.m.<\/p>\n Saturday<\/p>\n Xfinity Series qualifying, 3 p.m. Sunday<\/p>\n Cup Series Enjoy Illinois 300 race, 3 p.m.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tJeff Hawkins<\/a> Jeff Hawkins is a career sportswriter who has collected 12 industry awards, including two Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) honors. Author of four youth sports books, Hawkins has served as a beat writer for the Carolina Panthers, Chicago Blackhawks, Adirondack IceHawks, Adirondack Lumberjacks and Hickory Crawdads. A husband and father, Hawkins enjoys live eclectic music, mountain biking and watching Film Noir. More about Jeff Hawkins<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore Heavy on NASCAR\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA – AUGUST 31: Chase Briscoe, driver of the #19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota, celebrates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-115200","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-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115200","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=115200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2, Austin Cindric No. 2 Ford
\n3, Austin Dillon, No. 3 Chevrolet
\n4, Noah Gragson, No. 4 Ford
\n5, Kyle Larson, No. 5 Chevrolet
\n6, Brad Keselowski, No. 6 Ford
\n7, Justin Haley, No. 7 Chevrolet
\n8, Kyle Busch, No. 8 Chevrolet
\n9, Chase Elliott, No. 9 Chevrolet
\n10, Ty Dillon, No. 10 Chevrolet
\n11, Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Toyota
\n12, Ryan Blaney, No. 12 Ford
\n13, AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Chevrolet
\n14, Chris Buescher, No. 17 Ford
\n15, Chase Briscoe, No. 19, Toyota
\n16, Christopher Bell, No. 20 Toyota
\n17, Josh Berry, No. 21 Ford
\n18, Joey Logano, No. 22 Ford
\n19, Bubba Wallace, No. 23 Toyota
\n20, William Byron, No. 24 Chevrolet
\n21, Todd Gilliland, No. 34 Ford
\n22, Riley Herbst, No. 35 Toyota
\n23, Zane Smith, No. 38 Ford
\n24, Cole Custer, No. 41 Ford
\n25, John Hunter Nemechek, No. 42 Toyota
\n26, Erik Jones, No. 43 Toyota
\n27, Tyler Reddick, No. 45 Toyota
\n28, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 Ford
\n29, Alex Bowman, No. 48 Chevrolet
\n30, Cody Ware, No. 51 Ford
\n31, Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Toyota
\n32, Ryan Preece, No. 60 Ford
\n33, Michael McDowell, No. 71 Chevrolet
\n34, Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Chevrolet
\n35, Shane van Gisbergen, No. 88 Chevrolet
\n36, Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Chevrolet
\nNASCAR National Series Schedule<\/p>\n
\nCup Series practice, 4:30 p.m.
\nCup Series qualifying, 5:40 p.m.
\nXfinity Series Nu Way 200 Sauced by Blues Hog race, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n