Chase Briscoe had a down year with Stewart-Haas Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. Here, you can check out Briscoe’s 2023 season in review!
[autotag]Chase Briscoe[/autotag] hoped for a strong 2023 NASCAR season after almost making the Championship 4 in 2022; however, the Stewart-Haas Racing driver had a nightmarish campaign. Briscoe ended the year with four top-5 finishes and eight top-10 finishes while earning a 20.3 average finishing position. The driver of the No. 14 car finished 30th in the point standings due to a big penalty.
A best finish of fourth place at Talladega Superspeedway and Martinsville Speedway highlighted Briscoe’s season. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver struggled with speed for most of the season as the organization was down as a whole. Now, Briscoe faces even more responsibility heading into the 2024 NASCAR season.
Following Kevin Harvick and Aric Almirola’s departure, the 29-year-old driver is now the longest-tenured at Stewart-Haas Racing. Josh Berry, Noah Gragson, and Ryan Preece will join Briscoe. Briscoe is the only driver in the lineup that has won a Cup Series event. If Stewart-Haas Racing wants to excel, it will be due to Briscoe’s strong runs.
Chase Briscoe will lead the field to the green on Saturday in the NASCAR Cup Series Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
Daytona International Speedway represents the final NASCAR Cup Series race of the regular season and everything is on the line for drivers looking to secure a spot in the 2023 playoffs. In the last chapter of the 26-race regular season, [autotag]Chase Briscoe[/autotag] will lead the field to the green flag after winning the pole for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona.
Briscoe’s fast time of 49.499 seconds beat Aric Almirola by 0.035 seconds. Harrison Burton will start third while Bubba Wallace rounds out the second row in fourth place.
As for other drivers positioned around the playoff cut line, Ty Gibbs will start fifth, Daniel Suarez qualified 22nd, and Chase Elliott will start 23rd.
Chase Briscoe covered the field in both rounds of NASCAR Cup Series qualifying at Daytona and will lead the field to the green flag in the regular-season finale Saturday night in the Coke Zero Sugar 400. He captured the pole with a lap of 181.822mph …
Chase Briscoe covered the field in both rounds of NASCAR Cup Series qualifying at Daytona and will lead the field to the green flag in the regular-season finale Saturday night in the Coke Zero Sugar 400.
He captured the pole with a lap of 181.822mph (49.499s). It’s his second career pole in the Cup Series and first on a superspeedway.
Aric Almirola will join his Stewart-Haas Racing teammate on the front row after qualifying second at 181.693mph.
Harrison Burton qualified third at 181.404mph, Bubba Wallace fourth at 181.309mph and Ty Gibbs fifth at 181.298mph.
Riley Herbst was sixth at 181.276mph. Herbst is driving a third entry for Front Row Motorsports this weekend.
Kyle Larson qualified seventh at 181.254mph, Ryan Blaney eighth at 181.054mph, Ryan Preece ninth at 180.937mph and Kevin Harvick completed the top 10 at 180.825mph.
Seven of the top 10 qualifiers were from Ford, including all four Stewart-Haas Racing cars.
Championship points leader Martin Truex Jr. qualified 13th with Denny Hamlin 19th. They are the only two drivers eligible to claim the regular-season championship.
Austin Hill qualified 26th for Beard Motorsports. Josh Berry wound up 29th for Legacy Motor Club.
There are 39 drivers entered in the Coke Zero Sugar 400.
Acknowledging something wasn’t clicking with his Stewart-Haas Racing team, Chase Briscoe felt it was time for a change for the second half of the NASCAR Cup Series season. It comes in the form of reuniting with crew chief Richard Boswell beginning …
Acknowledging something wasn’t clicking with his Stewart-Haas Racing team, Chase Briscoe felt it was time for a change for the second half of the NASCAR Cup Series season.
It comes in the form of reuniting with crew chief Richard Boswell beginning this weekend at Nashville Superspeedway. Earlier this week, Stewart-Haas Racing announced that Boswell would replace Johnny Klausmeier, who’s been serving a six-week suspension for a counterfeit part on the No. 14 Ford.
Briscoe and Boswell won eight races together in 67 starts in the Xfinity Series. The two last worked together in 2020.
“Boswell might not be the answer,” Briscoe said of a turnaround, “but I feel like could help me right away from a driver’s standpoint. Hopefully, the results will start showing. I feel from a speed standpoint, we’re off right now. But in general, our cars aren’t really good, so we’re trying to keep our expectations realistic and know what we need to do to improve our cars. Hopefully, we can do that.”
Briscoe is 31st in the championship standings with four top-10 finishes and lost 120 points from the penalty. His average finish is 19.8.
“When I came up from the Xfinity Series, it was something I’d ask for, and it probably didn’t make the most sense at the time and it was a 50-50 decision if we were going to go that direction with Richard,” Briscoe said of promoting Boswell. “It just didn’t really work out to have that happen. Truthfully, even in the offseason, we talked about making a change and just felt like with how good we finished last year, if we could start off on that same foot, we’d be in a really good place for the season. When that didn’t really work out and then the penalty happened, it probably expedited things a little bit.
“I think Johnny did an incredible job. That guy is one of the nicest individuals. He’s been working with Richard two or three hours a day just trying to get him in line to help Richard kind of shorten that learning curve, and for a guy that just got removed from the job, he didn’t have to do any of that. But that’s just the type of person Johnny is, and I respect Johnny a ton for that.
“We did have a lot of success. We were five laps away from making the final four — won my first Cup race with him. It was a hard decision, but at the end of the day, I had a lot of confidence with Richard. We won as many races as we did together, and I felt like, down deep, that’s the change that needed to be made. Whenever the penalty came out and how our season was, it made sense to do it so we can get a leap start on next year.”
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Although they didn’t graduate into the Cup Series together, Briscoe believes it worked out for the best. The two stayed in contact over the years, talking two or three times a week, and Briscoe described them as “super close.” The former Cup Series rookie of the year is confident he and Boswell are both in better positions to succeed once again on the same team.
But Briscoe also understands it’s going to take time to get where the team needs to be, and Boswell is good at keeping him focused. In the few days they’ve been back together, Boswell has already sent Briscoe a “ton” of notes, providing help on the study side of the sport.
Being kept accountable is a big thing for the driver, and Boswell does that. Furthermore, Briscoe described his new crew chief as a guy “that’s not afraid to get onto you if you’re doing something wrong.”
When Briscoe was “bummed” after the car’s performance in practice, Boswell reminded him a turnaround isn’t going to happen in three days. But the season can be salvaged, said Briscoe.
“You can always get there,” he said. “It’s no secret all the Fords, in general, are off, but we need to be the best Ford, and that’s something that right now is our goal. We’re not the top Ford, so we need to be the best Ford, and if we’re not the best, we need to at least be in the top two or three. Instead, we’ve been one of the worst two or three every single week. I think from that side of things, just manage our expectations. We know we don’t have the speed to go win, but let’s try to be the best Ford. And once we’re the best Ford, then we can focus on winning more.
“That’s all we’re trying to do right now is re-establish everything and lay a new foundation. Obviously, we got off the rails a little bit these last two or three months, and we just need to re-establish what a baseline setup is and rebuild from scratch again, truthfully. So it’s going to take time. That’s the frustrating thing – as a race car driver, you want to see results in two or three days, especially when you bring in new change and things like that. But truthfully, it is going to take time.
“At this point, if we can run better than 30th, it’s an improvement (compared to) what we’ve had the last couple of weeks. We just need to make our car better each and every week, and hopefully a month from now we’ll be up there in the top two or three Fords. But right now, we have to manage our expectations. We have a lot to learn right now, not only from the car standpoint but even a team dynamic standpoint. Things are so different, bringing a new guy in… We’re just trying to learn.”
Chase Briscoe’s No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing team has been issued the strictest penalty in the NASCAR rule book for an infraction with the Next Gen car. Both Briscoe and the No. 14 team were docked 120 points and 25 playoff points Wednesday. Johnny …
Chase Briscoe’s No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing team has been issued the strictest penalty in the NASCAR rule book for an infraction with the Next Gen car.
Both Briscoe and the No. 14 team were docked 120 points and 25 playoff points Wednesday. Johnny Klausmeier, Briscoe’s crew chief, has been suspended for the next six NASCAR Cup Series races and fined $250,000.
NASCAR found a counterfeit part on Briscoe’s Ford Mustang. The sections of the rule book cited included the underwing and engine panel, and the infraction found on Briscoe’s car pertained to an engine panel and counterfeit NACA duct.
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“When we bring cars post-race to the R&D Center, they are completely stripped down to basically nuts, bolts, washer laid out on the floor,” NASCAR senior vice president of competition Elton Sawyer said. “The engine panel NACA, which is basically under the engine of the car, and the NACA duct, which allows air to travel through the NACA.
“(To) back up through the development process of the Next Gen car, we basically put an opening in the windshield as well as slots in the back glass and a NACA duct in the engine panel to allow air to get in areas of the car to help keep the car cool. So, it’s a single-sourced part that you cannot fabricate, you cannot mess with, you cannot counterfeit, and we’ve been very clear with that.”
Teams are not to modify single-sourced supplied parts of the Next Gen car. Briscoe’s team was issued an L3 penalty, the first one issued to a team under the Next Gen deterrence system.
L3-level penalties cover:
Counterfeiting of modifying Next Gen single source vendor supplied parts and/or assemblies.
Engine infractions not meeting the rules.
Engine performance enhancements.
Altering/modifying tires and/or fuel.
Violating the vehicle testing policy.
The penalty drops Briscoe to 31st in the Cup Series championship standings.
Briscoe’s Ford Mustang was one of four taken to the NASCAR R&D after Monday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. NASCAR chose Briscoe’s car and Justin Haley’s car for teardown and engine dyno. Martin Truex Jr.’s No. 19 and Alex Bowman’s No. 48 were taken for engine dyno. No issues were found with the other three cars.
Stewart-Haas Racing will not appeal the penalty to its No. 14 team.
“To be honest, I was a little surprised that they would go down this path,” Sawyer said. “Talking with the race team, they have some process and procedure within their race shop that they feel like they need to button, and they will. So yeah, we were a little surprised just knowing and them knowing as well the severity of it and that it would rise to an L3 penalty. Modifying a single-sourced part, as we’ve seen, that falls into an L2 bucket. But when you counterfeit a part, it falls into a bucket with engine and messing with tires and things, fuel, that isn’t going to be tolerated.”
While the door will always be open to Kevin Harvick at Stewart-Haas Racing, the organization will lose his veteran voice and leadership at the end of the season. Harvick will leave a void as he heads to the Fox Sports booth. From the first test at …
While the door will always be open to Kevin Harvick at Stewart-Haas Racing, the organization will lose his veteran voice and leadership at the end of the season.
Harvick will leave a void as he heads to the Fox Sports booth. From the first test at Charlotte Motor Speedway with his new team going into the 2014 season, Harvick elevated the organization and his No. 4 team has carried the banner ever since.
It’s also possible Stewart-Haas will be filling Aric Almirola’s seat in the near future, as well. Almirola, who joined the team in 2018, was going to retire after the 2022 season but had second thoughts. But whether it’s only Harvick’s exit or both his and Almirola’s sometime in the near future, Stewart-Haas will need someone to step up and be the next leader.
Chase Briscoe wants to be ready to assume that position, and has the support of his teammates.
Briscoe made it known during Daytona Speedweeks that he’s already studying how Harvick operates. With the departure of Harvick and potentially Almirola, the 28-year-old realizes he will be the most tenured driver at Stewart-Haas.
“I think Chase can do a lot of things as long as he’s given the tools and resources,” says Harvick. “And as long as the leadership leans in to tell him when he’s doing things right and wrong, and what they want him to do.
“He has to have some guidance on that, and then he has to take those roles and be productive with them and implement himself into places that he might not be comfortable implementing himself in or conversations that he’s not comfortable with.
“You have to be able to be uncomfortable and be productive all at the same time and know when to bang your fist on the table and when to be quiet.”
Those are traits Briscoe is trying to learn from Harvick. It’s vital for Briscoe to understand how to get his point across and when to use his voice. That has never been hard for Harvick, who has always been one of the sport’s most outspoken drivers. But offering vital information behind closed doors is a different game.
Next year will be Briscoe’s fourth at the Cup Series level. He won Rookie of the Year honors in 2021 and followed it up in ’22 with his first career win at Phoenix Raceway and first playoff appearance. By the end of the year, he had improved in all statistical categories.
Having a leader in the clubhouse is important to Briscoe because without that voice, he feels an organization can spiral. All he can do is try to be prepared to do his part and ensure that doesn’t happen.
Briscoe has been learning from Kevin Harvick. Nigel Kinrade/Motorsport Images
“When you look at the way Chase Briscoe got here, he obviously has the ability to drive and the want to be here,” continues Harvick. “He wants it, and that’s something you can’t give somebody. They have to know that, and he’s proven that through the years and how he got here.
“He can be a leader; I don’t have any doubt about that. You just have to go through the situation and do the things you have to do and Stewart-Haas Racing did the right job in committing to him long-term because he is somebody that you can build your company around and be able to be that leader because of his desire and knowledge.
“But the first thing you have to do is have that desire to be able to want that position because it’s a lot of work in order to do this. You have to have a 24/7 mindset and be able to balance your family and finances and all the things that come with that circle of life. He has the desire, and that’s the most important thing.”
Almirola is nothing but complimentary about his young teammate, as well.
“I think Chase has a tremendous amount of raw talent,” says Almirola. “He’s very gifted behind the wheel, and I think he’s trying to continue to do his part as a team guy. He’s been really involved with all the meetings, and he’s constantly at the shop, and he’s with his guys and his engineers and doing all the right things. At this level that’s what it takes.
“You have to be engaged constantly. It’s a seven-day-a-week job for 40-plus weeks a year, and there’s no real time to not have that level of engagement, and I feel like Chase has done a really good job of that. He sees the way Kevin works; we all see that. Kevin is very detailed-oriented and very engaged all the time, and it brings that level for all of us to rise to because that’s the expectation at our organization.”
Ryan Preece, who is in his first year driving for Stewart-Haas, doesn’t have an argument against Briscoe being the next guy up. For Preece, it’s a simple matter of tenure and experience. And with experience, according to Harvick, Briscoe will develop into the leader he wants to be, whereas Almirola said Briscoe already has the most essential variable.
“Chase has a great personality,” Almirola says. “Chase is an easily likable guy and that’s important. When you’re around a shop that has 350 employees, you have to be around, you have to be involved, and you have to be a friendly face. You want the guys and the team to rally around you because you’re the face of the organization when you’re the lead guy. I think Chase has the ability, for sure.
“We got to continue to work on him to get in the gym. Right now, he can get away with it, but I think long-term to do it for a long, long time that would be one area I already push him to get better at. But as far as a team player being involved, being engaged, and being a guy that everybody enjoys working for, he’s already got that covered.”
Harvick chuckles at Almirola’s gym comment.
“Well, there are a lot of great leaders that never went to the gym.”
Chase Briscoe finished fourth Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, and after the day he went through the Stewart-Haas Racing driver is probably not alone in having no idea how. During the first round of pit stops in the GEICO 500, under green, Briscoe …
Chase Briscoe finished fourth Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, and after the day he went through the Stewart-Haas Racing driver is probably not alone in having no idea how.
During the first round of pit stops in the GEICO 500, under green, Briscoe spun at pit road entry. In doing so, the right-front tire blew on the No. 14 Ford, and the strange sequence of events left him stuck in place and spinning his wheels — literally.
“It was weird,” Briscoe said. “It felt like (the world’s slowest donut). I felt like I was going to be a meme eventually or something. It was weird; I just literally couldn’t move. I went from first gear to reverse up to third gear, just trying anything I could, and it was definitely just a helpless feeling.”
The SHR driver did a few small circles on pit road, leaving a burnout mark that a race winner would be proud of. But no matter how hard he tried and how much smoke came from the tires, Briscoe’s car didn’t move, and NASCAR eventually had to throw the caution on lap 44 in order for the car to be pushed to its pit stall.
An odd, and “super lucky” moment for Chase Briscoe at Talladega. Nigel Kinrade/Motorsport Images
“It was funny — I think the pit box that I was spinning out in, all their pit crew guys had their phones out and were videoing it,” Briscoe chuckled. “It was embarrassing. I was just sitting there doing circles in front of them. Just a weird circumstance.
“Honestly, super lucky we didn’t go three laps down there. If I went three down, there is no way I get back on the lead lap. Just a lucky break that we ended up being two (laps) down. And when I was out there, I was thinking about how lucky I was I didn’t get a speeding penalty because I was spinning out pretty fast, and that would have been another lap down too. It honestly just all worked out today for us.”
The initial spin coming to pit road was a conscious decision.
“I feel like at Daytona, and even here in the past, I’ve been able to out-brake so many guys coming down there,” said Briscoe. “I just didn’t do a very good job of getting my brakes…heated up, and also, I didn’t set my brake bias to where I normally have it. I was coming with so much speed I was either going to destroy the No. 42 or spin myself out, and I decided to spin myself out.
“Honestly, the wheel kind of ripped out of my hand anyways; I don’t think I would have saved it regardless if I had my normal situation. But I felt like it was smart not to destroy the No. 42 there coming to pit road.”
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The incident cost Briscoe two laps. He got the first lap back at the end of the first stage on lap 62 as he ran 37th. He got his second lap back under a lap 143 caution for a multi-car crash in Turn 3.
Briscoe’s long day was exacerbated by his still-injured hand. A broken finger the week leading into the Bristol dirt race led to surgery last Monday. Sunday at Talladega was the first race that Briscoe experienced pain problems.
“Not good,” Briscoe said of his hand after the race. “It’s weird — the last two weeks I’ve had absolutely zero issues, and with the pins in there, it’s like any time anything touches one of those pins, it just is excruciating pain. I was literally screaming in the car at some points because it hurt so bad.
“In the past, I’ve had two splints: one on top, one on the bottom. I think I need to go to one on the bottom now because the one on the top kind of hits that pin a lot. I was not really worried about Dover or any of the rest of the races coming up, but definitely a little more…not worried, but I guess I need to be a lot more particular about what I do going into this week to make sure I get it as good as I possibly can because it was definitely an issue today.
“Some of it, I don’t know if you have more time to think here so you notice it more too, but it was definitely not fun today.”
In the end, “the man upstairs” is the only answer Briscoe had for his day ending the way it did.
“Honestly, I was praying every 10 laps not to get in a wreck, and we were super close a lot of the time and able to miss them,” he said. “Overall, a crazy day. It reminded me, honestly, a lot of the playoffs last year where stuff would happen and we would just continue to stay tough and battle and try to make the most out of our day. We had a race within a race with me and (Michael) McDowell being two laps down trying to get that one lucky dog, and we were able to get it.
“I thought we were going to be really good at the end of stage two, and then Joey (Logano) — with that speeding penalty — we caught him with like four to go, and (Austin) Cindric kind of let him in, and it took away our chance at the lucky dog, and I was kind of worried we were going to be stuck one down as it seemed nobody was really wrecking, and was able to obviously get back on the lead lap. I think because of pitting a lap later and being stuck so far back there, we had more fuel than a lot of those guys.
“Yeah, crazy day. I think that last restart, I started 10th and was up to third, then back to 14th, and then back to fourth. It was all over the place. Just thankful, truthfully, that we didn’t wreck. My hand was terrible today. It was so bad. I was really worried about, if I did crash, what it would do. We move on to Dover. Thankful we made it through today — a day we probably didn’t deserve to finish fourth, but we did.”
Chase Briscoe will have surgery on his broken middle left finger Monday after this weekend’s race at Martinsville Speedway, the Stewart-Haas Racing driver revealed on Twitter. “Still broken and hurting,” Briscoe responded to a fan. “Surgery first …
Chase Briscoe will have surgery on his broken middle left finger Monday after this weekend’s race at Martinsville Speedway, the Stewart-Haas Racing driver revealed on Twitter.
“Still broken and hurting,” Briscoe responded to a fan. “Surgery first thing Monday morning after Martinsville to get some rods/screws put in it.”
Briscoe broke his finger in a dirt late model event Thursday night before NASCAR weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway. He did not miss any action at Bristol, competing all weekend with a brace on his hand.
Briscoe finished fifth in the Saturday night Craftsman Truck Series race for A.M. Racing in the No. 22 Ford. Sunday night, Briscoe was the fifth-place finisher again as he completed his double-duty weekend in the NASCAR Cup Series race.
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Earlier this week, Briscoe had an x-ray done to determine if he needed surgery. He said after the Cup Series race, he wasn’t feeling any pain.
“There were times I got a little behind, but it was literally the bulkiness of how big this (brace) is compared to what my normal hand would be that it kind of messed me up,” Briscoe said Sunday night. “But, from a pain standpoint, I feel 100 percent fine. I never had pain once in the race, so we’ll see how the x-ray goes (Monday) and go from there.”
Briscoe doesn’t anticipate having any issues this weekend at Martinsville Speedway despite drivers shifting multiple times throughout a lap.
“It maybe got me a touch behind sometimes, like when I would get really far out of shape and turning it back quick the other direction, just due to the sheer fact of how bulky it is, but you’re not going to have that anywhere else,” Briscoe said of how he dealt with the handicap at Bristol. “When we’re at Martinsville, I’m never going to go full lock left, full lock right, back and forth, so I think I’ll be fine going forward.”
Hand is black and blue but it was fun banging the boards like that with some fellow dirt guys, hope it was as fun to watch as it was behind the wheel.
The March 26 EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas in will acquire additional luster with the appearance of former Formula 1 champions Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen. Button, the 2009 F1 champion, will be driving the No. 15 …
The March 26 EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas in will acquire additional luster with the appearance of former Formula 1 champions Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen.
Button, the 2009 F1 champion, will be driving the No. 15 Rick Ware Racing Ford, supported by Stewart-Haas Racing, and SHR driver Chase Briscoe believes he’ll benefit from Button’s road course expertise.
“Growing up in a town of 3,000 people and one stop light, I would have never thought in a million years I’d race against an F1 guy, let alone two of them in one race–even be teammates with an F1 world champion,” said Briscoe, a native of Mitchell, Ind. “It’s going to be really cool for me to get to experience that, get to know Jenson, and just see how he prepares.
“Truthfully, I think on the road course side, he’s going to be able to bring a lot to the table. Last year, I kind of did that in a driver swap with (Haas F1 drivers) Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen. They only ran like five laps apiece at the (Charlotte) Roval. They were within a second of what I was running at pretty much 100 percent.
“So, those guys are such unbelievable road racers that Jenson is going to bring a lot to the table just as far as things to look for and maximize. I’m really excited for that side of it and the opportunity, because it’s going to be a lot of fun.”
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Button will make his NASCAR debut at COTA before racing on the Chicago street course and the Indianapolis Road Course later in the season.
Raikkonen, who won the 2007 F1 title, has one previous start in each of NASCAR’s top three national series and will compete at COTA as part of Trackhouse Racing’s Project 91. The driver from Finland drove the No. 91 Chevrolet last year in the Cup race at Watkins Glen but was collected in a crash on Lap 45.
“It’s going to be cool to have them out there and be a part of our show,” said Richard Childress Racing’s Kyle Busch. “They’re not used to the full contact sport of what NASCAR is.
“I’m sure Kimi’s eyes were opened quite a bit on how all that went down at Watkins Glen. But he’s more ready and more prepared this time around.”
Analyzing Sunday’s 2022 Kwik Trip 250 at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., with NASCAR odds, picks and predictions.
The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., Sunday for the 2022 Kwik Trip 250 presented by JOCKEY Made in America. The green flag is set to drop a little after 3 p.m. ET (USA). Below we analyze the 2022 Kwik Trip 250 odds and lines, with NASCAR picks and predictions.
Sunday’s race is scheduled for 62 laps and 250 miles on the 4.048-mile road course at Road America which features elevation change and 14 turns. The Cup Series returned to the track in 2021 after a 65-year hiatus.
There aren’t a lot of recent results at this track, although it is a historic track dating back to the early days of NASCAR. There are also plenty of active drivers with experience on this Wisconsin road course from their days in the Xfinity Series.
2022 Kwik Trip 250: What you need to know
Hendrick Motorsports driver Chase Elliott won the 2021 race, leading 24 laps after starting in the 34th position.
TrackHouse Racing’s Ross Chastain won the 1st road course stop of the season, edging out A.J. Allmendinger at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, in late March.
At Sonoma in mid-June, Daniel Suarez came up with his 1st-ever NASCAR Cup Series victory on the road course in the Toyota/Save Mart 350.
Penske Racing’s Austin Cindric managed a 38th-place finish last season in one of his few starts as a part-time driver for Penske. However, in 5 Xfinity races at Road America he has a win, 36 laps led and a 12.8 Average-Finish Position (AFP), so he has plenty of good experience here.
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Christopher Bell also has an Xfinity Series win at this track in his 3 starts on the circuit, and he was a runner-up last season in the NASCAR Cup Series.
ELLIOTT (+350) is listed as the favorite, and the defending champ has been a tremendous road course driver throughout his career. This is the safest play on the board given his win last year, moving all the way up from a starting position of 34th.
CHASE BRISCOE (+750) was a respectable 6th last season. Like Elliott, the driver of the No. 14 car was forced to matriculate his way up through the field from an ugly starting spot of 35th.
In addition to a small-unit play on the outright win, take a look at BRISCOE TOP-10 FINISH (+100).
Kwik Trip 250 picks – Long shot
BELL (+2000) acquitted himself well here in the Cup Series last season with a runner-up finish. JGR’s Bell has been a little disappointment overall, but he can wash all of that bad taste away with a victory on this road course. As mentioned, this will be his 5th career start at the track, once on the Cup Series, and 3 times in the Xfinity Series with 1 win and 10 laps led.
Kwik Trip 250 prop picks
AUSTIN CINDRIC TOP-5 FINISH (+140)
The driver of the No. 2 Ford has an Xfinity win under his belt at this track. While last season’s finish was a disaster, he was able to lead 2 laps before a rear gear issue forced him out of the race.
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