{"id":7127,"date":"2019-07-27T21:49:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T01:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=7127"},"modified":"2019-07-28T00:47:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T04:47:19","slug":"chase-briscoe-uses-strategy-to-halt-dominant-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2019\/07\/27\/chase-briscoe-uses-strategy-to-halt-dominant-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Briscoe Uses Strategy To Halt Dominant Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Caleb Slouha<\/strong><\/p>\n

While most people had the race written-off as another dominating performance by Christopher Bell<\/strong> at Iowa Speedway Saturday night, but all changed in the closing laps after timely cautions.<\/p>\n

On lap 155, the field came down to pit road and Bell took his last set of tires knowing they could go the rest of the race on fuel. However, Chase Briscoe<\/strong> took fuel only, saving one more set for later in the race.<\/p>\n

This worked out to his favor, as there were three more cautions before the end of the 250-lap race, which pushed Bell to use his tires up.<\/p>\n

With 45 laps to go, a caution came out allowing Briscoe to pit for a new set of tires. That proved to be big.<\/p>\n

Chase Briscoe Uses Strategy To Halt Dominant Bell<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Even with 22 to go, Bell remained out front holding off John Hunter Nemechek<\/strong> and Ryan Sieg<\/strong> as Briscoe was in fourth.<\/p>\n

But as laps clicked off, Briscoe charged hard toward the front, and began his battle for the lead until officially taking the spot with 5-to-go. It was no longer a contest when he walked away to a 1.069 second victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was definitely getting worried,\u201d Briscoe said at the beginning of the strategy. \u201cWhen the caution came out I knew we were going to be in pretty good shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only did the strategy work out, but confusion on the pit stop while taking fuel only resulted in a penalty for running over equipment. The team kept their heads down and picked the winning strategy.<\/p>\n

It was a tough one to give away for Bell after winning the last two NASCAR<\/a> Xfinity races<\/a> at Iowa Speedway in a dominating fashion, and then led 234 laps before being passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sucks for a reason like that, because it spells the race out for guys,\u201d Bell said when asked if this one felt like a tough loss. \u201cFor example, we didn\u2019t have enough fuel to make it to the end so we have to pit with 100 to go. All of the competitive cars decided to take their tires. Then a guy that\u2019s not going to beat us heads up decides to gamble and not take tires and if it goes green the rest of the way, he\u2019s a lap down and a non-factor. The fact that he got a yellow where he could put tires on and win the race\u2026that\u2019s the name of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments were shrugged off by Briscoe, who was not bothered when it was brought up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won the race, so I don\u2019t really care to be honest,\u201d said Briscoe. \u201cI don\u2019t care how we won it, it\u2019s not like we were a 15th-<\/sup>place car all day. He could have done the same thing and not pitted with 99 laps to go and probably would have won the race.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first win of 2019 means Briscoe has secured a spot into the NASCAR Playoffs, where he hopes he can rival the success of his teammate Cole Custer<\/strong>,\u00a0who has five victories on the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know my confidence has been a bit down, because it\u2019s hard when your teammate has the same stuff as you and he is kind of lighting the world on fire,\u201d Briscoe told media. \u201cThis is the first race we go back where we have been before, so were aren\u2019t as much of a deficit when we go there, and I think that showed this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chase Briscoe and the NASCAR Xfinity Series tour returns to the track on Saturday August 3 at Watkins Glen for the Zippo 200. It’s scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m. ET and will be televised by NBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
NASCAR Xfinity\u00a0 Series Playoff Grid<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Position<\/strong><\/td>\nDriver<\/strong><\/td>\nWins<\/strong><\/td>\nPlayoff Points<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nChristopher Bell<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nCole Custer<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nTyler Reddick<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nMichael Annett<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nChase Briscoe<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wildcard Standings (no wins)<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nPoints<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nCutoff<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nJustin Allgaier<\/td>\n704<\/td>\n+296<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nAustin Cindric<\/td>\n650<\/td>\n+242<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nNoah Gragson<\/td>\n625<\/td>\n+217<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nJustin Haley<\/td>\n594<\/td>\n+186<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nJH Nemechek<\/td>\n573<\/td>\n+165<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nRyan Sieg<\/td>\n527<\/td>\n+119<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nBrandon Jones<\/td>\n509<\/td>\n+101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Playoff Cutoff<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nGray Gaulding<\/td>\n408<\/td>\n-101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nBrandon Brown<\/td>\n361<\/td>\n-148<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Caleb Slouha While most people had the race written-off as another dominating performance by Christopher Bell at Iowa Speedway Saturday night, but all changed in the closing laps after timely cautions. On lap 155, the field came down to pit road and Bell took his last set of tires knowing they could go the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":7128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1116,5],"tags":[661,390,282,14,126,1193],"class_list":["post-7127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-motorsports","category-nascar","tag-chase-briscoe","tag-christopher-bell","tag-john-hunter-nemechek","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-ryan-sieg"],"modified_by":"Connor Ferguson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}