Chase Briscoe is in fine form in the NASCAR Xfinity Series this season. He lies second in the championship standings with five race wins this year. He secured his 11th top-five finish this season with a third-place finish at Road America last weekend.

Drivers waited through a lightning delay and fought the challenges posed by heavy rain. This was Chase Briscoe’s first such experience navigating his way through the rain. And he said that it reminded him of his dirt racing days.

Racing in the rain at Road America

“That’s one thing that I always wanted to race in the rain and last week I finally got to do that. I was blown away at how little visibility there was,” Briscoe said in a media conference. “Down the back straightaway, there was a car probably three or four car lengths in front of me and I couldn’t even see his brake lights.

“Visibility is really hard. It kind of took me back to dirt racing days when we would run daytime races and it was so dusty you can’t see anything.”

Chase Briscoe wants mud flaps for cars in NASCAR

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Briscoe believes that ‘however weird it sounds’, what NASCAR should do to tackle the issue of rain is add mud flaps to the back of the cars. “One thing I would love to see NASCAR do is put a mud flap type thing on the back of the car for rain conditions just because it would knock more of that water straight down,” Briscoe said.

“I feel like us race car drivers could see a lot better. Because right now it sprays the roose so high up in the air and then it just falls so slow that it’s almost like a fog and you just can’t see anything.

“Where I feel like if we had mud flaps, as weird as that sounds, behind the rear tires I feel like that would change everything,” Briscoe added. He opined that it will also be easier for the fans to watch the races on TV.

What if it rains at Daytona?

The 25-year-old also spoke about the challenge of a possible wet weekend at the Daytona road course this weekend as well. Daytona is a difficult track anyway, but it will be even tougher for drivers if it rains.

“Truthfully, we don’t have a ton of races in the rain so it’s really not that big of an issue until it is one. So, Daytona, I don’t know. I think the roose is only going to be worse. Because we’re going so much faster and that just typically makes it worse,” Briscoe expressed.
“Without the rain, the sun is really bright in Daytona. And you can’t really see anything either, but it’s so blinding that you can still make out the cars that are around you. But when it’s in the rain, you literally can’t see anything,” he added, on the effect of rain at Daytona.