With everything that was going on throughout the season, Stewart-Haas Racing has astonished the entire NASCAR fraternity with the Darlington performance. Of course, it was Chase Briscoe’s race craft that took the team to victory lane and slid it into the playoffs. But it wasn’t an absolute driver-propelled result, as he did have a really fast car. But circling back to the fact that SHR has been in a backup mode the entire season, with members leaving, it might have taken a lot of courage and strength for Briscoe to execute the Darlington run.
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Keeping aside all the odds, the #14 team managed to do the impossible and is now on the last stretch of its last season.
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gather Dirty Mo Media podcasters. Everyone tries to bide time when there are no future prospects. Moreover, the motivation to perform is hard to find when everybody is quitting. But that was not the mindset with which Chase Briscoe was comfortable with. He was still in contention for the first half of the season.
“At the end of the day, there is no company,” says Zipadelli
Tony Stewart‘s SHR has practically been abandoned, and each person is on their own now. Whatever needs to be done and whoever can do it is how the team is making ends meet. “The men and women that work everyday and every night, whatever they need to do. Because at the end of the day, there is no company.”, shares Zipadelli.
While Ford has pulled the plug on SHR, the exceptional team members have decided to go out with a bang and show the entire fraternity what they’re capable of. And that’s what it takes to win championships. So, in all honesty, Chase Briscoe has a very tangible bet at winning this year’s Cup Series title.
The team has shown resilience in adversity, and teamwork without supervision. If the key people keep it together till the very end, who knows? They might again get it done.