{"id":933702,"date":"2026-10-15T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933702\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T07:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:58:16","slug":"chase-briscoe-firing-on-all-cylinders-in-twilight-of-2026-nascar-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933702\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Briscoe firing on all cylinders in twilight of 2026 NASCAR season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the second half of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series season, few drivers have had more speed on a weekly basis than Chase Briscoe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Joe Gibbs Racing driver has won three times since the start of July, including in consecutive weeks at Las Vegas and Charlotte. Those back-to-back wins have him just 65 points back of Kyle Larson for the points lead with four races left in the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another victory at Phoenix Raceway, where Briscoe won in the spring of 2022, on Sunday would get him even closer to Larson in the standings. With how fast he&#8217;s been in recent weeks, a victory in the desert could very well be in the cards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat has changed for Chase Briscoe, No. 19 team?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just have been putting races together\u00a0and that&#8217;s something that, you know, we&#8217;ve been able to do,&#8221; Briscoe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siriusxm.com\/player\/episode-audio\/entity\/67568219-25e9-9b3a-01b4-293c751a395e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said Wednesday on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;We just [hadn&#8217;t] been able\u00a0to do it on a consistent level.\u00a0So, you know that that&#8217;s from all sides, right?\u00a0You know, me on the driving side,\u00a0I feel like I&#8217;m just doing a way better job of\u00a0understanding how to manage races and,\u00a0and when is the right time to push\u00a0and, and you know, when is maybe\u00a0the risk not worth the reward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then our pit crew&#8217;s just been\u00a0absolutely firing on all eight cylinders.\u00a0Our cars are good.\u00a0James is calling great races from a strategy standpoint, so,\u00a0you know, really we&#8217;re just executing races and,\u00a0and we haven&#8217;t been making mistakes where a lot\u00a0of our competitors truthfully have been\u00a0and have taken themselves out of some of these races.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Briscoe made the Championship 4 last year on the strength of two victories in the postseason. He&#8217;s once again in title contention this season after coming on strong in the Chase, and if his fellow title contenders weren&#8217;t already paying attention, they should be now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the second half of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season, few drivers have had more speed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-933702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933702","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=933702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}