“Made a Bomb”- Chase Briscoe Reveals Hilarious Mistake That Almost Blew Up his Friend

Chase Briscoe is currently waiting to open a brand new chapter in his NASCAR Cup career. After Stewart-Haas Racing rebranded to Haas Factory Team and downsized to one charter, he was one of the drivers on the lurch. Fortunately, Joe Gibbs Racing extended a lifeline to him when Martin Truex Jr announced his retirement. In the off-season, Briscoe is just taking the time to relax and recharge his batteries before he gets back to work. Recently, he made an appearance on a podcast to share some interesting stories about himself. Among other subjects, he touched upon his youth and his young and dumb mistakes. One particular story was from when he was a teenager and he accidentally created an incendiary device.

Unfortunately, a friend of his was also caught up in the incident. However, the good news was that nobody was harmed in the process, and Chase Briscoe had a cool story to tell.

Chase Briscoe spoke about a brief tryst with explosives

According to him, one of his best friends got a $250 deal which included 4 go-karts and 9 motors. In essence, the go-karts were not in particularly good condition. Back when he was young, he used to visit the local county fair, which boasted go-kart races. Around that time, he and his friend would take two karts, tear them down, and spray-paint the whole chassis. That was when he and his father were struck by a brainwave to use nitro, but things went wrong very quickly.

Thanks to an assumption, he figured that the car was fuelled up and so he just began pouring the nitro. From there, he just kept pouring and pouring until he could no more. In conversation with Dinner with Racers, he tried to save face by blaming Hollywood. Unfortunately, it was too late and Briscoe’s friend was caught up in a harrowing scenario when his go-kart’s engine exploded. He told Dinner With Racers, “I think that’s what they used to do, a tablespoon or something. Fast and Furious might have misled a few people on how much goes in. So I pour the nitro in, I’m pouring for a little while but I don’t think anything of it. My buddy goes out there and you do two laps of qualifying. He pulls onto the race track, this thing’s running like h-ll. I’ve never seen a go-kart go this fast.”

According to Briscoe, his family found an old can of nitro from his grandfather’s heyday. Since the go-karts were so old, they were extremely slow, so the idea was to gain a speed advantage with a splash of nitro. The trick would be to implement it during qualifying to get them higher up the grid. So when the qualifying session kicked off, it was time to implement the plan. Apparently, Briscoe was not in the car, but his friend was the one driving. Ahead of qualifying, Briscoe Sr told his son to put some nitro, but Chase Briscoe didn’t know the exact amount. What was probably the point where the situation went sideways for the Briscoe family, as Chase was told to top it up.

“At the end of the lap, I turn to my buddy that was standing there, ‘How much fuel did you put in that thing?’ He goes, ‘I didn’t put anything in it.’ I turn back and you just hear *BOOM*! This thing dang near blows the motor off the go-kart. Just goes up in smoke, it’s in flames. We end up blowing the motor because it was 100% nitro and I didn’t know any better. I got a picture that I sent to Ty, he called me last night, ‘I forgot about this go-kart thing that we did.’ My dad was torn up about it, he felt so bad because my buddy spent $200 on these go-karts.”

The incident was just one example of the racing bug that caught the Briscoe family.

The Briscoe family’s racing legacy

Just a few months ago when NASCAR teams were creating special throwbacks at the Darlington race, Chase Briscoe had a plan. His #14 Stewart-Haas was painted in the color scheme once used by his dad, Kevin Briscoe, back when he used to race in the Truck Series. It was a loving tribute to a career that saw over 200 feature wins over two decades.

Speaking about the gesture, Briscoe explained, “It’s cool just to be able to kind of throw it back and give back to the only reason I’m racing at all. If it wasn’t for my grandpa in 1976 getting bit by the racing bug, then my dad doesn’t get involved in it, and if my dad’s not involved in it, then probably I’m not involved in it. So, it’s pretty cool to be able to do that and have all three generations still alive to be able to see it. Not many families can say they have three generations of racecar drivers, and the way my son is, l’m probably in trouble because we’ll probably have four generations. It is really cool and really special.”

It’s a testament to just how important legacies are when it comes to racing. It’s not just Chase Briscoe getting into NASCAR because of his father, so many other drivers have carried the racing bug from their parents. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Richard Petty, Kyle Busch, and now even some of their children are following in their footsteps. Kyle Busch’s son Brexton is already well on his way to taking up his father’s mantle. Perhaps we might even see Chase Briscoe’s kids race one day!