{"id":30688,"date":"2025-07-23T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30688\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:25:07","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-sees-chase-briscoe-as-dangerous-coming-on-late-in-nascar-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30688\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. sees Chase Briscoe as ‘dangerous’ coming on late in NASCAR regular season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chase Briscoe has already earned a spot in this year\u2019s NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series playoffs with his win at Pocono, but his driving of late is causing some to take him as a more serious overall contender. Dale Earnhardt Jr., in particular.<\/p>\n

Briscoe has finished in second place in each of the last two weeks, giving himself a great look at a second win on the season. He\u2019s had eight top-five finishes already this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother driver that I think we\u2019re all impressed with is Briscoe,\u201d Earnhardt said on the Dale Jr. Download<\/a> this week. \u201cAnother great result. He benefited from a lot of things that happened late in the race to be able to gain a little bit of track position, but he did have a great car running in the top five, top 10 throughout the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chase Briscoe had a shot late, only outmaneuvered by some excellent driving and a terrific late restart by Denny Hamlin. But Briscoe is driving at as high a level as anyone on the circuit right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince I guess around the 600 he\u2019s been qualifying really good and he seems to have figured out how to take advantage of the tools that this 19 car has,\u201d Earnhardt said. \u201cAnd the other thing that I like about Briscoe is he always seems to come on late and especially in the playoffs. He overachieves.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the playoff field isn\u2019t 100% set just yet \u2014 things could get weird if more than 16 drivers win \u2014 Chase Briscoe is doing well enough on points that he\u2019s all but certainly in. That gives him a chance to do some damage late.<\/p>\n

Earnhardt singled him out as one driver that can really change the complexion of the playoff race by who he might be able to upend. He explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure that anyone else is really ready to make this claim, but I\u2019m feeling like Briscoe, to me, might be the\u2026 he\u2019s pretty dangerous in terms of you used to have the Big Three, and there\u2019s always going to be like these drivers as we get closer to the playoffs that we pinpoint as the guys that are the favorites,\u201d Earnhardt said of Chase Briscoe. \u201cThis championship comes down to these couple of drivers. And we\u2019re not always right. Joey Logano sneaks in and wins a championship, nobody thought that was going to happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if one guy, if a new guy pops into that equation it usually shoves somebody out, right? And I think Briscoe\u2019s the kind of guy that can get in there and cause some headaches for some of the drivers that we feel like will be the contenders in this playoff system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chase Briscoe has already earned a spot in this year\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series playoffs with his win at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-30688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}