“He Would Have Done the Same”: Chase Briscoe Spills Details on Late Contact With Ross Chastain at Dover
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Chase Briscoe and Ross Chastain were involved in an intense battle in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race on Sunday. They made contact late in the race, just after exiting the final pit stops, which then turned into the pass that won Briscoe the race. This was after Briscoe won the second race of a doubleheader weekend at Dover, after crashing in the first race.
Chase Briscoe spoke about the incident with Chastain and explained what he would have done in the situation. “When he was merging off the pit road and I was going quite a bit faster.
“He kind of left a lane on the outside so I was trying to take it and he blocked it. I went to the left and he ran me all the way near to the apron,” Briscoe said after the race.
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The incident in the final few laps
“Personally I probably wouldn’t have done that. I would have just gave him the inside and tried to pack air on him. And just run around the outside just knowing that I had stickers. But, that’s what he did,” Briscoe added.
Briscoe then went in strongly, made contact with Chastain from behind before passing him to take the lead. He clarified that he did not wreck Chastain.
He claimed that Chastain would have done the same thing in a bid to win, especially if Briscoe had done what Chastain did in the pit road.
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Chase Briscoe makes the most of an opportunity
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“Me and Ross, I feel like, we race really hard. But we keep it clean. I knew that Ross would have done the exact same thing in my situation. Especially if I had done what I did off the pit road,” Briscoe added.
“I just packed air on him, I didn’t hit him. I think once I packed air on him, he slowed down so much. I was close and I hit him eventually. But I didn’t wreck him, I just moved him out of the way,” Briscoe further expressed.
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He admitted that the pit road incident pushed him to make the final pass the way he did, and probably would not have done it otherwise. Briscoe preferred to leave the incident on the racetrack and not take hard feelings forward.
The 25-year-old won Sunday’s race in a backup car when his No. 98 Ford suffered damage on Saturday.