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Following six seasons with former NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. behind the wheel of the No. 19 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing known as upon former Stewart-Haas Racing driver Chase Briscoe to fill the veteran’s sneakers in 2025 after the previous’s retirement. Since taking up, the 30-year-old has by no means regarded back, successful at Pocono during the common season earlier than taking the checkered flag in dominant fashion at Darlington within the Playoff-opening Cook Out Southern 500.

Briscoe’s affect on the No. 19 staff has since been lauded by staff founder and NASCAR Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs, who famous on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio how the three-time race winner has slot in so nicely with sponsor Bass Pro Shops, whereas additionally stating how he and crew chief James Small have constructed up a robust working relationship so fast.

This relationship is one thing Briscoe just lately touched upon in an interview with Corey LaJoie, the place he mentioned how far-reaching the adjustments have been this season for the No. 19 staff, past himself.

“The first 10 weeks of the season was us just figuring each other out, and I guess just trying to even learn what our baseline is,” he stated. “And the beginning of the year, they’re kind of going just with what Martin ran because they don’t know what I need in the car yet. And then over the course of the season, we’re 27 weeks in now, they’ve been able to learn what I like and the feel and they had that Delta.”

Briscoe described the general course of as “a learning curve” for all concerned, noting how not solely has there been a change in workers, but additionally in some of the processes outdoors of the car.

“Everything we do on the 19 team is so different now than how they’ve worked over the course of the last three and a half, four years,” he stated. “And even the 19 team in general is not really the same team that Martin had. We have new engineers and a new car chief.

“There’s a lot totally different and we’re form of studying the processes and how we do issues. Like, the 19 hadn’t achieved sim in three and a half years, and now we do in all probability six to 10 hours a week on the [simulator]. So it is like all these items which might be so totally different for this staff and the processes, and it simply took us a little bit of time.”

All in all, it seems safe to say these changes have paid dividends, with Briscoe having not only won twice, but finished in the top five a further nine times, and in the top 10 two on two more occasions. 

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Now with the second Round of 16 race on the horizon at World Wide Technology Raceway, Briscoe can rest easy in the knowledge that his spot in the next round is already confirmed, with the No. 19 leading the Playoff points race. However, he isn’t resting on his laurels, having recently mentioned to Kevin Harvick that he is “frightened” in regards to the Round of 12 opener at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

“It’s just been a place that I’ve always felt very lost at, and just always been a huge struggle for me and Trucks, Xfinity, everything,” Elliott stated. “So that would be the one I would say, probably definitely gonna put more effort into now that we’re locked in already.”