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Chase Briscoe apologized to Tyler Reddick after heartbreaking end to NASCAR’s Bristol dirt race

Sportsmanship you love to see.

You’ve gotta feel for Tyler Reddick.

During NASCAR’s dirt race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday, the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet driver led a race-high of 99 laps — 99 of the final 100 laps to be exact — and looked poised to grab his first career Cup Series win.

But wins don’t come easy, and Reddick will have to wait for his first checkered flag.

Reddick would have had a lot of reasons to be furious with Chase Briscoe after the pair made contact on the last lap, costing both of them a shot at the win. But instead of throwing punches, the two shared a perfect moment of sportsmanship, including an apology from Briscoe.

On the final lap of Sunday’s Food City Dirt Race, Reddick was out front on the .533-mile Tennessee short track, which was temporarily converted to dirt. Briscoe in the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford was right behind him, looking for the perfect opportunity to make a move with Kyle Busch in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota running third.

Going into the final pair of turns before the finish line, Briscoe went to the inside of Reddick to try and make the pass for the win. But the back of the No. 14 car slid up the track and made contact with Reddick, forcing both cars farther up before eventually spinning out.

Although Reddick was able to regain control and get back on the track, Busch flew by him to take the checkered flag, edging out Reddick by 0.330 seconds.

So, again, it’s hard not to feel bad for Reddick, who was oh-so-close to his first victory. He told FOX Sports afterward:

“I shouldn’t have let him get that close. He ran me back down, worked really hard to do that. I mean, you’re racing on dirt, going for the move on the final corner. It’s everything that, as a driver, you hope to battle for in his situation and made it really exciting for the fans.

“So it does suck, but we were able to finish second still. And I’m being honest: I should have done a better job and pulled away so he wasn’t in range to try to make that move. That’s how I look at it.”

Briscoe was among those feeling badly about the situation and said: “That was my fault, 100 percent. I hate it for Tyler. He’s a good friend of mine.”

So after the race, as Reddick finished up his interview with FOX Sports, Briscoe apologized. They exchanged some nice words, shook hands and smiled.

Briscoe: I was going to spin out, I think, either way. I was like, ‘Oh, please don’t hit him with the right rear! Please don’t hit with the right rear.’ And I saw it. But I’m sorry. I just wanted to let you know.

Reddick: You did a hell of a job running me down.

Briscoe: I kept trying. I was driving it so hard. I couldn’t run it any harder.

Reddick: It’s all good.

Briscoe: I’m sorry. I wish you would have won.

Reddick: I needed to drive away. I let you get close, so that’s on me.

Briscoe: That’s all right. I just wanted to apologize.

Reddick: It’s all good.

Briscoe: Anyway, that was fun though.

Reddick: Until next time.

Until next time, indeed.

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After Denny Hamlin called Chase Briscoe ‘a [expletive] idiot,’ the NASCAR drivers traded barbs on Instagram

Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe moved their feud from the track to social media.

Welcome to FTW’s NASCAR Feud of the Week, where we provide a detailed breakdown of the latest absurd, funny and sometimes legitimate controversies and issues within the racing world.

NASCAR’s latest feud seems like it’s just one of those racing deals between Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe, but their little tiff from Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday has spilled over onto social media. And it’s pretty entertaining — unless you’re one of the two drivers involved.

In the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 — the first NASCAR Cup Series playoff race in the Round of 8 — Hamlin, a playoff driver, finished 11th, while Briscoe, who’s not in the playoffs, finished 15th.

But with about 60 laps to go in the 334-lap race, Hamlin in the No. 11 Toyota and Briscoe in the No. 14 Ford were racing each other hard, side-by-side with Briscoe on the outside of Hamlin. At one point, Briscoe’s car bounced off the outside wall and suffered some right-rear damage, including a cut tire, which forced him to pit.

“That’s what he gets for being a [expletive] idiot,” Hamlin said on his team’s radio after the incident.

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But this isn’t the first time these two have gotten into it on the track.

In August at Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course race, Hamlin was in position to get what would have been his first win of the 2021 season. But out front in overtime, Briscoe nailed the back of Hamlin’s No. 11 car, which sent it spinning as Hamlin lost the lead. Later, Briscoe said he was racing for the win and was unaware that NASCAR had penalized him for cutting a corner earlier on the lap.

Between that and what happened a couple months later at Texas on Sunday, it’s safe to say Hamlin and Briscoe aren’t happy with each other. And they traded jabs on Instagram on Monday in response to a post about the Texas incident by the NASCAR on NBC account.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVJO0iJNDrs/

First, Briscoe responded to the post with a reference to Hamlin’s claim from 2017 that he’s run 10,000 races since he was 7 years old (and the math didn’t quite check out there).

And then Hamlin shot back, seemingly with a reference to Briscoe ruining his hopes for a win at the Indy road course.

The two went on from there with Briscoe defending himself as a non-playoff driver, and Hamlin offering a lesson in risk management.

While Briscoe is not competing for a championship this year, Hamlin enters Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway third in the standings and nine points ahead of the cutoff mark. After Kansas and Martinsville Speedway the following weekend, the playoff field will shrink from eight drivers down to the final Championship 4, who will compete at Phoenix Raceway in a winner-take-all event for the title.

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NASCAR driver makes a pit stop at Panda Express during Daytona 500 rain delay

Apparently NASCAR driver Chase Briscoe got a little hungry.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The 2021 Daytona 500 was halted not long after it started Sunday afternoon, and one driver made the most of his down time.

First, there was a massive, 16-car wreck that unfolded after just 14 of 200 scheduled laps at Daytona International Speedway, and it eliminated several key drivers, including pole-winner Alex Bowman, Ryan Blaney, Aric Almirola, Ryan Newman and Daniel Suárez.

Of course, the caution flag came out for the crash. But then one lap later, NASCAR threw the red flag to press pause on the season-opening race because of lightning and rain, significantly delaying the event because of the time it takes to dry the track.

And apparently, NASCAR Cup Series rookie Chase Briscoe got a little hungry during the delay. The driver of the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford made a trip to Panda Express during the rain delay, according to a funny photo of him in the drive-thru that his wife, Marissa Briscoe, tweeted.

The best part? Chase clearly didn’t even bother to ditch his fire suit before getting a quick snack.

Not sure Panda Express is the best choice when there are still about 462 miles left in the day’s race — weather permitting, obviously. But maybe Briscoe will pick up a new sponsor because of this mid-race pit stop.

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Tony Stewart on the parallels between him and new driver on his team, Chase Briscoe

Tony Stewart spoke about soon-to-be NASCAR Cup Series rookie Chase Briscoe.

Big changes are coming for Stewart-Haas Racing in the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season with veteran Clint Bowyer leaving the No. 14 Ford for the FOX Sports broadcast booth and Chase Briscoe replacing him.

The team announced Tuesday that Briscoe — who’s currently competing for a championship in NASCAR’s second-tier Xfinity Series — will take over driving the No. 14 car for his childhood hero, Tony Stewart.

“For me to get to drive for Tony Stewart is unbelievable,” 25-year-old Briscoe said Saturday after winning his ninth Xfinity race of the season.

“When I go back to Indiana in my hometown, my bedroom still has Tony Stewart stuff everywhere. I was a die hard Tony Stewart fan. I used to literally dress up in a Home Depot uniform and helmet and play my Sprint Car video game every single day. And now I get to drive for the guy.”

For his part, Stewart expressed his excitement over the up-and-coming driver, and the NASCAR Hall of Famer said he hopes Briscoe ties his and Jimmie Johnson’s record of three wins in a rookie season.

During a Zoom press conference Tuesday following Stewart-Haas Racing’s announcement, Stewart, a three-time Cup Series champion, was asked about why he said he sees a lot of himself in Briscoe. Stewart explained:

“When he makes a mistake he will spend more time reflecting on that mistake, unfortunately, than he does the rest of the good things that he does all day. But that’s kind of the way I was in my career too. I felt minimizing mistakes was the key to winning races and championships, and that’s also the same mindset that Chase has as well.

“He’s very, very diligent about making sure he learns from everything that happens on the race track, and he’s got a pretty good memory bank to hold all of that knowledge in. So he’s great about realizing when he makes a mistake and then analyzing what happened, why did he make the mistake and what can he do to correct it for the next time. That’s something that I had to try to do through my career as well.”

Like Stewart, Briscoe also has experience in a variety of racing disciplines, including the NASCAR Truck Series, sports cars in IMSA and dirt tracks. He has, however, never competed in the Cup Series, even in a one-off event. So his Cup debut as a rookie will be the 2021 Daytona 500 in February.

But Stewart also said he and his team are looking at the bigger picture.

“I feel like even if the first year is a struggle for him, we’re committed to him, and we’re gonna make sure we get him where he needs to be,” Stewart explained. “And I think we will have a lot of success with him down the road.”

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Chase Briscoe holds off Kyle Busch in thrilling, emotional Xfinity Series finish

This was incredible.

Chase Briscoe climbed into his car with a heavy heart on Thursday at Darlington Raceway, just one day after sharing the heartbreaking story that he his wife Marissa lost their unborn child. Briscoe wrote that on Tuesday, he FaceTimed with his wife while she went to the doctor for a checkup, just after the couple had learned the gender of their baby.

During the visit, the nurse and doctors were unable to detect a heartbeat. Following an outpouring of support from the racing community, Briscoe tweeted that he and his wife debated sharing their story, but hoped that “using our platform to help others was a way God would help with coping with it all.”

Back in his car at Darlington, Briscoe scored the greatest win of his life in the Toyota 200. With reigning Cup Series champion Kyle Busch chasing him down in the closing laps, Briscoe outdueled Busch to edge him at the finish line and take the checkered flag.

Briscoe said after the race that he was crying inside the car and wasn’t emotionally in the right place, but called it the biggest day of his life after the toughest day of his life.

NASCAR drivers saluted Briscoe on social media.

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