Chase Briscoe

Chase David Wayne Briscoe (born December 15, 1994) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 98 Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing with Fred Biagi. He also owns a World of Outlaws sprint car racing team Chase Briscoe Racing. He won the 2016 ARCA Racing Series championship.

Racing career
Briscoe's father, Kevin, initially did not allow Briscoe to race. He later relented, letting Chase race as a way of spending family time. Five years later, he returned to racing, driving 410 sprint cars at the age of 13. That year, he recorded 17 top-ten finishes and a win at the final race of the season; he became the youngest driver to win a 410 sprint car race, beating NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon's record by one year despite racing with an engine from 1993.

In 2013, Briscoe applied for the Peak Stock Car Dream Challenge, a contest rewarding the winner with a ride at Michael Waltrip Racing. Despite winning the majority of on-track races, he finished second behind Patrick Staropoli in the challenge. Then-Michael Waltrip Racing executive Ty Norris told Briscoe after the fact that even though he did not win the challenge, Briscoe should still pursue a racing career. Later in the year, he made his NASCAR K&N Pro Series West debut at NAPA Speedway where he finished eighth. He ran two more races in the series that season, finishing 13th and 27th at Kern County Raceway Park and Phoenix International Raceway, respectively. Briscoe moved from Indiana to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2014 in hopes of making connections in the racing world.

In 2015, Briscoe was contacted by friend and driver Christopher Bell regarding a contract with Roush Fenway Racing, which resulted in a test session with ARCA Racing Series team Cunningham Motorsports. Team owner Kerry Scherer called Briscoe about the tests while Briscoe was driving back to Indiana from Charlotte, having given up on his racing career. After two tests at Mobile International Speedway and Fairgrounds Speedway, he made his ARCA debut at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis where he finished tenth. In his second ARCA start at Salem Speedway, he qualified seventh and later finished fifth. Briscoe struck up a personal friendship with Briggs Cunningham III near the end of the 2015 season and was offered a full-season ride for 2016, which Briscoe accepted. He won six races throughout the course of the season and won the 2016 championship by 535 points over runner-up Tom Hessert.

Truck Series
In 2017, Briscoe joined the newly formed Ford Performance NASCAR Driver Development Program and the Camping World Truck Series team Brad Keselowski Racing, driving the No. 29 Cooper Standard Ford F-150 full-time. Briscoe finished third at Daytona in his Truck Series debut by avoiding a tremendous wreck on the final lap after running top ten almost all day. Briscoe earned his first-career Truck Series pole award at Dover International Speedway and finished 12th in the event. Later in the season, Briscoe earned his first career win at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He was named the Truck Series' Most Popular Driver in 2017. BKR shut down after the season, leaving Briscoe without a ride. Prior to the 2017 season, Briscoe was offered a ride by Hendrick Motorsports but did not bring enough sponsorship to take advantage of the offer.

Briscoe returned to the Truck Series in 2018, driving the No. 27 truck for ThorSport Racing at Eldora Speedway and won in a photo finish over teammate Grant Enfinger. The following year, he rejoined ThorSport for the 2019 Dirt Derby, finishing 7th.

Xfinity Series
In 2018, Briscoe ran a part-time schedule in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Briscoe ran races in both the No. 60 Ford of Roush Fenway Racing and the No. 98 Ford of Stewart-Haas Racing. Later that year, Briscoe won the inaugural Xfinity race on the Charlotte Roval race after holding off Justin Marks and Austin Cindric.

Briscoe committed to a full-time Xfinity schedule in SHR's No. 98 in 2019. In July, Briscoe earned his second career Xfinity Series win at Iowa Speedway. He qualified for the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs, on the back of posting 10 straight top 10 finishes. Briscoe finished the 2019 season fifth in points after finishing third at Homestead.

After sponsorship woes threatened to take Briscoe out of the seat, he secured enough funding to run the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season. Briscoe won the rain-delayed Boyd Gaming 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway; he led 27 of 50 laps before weather forced the remainder of the race to be postponed, followed by 62 laps on Sunday for a race-high 89 laps led en route to the victory. At Darlington, Briscoe earned his fourth career Xfinity Series win after holding off Kyle Busch.

Cup Series
On October 20, 2020, Stewart-Haas Racing announced that Briscoe would be promoted to the Cup Series in 2021, replacing Clint Bowyer in the No. 14 Ford.

Personal life
Briscoe's father Kevin and grandfather Richard are both involved in sprint car racing, Kevin being a former Truck Series driver and a five-time track champion at Tri-State Speedway and Bloomington Speedway, while Richard has worked as a car owner for drivers like Rich Vogler and Dave Blaney. He met and became friends with fellow driver Christopher Bell on iRacing.

Briscoe is an active user of Reddit and frequently interacts with fans on the NASCAR subreddit.

He is married to his wife Marissa. They were expecting their first child in 2020, but Marissa suffered a miscarriage in May of that year.

Briscoe is a Christian.

NASCAR
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ARCA Racing Series
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